HW 509455 ‘APPEOEE A BALL AMERTCA WOMEN'S CONGRESS", held a) Cuba, January ay 4 Attendance: — : -_ “Wamber of countries Parsioipating | - 19 ‘Number of Guest Couatries Represented 15 ‘Humber of Delegates i + BBB te Humber of Guests oO .. . 8B... ‘Total number of Women attonaing 620 — ‘Cuban Women Attending =. we ADP. Wet Total Foreign Wonen Attending — red 365 a : Breakdown of Delegates, by Oooupations:: Workers: factory workers, peasants | and enployess | 0 ‘PPofessionals . hepk . ‘Housewives Teaching profession Students | ‘Writers ournalisss gewomen Clty councillors )Businesawomen as Argentina — Bolivia — Brazil Canada Colomia | Costa Rica Cuba Chile Eouador aa El Salvador | Guatemala - Honduras Mexico el Wiearagta = . Panam United Staves. or anorioa uw Uruguay . 15 Venezuela From ouba. . Wet Total Women Astending From the. Rost of the Continent (Based on figures elven. in, vuoy" ‘anuary 13, and smevotuetéot ‘Tenuary 14, - 1963) : 4 a ce an wt Ti pet Suen + agi or ae Praga tage Lis 2 ghey Prostgonta of Delegationst ; Argentine © 28 we Fany paelman Bolivia ..° . « Marta Vallejo _ Braz§b 0 ‘@ Bertina Blum ’ Canada © - oS i @ -@ilda Murrey “Chile «fe. a Hote | Jalleta Bampuzano * Golombla oe Bey BE ‘o Lidia. de. Hurtado Costa ‘Rica . a; - /, Laisa Go a ‘ BDoclda: 324273995 Page 40
Vilma Esp{n . Ouba 28 , Bouador 9° '«s, Marta Feijéo El Salvador —- Letiola dol Valle Linéa Leén Sa! -Ploremila Castro = a: Clementina Batalla ao. Bassols Concepoién Palacio ° #2.) Lidia Eneida de Gil. f - prepentacién Lezcano ° -: - ‘“Hame of president omiteed Juiga arévalo ,. 0°: 3 Argolla Layae . «| ‘Guatemala =: » Honduras -.. . > Mexioo Cy . Wlearagua: 9 82 2S 1S. Panmema o-oo le ” Parag a a United states of America 18s Uruguay, 5k ‘19. Venezuela . ‘Organizations Represented, by Countrhes: ‘Apgentihba == I So "wonen's Inter-Partisan Oormiasions Argontina Vanguard | Sooialist Party, Women’s Chapter; Coaordinating Gommittse of the Peronist Movement, Women's Chapters; Womon’s Commission ef the Communist Party; Argentine Women's Unions Labour Unions? Group; the 62 Organiza ions; Labour Unions? Unity and Gow .: - ordination Movements Sponsoring Comittess for the Congress epeeee esses -Bolivia °° me So de Sponsoring Committees for tho Congress. ~ Brazil — 7 - oe vo - Womens? Federation of Sao Paolo; Women’s Interchange and Friendship Commission; Women's League of Guanabara ‘State; ~ - Sponsoring Committee for the Congress. oo Canada - 7 .. Congress of Canadian Women; La Ligus de Femmes Canadicanes; | Fair Deal for Cuba Committees; Workers’ Benevolent Assoclations- ‘United Jewish Peoples order; Ladies’ Auxiliary Committee ~... . (represented by the Chairman); Russian-Canadian Women's | Federation; United Ulrainian-Canadian Women's Associations - Peace Council Organizations Se ED y Colombia = oor ees . ce " Pamooratie Women's Unions Political Party of the Left;  -— - Barristerst Sooiety of Colombia; Liberal Revolutionary «~° ovement Sponsoring Committee tor the Congress. - oo Gosta Risa ae i a Costa Rican Women's Alliance, — :. Workers? Central organization of Revolutionary Cuba; Union of » ‘the Communist Youth; High school Students? Union; University Students’ Federation; Comnittees for the Defence of the Oe Revolutions Movement for the Peace and Sovereignty of the ‘Peoples; Cuban Woments.Fedoratiob. =. 3 = . po . | co a ‘Workers’ Single Central Organization; Woments Union of Chile; Cuban-Chilean Institute. of Culture; Women Workers? Union of the ‘felephone Company; Israeli Culture Center; Teachers’ Labour Unions -Seoteseors® Uaileny Mational. Sooiesy-of “Professoray Bookstores’ ‘Labour Unions Sponsoring Committees for the Congress} National: - 6 ¢tee of Young Ohilean Women... .- ee ee Me guayaqul g 18 1; Sponsoring Committee for the dongress} HW 50955 Docla:32423995 Page 41
1 Facey Dh hag ORT a ae ed nero mats ES re orm ey ee He? Be rea a El Salvador’ A ee Sos Salvadorean Women's Fraternity, 9 7 po iores Bedoya" Women's Organization; Labour's Patriotie po MOUtRe - Honduras . . Hondurean Women's Unions White cross Mothers? gocieties. Mexico ne | : . 7 Mexican Women’s Democratic Unions Teachers? Rovolutionary Movements Bational Liberation Movenent's Women’s Action , Groups University Women's Association; Group of Friends of |... : Rumantas United Front of MazatidneSinaioca Colonies; Civie = - Committee of Guerrero; University and Eigh Sohcol Teachers; " Women’s Co-ordinating Committee; Economists! Committecs _ National WorkersGUnion of the Teaching Profession; ot Revolutionary Labour Federations General Union of Mexico's. Workers and Peasi3ts; Pro=-Independence Women's Group of 2s "| Michoaedns The Mexican Women’s Vanguard; Mexican Women Wor . Unions; Sponsoring Commitgoe for the Congress, oe d Niearegua oe . . - : eee . Political Party "Revolutionary Mobilization”, a __© - Vanguard for Nation Actions Woments Vanguard, = . Paraguay a a SE _ February Revolutionary ¥, Women's Chapter; Women's Unions _ Women's Movements FULNA. SO re ~ - United States of Anerica mS . 7 . North-American Association of Friends of Guba, Uraguay | i oS - a _ Liberation Front of the Lefts; Bastera Revolutionary Movements, « “Women's Unions Committee to Help Spanish and Portuguese . .” - Political Prisoners; Workers’ Central Organization of Uruguay ¢:. ' Sponsoring Gommittes. for the.Congress,. = yy ‘Wenezuela . ciel By _, National Women's Union of - Venezuela. Ds oe a — 4 ‘Guest Countries Represented: _ Czechoslovakia ' Denmark . - Bast Germany § - Great. Eribaia.; HW 50955 Docld:324293995 Page 42
- 7 Offieials of Cuba's organization for reeimenting workers, the CCR, ere stressing to the Cuban people their responsibility for "Liberating" other Latin Amerieen peoples. Havena radio has reported @ talk to a group of volunteer harvesters of tubers and weeders of garlic and arua in . town of southern Havana Provinces, ems of whom were local: reerulted and gome of whom wore delegates fron Latin America end Canada to the redent vevoluticonary commemoration ceremonies, The CTCR official responsible for this volunteer work sald that Cuba was offering “4te example to the 200 million exploited Indians, peasants and vorkera of Letin Americas and that in the game mennér that we receive help from the soclaliet countries, We have the duty te help other peoples te obtain their liber ation." He added that the Cubans would fulfill thet duty. (BIS Dally HY 50955 DBocld:32423995 Page 43
HY / CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Cone material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 792 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. S-E~C~R-E-T COUNTRY SUBJECT DATE OF INFO. PLACE & DATE ACQ. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT [S TENTATIVE. SOURCE: C ey) % Brazil/Cuba/Latin America REPORT NO. CS _-- 3/536, 690 Activities of the Society of DATE DISTR. 8 February 1963 | Priends of Cuba in Preparation For the Continental Congress in NO. PAGES 1 Support of Cuba _ REFERENCES — RD 15, 21 January. 1963 Brazil, Ric de Janeiro 23 January 1963 FIELD REPORT NO. HBR-3301 Brazilian (Ff) with good contacts in the Society of Friends of Cuba. Appraisal of Content: 2. The World Peace Council (WPC) was expected to pay for the expenses of the Continental Congress in Support of Cuba, which is to be held in Rio de Janeiro from 28 to 30 March 1963, according to comments made by General Luiz Gonzaga Leite, president of the Society of Friends of Cuba (SAC), at a meeting of the SAC on 21 January 1963. As of 21 January the SAC had not received any replies from the invitations sent to the African nations to participate in the congress. It was announced at the meeting that Valerio Konder, acting president of the Brazilian Pro-Peace Movement and a member of the SAC,was planning to go to Tanganyika to attend the Third Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference in early February and would take a copy of the convocation ° for the congress with him. . Plans were made for painting slogans concerning the congress ali over the city and for placing large signboards along some ef the main parkways. The possibility was discussed of persuading a well-known painter, such as Emiliano di Cavalcanti, tO paint a picture for the congress, which would be raffled off for the benefit of the congress. At a meeting of the SAC on 15 January a series of.pro-Cuba meetings, which would be held before the congress, was planned. The possibility of inviting certain Brazilian artists to perform at the meetings in order to attract a . ~ large crowd was discussed. The SAC was also trying to obtain the signature of Dias Gomes, the theatrical producer, on the convocation of the congress. Gomes planned to go on. 19 January ‘to Cuba, where he was to direct a play. 50955 Daocld:327423995 Page 44
OFFICIAL USE ONLY February 6, 1963 cu NT _USIA PROGRAMS ON CUBA | . 1. Special Multi-Media Project to tell Cuban story in perspective from its early promises through the missile. crisis. Initiated Decem- — ber 14 with target date for completion February 15. Theme: "This is what happens to a country which lets itself be embraced by communism." Products in preparation under this project are: a) a two-reel film for theatrical and mobile unit showing; b) a television film with interviews from around the world expressing disillusionment that the Cuban revolution. _ became a pawn in the international commun st game; — c) a photo booklet; .a) a radio dramatization for both shortwave broadcast and -  lecal placement; — e) a photo exhibit. 2. Regular program Radio (see attachment on VOA broadcasts to Cuba) ~ Nine hours Spanish daily to Latin America, three especially directed to Cuba (latter also relayed by medium wave) - Package programs for local placement. Over 4500 hours per week on some 1500 Latin American stations (counting all programs, of which those relating to Cuba represent a large. proportion). - USIA-Miami Office (1 Foreign Service Officer, 11 Cuban employees) producing daily half-hour package of interviews, excerpts from letters, refutations latest Cuban propaganda. - Themes (see attached memorandum) Press and Publications | - Wireless file: 10,000 words news and commentary daily via teletype . to all Latin American posts for placement in local press. Average. 13 articles weekly relating Cuban situation. ~ Packet materials - Articles and photos of more timeless interest _DEEIGIAL USE ONLY pseentene entyp agp eve ggmacten et nye tat aa emt iin espa ctr nection emma en arenattt rin bp tines RENIN AE EG NOE En RRS us eageanneenrernana mera yee tenner tie nce maser pgniee pecan erat hemrserat timer tee eN rm inert Whenwesitrmaseatntin gat Docld: 3274273995 Page 46
HY ) OFFICIAL USE ONLY ~2- mailed to posts. . /= Miami Office provides articles on latest Cuban developments derived , from interviews with refugees and study | of Cuban press and radio. - Publications - Six anti-Castro cartoon books distributed in eight ' million copies. New series in progress, including one on food shortages in communist world and Cuba, and three cartoon books on Alliance for Progress theme. - Mexico Reproduction Center and USIS posts in Latin America originate a number of pamphlets on Cuba. Book Development Support of low-cost Spanish editions of anti-Castro books, which have included "Las Cadenas Vienen de Lejos," by Alberto Baeza Flores; "Cuba, First Satellite in the Americas," by Daniel James; "El Infidel Castro” by Yves Gilbert; and now in production, "The Sensual Revolution" -by Victor Franco. ‘Portuguese edition in Brazil of Theodore Draper' & "Castro's Cuba: Myths and Realities." Television ~ "Panorama Panamericano" - weekly 15-minute videotaped show televised regularly in 42 cities of 18 Latin American countries with estimated 10 million viewers. Special preductions. Examples: Film on Cuban children, "Tactics of Communism" series (one on Castro land reform), missile crisis specials, ete. - Acquisitions. Examples: "Anatomy of Betrayal — Dateline Cube (from j rh Shae Circle Theater; "The Tunnel" ) Berlin wall. documentary from NBC Films "Hordzons" ~ monthly news film magazine for commercial theater showings din Latin. America, featuring occasional items on Cuba. Specials - "The Unfinished Struggle" ; "The Promised Sand" (animation serge engine east ten ION RS TEENA MEATS AE, Betas, er etre:. *IRR vowgiye eye nim ences ete __ _  _ OFFICIAL USE ONLY | t) , 50955 DBocld:32423995 Page 47
HY . OFFICTAL USE ONLY -3- on land reform); "The Revolution Betrayed," etc. , ; 3. USIS Field Operations in Latin America USIS maintains offices in 45 major cities of Latin America. Total. cs American field personnel in Latin America is 215, including 29 Student on 0955 ‘Affairs Officers and 9 Labor’ Information Officers, Locally-employed nationals total 782. USIS assists 119 Binational Centers in the area. Major posts are equipped to carry out extensive press, film, radio, exhibit, book, cultural, and personal contact programs. Most posts originate their own materials designed to fit the local situation. USIA: TAL: WNWagley:mjb OFFICIAL USE ONLY inet ne oniges memepgmegieraee mettre nrg mere t i 3 Es & i i ¥ a enensepgenenn mainte pee gy * See et! at Docld: 3274273995 Page 48
rr = OFFICIAL USE ONLY (Attachment to February 6, 1963 paper: “Current USIA Programa on Cuba") . ~ Current V. £ G) P T Y C The Voice of America broadcasts 8 3/4 hours in Spanish daily ‘to Latin America, of which 2 3/4 hours is tailored especially for the Cuban audience. The transmission times of the Cuban hours are 6:00 to 7:00 a.m., and 10:00 to 11:45 p.m. - The "Appointment with Cuba" hour (10:00 to 11:00 p.m.) consists ‘of 15 minutes of news, followed by a five-minute commentary on some development in the Cuban situation, a 30-minute Miami-produced package (interviews with refugees, commentaries refuting the latest Caban |: propaganda claims, excerpts of letters received from listeners inside Cuba), and a ten-minute sports feature emphasizing the activities of Cuban athletes in the U.S. The 11:00 to 11:45 p.m. broadcast opens with 15 minutes of news and is followed either by a half-hour dramatization or a 15-minute news documentary and 15 minutes of features. A 150-installment series of a soap-opera type adventure, featuring three brothers combatting a Castro-like regime, was run at this time until recently. A new series of this dramatization is now being produced under contract in . Miami with Cuban writers and actors and will soon be broadcast to Cuba in the same time spot. The 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. broadcast to Cuba also opens with 15 minutes of world news and repeats the Miami package and features of the previous night. In the six hours of daily broadcasts to the general Latin American _.€udience, which can also be heard in Cuba, the total material relating ‘ .to the Cuban situation averages approximately one hour. This consists of commentaries, interviews with refugees, and news documentaries. _ In addition to the short-wave broadcasts (relayed also to Cuba on medium wave by two mobile transmitters), the main features on Cuba are sent out as tapes to all USIS posts in Latin America for placement with some 1500 local radio stations, The numberof listeners reached by this means is many times greater than the shortwave audience. The main themes emphasized in the Voice's Cuban programming are: 1) Castro's betrayal of a legitimate national revolution; 2) the sub- servience of the Cuban regime to international communism; 3) the economic failures of the regime, relating these to the pattern of communist failures in the rest of the world; 4) the isolation of Cuba in the face of continental solidarity opposing Cuba's alliance with the communi at bloc; and 5) the U.S. position that. Gaba will one day be free, } se 5005 Docld: 3274273995 Page 49 & pen et nanan pnts anette ser ne net ren net
q q ! i 4 i HY 0955 SECRET, USEA RADIO BROADCASTING TO LATIN AMERICA 1. Direct. Shortwave a. Spanish - 8 howra/h5 minutes per day. (3 hours are programmed for Cuba)* b. Portuge@e - 3 hours per day. Spenieh and Portugese language tapes are alr-mailed to USTA stations in Latin America ~ some 4,000 hours per week eré broadcast over 1,500 local atations. The program material consists of dramati- gations, news documentaries shout the Alliance for Progress, economics, political commentaries, etc. 3+ Miscellaneous About 150 LA local stations rebroadcast (either simultaneously or from tapes) portions of the Spanish and Portugese programs listed in "Direet Shortwave” sbove. These rebroadeasta are in medium wave bands te local audiences. USIA has no estimete of the totel hours involved peor day or week. *This time ie simultaneously broadcast over medium wave transmitters | to Cuba and the Caribbean. (Date supplied by: Mr. Willien Wagley of USIA Code 162/2340) 13 February 1963 SECREL, Docld: 324273995 Page 50
sy GENERAL: Despite continuing uaports of Costro/Comuniat offers of financial assistance te individuals and groups in Latina » America, there is no proof that the delivery 6f funds was actually made. Cash transactione other than those made with Cuban pesos outeide of Cuba would be virtually impossible to trace. There is some fairly firm evidence that in March 1962 en mount of $10,000 "13 Novenber | Movement” based in Mexico City for use in actions againet the Government of Guatemala. Individuals travelling te Cuba on various eccasiond are known te have received beth transportation end financial assistance, but the amounts have not been eateblished. A muber of reports indicate representatives in Letin America have chénmelled fimds to sympathetic individuals or groupa: . L. EVIDENCE OF FUNDS This Teb conteins a summary of the Sole report considered ad evidence of fund transfers by DIA. CIA repreaentatd vee have informed DIA that the originel raw report is not immediately availeble. 2. REPORTS OF CUBAN FUNDS FOR SUBVERSION This Teb contains a large number of reports alleging fund transfers in Brasil, Guatemala, Colusbia, Venecuela, Ecuador, Nicsregia, end Hondures. Most. of the reports indicate the \ funds ave to be used in activities against the lecal goverment. (Amounts. vary from small sums for travel up to thousands of dollars), HY 50955 DBocld:32423995 Page 52
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HY 0955 SECRET . NO FURTHER Drssimituarron Guatemala : A nev attempt to oust the Ydigoras regime may be , made shortly by the Cuban-supported "13 November” group of ex- Guatemalan army men. ‘The Guatemalan wilitery attache in Mexico . told his U.8. couriterpart there that "13 November" leaders in Mexico. appear woll-financed and are buying arms and supplies for an operation to begin late this month or early next. . | The group, which led a guerrilla. outbreak earlier this year, ig reported by a usually yveltable souree to have received at least. $10,000 in Cuban financial assistance sinc® last March. Meanwhile, sporadic boul explosions in Guatemala City may mark the begimming of anew anti-government campaign, though the U.S. Ewbasay there reports that et the moment there aré no vital issues stirring up popular feeling ageinst the regime. Docld: 3274273995 Page 54
_ Monthly finendiel atid fre to Julleots leti-vieg pe edly been out off by orders from Hevewsa. A hey leader of the . Qieniient Comamiat Party of Braz shleation te a Cuban 5 agent leagues in northeastern Brasil hes il way have been eusvonsible far the tous intéruel friction within duliso's Bocife THCS~3,530, 312, mbansy officiel, (CIP Din ‘CONFIDENTIAL HY 50955 DBocld:32423995 Page 56
a Fl 4 aa ee wee a HY SOURCE: — 0955 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ‘This material contains information affecting 18, U.S.C, Secs. 793 and 794, the transmissi Former Guatemalan police official (B); from a member (B) of the Communist Party of Guatemala. Upon his return from Habana, Cuba, from the anniversary celebrations, Humberto Barillas, member of the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo (PGT), said that, in addition to a meeting with Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, he hac also talked wit Manuel Galich, Fidel Castro, and Jose Manuel Fortuny. He said that Galich had told him that he would return to Guatemala to begin his presidential campaign toward the end of February and that Castro had offered to lend Barillas money to be used in Galich's campaign. 1. Field Comment, Headquarters Comments Parillas' first name was re and CS-3/535, 649, Fortuny is a former secretar 2. Galich, who was Minister of Forei -... is now head of the Communist Cult ‘Party of Guatemala. Docld: 32423995 Page 57 axe OSES EDER fete sto tallest tT See TDCS-3/535,004.. y-general of the Communist the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title on or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. S-E-C~R-E~T ~ COUNTRY Guatemala/Cuba REPORT NO. = CS_3/536,093 SUBJECT Planned Return of Manuel DATE DISTR. 5 February 1963 ~ - Galich as Presidential = Candidate, with Possible “NO. PAGES l Support from Fidel Castro —_ REFERENCES RD DATE OF January 1963 ~ INFO. PLACE & Guatemala, Guatemala City ’ DATE ACQ. 22 January 1963 FIELD REPORT NO. HGG-2°07 Appraisal of Content: ported as Gilberto in CS-3/532,931 gn Affairs under Arbenz, ural Center in Habana. -
& CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS Sia [SECRET (When Filled In) Tocs 9 -3/537,168. “COOKE, "AND GUIDE ARE ALL IN CONTACT WITH ALBAMONTE.. ch FIELD DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR CINCARIB° CINCLANT ACTION: © Acst, Navy AE 005, oso. INFO: = DcSOP__ | ‘DA IN 16839 35 END. OF. MESSAGE ‘CLASSIFICATION - ~ "DISSEMINATION CONTROLS HY 50955 DBocld:32423995 Page 106