HW 450955 SECRET -~h- Brazil Cuban Ambassador to Brazil, Raul Roa Kouri, is reported to have attempted to encourage peasant league leader Francisco Julio to revitalize the leagues in northern Brazil. According to some reports efforts are being made to unify the leadership and bring dissident elements under the general direction of Juliao. Other reports indicate that, although the Cuban Embassy is providing guidance and possibly financial support to the movement, it had not yet resolved the internal dissension in the leagues. Colombia From Ccolesbia reports have been received of incre- asing Cuban assistance, primarily in the form of training courses by instructors who have been trained in Cuba, to the Worker-Student-Feasant Movement (IOEC). A small guerrilla band encountered by the Colombian arzy in July 1963 was broken up when five members of the hand were killed and two others captured. A smali quantity of arms and a considerable amount of books and pamphlets on revolutionary warfare, photographs of Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos and Mao Tse-tung, and bulletins of the MOEC were found at the camp site. Recent reports have indicated an increase in the terrorist efforts of the MOEC and increased promises of assistance from Che Guevara with regard to the training of additional MOEC members. Costa Rica There have been a number of unconfirmed reports alleging small-scale training of revolutionaries on Costa Rican territory for guerrilla activity in Nicaragua. For example, in mid-July an increased number of guerrillas were reportedly being trained in Costa Rica by Adolfo Garcia Barberena, well-known Nicaraguan revolutionary leader and member. of the FLN (National Libération Front -- a Communist-dominated, Cuban-supported, SECRET Doclda: 327474608 Page if
HW 450955 SECRET - 5 - anti-Nicatagua revolutionary group). In early August , Alberto Serrato, leader of the FLN in Costa Rica, (reportedly left with a group of Nicaréguans’ for the Costa Ricdn-Nicaraguan border. Another teport indicated that Hector Bogantes Zamora, Costa Rican agitator was supposed to have left San Jose in mid-August for the Nicaraguan border to supervise the passage of Nicaraguan guerrillas from Costa Rica into Nicaragua. Bogantes, who recently returned from attending the May Dey celebra- tions in Cuba, is said to have been assigned this responsibility by the Costa Rican Communist Party. So far as we know, the GON, which is normally well- informed and highly sensitive to such activities on its borders, has not made any complaints or otherwise signified concern or awareness of these reported activities. Honduras The Honduran armed forces began to move against a group of pro-Castro guerrillas operating against the Nicaraguan Government and active in the vicinity of the Nicaraguan-Honduran border. The Nicaraguan National Guard has been conducting operations on its side of the border against the insurgents since July. The dense jungle and difficult terrain, however, will impede the efforts of both forces to eliminate the guerrillas. Information on the guerrilla force is scanty and conflicting. It is apparently composed of members of the National Liberation Front (FLN), a Communist-dominated and Cuban-supported revolutionary organization active primarily in Honduras and Nicaragua since the fall of 1962. The strength of the force is not known. Nicaragua A captured guerrilla of the FLN (National Liberation Front ~ a Communist-dominated, Cuban-supported, anti- Nicaraguan group) confessed that he was a member of a group of 46 who entered Nicaragua from Honduras on 22 July. SECRET. Doclda: 3274274608 Page 16
HY 0955 SECRET -6- He said that their mission was to establish a base camp in the Isabella mountains, Department of Jinotega, in order to indoctrinate the peasants and to train them in guerrilla tactics. He admitted that he had received six months’ guerrilla warfare training in Cuba and that other FLN leaders had received similar training. He also said that the FLN training camp in Honduras was near El Lagarto, on the Patuca River. . 4. Transfer of Funds British Guiana In British Guiana, Guiana Import-Export Corporation (Gimpex) received a one million dollar advance payment deposited by the Cuban Alimpex Corporation fcr goods to be delivered to Cuba in the future. Gimpex has, in turn, loaned this money to the Government of British Guiana. Cheddi Jagan's People's Progressive Party is the major stockholder in Gimpex. Mohammed Kassim, Manager of Gimpex, has indicated that Gimpex will be able to secure additional loans from Cuba in amounts sufficient to tide the Jagan government over any foreseeable crisis. It was also reported that Gimpex plans to buy aircraft, spare parts and other machinery in the United States for reshipment to Cuba. General Reports continue to be received from many places indicating that the suitcase full of currency is still one of the most common methods used by the Cubans for trans- mitting funds for use in supporting subversive activities throughout the hemisphere. Instances where such funds have been confiscated by the police have occurred recently in El Salvador, Panama and Ecuador. SECRET Bocld:32474608 Page i9
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SECRET KNOWN TRAVEL OF LATIN AMERICANS TO AND FROM CUBA ~ AUGUST 1963 NATIONALITY | .Avoust, | PURPOSE OF TRIP TO ‘CUBA . | .Avoust, | ARGENTINA PT oe 26th July Celebrations. BOLIVIA BRAZIL a 22-Returning from 206th. July Celebrations. _ BR, GUIANA fa} oe Herder Institute in Leipzig. Be . CHILE 22 8-Physical Ed. Seminar ~ 1-Seeking: funds = 1O0=89Returning |from 26 July Celebrations... COLOMBIA 6 14 oe - , COSTA RIC 0 | 26th July Celebrations, COSTA RICA 8 DOM, REP. 1 8 . ECUADOR | 0 | 2 i EL SALVADOR 0. : So _ - Oo. GUATEMALA | 3 | HAITT a . ae _ . HONDURAS He] 8 ; _ re / MEXICO ee 26th July ‘Celebrations. Oe er 7 NICARAGUA | 0 | [PANAMA | 6 | | 26th duly Celebrations. oe a oe . | 7 . / [PARAGUAY a | ee 7 [PERU 2 9-Returning were members of (MIR) who received Jf guerrilla training . ee, a TRINIDAD ) __. URUGUAY 10 eo | 26th July Celebrations. Oc | VENEZUELA 3 0) [26th July Celebrations. rotTAL S flo4 ae’ SECRET Page 21 Docld: 32424608 HW 50955