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TITLE
Activities of Cuban Trained Peruvian Guerrillas
DATE : 4/11/1963
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
EYES ONLY
11 April 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT
Activities of Cuban-Trained Peruvian Guerrillas
1. The information in this memorandum comes from an extremely
sensitive source who is currently a member of a group of Cuban-trained
Peruvian guerrillas. No other dissemination has been made of the re-
ports he has provided, in order to protect him and to insure that a
channel is kept open to him. The information is being forwarded in
this restricted mammer at this time to furnish an insight into the
extent of Cuban efforts to assist Latin American revolutionary move-
mente. The Agency directed asset is working inside a network which
now assisting Cuban-trained Latin Americans to re-enter their ow
countries illegally, and to join with leftist revolutionary groups to
verthrow the established governments
The Agency esset was a member of a group of more than 70
Pēruvians trained in Cuba from June until December 1962 His contingent
traveled in ema groups by way of Mexico. He received his first
he was appointed to stay behind in Mexico
indestine contact with a Gubán Embassy
ban gave him instructions and funds,
here
απρό
irected the later groups which transited
July celebra
3. The Peruviar
selves did no
Das ostensibly in Cuba only to
dẳng to our agent, some of the
ance they were, to be given
he
attend th
Oubana set the Peruvians up as self-contained unit
ing sites in Habana, where they were given politica
und weapons. Later they were moved to rural hill areas
ining. The agent has described in detail these secret, t
giving address the houses and the locations of the
rilla areas
The agent was removed from his group for several weeks
undergo special training in t communicat techniques
retion, for his current assignment
The
Peruvians
present the agent acts as
eturn illegally to
dinator
He is in
helping the
rrespondencë
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persons in, numerous points of entry in Latin America and with contacts
in several European capitals who assist the group on their clandestine
return. Although many left Peru openly on valid papers, they are coming
back illegally. Some have false documentation from other countries,
primarily from Colombia; some have Peruvian passports issued in the
names of persons now deceased; some are crossing the borders from
neighboring countries clandestinely without showing any papers; and
some go by small boats to isolated areas.
6. The agent is a member of the Movimiento Izquierda Revolu-
cionario (MIR) of Peru which now plans to join with other leftist
revolutionary groups to bring about a coup before the elections
scheduled for June 1963. The agent knows of some 200 Peruvians who
have received Cuban training, only a mall percentage of whom are
actually Communist Party members,
Approximately 300 persons have been named by the agent as
being connected with the fing helping the Peruvians to reinfiltrate
secretly Attempts are being made to learn whether some of these,
icularly those used as "Co-ordinators"
Correspondence poʻlats"
ith the legal
in Europe and the United States, are also conne
of Cuban-trained guerrillas to other coun
8. Paris has enc red as the center of the network. Groups of
ten arrive weekly from uba to be sent on to various Latin American
untries for eventual re-entry into Peru. The man in charge of
vians is headquartered in Paris. From there, he has been direo
the travel sending instructions to his scattered subordinates,
eceiving reports and information from contacts throughout the
world, and handling funds.
Correspondence between members of the group is by cable and
etter The security of communications is protected by several
systems of code and secret writing. Fach of the trainees
has been assigned a number and letter and number designations are
given to hotels and pensions. In cable correspondence, the ring uses
these numbers to indicate mich persone are traveling and where they
may bo reached. The content of the messages appears to relate
business matters, covering shipment dates and invoice numbers
example:
Letter correspondence contains secret writing with
relatively sophiscated systems, interspaced between lines of immoqueus
iendly or business letters. A dictionary is used for code
in either cables or letters, with pago and word
to oldestine key wor
es-
refer
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10. The ring takes great precautions to prevent tracing of the
àddressees. One of the important links is a woman whose Paris home
has entrances on two different streets. She and her misbänd use the
principal street address for their normal lives, but the back street
address for the receipt of clandestine correspondence.
11. In this Cuban-sponsored subversive operation, routes of
travel are planned to escape easy detection of the fact that a person
has left his home, been trained, and, has returned to his country
Host of the travel has been by way of Mexico and thence to Cuba,
since it was possible to escape detection of the travel. The Cubans.
Issued loose leaf inserts for the travelers' passports, rather than
stamping a record of the travel in the document itself. The Mexican
vernment has recently begun measures to control this travel, but a
mumber have managed to enter and leave Cuba for Mexico without
n. Some of the travel to Cubs is by way of the Dutch and British
adies.
West
Many of the returning trainees go through Paris and Prague.
From Paris, the travelers fan out to a number of different batin
American countries from which they attempt clandestine re-entry into
Ecuador Colombia and Brazil have been used extensively
American entry poin
travelers leave Pario.
3. The egont reports that money for this extensive travel
program has been deposited in Sviss banks by the, Chinese Communists,
via Cuba, MIR trainees were told to ask for aid from the Soviete.
$1.000
void straining relations with China, "since it is backing them”
onsible for the fekeeping of approxlast
The money had been parceled out
Our asset
hich
The
£ trainees during the trip, and they handed
· Our asset, vaš give $1,000 when he left
for documentation when he was ready to
hat the cost of the travel of his group from
roximately $25,000, and that this money
8 local leader from Paris by courier before the
Ho sported
bo Cuba as
French firm which expo
In Peru Fill serve as
1. The MIB plans to establish a cover importing company, rem
Cheap agricultu equipment
ctivities involving
ansfer of funds. It d also
and instru
When the
the travel of HIR members and the
be a clearing house for informa
our
ent group of trainees in back in Peru, another.
Coup will be
out and fanded through the cover firm. The agent reports
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the next group will mumber approximately 100 men and that they will
receive instructions in Algeria, North Vietnam, Laos, and China. Thê
top leader of the Peruvian group has told his lieutenants that ho will
soon go to Algeria to start arrangements for this training.
15. The MIR has planned four fronts in Peru in its proposed
revolution. One is in the south with headquarters in Cusco, another
is in the central region in the Sierra, a third is in Lima, and the
fourth is in northern Peru. The agent has named the leaders in charge
of each of the four fronts.
16. Our asset makes frequent reference to internal disputes in
the HIR between the old line Communists and those referred to as
Trotskyites. The MIR leaders in Cuba felt that some of their own.
groups had joined with the Trotskyites and they discussed this problem
with Fidel Castro. Castro promised not to let the so-called Trotáky-r
ites return to Paru unt 11 the others were already in place and in
command of the several fronts. Some of the avowed Trotskyites were
acong the first to be sent back, however, and the HR leaders
highly incensed. The loaders fear that the Trotskyites will endanger
the move
and they have been especially disturbed to find thật
are known to be Trotskyites, bad accompanied
two Cuban
them from Cuba.
17. The Ageny.
et had first estimated that it would take at
rn. The re-entry
least two months for all of the Peruvians to
had fallen approximately a month behind schedule because
ected problems of transferring funds and
Communist group in one of the neighboring countries which
was to help then began to charge exorbitant amounts for its assistance
The Peruvians wore obliged to wait until additional money was brought
them by courie
18.
agent
estimated that at
two would be required to complete plans for the
of the trainees were back. The leaders of the
that the MR had not made adequate plane to recõive the
had not developed its, revoluti
lans soundl
onth
after all
ined
Coups and
Recently, however, the operation has been increasing in
The leaders of the MHI have been putting additional pressures
on our asset and on others in the chain to
try A
ing towns,
assist others
er of the trainees have spread out to
ready to cross the border into Peru clandestinely, False documenta,
tion of these nearby countries is also being procured
cross into Peru "legally
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