‘HW 40955 SECRET ct 13) Uruguay - Station. has made arrangements with loasl service to. pigeonhole or "lose" applications for good conduct certificates - which are needed to secure pass~ 2 ports, and. must.be renewed every Six months + in case ° ul where information from the CIA station or from the Uruguayans' own seurces indicated intention of travelling to Cuba. Pertinent information from CIA unilateral operations is being passed regularly to cooperating. Uruguayan officials, Station has a further check in that -the Mexican Ambassador to Uruguay is now checking all applicants for Mexican visas with the station. On the basis of information furnished to. hin, he held up. visa applica ations of Uruguayan .Communist Labor delegates who planned to. attend May Day. celebrations in Havana. Creation of this bottleneck may force so travellers to abandon the Mexican route to Cuba and turn to. the longer and. far more expensive route via Prague. Information on past travel to Cuba by. Uruguayans, furnished by the station, was included in a study of Cuban sub- ‘version :prepared by Uruguayan Military Intelligence Service for the National Council ef Government. 4, The U.S. Information Agency has: a. Sent circular instructions to all USTIS field posts in.Latin America advising each to stimulate publicity in the local press and radio, to encourage identification of Cuban trainees through personal~contact work with students and labor, to report promptly evidence of Cuban aided subversion in each country, tO peport statements by local leaders and editerial comment, and to publicize ecenomic coriditions in Cuba as means of disorediting travellers to Cube. The Agency's Washington medie were issued 4 detailed guidance onithe subject on 28 March. 2 Doclda: 324274017 Page 15
b. In addition to the regular news reporting (VOA) ‘Of the Managua Ministers! Meeting, broadcast 15 commen~ “taries and features on the subject of Cuban subversion to Latin America during the month of April. Among these were a dramatization based on the story of an Ecuadorean -boy. who was attacked. by communists in Guayaquil for carrying anti-communist film, a chronology of subversive acts involving Cuban diplomats, and @ history of subversion from the Trojan horse through Nazi fifth columns to present-day Cuban subversion. | e. Transmitted by teletype 13 articles on Cuban subversion during April. to USIS posts. throughout Latin American for placement in the local press. These | included news stories, commentaries, and backgrounders. Among the subjects treated were the Managua Meeting, the ~ duayaquil incident, the story of an Ecuadorean terrorist trained in Cuba who was wounded. by his own explosives. Assistant Secretary Martin's Pan American Day speech, -and several commentaries on training in Cuba... The Agency's publications center in:-Mexico also published .& pamphlet based on the defection of the Guatemalan ex-communist leader Carlos. Manuel Pellecer, including Letters in. which he revealed communist subversive tactics. ial ed 14 ke GA HW 50955 DBocla: 32424017 Page 16
SECRET 9° ss | —DRART APPENDIX RES OLUTTON L ‘PASSED: AT “THE _3- 4 APRIL MANAGUA. MEETING OF OF MINISTERS © | ape oe TESS The Meeting’ of Ministers of Government , Interior and Security convoked pursuant to the pertinent section: of the Declaration. of Central America signed. by the Presidents of the seven countries in San Josey Costa Rica on. March (19, 1963. ‘AGREES. - To recomend’ to their Governments that they adopt, within the limitations of their respective constitutional. provisions, measures to be put into effect immediately, to ‘prohibit, | restrict and discourage the movement of their nationals si: : from Cuba. To this end, ‘they propose | the adoption ‘of the , following measures: (1). Provide, as a “general rule, Sone cneed passport or «ther travel document which may ‘be issued carry a stamp. “which indicates that said passport is not valid for travel to Cuba. ; | | (2) Declare officially that nationals who are permitted _ to travel to Cuba should have the permission duly inscribed in. their official travel document. | . (3) Promulgate: regulations restricting the granting. of | visas to foreigners who have travelled to. Cuba within a stipulated period, of time. | (4), Notify travel agencies and transport companies Of: these measures for due compliance; and inform . the governments. of other countries through the most appropriate. REANS . | (5) Request the Governments of the. Hemisphere: . 4) not to allow. the nationals of. signatory countries: to. travel to Cuba. unless they possess a valid passport or other document issued by their country of origin.valid for — such travel; SECRET 14 50955 Docld:32424017 Page i7
SECRET ~ by not to accept visas, tourist cards or other | documents. issued to their nationals for. travel to Cuba. "which do. not form: an. integral (non- detachable) part of | thet passports ‘or. other, travel documents; | e) ‘to: obperve the Limitations placed in ‘the passports on other’ travel documents: of the nationals of sisiataty. 7 governments and. not allow ‘them: to ‘depart for Cuba; cle a): to inform the signatory countries ‘through appropriate - channels” of. refusals to allow. one, of, ‘their. nationals to depart, for cubas. and. oie -e). to provide ‘the signatory governments the. names. oF their. nationals which may appear on. the passenger list of, any “airplane « or. + ship going. to. or coming from Cuba. a HW 50955 Docld: 324274017 Page 16