ye RETURN TO CIA - Do Not Reproduce - (" Deputy chiet wa/c- | G-® iG-IT (b-2. J CAD, COS/IMHAVE, COS/Lina), COS/Caracas), COs{Guetenala SECRET ff J ;___coa/Rogotd, CoS/Rort Au Prince ‘santel Boaing o_ o-N ~~ ioe. , & . [b-lo | cumact " TYPIC/OPBRATIONAL/LICOME?/ Shipment of Var Surplus Items Purchased by Cuban a 7 o Reference; DIRECTOR 13639, 19 June 1966 (sant only to Mexico City and JHUAVE) |. i@2-—T. The reference advised the Mexico City stacy that two members of the ey uban delegation to the United Netions, Jose Manuel ExLarpy Alarcon and Oscar i¢ IBRREZ Fernandez, both identified as Cuban Intelligence Officers, had. purchased wat surplus items (uniforms, belte, boots etc.), in New York during April 1966 gad had subsequently shipped these items to Mexico in 41 white canvas bage “wolghihg a total of 657 pounds. |- . 2. Upon receipt of the above information, the details were passed to LICOMBT-2 who wae inetructed to slert his sourcee at the Mexico City airport and adviee the Station if the shipment had transited Mexico City and where it had gone, LICOMET°2 then alerted LICOMETs-19, 20 and 21 to the facts on a naed to know basie and according to him, threw the airport into a mild uproar, CONTINUED . 2 2 2 0 © © © eo He eH OO Oe ee ehh ee Attachmenta: As stated pars 6 h/w Dist rébution; #”° DCWH/C w/atts ; j c/WAD w/o atte bo tee eae neds edd Q uet, COS/JMNAVE watts cosfiiaa) w/o attelf- ee actelb~t7 pee a CosyGuatemala city) wio attsl 6-2 COS/Bogot & w/o atta (b~- cos/Port Au Prince }w/o atts (G~0 cos {Sante Domingo]w/o atts (plo FILES © "ah tet Pre pet pe pt et me att iS COPY onoge agreRinct to OFSRATCH SYMBOL AND MURSRER BATE edt - Fim Q ae HMMA"29514 19 July 1966 CLASSIFICATION SECRET
4. On 22 Sune the search was begun by Licoite19 and 20 for the CaLge — manigeat-thet would show the arrival of the shipment in Mexico. LicomTe2i ° ~had informed LICOMPTe2 that tha shipmont hed not been sang to Cuba, and thee Cubana Airlines had not received any shipaont from New York. LICOMET®20 then * ri informed LICOM:T*2 on 24 Juno chat cho ahipmone had arrivdd in Mexico on 32 ‘ May aboard the Aeronaves da Moxico flight from New York, Houever, ho was unable to locate the shipment at tha airport or determine where it might have gone ié - it hud been picked up. On 24 June, JICOMET°21 ventured the thought that the shipment had been picked up by the Cuban Embassy and that he still had no knowledge of it having been transhippad to Cuba or elaowhore. _ & ~The cace jolled on 25 June when LICOMST*21 informed LICOMET©2 that the shipmont was at the airport and was 3oing to be loaded aboard the Cubana Airlines flight of tha sama day. LICCMT<2 then notified LICOMET*20 who then proceeded to invastigate theo shipment, ~ to dem 334353 §, LICOMET-20 went ou @ atrerafe and bugan to physically exau'ine the shipmant and take photogpaokt of the bags and the labels, wWiiie he wae caring: the photographs, sinuotGcea Porozg@e Cuban Intolligenca Officer assisned to - tha Embassy in Mexico called down from the airplane and asked what LICOMET*20 wag doing. LICOMET*20 replied that he was checking the shipment to sua what was being shipped and if there were any military items included. VEGA replied that the equipment contained in the shipment was for the U.N, vorld Health Organization Sanitary Corps that was currontly working in Cubs and getting ready to start a campaign against epidemics such ag malaria. ViGA vent on to say (that the shipsont came from tha U.N, and wag at tha request of the Cuban delegation to the U.N, and that it contained shoes, boots, uniforms, belts, caps, medical smocks, and secessories for use by the 4,0. Sandtery Corps in Cuba, ia said there wera no military implements or tools or war in the shigment, LICGLT*20 continued to check over the ahipment but eines all the boxes and bags hed e U.K, diplouitie seal on them, he could not open thea or delay the shipment of them to Cuba. 6. atteched for Yeadquarters and JMVAVES are coples of photographs provided by LICGici*20 of the bags and boxes shipped to Cuba, Please note thas the bags hava a tag which reads “"piplumatic Pouch ~ From: Cuban Mission to the United Nations, New York ~ To; Ministry of Foreign Relations, Havana, Cuva," Also attached are copies of the ‘cargo manifests for the Cubana Airlines flight of 25 Jusa 1966, which were provided by LICOMET?19. ‘ 7. The manifests only list 31 begs with a weight of 749 kllus.as opposed to the 4] bags weighing 657 pounds which the reference mentioned. 8. iICOMET<-20 mentioned that the shipment had finally arrived in Mexico efcar four trans*shipments in the United States. Supposedly the shipment got soiit and ended up fa several cities, Mlami was mantionad ag ong, anc there wag @ bit of a hassie over the transportation of tha shipment between Vessara and Pan American Airlines, The U.N, reportedly reclaiced tha shipment ana finally say to it that it was sent to Mexico. 9, Tho Mexico City Station had hoped to be able to get ct the shipment and wane uw CA splash of tha Cubans using the United Nations dmeunity to dent da revolutionary-ver mongering activities, but as is evident from chia cucpcten, ic was not feasible. The Station plans no further accion on this matter unlese advised by Headquarters, races lara €) Cunri3 CLASSIFICATIONS eae he
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