(404-10186-10142 YinJ Ont ND AD che Kee CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This material contatne information afecting the Natoma: tefease of the United Bates within the meaning of the Expeccage Laws, Tite’ 18 USC Gece 103 and 7H. the tenemos ce tereauon of which in eng manner to an uneuthoriard perme ts proiunited ky Inw. S-E-C-R-E-T | NO FOREIGN DISSEM Country Cuba _ REPORTNO. = CSCI-316,/02305-65 -— suect Funds for Revolutionary Activities DATE DISTR 7 June 1965 rr from the Direccion General de RETURN TO . Intelligencia NO. PAGES 2 Ri nd only 8 ackgroun rQauce: REFERENCES | Do Not Rep DATE OF 1964 . , INFO. piace & Washington, D. C. . DATE ACG. (Fabruaty 1965 FIELD REPORT NO. -TH6S 1S UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARG DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE, source A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964. ao. The Direccion General de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence - DGI} does not make any regular payments to reyo- lutionary groups but pays them onJy when they have submitted a plan for revolutionary uction (armed struggle) ard have had it approved in Havana. Tnerefore, rhere 16 no standard amount paid to any one group or dishursed in any one country per month or year, and if no armed se rugg le is in progress or beirg planned, no money is given out. Funds expended in Latin Americ’ on the above basis include the following: Guatemala : During 1963, the DGI paid out about U.S. . ' $250,000. The Yon Sosa group got about . 3200,000 in one year for its activities Cincluded in the $250,000). E1 Salvador >: In August-September 1963, when the Salvadoran . revolutionaries were preparing for armed struggle, ‘they received 0.5.350,000. They used the funds fur propaganda, however, and were net given any more because they had, in DGI terms, misused the money. . Nicaragua : During 1963 the DGI disbursed some U.5.$15,000, ° In addition, the professor, who was one ef the liaison officers in Mexico, won a suit for some damage from a company (perhaps Pan American Airlines) ard was awarded U.S.$830.000, some of f which ke turned over to the guerrillas he + represented. 5 §-E-C-R-E-T TT 3 NO FOREIGN DISSEM | 3 Lnmsmee GW OIA ARMY i NAVY AIR CINCSO “#7 REPCINCLANT (Mote: Field distribution ladicated by ne ph py EX=S COT WER ADR] TTC Rad 3 TE ] NP (AWNUS-2) HHC/RE a ae | L/ WASH) fb CSET ~316 (02305 HHC7OS S| ft RID AN vi 65 HC WAVE ff | it . som aoa rorsus WHCGQ,(1), WE 1 (1), CT 4, RID IT. ‘anton ve if | | earee
14-00000 Costa Rica Honduras Panama Venezuela S-E-€-R-E-T NG FOREIGN D{SSEM ~ 2 = CSCI-316/02305-65 The DGI gave almost nothing to Costa Rica because there was nu revolutionary activity. The DGI gave Honduran revolutionaries a little more tnin to the Costa Ricans because after ‘ the dasturbance in late 1963 there was almost no Fevolutionary action, most of the guerrillas were in exile, and there was & considerable probies caused by the tendency of guerriila agents trained 1n Cuba to ‘split off from the Party and make their own Way. Before August 1963, the DGI had given the Vangardia de Accion Nacional (VAN) some U.S.$30,000, When the Departamento de Liberacion Nacional (National Liberation Department ~ LN) and the Iliegal Department of the DCE separated 1a December 1963 (they had previously been combined in one MA CIntelligeace) Section), the VAN opera- tions were transferred exclusively to the Illegal Department. Somewhat later they were returned to the LN Department. What sums of money were expended during the period of exclusive Illegal Department control are not known. Between 1960 and 1964, the DGI put out more than U.S.$1,000,000 for revolutionary activities in Venezuela, in addition to an unknown amount of arms supplied from Cuba, Moreover, one of the best Cuban guerrilla fighters, Major Abelardo COLOME Ibarra, went to Venezuela in 1962 and was still the director of operations in 1964. If COLOME returned to Cuba after April 1964, when he was known to be there, he was probably only back temporarily to collect more money. S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM