176-10036-10069 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10069 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO: TITLE : CIA intelligence Annex DATE : . PAGES : 6 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 60: Cuba Subjects, Cuban Subversion, 8/63-10/63. Box 1 we eee RFs MART AMR = =
SEMEN ve WUL ‘ Ql: Use: A: 4 | | SECRET (39 ANNEX _A CIA Intelligence Annex 1. Travel _to and from Cuba on Oy Ae os ah aera aoa bate aes 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-Cubans. The first of the recent series -- on 25 July -- brought 71 Latin American passengers to Havana for the 26 July celebrations. The other four flights -- on 15, 22, 28 and 29 August -- transported over 200 Latin Americans to Brazil frem Havana. Some of the aixcraft involved returned to Cuba with smaller numbers ct passen- gers. Many of the 206 Latin American p2ssengers had been delegates to the 26 July ceremonies, but others had apparently been in Cuba for longer periods and some had probably received training there. Of the passengers on these four flights to Brazil, 75 were natives of Caribbean area countries. Their circuitous travel through Brazil was evidently designed to help conceal the fact that they had been in Cuba, Costa Rica Two Costa Ricans were among the passengers on a chartered Cubana plane which was turned back to Havana at Grand Cayman on 11 July 1963. One was Luz Marina Hernandez 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 Costa Rican Society of Friends of the Cuban Revolution, who had been in Cuba since November 1962. SECRET F aaa Ranta» 2969004 Thane
er SECRET ~2- Ecuador | | The activities of Cuban subversives in Ecuador, at least for the present, have been greatly inhibited by the mass arrests of Commumists and pre- Cubans and by the outlawing of the Communist Party by the junta. Hondtras It is renorted that the Fonduran Communist Party has issued orders to its members not to attempt to travel to Cuba at the present time. This action is apparently the result of the increasing vigilance of the Honduran goverrmert and the greater implemertation of stricter travel controls. 2. Movement of Cuban Propaganda Guatemala According to an unconfirmed report received in July, a Bureau of Information of the Communist Party of Guatemzla is being formed in collaboration with Prensa Latina and is to be managed clandestinely. It expects AEE, BAR, TTT hw bulletins for distribution by radio stations. This may indicate a pattern by which Prensa_Latina will attempt to distribute on a more clandestine basis in other areas in Latin America... Honduras It was reliably reported that in mid-July 1963, a small coastal freighter landed 14 large boxes of Communist © propaganda on the northern coast of Honduras, the boxes having been transferred at sea from a larger vessel. The report has not been confirmed. SECRET
SECRET - 3- 3. Movement of Guerrillas and Arms Argentina Extremist members of the Peronist Party, apparently under the leadership of such figures as Hector Villalon and John William Cooke, were reported to be receiving “enrouragement : and promises of large sums of money from Cuba in support of their efforts to train and crganize subversive groups in Argentina. Villalon has stated that his plan cails for expanding and accellerating subversive activities in Argentina culminating in a complete take over within two years. There is no indica- tion that Peron himeelf has agreed to this pian. It has been renorted that leaders of the Communist Party of Argentina have been greatly annoyed by the tendency of the Castro recime to support the revolutionary Peronists without having consulted the Communist Party of Argentina. It is reported that the so-called Amy of National Liberation (ANL) of Argentina, which is a relatively small Castroist organization directed from Cuba by John William Cooke, has in recent weeks been negotiating for the purchase of arms and has been offered submachine guns, bazookas and other weapons by two or three private suppliers. It was reported, however, that the ANL was having difficulty getting enough dollars from Cuba to make significant purchases possible. Bolivia The Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Relations on 23 August protested formally to the Cuban Chargé d'Affaires ‘in La Paz against the Cuban Embassy support to the miners during the recent crisis. Subsequently, however, Foreign Minister Fellman informed the Cuban Chargé that he need not fear that the Government of Bolivia would break diplomatic relations with Cuba. There has, in fact, been no hard information linking the Cuban Embassy with the present mining crisis in spite of some unconfirmed reports of Cuban support. SECRET
SECRET -~ & « 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 zeneral direction of Juliao. Other reports indicate that, although the Cuban Embassy is providirg guidance und possitly financial support to the movenent, it had not yet resolved the internal dissension in the leagues. . Colomaia From Ccolethia reports have been received of incre- asing Cuban assistance, primarily in the form ef training courses by instructors who have been trained in Cuba, to the Worier-Studen--Feasant Movement (MOEC). A small guerrilla band encountered by the Colombian arzry in July 1963.was broken up when five members of the land were killed and two others captured. A smali quantity of arms and a considerable amount of books and pamphlets on revolutionary warfare, photogrephs of Fidel Castro, Camiio 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 Liberation Front -~ a Communist dominated, Cuban-supported, SECRET
SECRET - 5 - anti-Nicaragua revolutionary group). In early August, Alberto Serrato, leader of the FLN in Costa Rica, © (reportedly left with a group of Nicaraguans for the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border. Another report 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 xecently returned from attending the May Day 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. Hancuras The Honduran armed forces began to move against a group of pro-Castro guerrillas operating against che Nicaraguan Government and active in the vicinity of the Nicaraguan-Honduran border. The Nicaraguan National Guard has been conducting operations on its side cf 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
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 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