198-10006-10014 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: ARMY RECORD NUMBER: = 198-10006-10014 RECORD SERIES: CALIFANO PAPERS AGENCY FILE NUMBER : Document Information ° ORIGINATOR: CIA FROM: TO: TITLE: CIA INTELLIGENCE ANNEX DATE: 00/00/1963 PAGES: 5 SUBJECTS : CUBAN PROPAGANDA LATIN AMERICA TRAVEL TO CUBA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 4 “CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 02/06/1998 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9} HW 50955 Docld: 32423329 Date: 6/24/201 Califano Papers, Box 4, Folder 6. Intelligence report outlining travel to and the movement of propaganda from Cuba. <TFK Level partment of the Army EO 13526 eclassify [I Exclude Exempt Authority = Refer To ; J Review Date By Page 1
geadine ands ° 2 . de oii a ANNER A Brazil _-~ @hartered Cubana Airlines flights between Cuba and Brazil have become a major means of transporting non-Cuban Latin Americans to and from Cuba. The. five such flights since late July have carried nearly 400 non-Cubane, — The first ef the recent series -~ on 25 July -=- brought 71 Latin American passengers te Havana for the 26 July celebra~ tions. The other four flights -- on 15, 22, 28 and 29 August «- transported ever 200 Latin Americana to "Brazil from Hevana. Some of the alrevafe invelwed returned to Cuba with smaller | numbers of passengers,. Many of the 200 Letin American passengers had been delegates to the 26 July ceremonies, but others had apparently been in Cuba for longer perfieds and some had probably recelved training there, Of the passengers on these four flights te Brazil, 73 were natives of Caribbean area countries, Their | elxeud tous travel through Brazil was evidently designed to help conceal the fact that they had been in Cuba. | Costa Rica * fwo Costa Ricans were ameng the passengers on a ehartered Cubana plane which was turned back toe Havanese at Grand Cayman én 11 July 1963. Gane was lue Marine Hernendez Salazar, the only Costa Rican woman known to have been sent to Cuba for training as a guerrilla warfare instructor. She had been in Cuba since September 1962, ‘The other Costa Rican passenger was Carlos Guillen, former head of the Costs Rican Seciety of Friends of so Cuban Revolucion, whe had beon in Cuba since Nevember 1962. Bouador The CIA Station ia Quito: reporte that the. military junta, which eesumed power in Ecuador on 11 July, can be expected HY 50955 DBoctd: 32423829 Page 2?
HY 0955 to follow the guidance of the Embaaey in controlling travel to and from Cuba and the Soviee blec, The aetivitles of Cuban subversives in Reusdor, at least. for the present, have been greatly inhibited by the maas arrests of Commmists and pro-Cubans and by the outlawing of the Commumist Party by the junta, Honduras . Te ie reported that the Honduran Communist Party has iesued orders to ite members not to attempt to treyvel to Cuba at the present time, ‘This action is appavently the result of the increasing vigilance of the Honduran goverment and the greater implementation of atricter travel controls. ; According te an unconfirmed report received in July, & Bureau of Information of the Communist Party of Guatemala is being formed in collaberatioa with Prensa Letina: . @ad ie te be managed clandestinely, It expects to receive news by shortwave radio from Cuba and print bulletins for distribution by radio atations, This say indicate a pattern by which Prensa Latiy will attempt to distribute on a more clandestine basis in other areas in Latin America, Bonduras it was reliably reperted thet in mid-July 1963, a small ¢eastal freighter landed 14 large boxes of Communiet propegenda on the northern coest of Honduras, the boxes having been traneferred at sea from a larger vessel, 3. _ Extrenist members of the Peronist Party, apparently under the leadership of such figures ag Hector Villalon and John William Cooke, ave apparently receiving encouragement and promises of large sums of woney fron Cuba in support of their efforts to train and organize subversive gxvoups in Argentina. BDocld: 3274273829 Page 3 Q
HY 0955 . yea taaen igs stated that bie plea calls for | . aD ee expanding and aceellevating aubversive activities in Argeatina eulnd ating in @ complete take over within tu years. There is no indiea- tien thet Peron himself has sgreed ¢ ce thie Lory ite has beea veported that dunders of che | c ah ree it ie reported that the so-called Amy of National Liberation (ANL) of Argentina, which is a relatively emall Castreist organization direeted from Cube by John William Cooke, has in recent weeks been negotiating fer the purchase of arms and has been offered eubmachine guna, bazookas and ether weapons by two or three private suppliere. It waa veperted, however, that the ANL was having difficulty getting enough dollars from Cuba te make elemificant purchases possible. The Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Relations on 23 Auguat protested forma Lliy to the Cuban Chergé d'Affatves in La Pax against thea Cuban Eubagsy support to the miners during the recent crisis. Subsequently, however, Foreign Minister Feliman informed the Cuban Charge that he need not fear that the Goverment ef Bolivia would break @iplomatic relations with Gubs. There has, in fact, been no kard information Linkiag the | Cuban Eubasey with the preseat mining crisis in spite of some ueontirmed veporte of Cuban support. Brazil. Cuban Asbassador to Bracil, Raul Rea Kourl, is reported te have attempted ta encourage peasant league leader francisco Juliao to vevitelige the leagues im northern Braeil. According te some reports efforts are being made te unify the leadership and. bring dissident elements under the general direction of ‘Juliao, Other weports indieate that, although the Cuban Embassy is providing guidance and possibly financial suppert toe the movement, it had not yet resolved the internal dissension in the Leagues. fet SECRET BDocld: 3274273829 Page 4 ‘ Q