CONFIDENTIAL | ~ October 9, 1963 °° “MEMORANDUM FOR: Subcommittee on Cuban Subversion. SUBJECT: Meeting of October 10. oe ‘You are invited to a meeting of the Subcommittee on © . Cuban Subversion of the Interdepartmental Coordinating - Committee of Cuban Affairs to be held on Thursday, = 9. - *: October 10, at 2:30 P.M. in Room 6263, State Department ea GRA Conference > Room) AGENDA — |. Consideration of draft of monthly report for September. Diseuss sion of letter (copy attached) from SCS. of . Pan American Union. on contingency rianning Honduran guerrilla problem. «Consideration of the paper on training of Latin | - Americans in the United States... x HY 50955 DBocld: 32276192 Page 42
ae Ay a oe. 15 eno Sex Ps P QRSE (CEMISIOR: ESPECH COMISSAG CONS \EOMMISSIGH SPECIE PAN AB GER aw Was hington és: D.C., U. S$. A. (Gable addregs:) PAU WASH Oc “October let,, 1963. | aE A you S kno Wy the Special Consultative Committee o n Security is. - presently holding the first of its regular meetings, in accordance ‘with | ¢ % “the statutes, approved by the Council ef the Organization ; on » April 23 of | . ‘this, years ee oo Lo . . : . 2G - Co a ‘Por the. batter fulfillment o f£ ite work, and in accordance with Article, a : 3B of theas statutes, the Committes intends to request of the governmenta Ip. | ‘of the member states of the Organization any information that. they may have - oo regard ag epec féie activi tles of international communism in this hemisphe Ee. : 2 _ prone: the important activitias of this kind a are the trips that many - Ie duals make to Cuba for well-know ulterior purposes, In thie ‘connecs wie 1 should greatly appreciate it if you would furnish the Committee with ee . whatever information your goverament 7 ay deem it advisable to present. regarding the trip that a large group of U.S, citice eng recently mada to Cuba, of that § country’s | govermn manent, about wh lich. the Committe igh recently appeared in: thie. try and i in Latin J America. This infor: mati on would be treated with the, idence that your government deemed appropiai te. oe 9 bere 5) rs ze oe & es) a ey ae ve eg &  ! a> ‘ me bis a ee ° oe Lr’ be € a Tha ak £ you in advance for your, valuable assistance in th ¢ “Accept, Sir, the agsurance of | my highest consideration “Julio Cesar Doig Sane hez _ an . Chairman - 7 Special Consultative Committee , 8 on Security ‘ Mee: Ward P, Allen : oo | Alternate Representative of the United States. Council of the Organiz ation: of, American, States. Washington, YD, Ce. Cy vl BW 50955 Boclda: 32276192 Page 43
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1. Control of Travel to and from Cuba Central Intelligence Agency ~~. a, a. Developed highly useful information Db. -Maintained close watch over| See Annex B for table during July and August. c. As a result of information furnished to him by and with indicated that he would At the ureine of This was one of the ‘take place ~ [in August. factors which led to f. After considerable prodding by! presented legislative proposals to t | which will require all persons |to have their
| Efforts are being made to obtain’ ‘more information and to encourace - Department of State oo Ce Ae Instructed Embassy Conakry to try to. _persuade™ ‘Guinean authorities to deny use of airport facilities by £lights on Habana-Moscow route. These efforts achieved a. ‘temporary withholding of permission for future regular élignte, ‘at least until such time as the Soviets develop their own: 2g0 Fefueling: facilities at. Conakry. sence b. Instructed Embassy Rio to approach Brazilian authorities to express. our deep concern at the growing -frequency of Cuban non-scheduled flights to Brazil and request their cooperation in curbing them. Also instructed our Embassies in several Latin American countries to work with in furnishing the names of nationals of those ountries travelling on these flights to local authorities’ ‘and urging them: (1) to institute tighter controls on their ‘own citizens travelling to Cuba, and (2) to express their ‘concern to the Brazilian Government over Cuban use of Brazil $ a way station for transporting subversives. ec. As a result of representations made to the ‘British Government about Cuban flights to the Cayman Islands. earrying Latin American subversives, the British developed -; -an administrative scheme which will effectively prohibit the use of British Caribbean dependencies by Cubana as transit. points for passengers. The British intend to require transit ‘visas of passengers passing through their areas, and to ‘reject applications. for such visas except in certain special: cases. Persons not possessing visas would be prevented from‘: ‘leaving their aircraft, or 7 would be returned to their. point of origin. as ee oe! we ~ a Instructed Embassy Mexico City. on ‘August 29 ‘to -:' inform the-Mexican-airline CMA that the United States is - opposed toa proposal that CMA operate charter flights. to
arry refugees from Habana to Central America.” CMA; as a esult, stated that they had-no. intention of proceeding ” further. with this ‘Project. @. ‘Instructed our missions in Curacao. and the Hague. to investigate a report that KLM was planning to renew - ‘gecheduled Curacao-Habana flights and to reiterate US “opposition to resumption of air service to Cuba. . KUM. assure sur Embassy that there is no plan to initiate. service, cheduled or non-scheduled, to Habana. £. Instructed Embassy Ottawa to express” our “strong objections to a proposal: that a Cubana charter flight pick p a second group of U.S. students in Montreal to fly them’ to Cuba. The flight. was not authorized. g. Instructed Consulate Georgetown to investigate ubana approaches to secure flight facilities. Mission eported on August 1 that the Governor hed no knowledge of | any talks between the B.G. Ministry of Communications. and ©, the Cuban Government regarding landing rights for Cubana planes. The Governor indicated his intention to inquire further and to keep us advised. London reported chat neither the Cuban nor the British Guiana Governments had raised the issue of landing rights with H.M.G. . h. Urged the governments of Mexico, Canada, Jamaica. and the Netherlands to refuse to assist the Cuban Government. in its efforts to find a short route for return of the 58 :: “American students who illegally travelled to Cuba. Also ~ informed Pan American Airways that we were opposed to a Cuba request for a PAA charter flight to fly the students: from” Habana to New York... od. ‘Instructed our missions at Port of Spain and. Barbados on several occasions to approach these governments: to.express the concern of the U.S. at indications of. _Guban. interest in. the use: of their aviation. facilities: ne ‘Embassy Port ‘of Spain ‘discussed with the Foreign Secretary various legal moves available that would enable . ae
GOTT ‘to control movements of aireraft within their territory, citing examples of such controls instituted by Mexico, Canada and Ireland. He indicated receptiveness to the proposal that the list of suggestions be made available to the. aviation | officials concerned. j. During a previous reporting period Embassy “Santiago urged the government of Chile to refuse visas to- ‘Cuban delegated to a preparatory meeting for the IT Latin ‘American Youth Congress scheduled for August in the Chilean “capital. Inability of Cuban delegates to obtain Chilean visas for this meeting is one of the contributing factors to. .the Cuban sponsors announcing during August that the meeting . had been postponed. k. Sent general instructions to our missions in ‘countries which participate in the International Union of ‘Architects asking them to urge the coop:zation of governmental .authorities in preventing or discouragin; the attendance of . their nationals to the VII UIA Congress in Habena, | September 29 '- October 4, 1963. Followed this up with ins tructions. to -individual posts to try where feasible to dissuade - _architects from free world countries from serving on: the | jer for the selection of a Bay of Pigs monument. 1. Urged Canadian Government to block | a plan to. ommence food parcel shipments to Cuba on a commercial basis ‘that would have required the establishment of. Scheduled weekly charter flights by Canadian planes. . a + Sonteoh of Movement of Cuban Propaganda Central Intelligence Agency _ Responding to the [For example, some 50° pounds of |
~ Department of Defense - ae “continued surveillance of the area surrounding. Cuba during the months of July and August at the same rate and with the same emphasis as prior to l July 1963. b. Continued ° ‘to maintain U.S. “Forces, primarily: ‘from! within the Atlantic Command, available to assist other Caribbean governments in the interception of suspicious. craft in territorial waters, as might be requested. No such : period covered by this report. However, U.S. Forces. ‘did keep » track of the location of the Soviet merchant freighter .MITCHURINSK, which was suspected of carrying subversives and arms from Cuba to British Guiana in mid-July. MITCHURINSK . was under U.S. surveillance: from its departure from Habana until United Kingdom forces assumed the task of keeping this ‘ship = under surveillance upon its approach to Georgztown,:. British Guiana. Subsequeatly, British police search of 2. MITCHURINSK in British Guiana , waters revealed nothing of * a suspicious nature. ~ Central Intelligence Agency ate in August pu shed a new [providing a penalty of no less than five “years imprisonment for persons who participate in| ona lead turnishe Department. of State _ an “Instructed our Consulate General in Georgetown to | that commercial” cargoes (which. could *,
have been negative. "Control of Transfer of Funds - A Department of State : Cooperated with the Foreign Assets Control Office of the Treasury Department in developing blocking controls | with respect to Cuba which went into effect on July 9s 1963. Strengthening of Counter=Tnsurgency Capabilities " Department of Defense a. Continued the installation of military communica-: tions facilities in Latin America. Operational dates for . the multi-channel radio stations to be installed in Managua; Nicaragua and Tegucigalpa, Honduras have been delaved to 15: October 1963 and 15 December 1963, respectively because of: new engineering and contractual requirements. ' Negotiations are continuing with Colombia and Ecuador for installation of U.S. military radio facilities. Completion of a new commercial trans-isthmian cable in the Panama Canal Zone within the coming month is expected to improve military | communications within the United States and the Commander: in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command. . b. Continued the surveillance of Cuba by U.S. Forces, reporting as before to U.S. commanders, organiza= tions and agencies. Reports of surveillance have been disseminated to all who have a requirement to know. c. Established a 24 hour per day, 7 day per week | duty watch at the U.S. Military Groups in the Caribbean . cduntries in conjunction with implementation of the military. alerting system. Continued efforts to staff the U.S. > Southern Command Intelligence Center with properly cleared trained personnel (this center is the military focal point 4 for relaying information concerning the movement. of - subversives).:...
‘the U.S. Southern Command Intelligence Center and took « ‘under consideration the problem of an increase in the billet. structure in ‘the Center. The. Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command together with his intelligence officer: ‘visited Honduras and Nicaragua and determined that no ‘significant problems existed which would interfere. with ‘effective operations in those countries. : od. Action previously initiated by the Commander, U. S. Naval Forces, Southern Command (COMUSNAVSO) to establish a Small Craft Inspection and Training Team (SCIATT) as a ‘contribution to the Caribbean Surveillance System is progress ing satisfactorily. Permanent assignment of U.S. Coast Guard personnel to SCIATT in: the Canal Zone has been approved - and the U.S.. Coast Guard has taken appropriate implementing — actions « ; Ae During the period of this report, the SCIATT con-, ‘ducted: an on-the-job training course at Puntarenas, Costa Rica. - Training was given to 13 members of the Guardia Civil of Costa Rica who were either newly assigned to the 40 foot Coast Guard utility boats (CGUBs) or were to be assigned. as. replacement crew members. vot £. <A quarterly inspection ‘and evaluation of the couBs. provided other Central American countries was conducted during the period 17.to 31 August by a mobile training team — (MTT) made up of SCIATT personnel. g-. Continued efforts / ‘to improve the internal security of Latin American armies through the provision of Intelligence Advisors. Presently there are such advisors assigned to 14 Latin countries, emphasizing counterintelligence and counter= subversion. ; a : ooh ‘During the ‘reporting period MTTs conducted train ing in. counterinsurgency. for the armed forces of Colombia, : Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru and El Salvador s* a Jy is Civic ‘Action MITs were sent to ‘Guatemala, “Colonbia, El Salvador, Janaica and Ecuador.:-
Exchange of Intelligence on_ Cuban Subversion’ Central Intelligence Agency - | , a great majority of countries] | nforma-. |as well as such tion concerning | information as In. many instances, [was paralleled by the | | The response to this information has- a. -Reiterated to the Foreign Minister of Peru. cour! ‘interest in having the facts of the Puerto Maldonado incident brought to the attention of the OAS, and urged that. this action be taken as soon as possible. Surveillance of Cuban Diplomatic, | Commercial and cultural Missions " Departuent of State "Instructed Embassy La Paz to follow up closely. on. chatges of involvement by the. Cuban mission in. internal . policies of Bolivia, and, at the Embassy's discretion; to. -point out. to Bolivian officials -the opportunity for a. possible break in. relations with: Cuba. Embassy. La. Pag: was . ‘not able. to
press for a break when the evidence of Cuban “intervention ‘did not. prove to be as conclusive as’ originally: reported. Other Special Actions » "Department of State Obtained action by ‘the COAS.on July 3 on “the Lavalle Commi ttee Report transmitting the document to the - governments and urging them to implement the’ spect ite 2 and general recommendations contained therein as. soon as- Possible. — oo b. “Through Embassy Managua informed the Nicaraguan Government of the matters which we wanted to have considered: ‘during the informal meeting of the Ministers of Security and. Interior of. the Isthmian countries held in Managua, Auguet 26-28 in preparation for the second formal meeting of the.. Managua Security Conference countries later: this years Explained: in detail the nature of ‘the: ‘Cuban ‘threat and the related policy objectives of the U.S.,- during ‘conversation in London and in Washington with Mr. “Adam Watsons ewly. appointed British Ambassador to Cuba. United States Information Agency a. The Agency's press service during the reporting: period transmitted 12 articles,..commentaries, and back-— ‘grounders on its wireless file service to USIA posts through=: ‘out Latin America for placement in the local newspapers and- tthe Voice of America Spanish broadcasts to Latin America |. ‘carried a total of 28 commentaries and features on the subject f Cuban-based subversion. These stories were designed | to. alert people in Latin America, ‘to the dangers of this ‘subversion. b. ‘In response: to standing Agency instructions ‘to 7 give special attention to. developments related to Cuba~based ‘subversion, USIA posts. in Latin America were prompt in - reporting incidents and .in providing ‘editorial c comments: trom
-10-- the Latin American.press, all of which was used. in the : Agency's radio and press output. The main developments treated in the Agency’ s radio. and press coverage included Castro's July 26 speech urging | revolutions in Latin America, the discovery of terrorist “2: President's accusation’ »the Cuban use of Grand Cayman as a way station for subversive = Selements from Cuba, the expulsion from the. University of a Bolivian youth leader for receiving funds from Cuba, ‘Castro-trained guerrillas in Honduras, and Bolivian protests: against meddling by the Cuban Embassy in the miner's strike. -A Voice of American roving reporter in Latin America “provided several. reports on the subversion picture in coun-. tries che visite ad. OW He : c. In support of the Agency's effort on Cuban-based’ ‘subversion, the publications center in Mexico began work on. three pamphlets during the period based on Castro's report perp ageeense RT ne eae 3 # ‘of his visit to the Soviet Union (showing that he contradicted the ‘les in| some of his Cuban labor claims of Soviet Pepereee) ‘pamphlets will be reproduced 'é throughout, the. area.:
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