io TS erase Ra ER TE RS EA Hi DD JSC against Cuban lobsters that are being sold in Canada and Europe. oo. The. first public. surfacing known to the Station of this study. was a:etory that appeared in the Miami News on 26 September. This etory was prepared from an AMSCROLL press rolease that was mailed - to the AMSCROLL list of business people, bankers, and traders is - the U.S., Europe, and Japan. In addition, the local AFP corres~ pondent: filed a story ‘based upon i this release. - Algo during this quarter AMSCROLL: released other studies: - of an economic nature on such subjects as Cuban trade with Spain, ‘the status of the Cuban ofl industry, and the ’ailure of mechaniza@= tion of the Cuban sugar. industry. The bases of these studies were - provided by the Station, often from information provided by qualified ROLL - refugees arriving vin the air lift. In other cases, AMSC personnel--particularly AMFRAME-l--would interview some of these refugees. b. ‘A continuing effort Wid wade during the quarter to - publicize Free World shipping with Cuba. Each month a list ia compiled by the Station of those ships from the Free World that visited Cuba during. the previous month which is passed to AMSCROLL for release to the ‘press. In addition, a epecial study was aade ‘wegarding the Greek firm Franco Shipping Company. The wire services — regularly carry this information and 27 published stories on this ‘g@ubject in U.8., Canadian, and English publications came. to the ; Station’ s attention during this period. e@. During this period 16, 000 pieces of printed material — were mailed to Cuba. This included. 7,600 copies of ANSCROLL‘'s miniature newspaper which contained condensed stories of such itens > an Castro’s 26th of July Speech, quotations from earlier Castro speeches aking promises that. were not kept, the sugar deficit, and defections of.Cuban aeamen. Also, 7,500 copies..were ‘mailed to Cuba of a notice thet publicizes the AMSCROLL vadiLo program and which. requests. readere of. the miniature newspaper to leave it in publiie places for others to read, AMSCROLL still has a supply of the soap sheets which carries an imprinted message. for the recipients not to lose hope. One thousand of these were mailed to Cuba and ‘we anticipate continuing mailings. until the supply of these soap sheets is exhausted, About 4,350 copiea of the esonomic studies ‘described in 2.0. above were mailed to a carefully compiled list of banke, business firzs, ete. in the U.8., Europe, and Japen. - About 1,600 copies of these releases translated into Spanish were also diatributed,. a. The AMSCROLL radio program is on the air over AMTHIGH for ten minutes each day of the week except Sunday. This prograa de increasingly addressing itself to the economic failure of ecoumunism in Cuba, the economic failure of Cuba abroad, and to the increasing political and economic isolation of Cuba from both the SECRET _ set a 2 nee preete mes mop tine ne urea on Ft Re Ae Galette arate wie wet Heese oe: rab werner a ed Tevet cota mates mies ome te wxenae nt LD pen 42”
14-00000 Ide to. Cas tro* -836, 480.00; whereas, $33,873.00 wae spent. -for the near future. Pree and Comaunist - worlds. To these. ende, prominence was given te problems with the sugar crop, ‘statements prepared especially. for AMSCROLL by such. defectors ‘ag. AMBRAY-1, A EINGO=1, and solected defectora from ‘the Cuban: merchant marine. Tho program ran a series of quotations frou earlier Castro speeches’ that were pitted ‘agatast official. gover . statistics of a current aature that gave the — Lier: prosiises,. Also, tha. program gought to: ‘exploit such specific ‘itema as solitng ‘Ciiban: beef. to- Spain which increased, the ghortage in. Cuba, sending medical eqiipmont ard drugs to the Congo though these: ‘are dedperately needod in Cuba, etc.. During this. period the ‘program received 11 letters from Cuban listeners as follows: July, 2; August, 4; and September, 5.- With one excep- tion these letters were favorable {n their fesponse, As in the past AMSCROLL continued. to front for AMSUADY-l's radio program over JMHOPE and ‘A¥TUMOR. Also, AMSCROLL continued to front fora musical program which it does not produce, ; \ j B. ADM IN ISTRATION ; , 3, . The anount budge ted for the quarter ‘under review was Of this amount $11,217.00: was for salaries and $22,656.00 for operational expenses which inc uded office maintenance. A determined and successful effort has been made to keep actual expenses under the budgeted amount. Isiportast to this was the reorganization described in A.1. above which in salaries alone amounted to a monthly reduction of $1,200.00, Operational and housekeeping expensés have also been réduced over ‘previous months with, the Station belioves, aD improved operational result. Ce. PROBLEMS ‘- 4. The Station believes that-it has overcome a source of potential trouble by pressing the reorganization of AMSCROLL that _ - became effective 1 July in that persons who in the past. had been trouble makers were 6nsed out, ‘The only remaining problem is the ever-present one of AMFRAME=] ‘who is capable of earning considerably ” gore - than the Station i@ paying. As an intelligent, aggressive person with @ growing family he #411 svoner or-later have to face up to this pergonal problem of his. He prefers to remain in the work. he is now doing for WOFACT which, coupled with a recént salary increase to $450.00 a month should combine to retain him at least Hia wife has recently received an impressive monetary prize of an academic nature and AMPRAME=-l's family ia ise currently supplementing his WOFACT pay, which factors also De D, PLANS POR NEXT UARTER . &. Administratively we expect AMSCROLL to continue as reorganized and we are hopeful that we can effect sdditional - SECRET amon eee a eee nine ete con hee Aan,
14-00000 Coan a’ , a SECRET Se . e . v economies. Gperstionally the Station has these specific projecta in mind Which are. in addition to the normal activities: a. AMSCROLL. will - attempt te pueh further the Statione developed story of the spoiled Cuban lobster with the goal in mind of having it branded of dubious quality in- Canada, France, — ' and other’ countries. b. The Station has begun ite utilization of AMBCROLL, 20 analyze the 1967 sugar harvest. As for the 1966 harvest, AMSCROLL‘s final projection of the results of -the harvest was made on 23 May, some five weeks in advance of the 20 June official Cuban announce ment, AMSCROLL predicted a harvest of 4,496,400 tons, only 41, 145 tons over the actual gigure. We know of no one whe came thia close, We have observed with interest how such forecasters ag Merrill Lynch: offered figures that cane even closer to the AMSCROLL projections - as the final harvest date approached, We hope to ropeat this performance for the coming year. @,. At the close cf thie reporting period the Station began 7 a@ campaign. to discourage Japan-Cuban trade in favor of expanded Thies campaign Japanese trade with other Latin American nations, DIRECTOR=-364095 has the cencurrence of Hoadquarters and &tation and 9062), AMPRAME~1 and AMSNAKE~-1 are being Utilized to implement this campaign insofar as Latin Amerioan © business organizae tions are concerned, “g@ECRET