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# TOP SECRET DINARINSURGENCY AND CA. IL UNREST:Two additional acts of sabotage have been reported by Bureau of Public Order (BOP) officials in Matanzas Province. On 25 November nearly four tons of sugar cane were burned on the Araujo farm near Maguanito and on 27 November two empty houses were burned on the Angelina farm in the district of Maximo Gomez.Meanwhile, First Army headquarters in Santiago de Cuba was informed by its southern sector Sierra Maestra headquarters that 87,000 arrobas of cane were burned on 17 November at Algeria del Pio near San Lorenzo in Oriente Province. (USM, 603, 2/YJ/CUP/R127-63, 28 November, SECRET KIMBO; and USN 835, 2X/LR1/CUM/T669-63, 26 November, SECRET SABRE)On 27 and 28 November special anti-insurgent forces (LCB) in Las Villas carried out an operation against Menendez Esquijaro and his band near Sancti Spiritus. LCB field operations headquarters in Santa Clara was informed on 21 November that the operations had ended without results. (USM 603, 2X/ UJ/CUM/T350-63, 28 November; and 2X/YJ/CUM/T351-63, 29 November, SECRET SABRE)Department of State Security (DSE) officials in Nuevitas, Camaguey Province, were instructed on 28 November to mobilize militiamen into an "easily seen land patrol" at Playa Santa Lucia in order to prevent a clandestine escape attempt during the night of 28-29 November. DSE headquarters in Camaguey directed Nuevitas to coordinate the operation with LCP units and "to be especially watchful for boats." (USM 603, 2/YJ/ CUP/R128-63, 29 November, SECRET KIMBO)CUBAN EXILE AND REFUGEE ACTIVITIES:Comandos L is considering an attack against a Soviet ship in Cuban waters, according to a member of a group of Cuban refugees who have provided useful reports. The raid, which was being discussed on 22 November, would take place in the near future or when the seas become more quiet. Reportedly, the plan would involve 15 men in three speed-boats who would rendezvous in international waters after leaving from three points along the Florida coast. In connection with the raid, Jesus Alvarez Amador picked up material on 22 November, including one box of fragmentation grenades, three magazines for a 20-mm. cannon and 87 rounds of ammunition for the same, and 15 ponchos. This equipment is being stored at the home of Jesus Vazquez, owner of Super Cake S.A., La Gran Via Bakers, Miami; Vazquez' home telephone number is 379-5218. Other weapons to be used in the operations are two 20-mm. cannons, one 57-mm. cannon, four machine guns, and two Garand rifles. Alvarez planned to go to West Palm Beach on 22 November to borrow some additional weapons. (CIA TDCS-DB-3/658, 110, 28 November, CONFIDENTIAL NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM)-4-TOP SECRET DINAR
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# TOP SECRET DINARCUBAN EXILE AND REFUGEE ACTIVITIES - cont'dCubanos Libres may be planning to hijack a ship in a raid that would be staged from Miami, according to a member of a group of Cuban refugees who have provided useful reports. The source reported that funds for the raid were to be raised at a dinner scheduled for 24 November in Le Tre Venezie restaurant, 472 West 9th Avenue, New York City. At the dinner, Cubanos Libres was planning to show films of their raids against Cardenas Bay in October 1962 and the Arechabala Refinery in June 1963. (CIA TDCSDB-3/658,109, 28 November, CONFIDENTIAL NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM)A small group of Cuban refugees may have attempted to infiltrate Cuba about 27 November, according to a prominent exile activist who received the information from a close associate of a person involved in the attempt. Reportedly, a 20- to 22-foot speed-boat left Key Biscayne, Florida, the night of 26 November to rendezvous off Key Largo with a Cuban fishing boat and then proceed to an infiltration point on the north coast of Las Villas. The fishing boat is reportedly based in a shrimp fishery on the southeast coast of Key Largo. The persons involved in the operation were Manuel Pedro Gutierrez Cardenas, and presumably two infiltrees--Emilio Perez Fernandez and Luis Aguiar Perez. Two crew members, known only by nicknames, were "Comacho" and "Vascoy," possibly Jose Bascoy Barrios. (CIA TDCSDB-3/658,104, 27 November, SECRET/CONTROLLED DISSEM)BLOC RELATIONS:The Albanian ambassador to Cuba, Josif Pogace, delivered a speech to a nearly empty hall in Havana on 26 November. A Polish correspondent in Havana informed Warsaw that the speech, in celebration of Albania's national holiday, was attended by only 80 people, mostly Chinese Communist embassy personnel, students, and journalists. Cuba was represented by an official of the Cuban foreign cultural council. The Polish correspondent reports that the audience applauded the ambassador's words on the subject of "contemporary revisionism" and "the revisionist blockade of Albania" but reacted with silence to his attack on "false guarantees for Cuba." (CIA FBIS 105, 27 November, OFFICIAL USE ONLY)-5-TOP SECRET DINAR
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# TOP SECRET DINARNON-BLOC RELATIONS:The Castro regime, which has yet to acknowledge publicly the Moroccan Government's severance of diplomatic relations following the arrival of Cuban troops in Algeria in late September, is attempting to placate Rabat. On 26 November, Foreign Minister Raul Roa advised the secretary general of the Moroccan Foreign Ministry that a three-man "good-will mission," composed of Dr. Antonio Carrillo Carreras, Enrique Vian Audivert of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and Dr. Enrique Rodriguez Loeches, the Cuban ambassador to Morocco, would leave for Rabat the next day "to begin conversations with your illustrious government with a view to clearing up the unfortunate mis- understandings which may have arisen...." The Moroccans, who since breaking off formal diplomatic relations have become alarmed by the realization of the extent to which they depend on their sugar imports from Cuba and the dislocation which the loss of these imports would entail, probably will give the Cuban delegation a sympathetic hearing. Nevertheless it is unlikely that Rabat will agree at this time to return an ambassador to Cuba or to disavow publicly its renunciation of diplomatic ties so long as Cuban troops remain in Algeria.On 21 November, Rabat instructed one of the junior members of its embassy who had remained in Cuba when the ambassador departed to remain at his post until he had closed out all financial dealings with Cuban banks, etc., and to forward pertinent documents on his activities to Morocco's Permanent Mission to the UN. Two days later the secretary general of the Moroccan Foreign Ministry cabled Havana that his government was inclined to receive a Cuban good-will mission. (NSA, 3/0/MRD/T329-63, 21 November; 3/0/MRD/T329-63, 23 November; 3/0/MRD/T335-63, 26 November, TOP SECRET DINAR)The director of the Cuban Government - owned Consolidated Petroleum Enterprise, Salvador Salas Portuondo, is scheduled to travel to Georgetown, British Guiana, on a Cuban vessel. On 21 November Cuban shipping headquarters in Havana informed the captain of the BAHIA DE TANAMO that Salas would be traveling to Georgetown from Santiago de Cuba. Meanwhile, an untested source who is a member of the board of the British Guiana Electricity Corporation reports that GIMPEX has been awarded the contract to provide fuel oil for the electricity corporation for 1964. GIMPEX, Jagan's party's trading enter- prise, reportedly intends to import the oil from Cuba. The electricity corporation will pay $240,000 for the oil. (USM- 84, 2X/0/CUC/T406-63, 27 November, SECRET SABRE; and CIA TDCS- 3/566,043, 28 November, CONFIDENTIAL NO FOREIGN DISSEM)# TOP SECRET DINAR
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# TOP SECRET DINAR## NON-BLOC RELATIONS - cont'dCuba may establish diplomatic relations with Somalia and is attempting to improve its relations with Tanganyika and Ghana, according to intercepted communications. In a 27 November intercepted message, the Somali Government informed its United Nations representative that the Council of Ministers had approved the establishment of relations with Cuba, and instructed him to determine the level at which the Cubans wanted to exchange representatives. In a 26 November message, the Cuban Foreign Ministry requested its Prague embassy to obtain customs exemptions for three personnel who were on their way to Tanganyika. Cuba does not currently have diplomatic representatives in Tanganyika and the Cubans may be on a good-will mission which is expected in that country. (See article above on good-will mission to Morocco.) The three Cubans--Juan Felipe Benemelis Varona, second secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Accra, Nevris Vernier, attaché at the embassy in Accra, and Jose Antonio Benitez Cabrera, an attaché of the Cuban Embassy in Prague--were scheduled to arrive in Prague on 27 November. In another intercepted message of 25 November, Havana instructed its ambassador in Ghana to sign a cultural pact with Ghana during the first part of December. The Cuban representative was told to sign the Ghanaian-inspired pact "out of political considerations." (NSA 3/0/SOD/T202-63, 27 November, TOP SECRET DINAR; NSA 2X/0/CUB/T2439-63, 27 November, SECRET SABRE; NSA 3/0/CUD/T1385-63, 27 November, TOP SECRET DINAR)The Cuban Government requested Chilean visas for two members of National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP)-- Juan Jorge Valdez Paz and Adelfo Martin Barrios--to attend a "cooperative seminar" (sic; possibly, seminar on coopera- tives) to be held in Santiago. An 11 November intercepted message stated that their visit would last 15 days. (NSA 3/0/CLD/T1086-63, 27 November, TOP SECRET DINAR)## NON-BLOC COMMERCIAL RELATIONS:Cuba is continuing negotiations for the purchase of large amounts of construction equipment, probably from the Varmi company of Brussels. (See *Daily Summary* of 7 November for details of Varmi's offer.) According to an employee of the Spanish export-import firm CILASA who has access to the company's files, a seven-man Cuban delegation was expected to arrive in Brussels on 30 November with authorization to let contracts. The group reportedly plans to examine, disassemble, and test the equipment and has a total budget of $3.5 million. (It was previously reported that Varmi has offered to sell $1 million worth of construction equipment.)
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# TOP SECRET DINARNON-BLOC COMMERCIAL RELATIONS - cont'dThe delegation is also interested in visiting European manufacturers of spare parts for the machines; they were principally interested in visiting Spain. The members of the delegation are Rene Narbona from the Cuban enterprise for the import of machinery, in addition to representatives named Respall, Hernandez, Rodriguez, Alemida (sic), Duran, and Morales. They were to stay at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels. (CIA Madrid IN 69382, 28 November, SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM)CUBAN SUPPORT OF EXTERNAL SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES:The discovery of a large cache of weapons of Cuban origin, announced by Venezuelan authorities on 28 November, provides the best evidence in recent years of major Cuban support for Latin American subversives.The Venezuelan foreign minister has announced that Caracas will lay formal charges concerning the arms cache before a special meeting of Latin American Foreign Ministers scheduled for December. Following this, Caracas will ask that the Council of the Organization of American States be convoked for consultation on the matter.There is definite proof to support the Venezuelan claim that the weapons came from Cuba. The approximately three tons of weapons include light automatic rifles and submachine guns identified as among those shipped to Cuba from Belgium in 1959 and 1960. There were also mortars, bazookas, recoilless rifles, and ammunition of US manufacture.Communist documents seized by Venezuelan authorities earlier this month indicate that the equipment was destined for the Venezuelan Communists' paramilitary arm, the Armed Forces of National Liberation.The cache was found on 1 November on a beach in Falcon State, scene of the most active guerrilla effort. The Venezuelan Government assumes that the weapons were sent from Cuba by sea. This is not confirmed, but Cuban fishing vessels were used to transport weapons to South America during the latter part of October, according to several recent clandestine reports.For more than three years, the Castro regime has tried to avoid actions that would clearly implicate it in direct support of Latin American subversives. This exception seems to demonstrate either the high degree of urgency which Castro now gives to his subversive effort, or his estimate that the Venezuelan situation now is ripe for a final offensive.# TOP SECRET DINAR
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# TOP SECRET DINAR## CUBAN SUPPORT OF EXTERNAL SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES - cont'dA Havana radiobroadcast immediately denied that Cuba was involved in the arms-infiltration attempt. The broadcast, which quoted no official source, stated that "this is a new campaign of President Romulo Betancourt against Cuba and its revolutionary government, blaming the Cubans for the explosive situation in his country and the instability of his government." (SECRET)-9-TOP SECRET DINAR
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# THE PRESIDENT'S# INTELLIGENCE CHECKLISTISSUED BY THECENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY21 NOVEMBER 1963TOP SECRET
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1. Iraqa. The new 21-man cabinet appears to be a coalition of Arab nationalist elements including four members of the moderate wing of the Baath Party. The regime is still dominated by the military, with eight cabinet posts.b. The new prime minister, Tahir Yahya, is sympathetic to the Baath Party, and both the Baathists and the Egyptians feel they can trust him.c. The political affiliation of eight of the new ministers is not known, but the key interior post is in the hands of an anti-Baathist nationalist.2. Indonesiaa. Defense Minister Nasution has been ordered by Sukarno to make conciliatory statements on Malaysia while on his trip abroad.b. The Dutch chargé who reported this explained that Nasution was chosen for this job because Sukarno was irritated with the ultra-tough line the defense minister has taken.For The President Only - Top Secret(Cont'd)
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13-000003. Congoc. The chargé has no information on the motives behind this switch. Our embassy thinks it may be a move to pave the way for exploratory talks by Foreign Minister Subandrio at Bangkok with his Thai and Philippine counterparts. It may also be meant to provide a more receptive attitude for Nasution's visit here.d. Our embassy thinks Nasution went in for his Malaysia sabre rattling on Sukarno's orders, or at the very least, with the president's tacit support. Sukarno may feel Nasution has stolen some of his thunder.a. Adoula still did not get around to announcing the expulsion of all Soviet and Czech embassy personnel yesterday. However, people managed on Tuesday afternoon to corral and hog-tie the Soviet counselor and press attaché before they could eat-up all the incriminating papers in their possession.b. The Russians are now being held at Ndolo prison. The Congolese surete says the seized papers include, (among other things, minutes of a "liberation committee" meeting of opposition politicians in Brazzaville, and a document showing Soviet payments to this group.(Cont'd)For The President Only - Top Secret
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13-000004. Ethiopia-   Congoc. The Belgian ambassador thinks these papers are probably genuine. He says the Russians have made the mistake of underrating the Congolese and have stumbled into a surete trap.d. The Congolese also picked up two Czech diplomats but have since released them. This morning they arrested the correspondent of the Soviet news agency.a. Haile Selassie is planning to withdraw all Ethiopian troops from the Congo in January, according to the commander of his ground forces.b. The two battalions of Ethiopians provide the guts of the UN operation. They had been slated to stay until June and are likely to be very difficult to replace.c. The Emperor reportedly ordered the withdrawal on grounds that the troops are urgently needed in Ethiopia, particularly in view of the Soviet military accord with Somalia.d. Our ambassador has asked to see the Emperor, as well as the prime minister and foreign minister, to press for reconsideration.For The President Only - Top Secret
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13-000005. Yemen   a. Military activity has slackened but the stalemate continues.   b. Egypt still has about 32,000 troops in Yemen, and Saudi Crown Prince Faysal believes Nasir will not withdraw any significant number of them before 4 January when the extension of the disengagement agreement expires.   c. Faysal is preparing to resume aid to the royalists at that time; he is stockpiling quantities of arms and ammunition along the border.   (Includes INTERCEPTS)6. Turkey   a. The opposition Justice Party, heir of the old Menderes regime, appears to have won a victory in Sunday's nationwide local elections on the basis of incomplete returns.   b. The collapse of Prime Minister Inonu's coalition government appears increasingly likely. Though a new coalition may be formed, there will be considerable resistance to the retention of Inonu as prime minister.For The President Only - Top Secret(Cont'd)
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c. Justice Party members will be putting on pressure for early national parliamentary elections. However their party leaders do not believe the Turkish military, which ousted Menderes in 1960, would permit them to take over if they won new elections.d. They will probably try to work out some rapprochement with the armed forces.For The President Only - Top Secret
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# NOTESA. Cuba The U-2 which flew yesterday's mission over Cuba crashed while returning, about 40 miles north of Key West. Air and sea rescue craft were sent to the scene. An air rescue unit sighted an unopened parachute, a life raft, and oil slick in the crash area. The pilot is presumed lost. There is no indication that the plane was attacked.B. Berlin Local East German troops acting without higher authority appear to have been responsible for turning high powered searchlights on pilots taking off from West Berlin's Tempelhof airfield on 14-16 November. There were five such incidents. A message of 16 November instructed border guard elements to discontinue such acts. There have been no further incidents reported since.C. Albania-USSR A Radio Tirana broadcast has accused Khrushchev of personally releasing Barghoorn for fear that Moscow's wheat deal with the US might collapse. The Albanians are on record as preferring to eat grass rather than to kowtow to the West, but they are not above eating Chinese wheat acquired from Western sources.D. Iran-USSR The Soviet Union's timing seems to be off in Iran. Government sources have reported that a twin engined plane was shot down in Iranian territory yesterday by Soviet jet fighters who violated Iranian air space. The Iranians say that the plane was on a photographic mission in connection with the(Cont'd)
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government's land reform drive. The pilot was injured and his two passengers were killed. The incident comes at a time when Soviet President Brezhnev is visiting Tehran. He addressed a joint session of parliament today. NBRE. Venezuela Police seem to have restored order in downtown-Caracas, but terrorism continues elsewhere. The slum district of Caracas to which the terrorists retreated is under virtual martial law. Among other things, the Dupont paint warehouse at Maracaibo was set afire and totally destroyed. NBRF. World Peace Council The WPC meeting in Warsaw next Thursday may wind up in another free-for-all. The Chinese Communist delegation, although not intent on disrupting the conference, plans to attack the WPC president's report given to a committee meeting in Vienna last September. The Japanese delegates plan to give general support to the Chinese and will try to forestall a vote on the Moscow test ban treaty. NBRFor The President Only - Top Secret
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# DOCUMENT OF INTERESTDebriefing of Professor Frederick BarghoornFor The President Only - Top Secret
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# THE PRESIDENT'S# INTELLIGENCE CHECKLISTISSUED BY THECENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY20 NOVEMBER 1963TOP SECRET.
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1. Iraq-Syria, 19 Nov   CIA IN   {   63952, 19 Nov   64101, 19 Nov   64393, 20 Nov   }   CIB   a. NBR   Although sporadic gunfire continued through the night in Baghdad, the army is in control.   b. Arif has plans to announce the make-up of his cabinet today. It will probably contain some "mild" Baathists.   c. He permitted Syrian strongman Hafiz and Michel Aflaq, the founder of the Baath Party, who were caught in Baghdad by the coup, to fly back to Damascus yesterday after the Syrian radio suddenly stopped vilifying the newest Iraqi regime.   d. Arif and his colleagues obviously hope to reach an understanding with the Syrian regime. We doubt very much if they are interested, however, in the meaningful political and military unity the previous regime was aiming for.   e. An intercepted message indicates that Syrian army units, now in Iraq, are getting ready to go home.   f. The retention of Baathists in positions of power in Baghdad also tends to ease the threat to the party in Syria.   (INTERCEPTS)For The President Only - Top Secret
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2. Venezuelaa. The Communist effort to frustrate the presidential election (1 December) continues.b. An illegal transmitter was heard yesterday in Caracas calling for a 48-hour general strike and urging listeners to arm themselves against the Betancourt government.c. Roving bands of Communist-led terrorists sought to enforce the generally unsuccessful strike with gunfire. There were at least nine deaths (some reports go as high as 19). Guerrilla activity in rural areas is also being stepped up.d. The government has jailed an added 200 extremists in the wake of yesterday's violence and plans are afoot to detain 1,500 more.e. The army is being held in reserve in the Caracas area. (includes Intercepts)3. South Vietnama. Ton That Dinh, whom we had earlier identified as the least reliable of the generals' group, is trying to use his position as security minister to build himself an independent political base.(Cont'd)
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13-000004. France-IsraelAir Attache, Paris1 832 0200 6330 Sept 63b. He has been visiting provin- cial cities to "explain" the military takeover and receive expressions of loyalty. He has continued to spread the idea that the coup was largely his own doing.c. Dinh has directed provincial chiefs to submit to him daily reports on local politics. (INTERCEPTS)d. This is going on while other members of the regime are squabbling about who should be in the "council of sages" and what it should do.a. We have picked up further details on the surface-to-surface missile system which a French firm is developing for the Israelis.b. The firm, Marcel Dassault, is to produce and test fire 25 missiles between July 1964 and July 1965. An actual production contract for perhaps 250 missiles will be drawn up late in the period if all goes well.NBR(Cont'd)For The President Only - Top SecretLIBR