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CUBA PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT
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04/10/1962
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ANTI-CASTRO CUBANS
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Califano Papers, Box 3, Folder 2. Draft copy of Cuba Project Progress Report, 4-11 April 1962,
regarding clandestine resistance groups in Cuba.
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10 APR 1962
CUBA PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT
411 April 1962
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1. An internal leader of the Movimiento Recuperacion Revolu-
cionario (MRR) who was infiltrated into Cuba on 29 December 1961, and
exfiltrated on 29 March 1962, paid at a debriefing on 7 April that he
considers only five clandestine resistance
organizations in
Cuba of national importance: The Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil
(DRE), Movimiento Democrat Cristiano (MDC), Movimiento Revalu-
cionario del Pueblo (MRP), Movimiento Recuperacion Revolucionario
Only these groups have the
(MRK), and the 30th of November
necessary motivation and discipline to
coordination among them-
nelves. There are a large number of other underground revolutionary
units
consist of
which claim to be of national importance but which have no more
than two or three dozen men at most and can be found only in the area
where they were established. Most of the small
Appear to have
been established by self-named leaders for personal reasons, financial
gain through the sale of 'bonds, or for future political opportunity
Fidel Castro is overthrown Although the
small groups are relatively inactive, their claims to importance have
attracted numerous dissidents who could be more useful if they were
members of the few larger and more effective organizations. Because
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of the boundless personal ambitions of the respective leaders and the
howere
geographic dispersion of the units, these small groups could never be
effectively merged into a centrally directed la;
To use them
into
effectively we would have to try to siphon off the membership te
controlled groups. If this is not possible, they may serve a useful
purpose by providing unwitting diversionary harrassment while the
larger groups work toward the major goals.
2. A unilaterally recruited senior officer of the diplomatic
service of a neutralist African country has been briefed and given
training in secret writing and communications to assist him in reporting
on our objectives in Cuba. He is now in Havana from where he plans
to travel to read of interest to us.
3. The Chief of the Danish Intelligence Service has agreed to
cooperate with us on Cuban intelligence operations He has identified
several sources aboard ships transitting Cuban ports and has arranged
for their periodic briefing and debriefing,
The Norwegian Intelligence Service has also agreed to cooperate
vs ī× establish case officer "centers" in Norway and Kiel, Germany, to
handle Norwegian Merchant Marine sources who call at Cuban ports.
The Madrid Station Cuban refugee debriefing center is now
in operation and results of the first interrogations are i being reviewed
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for dissemination. The most interesting and informative refugee thus
far is the brother of Amando Hart, the Cuban Minister of Education and
member of the twenty-five man ORI Central Committee.
The center it
also collecting travel and personal documents which may be used for
agent operations.
6. We received valuable data on Cuban trade from the debriefing
of a former official of the Ministry of Commerce who defected in Canada
the end of March. We
he informed
February by CIA sources
that this official was disaffected and wished to work against Castro.
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contacted him and attempted unsuccessfully to induce him to return to
Cuba as our agent. We have since expedited his travel to Miami where
he is being interrogated.
We are in contact with Eva Matos, the sister of Huber Matos
former associate of Fidel Castro, who broke with Fidel and has been
in jail on the Isle of Pines since 1960. Although there is no practical.
method of effecting the escape or release of Huber at present, we will
continue contact with his sister, who maintains correspondence with
Huber through his father and his wife who are in Cuba.
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CAC INFORMATION REPORTS
Following are highlights from selected interrogations of Cuban
refugees processed through the Caribbean Admission Center (CAC) at
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Opa-locka, Florida. This information is secured entirely from un-
trained observers and is presented partly as original unconfirmed data
and partly as a supplement to intelligence already received from controlled
All CAC information is screened for use in the daily
reliable sources
and weekly Cuban summa ries. During the past week.
were processed
Cuban refgees through Miami,
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epared 263 preliminary interrogation
reports and disseminated 135 information reports
8. Numerous reports confirm that all towns have been partitioned
into blocks infiltrated by communist informants under the direction of
15.
also
block chiefs of the Comite de Defensa. The informant system
utilizes
data procured from the telephone monitoring switchboards
established in the telephone centrals of every town. One refugee from
the Cuban Telephone Company described a switchboard panel in the
Principe plant" in Havana which was monitoring 20 or 30 positions.
These informants, their chiefs, members of the militia, G-2, "chivatos
(provocation agents), and other Castro supporters are now generally
labeled by the populace as communists rather than Castroists.
9.
.ff
While the network of informants protects the home front,
officials of the National Directorate of the Integrated Revolutionary
Organization (ORI) are increasingly occupied with the export of Castroist-
communism to the Western Hemisphere. Flight manifests of Cubana
Airlines show that 'hundreds of Latin Americans are being brought to
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Cuba for training and indoctrination." In addition to regular commercial
transportation, charter flights to service these persons are being run
thrice monthly throughout South America. In order to avoid Cuban visas
and entry-exit stamps in their passports, these persons are given visas
on a separate sheet of paper. In Cubs all arrangements are made for
them by the Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP).
10. Soviet military equipment has been reported in increasingly.
larger quantities and wider disbursement. One refugee said that he
saw 20 or 25 wheel-mounted Soviet 100 mm field guns M-55 (identified
from photographs) at a militia camp at Miranda near Camaguey.
11 Shortages of certain essential food items have resulted in
widespread protests and, in a few instances, to open action by those
group of 13 to 15 women reportedly waylaid a
milk truck, overpowered the driver, and each carried off two liters
directly affected.
of milk.
12. Refugees described the existence of three resistance organiza
tions, allegedly widespread in membership but limited in action. One,
the Movimiento de Recuperacion Revolucionario Militar (MRRM) is a
group which has broken away from the Movimiento de Recuperacion
Revolucionario (MRR),
Reportedly, its objective is to apprehend key
Castro leaders when the time is appropriate. MRRM is organized in
all provinces except Matanzas and Camaguey where the movement has
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now begun to develop a following. The second organization, the Movi-
miento Democratico Cristiano (MDC), is described as oriented along
traditional Christian democratic lines. It is said to have a "national
coordinator, a national executive, provincial, military and political
coordinators, and resistance chiefs. They claim that military and
counter-revolutionary activities have been limited because of lack of
equipment. A third organization, the Unidad Revolucionario (UR),
is reported to be carrying out the sabotage of sugar fields by burning,
using a small incendiary device made of gelatin, match heads, potassium
permanganate tablets, and glycerine.
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