198-10005-10018 JFK Assassination System Date: 6/24/201 ‘Identification Form AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER: Agency Information ARMY ~ 198-10005-10018 CALIFANO PAPERS ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW: OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 HW 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Document Information MULTIPLE 00/00/0000 123 ARMS SMUGGLING, CUBA LATIN AMERICA SECURITY CUBAN SPONSORED SUBVERSION PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 4 Redact 10/07/1997 Califano Papers, Box 6, Foider 30. Assorted documents related to Cuban material support of Communist subversives in Latin America. J FY heck Lone? - Departrnent of the Army EO 13526 sa Declassify SI Exclude [3 Exernpt Authority & Refer To Review Date2//.24 2019 By Page 1
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SIINFORMATION REPORT [size —_ ; CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY C2 * . wee i? et . + : + . . .. vo ‘ , “Rt material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of--ihe Espionage Laws, Tile 18, U.S.C Sees. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorited person is. prohibited by Sew. ne . : 4 ype GLASSIFICATION -— DISSEMINATION CONTROLS 7 . we : Co ei git C-O-N-F-1-D-E-N-T-1-A-L eo oe Ph eee CONTROLLED DISSEM me AR ieee curenenr enema gite tego a on an mae country CUBA/LATIN AMERICA REPORT NO. TOCS DB~3/653, 152 _ SUBJECT POSSIBLE CONCEALMENT OF WEAPONS ‘DATE DISTR, = =6 FEBRUARY 1963 FOR SHIPMENT TO LATIN AMERICA. oO amar Weeemytnpent ios PRECEDENCE ROUTINE DATE OF LATE 1962 “REFERENCES in. 62553 . INFO. “em Ped 35871 © aoe PLACE & UNITED STATES (4 FEBRUARY 1963) Ce ; ae - DATE ACO. oO boat an hae G _ FIELD REPORT NO. is UNEVALUATED-NFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. U.S. OWNER (C) OF A MARINA, FROM A FORMER CUBAN AIR FORCE OFFICER, FROM THE BROTHER OF AN EMPLOYEE OF A CANNERY IN SAN CRISTOBAL. APPRAISAL SOURCE — 4. IN LATE 1962 A DAY-SHIFT EMPLOYEE AT A CANNERY IN SAN LIN LATE 1962 A AY See eee eee ee ane rect "CRISTOBAL, PINAR DEL RIO PROVINCE, FOUND A HAND GRENADE | URAPPED UNUSUALLY HEAVY. (FIELD COMMENT: IT IS NOT CLEAR WHETHER ‘THE CAN HAD GONE THROUGH THE CANNING PROCESS AND HAD BEEN SEALED.) ‘AS A RESULT OF HIS DISCOVERY THE WORKER WAS ALMOST FIRED. ONE ; “OTHER BQUIPMENT IS REGULARLY CANNED AND SHIPPED TO LATIN. . AMERICAN COUNTRIES, A SPECIAL NIGHT SHIFT WORKS AT THE PLANT. a | 2.  (FIELD' COMMENT: AN UNTESTED SOURCE REPORTED IN EARLY. “- Te” GLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS = .,,€=-0 ¥.~[-D-E-~N~T-I-A=L Grou t €xcluded fram avtomane downgrading and declasufeabon | ta CONTROLLED DISSEM eee [wave [atm [ves [secoer | nse] nic Txagx usta] oci | one | ocr | IN FC eT eA DA AA. R MATION REPORT | Kb onsomers PREVIOUS EDITIONS. as _ | 7 roa HW 50955 Docld: 324239736 Page 6
ETN TEATRO rs — SS C20-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L. 5)... {TDCS DB- “3/653, 152 35871. CONTROLLED DISSEM . ; ANDRES, ANI ISLAND POS POSSESSION OF COLOMBIA, THAT A_PIS STOL “HAD - iy , BEEN. FOUND. EARLIER CONCEALED. INSIDE . A “FROZEN ( CHICKEN’ WHICH HAD BEEN PART OF ! A. SHIPMENT 1 ‘RECEIVED FROM CUBA. - arteries ih aloe nia _ 3. ‘FIELD DISSEM: _CINCARIB, ‘CINCLANT. END ss wou” ge ON se . . Se "CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS C-O-N-F-1-D-B-N-T-T-A-L HW 50955 Daoctld: 32425736 Page 7 “CONTROLLED DISSEM =) ne: pt eeeneen sree aepre crip nearer nner Ts
SECRET NO FORC... LISSEM An efue cache of weapon ond amamition sevently discovered at the Ideas Camponesas guerrilla training center in the iiterter of the Brasilien state of Golas is believed by US Eabasay and CAS officers to be of Bragiiden vather than Cuban arms, despite a Brasilien newspaper @aggestlon that. they were Cuban, here vere also digeovered about 125 copies of Commmist publications including Che Guevara's well-mown treetiss on “Guerrilla Verfere". ‘The trad: ing center was deseribed aa organized according to thet book. A confidential report on the dlecoveries gadea that, “nent are of the center want té6 be the Bregilien equivalent | Gf those who fougitt in the Sierre Meestre and se bring the hard Ghindse> a Cuban tybe revolution to Brasil.” Some 90 to 95 peveons in the loeality ara reported menbers of ar sympathetic to the Ligas Camponesas achivities, tit only 2 of the 04 ox whom warrants we re issued have yet been taken inte custody. (Am Sub, Rio de Jeneire 1199, 10 Deceniber, CONFIDENTIAL and GIA, Brasilia, IN 33026, 11 December, SECRET NOFORN) SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM HW 50955 Daoctld: 32425736 Page 6
sear : a - aera P AP Pay A SE Tenner ae et ee ee : crime ne tS a EE eet AS a A till at je PRIMA ZN TE Hi eAN at CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Dyn he O : Cy par 9D. four, cr ; thu Aatertal eontains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within ‘the meaning of the Explonaze Lava, TiWe ve . 48, v.80. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in sny manner.to an wonutborized pereon ls proaibisea by shw.- Oe | S-EsC-R-E-T me NO. FOREIGN DISSEM Oth ; Cuba/USSR/Latin . america, ee mam eave 1. Use of Soviet Fishing Boats” DATE DisTa ) 11 Décember 1962 to Transport Arms to. Latin _ . America ~ NO, PAGES OF: 2. Belgian Arms ° Dealer in Habana ee « REFERENCES 4 RD ~W-2107 a. {Paras. 1 & 2: “October 1962; “BD aras. 1, 2: “France, Paris; | 7 Para. 3; Spain, Madrid oo mW 88997 Paras. 1, 2; 23 aa 1962; ei REPORT NO. 18 UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF. CONTENT is TENTATIVE Paras. 1 & 2 An official French servicé : ‘Para. 3: room 1197, - Cuban refugee (F), a former employee of the Cuban diplomatié |. service, who visited Santiago de Cuba in August 1962, Appraisal of Content: 3. Soviet fishing» boats, “under cover of ‘fishing Atlantic waters, - > are transporting contraband arms to Latin American countries. ~, =, The boats are met outside the territorial waters of those “ countries, and arms are transferred in small quantities. -*. On board the Soviet boats are only Soviets and a very few ee - ~ Cubans or other Latin Americans who talk with those who wen . pick up the arms. The arms being delivered are of American _ manufacture, including those obtained ‘during the Batista ‘.. regime and those.taken during the Playa Giron invasion. The — ' Soviet fishing boats also carry. propaganda. and pamphiets -- .containing, military instructions, the same type of material “ being sent by diplomatic pouch from Mexico. A Belgian in Habana’ who. says he represents a Belgian ‘firm, - has offered the Cuban Government any type and nationality pow - of arms for payment in dollars. The Belgian has made a ‘<> Similar offer of .sale of. arms to a representative of an -. anti-Castro group in Habana. - In August 1962 a fisherman in - Santiago de Cuba said that "on several occasions he had been forced by the Government to use his boat for. transporting small groups of men, in PT - civilian clothes, and supplies of arms. He also knew of ”. other fishermen who had been forced to do the same. The men ot ‘-- and arms were carried to small islands or transferred to other = | ~ - boats at sea. Such trips sometimes lasted as long as four or es five days, The fisherman did not know the purpose or final f 8 R destination of ‘the men and arms. BO . o£ - g-BaC-R-E-T dawageading and Xo FOREIGN DISSEM | sengrading 0 a hw 50955 Docld:32423736 Page 9
sccnet Bi ee DISSEM = 6 oN CIA INFORMATION REPORT —«CS-3/532,138. COUNTRY: CUBA - 26 December 1962 ee, SUBJECT; IDENTIFICATION OF CUBAN VESSELS ALLEGEDLY PREPARED 0 INVADE A CARIBBEAN COUNTRY ° DATE OF INFO: 28 NOVEMBER 1962 | Ds SOURCE: TRAVELING SALESMAN (F) | APPRAISAL OF CONTENT: °3 - HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: ACCORDING TO ‘TDCS~3/530,589, DATED 6 DECEMBER 1962, AS OF MID-NOVEMBER TWO CUBAN SHIPS LOADED WITH PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT WERE SXEX — SAID TO BE PREPARED FOR AN INVASION OF HAITI, SOURCE SAID HE WOULD PROVIDE THE NAMES OF THE SHIPS AND THEIR DEPARTURE DATE, ».. THE FRUCUBA AND THE FUNDADOR, CUBAN-FLAG VESSELS , _WERE DOCKED AT THE ARSENAL _ DOCKS IN CASABLANCA (HABANA) IN LATE NOVEMBER. THESE XEKS VESSELS WERE SCHEDULED 10 R PARTICIPATE IN AN INVASION 6 OF SOME CARIBBEAN COUNTRY, “Sc, SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM =.” BY 50955 BDocld: 32473736 Page 10
SHEE DENTS w OU e@NPLDENTIAL CUBA - . re oe Be Stockpile of ver iatartel 5 for Latin 39 damany 1962 _ Habona, ofa Seousry é oe gag rhs n6/3 in bwb2 che or 2 : oO dah 3062 WJ By. Gource reports on arsenal OF 2 cpiling of wae me materiel at Casanlanga, & abana Bisted ick, northeast shore of fsbana 3 Bos tepana Frovincoe a y AGRA DED a2 a2 YEARS | ES ERVALS ee ADTine - MANIGALLY DECLASSiF ig © ' boo DER S233.13 “@ONPID'R! TAL - a HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page ii ; 20 Souros has head, this zateriel in targeted for an invasion of Eotth dmoricas fof.
Venezuela Uncovers Communist, Arms” Uacne-——- ae A te Ae Soe me ale The Venezuelan Government -- in a raid on a small village near Caracas on 5 January -- uncovered a . co large cache of arms and equipment which it claims belonged to the pro-Castro Armed Forces of National Liberation, reputed to be emerging as a para- military arm of the Venezuelan Communist Party. several tons of explosives and large quantities of hand bombs, arms, and ammunition were seized as well 2S @ nearby clandestine Communist radio transmitter. (SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM) SOURCE: TDCS 533,071 (S/NFD); FBIS (0U0); PRESS C i . | : 10 Jan 63 DPA Intelligence Bulletin Page 9 H AS , al ' (REVERSE BLANK) - SECRET—-NO FOREIGN DISSEM ST rarer Spear oma mea am PTI ne ee ae gaa cceagmempas oe terse rere ee eRe teem x rm seeoer peeeemmmseran et ire ee a - w= aaa poms La ait HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page i2
12 Feb 63 "A11 the information avaliable to Her Majesty's Governuent and to the British authorities in British Guiana indicates that there is no truth whatever in the contimaing reports thet arma are being shipped to the colony from Cuba. Similar stories have appeared from time to time in the past, but upon examination all have bean found to be without foundation.” | (British Eubeasy in US to Reuters, AP end UPI). HW 50955 Daoctld: 32423736 Page 14
- oy i 4 i<Z4 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Conlon: "oa le vate mernemrae terete ig al . P ' Hy g jaf te fleets the Nagi Hi fi n atha ‘ w $ I ay . Sed and: cra the” tramumiusson or revelation at which: ep etante of . United Stan within, the rvening of ents ese hewne * ve ee by : ¢ ONFID ENTI AL Min PARE = a CONTROLS re fi “REREM USS ea J (Waen Filled Ja ean PAN bt COUNTRY NLeabactan ele ) HONDURAS Tre "COSTATRTCA tf CUBA REPORT NO, TOES, w'3/534,035 > sunset PLANS TO. LAND ARMS: FROM. CUBA. AN, HONDURAS / ~ DATE OF 9 JANUARY 1 963 ee a | “INFO, | / PLACER - _ NICARAGUA, . ‘MANAGUA.(15.- JANUARY: 1963). ~ . . : - DATE ACO, . se > APPRAISAL. 3 es rieto nerorr io, NM=729.. THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT-IS. TENTATIVE, - A NICARAGUAN. JOURNALIST, (c) “FROM A NICARAGUAN Ci Core fd aN. SAN NOSES. FROM on “CESAR AUSOSTO, WHLLAREAL, CABEZAS . ve "DATE DISTR, 16 JANUARY 1963 _ yf \ fe PRECEDENCE -° ROUTINE ;. : b- eR REFERENCES “i, WNL 58511 y ‘ . LApdn ucataes # canarias eee ke hy eee Poe dal oe tein Hilts tama 0 Oe . to = Reres a wines ome . eerste eB SOURCE . i WHICH WiLL, COME~FROM - CUBA, oN THE "CORK Lc, A MERCHANT VESSEL OF. F_UNKNoR REGISTRY. HE SAID THAT, THE: INSTRUCTIONS: TO GO TO PUERTO CORTES: WILL: mt COME: FROM: CUBA THROUGH. DRe “EMILIO ORTEGA TAPIA. a an “2, THE: "CORK. cH WILL: UNLOAD THE .ARMS AT: CAYO COCHINO WHERE THEY: ‘we, BE. RECEIVED BY, GRIFFIN. (ENU),, WHO LIVES “IN PUERTO CORTES. se 6, GRIFFIN WILL DELIVER, THE. ARMS, TO. VILLAREAL, AT. PUERTO CORTES. voce Be THE ARMS with ‘BE: TAKEN. FROM. PUERTO, coRTES TO. PUEBLO NUEVO, CLASSIFICATION: _ eR NATION CONTROLS: EAA ENC Ea career ee pelea eee A aTEDE EEG aa ce *B112.. “LBW 50955 — ‘Bocld:32423736 Page VF
Se Re m= ce Sk A 8 nH ’ : t a % £3 FAN yoo Pek vi Fa vee ncn : i- ei CENTRAL INYELLIGENCE AGENCY United States within the meant ing of the Espronege Le aws, Title 13, “USGA. Secs. erton ix prohibited by law, at ey ontains information ertectiag fie Nafi one} MYense of the transmission of reve, ‘ation of Which ia ‘ory anner fo an unavthorned 2 This material ¢ 793 and 794,: the er CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SO ey N\A SECRE: 9963 FES 9 Ll 4t. _ (When Filled Inj Sy NTRY VENEZUELA oo REPORT NO. TDCS~3/536, 942 2G ES ne IAAP=3 - 7 . G peedeCT) = PCL. SLE SHIPMENT OF ARMS FROM CUBA AND DATE DISTR. 9 FEBRUARY 1963 a SY) : vanamMA TO WESTERN VENEZUELA. ae ce : os PRECEDENCE ROUTINE =f A. of 1 Fevxuary 1963 - REFERENCES IN 64876 wie 1. a VENT TELA, MARACAIBO (1 FEBRUARY 1963) «5 Se ACG. ‘ FIELD REPORT NO. “Hvc~2651 [pePRAISAL 2 uel THIS iS TS UNEVALUATED. INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 15 TENTATIVE. buRcE 4 MEM ‘BER (c) OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF VENEZUELA IN MARACAIBO. a 1. PEDRO MATOS, WHO TOGETHER WITH THREE MEMBER REGIONAL COMMAND ‘ar EMMITT: OF THE PARTIDO COMUNISTA DE VENEZUELA (PCV, COMMUNIST PARTY PONSIBLE FOR PCV ARMS MATTERS - OF! VENEZUELA) IN THE STATE OF ZULIA iS RES o SAID RECENTLY THAT THE PAR PARTY IS. AWAITING A SHIPMENT. OF THE EXACT _DATE OF ARRIVAL [S STILL aN THAT STATE, ARMS FROM CUBA AND PANAMA BUT THAT 7 COMMENT : ALTHOUGH THE LOCATIONS (OF ARMS ARE KNOWN iT 1S POSSIBLE THAT THE | NINKNOWS — QURCE. Soni Y To ww fOS AND THE REGIONAL COMMAND COMMITTEE, Dac. AROUND LA CONCEPCION AND“LA PAZ; “TOWNS APPROXIMATELY SOUTHWEST ARACAIBO CITY iN THE DISTRICT OF MARACAIBO, Dy )ND. (WEST, RESPECTIVELY, OF M TO SOURCE, THE REGIONAL SITES). (FIELD COMMENT: ACCORDING CLASSIFICATION — SISSEMINATION CONTROLS , ace . acluded from avromate downgrading ond de AAP- 3) ee . FORM “i AUCAT ATH PREVIOUS EDITIONS. - . HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 19
ee a SARE Stipa age re CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS , ‘ po oe : | Toes~3/536,942 cecreperee pent ee f “TEE OF THE PCV IN THE STATE OF ZULIA HAD BEEN DISSOLVED AS OF EARLY p 38°63 AND A THREE MEMBER REGIONAL COMMAND COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED). | : aN >. FIELD DISSEM:STATE ARMY NAVY AiR CINCLANT CINCARIB. ‘an 7 a | a Oo oman om AT CS LA mr CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS a tt tee ase an HW 50955 Docld:32423736 Page 20
ROMER CPEs. Vu ws aed Gee B NG bi A SEPARTIENT OF THE AIR FORCE ©: STAFF MESSAGE DIVISION -. _ WICORING HESSAGE "RETRANSMITTED 20: SAC, CONAD, AFSC, MATS (per xeq Mr Kerp-CIN~ 25rebG2) ee a oe EY “apps ARMY-2, NAVY-2, OMC“T 3: Sés-45,. “OSD=15 ag a2 FEB 62 OSD/SDLU-15q.STATE~15, CIA-11,, NSA~7_ MRO/RO/RO ee REDE 3 -LSI-2,,. we » (122 2)\ (Riad ay. re Mr Kerp-CIN78536 62) fais a aa DC - 1127 USAF FAG FT BELVOIR v/s INFO CIARC ALBROOK AFB C2 c tle USAIRAS GUATEMALA BRAZIL VENEZUELA re ae BT RE CON Fr 1 DE N TI A L XY CITE CHARLIE DASH NINE ‘$@D “HARRIS; Pa ‘MILITARY REP OF EURHPEAN WESTERN NATION ACCREDITED MEXICO j ae ~ ‘REPORTED TO TWO FEB HAVING RECD INFO FROM. TWO DIFFERENT.SOURCES, » sine HAT CUBAN SHIPLOAD. OF ARMS HAD DEPARTED EITHER “SANTIAGO DE CUBA OR BAHIA DE NIPE TWO XERO DEGREE FOUR FIVE MINUTES. NORTH: SEVEN FIVE _ DEGREES. FOUR. XERO. MINUTES WEST DURING WEEK oF. ONE ‘ONE. TO. ONE: SEVEN | FEB PD ‘SHIP. REPORTEDLY HEADED FOR BRITISH ‘GUIANA OR: “NORTHEAST, BRAZI PD, “Local, ENB INTEL’ AGENCIES UNABLE. CONFIRN ‘PARA ‘SCP P DASH THREE 8 “is cr 309 oF THis ORM (MW 50955, Docld:32423736 Page 21 ~ |
WH 0955 SECRET .. Guione that two alleged US citizena, Join Allwam Johnson, aged 53,, and ble wife Margaret. Frances Jotnson, were leaving Cuba on. 31 December on the Guban veseel BANTA Di Tai destined for Georgetowm, British Guisna. On beard with them were 17 large wood trates understood to be ring Cuba in thia manner, ond the resulting doubt aa te theixy veal identities intentions. (British Foreign Office to Washington, No. S759, 31 Decerber, 1962 (sutrmr)) SECRET Docld: 324273736 Page 22
| INFO LA FIG Sow =POINiI ERHEO RIM at GOIN) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY > “.' This material contains. information affecting the National. Defense of the United States within-the meaning of the Espionage, Laws, Title Moe 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in ony manner to an unouthorized | person is, prohibited by law. C-ONAPAT-D-BNL-LoAcb = COUNTRY "cubs /British Guiana: ee " REPORT.NO. 00- K-3, 210,102 ~ SUBJECT. _ Shipment of Weapons to. British Guiena DATE DisTR, _. 22 Feb 62: oS ” REFERENCES a - | - _ | -¢D/00 Case 36359 2 /08676/65 DATE OF a Do a Case 35 8 IHW, Dom-81/' (ox. ‘DATEACQ. $$$ : —_ THis 1s UNEVALUATED INFORMATION “source; ~’ Cubs national, A 12 884 576, who arrived in the US on 3 Feb 1962. : _ Source is an electrical engineer and advisor to undergrouml groups in Cuba. . - [thts report was developed by an Arny representative assigned to the office _ of preparation. ] . z was advised by @ Cuban merchant marine officer that the Cuban freighter, - SASSI SIRES CITI IE eR “ "Bahia de Nipe" left Cuba for British Guiana on 22 Dec 1961 with a cargo - shipment of weapons. The boxes containing this equipment were stored da the bottom of the ship' 8. hola and covered with mattresses ona canvas. A cargo of auger age win 2 leced on. top of the ‘weapons. a (Te S055 Docld: 32423736 Page a4 ee “ oa i. ca catte oe . af vey
re ONNg. Hebcenany’ Department of f State. ANDICATE: fi sounet , ya Seth = uncirep oFFICTAL USE” ER “QUOTE AW . UNCLASSIFIED MESSAGE REFERRING . TO THIS MESSAGE BY CITE NUMBER .- b . WILL BE DESIGNATED - EFTOQ ‘che Feb 8 ‘edition. of LIFE contains story on. Cuba with Following i Amombassy * ratenoi aE te en caption under ‘Bhoto of Regehan freighter: - Bat refugees aboard” the ‘sh rey ; Lykces said two bts pt out fron “Mariel (Orbe) only Last: week with holds loaded with weapons sont by ; ; tn a Castro to British Guiana.  BNQUOTE a “Would a appreciate ary available ‘comments, o TATE (ARMY -AE81) “ACTIONS csoP,, Osa, Jes. SINFO be. DA. IN B27j22., T a Tani aad | glasaltiention epproved bys. ge . " REPRODUCTION FROM This - i Bos , . _ COPY 1S PROHIBITED | “LIMITED OFFTCTAT. TSR |: _ UNLESS : “UNCLASSIFIED”. :: Pr, Annee re nen OAT Te ATR 2 RY 50955 Daocld: 327423736 Page 24
“RIS 84 OFFICIAL USE ONLY "PARIS AFP IN’ ENGLISH. TO THE FAR EAST 1905 7 FEB 63 E ».~ €EXCERPT) GEOR »GETOWN--BRITISH GUIANA IN A STATE OF NEAR PANIC. “ TODAY AFTER NEWSPAPERS AND RADIO STATIONS PUT OUT A WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER REPORT THAT CUBA WAS SENDING TWO SHIPS FULL OF SOVIET ARMS/TO THIS COUNTRY. PREMIER CHEDDI JAGAN CALLED THE REPORT FROM THE WASHINGTON EVENING STAR FANTASTIC AND UNFOUNDED. ~A SPOKESMAN IN THE. HOME AFFAIRS | MINISTRY SAID. THE: GOVERNMENT - EXPECTED NO’ ARMS, FROM THE. SOVIET. UNTON OR CUBA. 7 FER (7a3P FG/OP ON ane 4 ae - : , sf HW 50955 Docld:32423736 Page 26
Fe aR ee ‘OUTGOING TELEGRAM Department of State CY, os INDICATE: (} colecy | ae ! "GE TO g on af Ghana | CONFIDENTIAL f 4 fife i 59 ; oe Fes 3 in in "Oda ACTION: = AmConGen GEORGETOWN 293 Do ~ fades — . x, ~ = SR UrTel 2h5 . = a C intelligence ‘gp Washington ixasicdenddom agencies have no information to ‘cont ii w a . SAL alleged munitions shipments from Cuba. to Georgetown. , a ARA ‘oO = . Bese : > STR - Story originated with caption ‘current edition Life Magazine to —P effect two Russian ships ‘carrying munitions from Mariel, Cuba to BG. USIA _ eS SCA O'Leary of Washington Evening Star apparently selzed on Life story vA as:basis Evening Star article. Unlikely any responsible US official NSA ~" confirm: Story as O'Leary ali eged in article. Sf . OSD . ARMY Iv repeat if Department is asked by press, we plan Say we have Near: _ AVY AIR no information put are making inquiries. Telagraphic transmission and classification approved by: mong Sad M. Yordon Knox , + Desfted bys EUR: BNA; RJTepper: 1aa , Clearances: 2/8/63 oo INR - Mr. Packman - . sim/os - Mr. Simmons . oo “fRicoodtc Guar: “Poe oo ~ “-BUR/P - Mr. McGowan = 6. as CCA - Mr. Follestad a = SO ES! REP RODUCTION FROM THIS | ee 6 ye PROHIBITED ph SO , (CONFIDENTIAL sc.” UNLESS “UNCLASSIFIED, 004 we FORM Sg Le mo — ; a cet -DS-322 > re wat ee LL, HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 27
NTELLIGENCE AGENCY aterial contains information affecting the Nationa! Defense of the United Stores within the meaning of the Espionage Lows, Title 18, UIS.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. LY / wom : G~-0-N-P-T-D-E-H-P-T-A-L COUNTRY - British Guiana/Cuda © -REPORTNO. © OO~ B-3, 247, 34 a SUBJECT. - dagan's Political-Bconowic Viewpcints/Bx- pate DISTR. . 11 Jan 63 rere i 4 propriation of Foreign Propertics Linked i Kv ' . oo 2 ot. 1 - oF 4 to Foreign Aid/Futility of Jazan's 5-Yeor NO. PAGES ; Plan/Peoples Progressive Party Icfiltratios of United Front Aros Smuggling pom [we REFERENCES Filariasis Diseas@ Couion in G . DATE OF Country . ; : (INFO. Taru Oct 62 PLACE & . _ DATE ACQ. British Guiane/Tarn Ort 62 . _ THis Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION - “SOURCE: © US national, executive in a US eleninua companys “ 3 ' Source has trequently treveled to and within British Guiena in connection _Wwita geologicel surveys for his conpany. He nes mown dagen for about “nine years, aud oa ais latest trip hed several conversations with Jagan. _ On tue basis of wany conversations with Cheditt Jagan (sostly concerning < possible iavestuents by my coucany in Britisa Guiana), I ain convinced that ne is not a Communist. I, fact, Jagsn does not know what ue is. "He is simply Looking for anytoing uew teat will hele to pull up ais. “people quickly. In this context he sees Soviet and Chinese Cowmunisu as ene two principal Twentieth Century econonic experiuents ~-/end as | economic experiments he is willing to try then. / a , 40 talking with ue, Jagan has sade clear thas he is not a “Castro Type." He wants nélp from anybody. Tie one thing tint ‘atgut in the future | Seriously ainder his @ettlag econonte aid fron the USSR is thet he . Gemands that aid be without strings. a iS i : Bota Jagan end ais Trade Minister, Frank Huobard, nave told we taat ’ dagan would hesitate to do anytoing (such as confiscating foreign pro- - parties in aa attempt to inereese revenues whieh would ofend the US or the UN for fear of ruining any fubare chances of obtaining US or UN aid. Jagan is of course quite conscious that ne is still under tas UE and that it is therefore uuconéetitutionsnL for aim to expropriate anything. “After British Guiana achieves inaependence, Lian confident Jagan would not expropridate anything if he is getting aid frou the US or the UN -- __ that is, until the money is spent. If at any point (after independence) . Jagan is receiving no such aid and NAS no prospects of receiving such — . &id, then anything could happen. I would, however, temper this souewhat uepressing ,estimate of Jagan by couuenting that in 1953 when he entered _ office, ne vas something of a Widd-eyed fanatic without direction. “s Sines tnen he has matured considerably, © 20 pore ah Lhe PPP capability for inereasing the industrial wealth of British ’ Guiana is hopeless. Jagan indiscriminately wants all kinds of factories. _ His "Five Year Plan" is no-plan at all. inhis eagerness to do souething WW for British Guiana, dagan thinks he ought to build any kind of factory that the country dees not have. Whenever he thinks of ston oe, uething, he \\ just telis a subordinate to add it to tac Plan. But there is no one in \\ the Jagan government whe has done or can de the marketing reéearch, ete., \\ which is necessary for any such investment. , pA oS | Excluded from automatic} © | . iA . downgrading and” -teclessification moh 6 ob tn IMA ANTES ance nit corte NO DISSE, BREAN HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 296
C~O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-T-A-L _o. : 00-B-3, 247, 344 “Zn the last elections Jagan ordered some of his (Indian) Peoples a Progressive Party (PPP) supporters to join the United Front Party ca “(UFP) in order to impress the world in general and the US in particular - that democracy in British Guiana was working. By virtue of the fact that the UFP membership was "growing," it was “obvious” that Jagan was not a dictator. I was told this »y two Indian Guianese who were ‘working for Jagan. 6. : H iy Iwas in British Guiana for about 12 months on my latest trip. Since much of this time was devoted to geological surveying in the ‘i hinterland, I was accompanied by an Indian Guianese doctor. A well- s educated man of the upper-middle class, he told me that arms were iy 1 ; being smuggled into the country from Cuba. He aid not go into any *» detail on the subject, but he did mention that his sons, who were . Melaria is: not a factor now. Even well. into the interior there is rc... less than 1 percent incidence. But anywhere away from the coast _/ > filariasis presents a problem. At first I did not believe it when my "Indian Guianese doctor said that mosquito bites incurred in the day- - time were harmless but mosquito bites at night would infect with [0 filariasis. After. several months in the back country I believed him. fhe disease seems to affect women more than men, causing women's legs _-.to swell. But the disease's affect on men's sexual organs was not ‘exactly encouraging. ~ I-never- did understand why, but my doctor said - “that to be. effective in detecting the disease a-blood test must be HY 50955 /-CONTROTLED. D_DISSEM. - made at night (preferably between 11 p.m. and 1 at. ), and analyzed _ quickly. If filariasis is treated promptly, a man's sexual. prowess -,Can be saved. :> -We. found: that. the disease is very common throughout » bhe = country. ~ ota on EA ee a a © QLO-N-FAE-D-E-NTTACL ».NO_DISSEM ABROAD.’ ii.members of the Progressive Youth Organization (PY) frequently brought jiarms into their home, kept them for a while, and then.disposed of them. “3; The doctor was so much concerned -- and pessimistic -- about the L. .. Situation that he emigrated from the country shortly after I departed. . __. "No FOREIGN DISSEM. DocId: 324273736 Page 29
COUNTRY SUBJECT DATE OF INFO. PLACE & DATE ACQ._ SOURCE: ON ‘AW 50955 Ome material contains. information affecting the National. Defense of the United States within. the meaning ‘of the Espionage ‘Lows,: Title — * 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which. in yany manner to on unauthorized. person is, prohibited by law, . - COM PALD-ENP ATA cuba/ British 6 Guten | .. —  RepORT NO. > .00~ K-3,210,102 7 Shipment of Weapons + to" British Guiana DATE DISTR. _ 21 Feb 62 | Dec 1962/00 a oe Case 35 78/Tww/DoM 81/cx: [This report was. aeveloped by. an Aray representative assigned to the office Sho "Behia de Hipe" left Cuba for British Guiana | on 22 Dee 1961 witha cargo an the bottom of ‘the snip" s hola and. covered with mattresses end canvas. oe A cargo of. sugar - bags was placed on: : top of ‘the. weapons. _ ; . os CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE = AGENCY. NO. PAGES One . , REFERENCES | - Gn oe Case 36159 0 /08676/45 -=3 Dee 1962 a THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION Cuban. national, A 12 88h 576, who arrived in the US on 3 Feb 1962. Source is an electrical engineer and advisor, to undergrouril groups in. Cuba. of preparation. ] z was advised. by a Cuban 1 uerchant marine officer that the Cuban freighter, shiyment of weapons. The boxes containing this equipment were stored bs cone | Docld: 324273736 Page 30
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a a a - ELECT GMI (OO COM TCR WOW Ss oe ee CONFIDENTIAL a -GOMFIDENTIAL o genteel, Han? Radio sranaattting Station, 7 30 donuaxy 1962 . Rancho doyaras Aeports | fisbara Peovisico oO 7 a ofl oof 25620 Jammary 1962 . Ranch Bay » Jan ee | pe res WOT 326/37NS2 : oe a Le nobehonzes gogorts that tho { Sov rersacnt of Cubs had pleansd to inawarete a center padle tranmmitting station at the Rancho Boyeres Airport, couth of Long Cig, on the 19ta ov 20ta of January LG02e 86 | The purpose of the station wan to bo coccunieation batuean Gaba ond geelialoey Honduras xb yhe: 9077. frequen vo rete, . ao Dareav ee nF Coe | HAYIGAULY DIGLASSINTED - | DUB EER 5209010, Docld; 32423736 Pag
See ETT oO ae | CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This matertal contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title '~ 18, U.S.0. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to ar. unauthorized person is prohibited by law. - S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM COUNTRY Dominican Republic/Cuba. REPORT NO. | CS-~3/535,788 sussect, Clandestine Radio Receiving DATE DISTR. 1 February 1963 Station in Santo Domingo . oe NO. PAGES 1 | REFERENCES RD - DATE OF 22 January 1963 — INFO. : PLACE & Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo | DATE ACQ. 22 January 1963 | FIELD REPORT NO. HDC-~553 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. see lasek wld ocboha Ad cr tvstivd enth oleh dd _ SOURCE: Foreign businessman (B) with good contacts in Dominican ; . political circles. -Appraisal of Content: 3. One of.the under-cover receiving stations for radio messages from Habana is believed to be in a house at Calle Espaillat 56. The house is occupied by Johnson (fnu), who has an electrician’ s repair shop there. "Headquarters Comment. Johnson (fnu) is probably identifiable - an with the Johnson (fnu) reported by another source as a Com- a munist member of the. Agrupacion Politica Catorce de Junio. | ¢<APCJ - 14th of June Political Group). See CS-3/511,814,. of - 4 24 May 1962. Also see CS-3/528,287, of 14 November 1962, from an official. British service, which reports ‘on a clandestine group of pro-Castro Dominicans who are in radio contact with Habana. from a repair shop in Santo Domingo... — ede atte nenee dl Dheleee tnmrteb line Hine Wi diA aen tind ation tae falc dates wi AY aor \ ‘HW 50955 Docld: 32423736 Page 37
‘HW 0955 ne CTA station in Rio de Janeiro bes reported that some. efforts may be made to pat pressure on Prosident Goulart te wipliely take some fete: at the Cuban intervention in Beasil's intemel affaires, allegedly shown. by some 16 pages of Spanish-language dooumente found in the Varig plane rash which carried @ Cuban delegstion to thelr deaths in ante are congidered by a Brasilien doureé who made then avedlable to the CIA stetion to be “explosive, since they prove. the Cubans ere epongoting revolution in Brazil.” Poraphraséa of thede domuments have apps: ved in the idm press; but it 46 unldiely that President Goulart wlll give any support te publicizing them, (CTA, Rio de Janeiro, IN 43586, 2 January, SEORED NOVORN) SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Docld: 324273736 Page 39
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i i 4 HY Vhis material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title i, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which’ in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. S.-F-C-~R-E-T . NO FORE(GN DISSEM COUNTRY Paraguay,//Cuba . REPORT NO. CS -3/536 , 454 SUBJECT Paraguayan Travelers to and DATE DISTR. 7 February 1963 ‘From Cuba | ; NO. PAGES 2 REFERENCES RD DATE OF INFO. December 1962 - 20 January 1963 - PLACE & Paraguay. Asuncion DATE ACG. 124 January 1963) FIELD REPORT NO. HYA-833 SOURCE “as a member of the Colorado Party. ha TEE “—<\ 10} OF ARS THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. Lopez (fuu)2 is the leader from Piribebuy, and Ignacio Acceta3 mA \ 2 if LON REPO REP OR i CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Paraguayan security officer (B) from a member of She Paraguaya7r Communist Party (C). Appraisal of Content: 2, On about 20 January 1963 Cantero, a leader of the Partide Comunista Paraguayo (PCP ~ Paraguayan Communist Party) jin Paraguay.1 met with five rural leaders of the PCP from ‘he. areas of Villarrica, Concepcion, Piribebuy, Tebycuarymi, and Guarambare. These leaders received political instructions from the PCP for their. trip to Cuba, where they will receive military and political training in rural organizaticn. is the leader from Tebycuarymi. Federico Tatter, a retired ensign in the Paraguayan Navy. envered Paraguay from Cuba in the first half of December to- assume military direction of the Frente Unido de Liberacian . Nacional (FULNA..« United Front for National Liberation). Anibal Garcete4.in> ceturned to Paraguay. from Cuba to organize the sugay-cane workers. Garcete is a PCP member masquerading Ll. Fieid Comment. Cantero is the PCP pseudonym of a persen whose true name is unknown, Source Comments “%. Lopez was born about 1937. 3. Acosta is a cousin of Wigberto Acosta, a long-time member of the PCP. wo SR SE ne tm 50955 Docld: 32423736 Page 41
HW 0955 Docld: 324273736 Page 42 > +B O-R-E~T HO FOREIGN DISSEM ~ Bm CS-3/526, 454 Acosta was reported in June. 1960 achive in the labor dispute in age the sugar cane worker's was mentioned in confidential aich time he was an officer in Cane Werkers. i . a“ } { i ‘S, uv d 4 | i ; ., ' ° J | | |
HW 0955 SECRET NO FO.o. sey ilar telephoned General Alves, coumender of the First Army wlth headausrtera tn Rio de Janeiro and the highest ranking extrema leftist in the Braztlian aemed forces.” Ho told Alves to choose four ox five junior officers of his sheolute con- fidence to @geart ax cata people who were arriving from Cuba vie Bolivia, Lert bald the people vere coming with “mich auteriel.” (CTA, Sao Paulo, IN 30353, 6 Daveuber, seiner moro) SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Docld: 324273736 Page 43
HY 0955 SECRET no Fo gees uc SEM Hight Donimieen pro-(istro leaders vere shoard the Czech airlines flight te Cuba which transited Shennon Airport on 14 December, according fficial Irish service, The Dominicans incinded Maximo Lopes Tonas Pamsonio Erickson, and Gustave Ricert, leaders of the ant. (MPD), one of the mst active pro- Communist groups in thé Dewiniean Republic. The eight. Doutnicens were emong the ten who vere deported from the Dominican Republic to France eetlier thid year, Another souree xepc eubacéador in Paria had « mheting with the ten Domindcan deportees to 1 6 Cuba without pagaports, (CIA Dublia, Wnts-3/531, 9091, 21 Decesber, SEORET/NO FOREIGN prsamy) dsouss helping then trav SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Docld: 324273736 Page 44 wted last Novenber that. the Cuban
HY 0955 Pronier Castro ia to deliver the closing apeedh at the Congress of Women of the Americas on 15 Jamary fn Havana. Havana Radio announéed that. the congress, acheduled to begin 11 January, wlll be attended by more than 200 aelegetes from Latin America, the U. 6., and Canada, 88 well as by gueete from many other non-American countries. Delegations from Communist Ching, Albanis, Czecho@lovakia, Horth Nores, and Herth Vietnan arrived in Havana on 9 January. GFSE6 09 and 51,. 10 January, ONFICIAL USE ony) Docld: 324273736 Page 45
HY 0955 miblies (3) A report on the ‘elds in Venezuela, (fet. subste lable te the U.8.)s ana () Repos tage @ bridge in. Vonesucla. hia Geb eontaine on item repertiow Coger 4 Docld: 324273736 Page 47
SECRET KOLEOREIGN DISSEM An expert Cuben sleetricel technician in the Borjitea sugar mili has told q former close asaocilate who ia now a regular clandestine “sures thet Cube ie training personnel in the techniquedter using ig then to the United Stetes on sabotage missions. Et ig datended thet such persone will go in the gulee of enti-Commundst efugtes, and the aabotege will be 60 arranged that in some cases it will, be token to be merely sectdents, he electrical teokmicien added that there 16 « lirge Commmiet espionage ring operating with a ring in the (CIA. DOP i 25527, 4 Decenber;, SECRET ROTOR eady under: way, . & no FOREIGN DISSEM HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 49
Communists ere leaving Cuba for the City, 28 40599, 11 Januery, SERED NOpOR) ‘SECRa .e eAREiGN. DISSEM HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 50
stian * Control: 1171 Action - Rec'd: NOVEMBER 3, .1962 FROM: CARACAS Info sg TO: Secretary of State ep “NO: -548, NOVEMBER 3, 9 P.M. SAL - ~ N oR | ACT a “OP DEPARTMENT PASS CINCARIB, CINCLANT _ INR core yGN MINISTER FALCON BRICENO INFORMS ME HE WILL ARRIVE “ap WASHINGTON SUNDAY NIGHT TO MAKE SPECIAL SPEECH IN OAS /OC MONDAY RE CUBAN SITUATION UNDERSCORING CUBAN INSP! RED SUBVERSION AND SABOTAGE AGAINST VENEZUELA. HE WILL PRESENT | NTERCEPTED. _CABLE...TO.VENEZUELAN STUDENTS AND OTHER EVJ-DENCE..WHI-CH.HE.HOPES OBTAIN FROM INTERIOR MINISTRY HE ASKS -1F 5 LF DEPARTMENT. CAN. ‘PROV.LDE_ HIM. “SUNDAY oe AT VENEZUELAN EMBASSY. \ WITH. TRANSCRIPT. RAUL | CASTRO'S oe ~ STATEMENT. AFTER. MARACA | BO. SABOTAGE. IN. WHICH PRESS CLAIMS. RAUL TOOK CUBAN CREDIT. FOR. INCIDENT. wane HAND ae entre ne enmen oes SUGGEST DEPARTMENT MAKE THIS AND ALL OTHER USEFUL FBIS - | NTERCEPTS AS WELL OTHER EVIDENCE AVAILABLE TO HIM. ~FALCON?S ARRIVAL NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON WILL BE AVAILABLE ' VENEZUELAN’ EMBASSY -THERE. PLEASE EXTEND COURTESIES. HE PLANS STAY US ABOUT EIGHT DAYS. STEWART NOTE: PASSED TO CINCARIB, CINCLANT 11/4/62. = i MESSRS MOSKOWITZ, wounuer AND. ALLEN (ARA) NOTIFIED A 12 A. Ma 11/4/62 -TEM, - i | i REPRODUCTION FROM THIS COPY IS o CONF | DENT IAL PROHIBITED UNLESS “UNCLASSIFIED” HW 50955 Docld: 324243736 Page 51
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Z ~ Tome A 3B its | material containg information aliecti ing the National Defense of the United States within the meani ing of the Espionage Lews, Title 18 U.S.C. Secs. BASD m4 and 794, ‘the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthor ted person is prohibited by fe -SECRET (When Filled in) | . at : HUD. MST OR. DEG BIE z - CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS VENEZUELA a _ "REPORT NO. TDCS -3/537, 176 " CONTINUATION OF COMMUNIST TERRORIST DATE DISTR. . 1.3 FEBRUARY 1963 ACTIVITIES PRECEDENCE PRIORITY DATE 8 ano 12 FEBRUARY 1963 REFERENCES IN 67419 | 1 SINFO ST SO oo | fe Prk fi : Jt alist VENEZUELA, CARACAS (13 FEBRUARY 1963) . : } a FIELD REPORT NO, HVC 2655 | (PARA 1: FORMER POLICE OFFICIAL (c) WITH CONTACTS IN THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD} ‘PARA 2: U.S. BUSINESSMAN (8B). WITH EXCELLENT CONTACTS IN THE VENEZUELAN MILITARY, oe re : | ae ENTRANCE TO: TUNNEL NUMBER 1. WHO WERE ATTEMPTING TO DESTROY, TURNPIKE 3 BRIDGE NUMBER: a. FIRE WAS EXCHANGED FOR ABOUT THIRTY, MINUTES. BETWEEN THE SOLDIERS: AND THE MEN. IN THE TUNNEL AND LATER A BOX CONTAINING ABOUT Bs ‘op POUNDS: OF DYNAMITE: WAS FOUND. BELOW THE BRIDGE. aA Seer 2. TWO CAR LOADS: OF. GUERILLAS ATTACKED THE Ra YONAL GUARD: HEADQUARTERS * aT. DABAJURO, A PIPE LINE OUTPOST BETWEEN AMUAY, IN THE PARAGUANA en PENINSULA AND LAKE: MARACA NBO, STATE. OF ZULIA, “IN WESTERN: VENEZUELA, ON 12 FEB. ABOUT 1 SHOTS WERE EXCHANGED BUT ALL THE QUERILLAS ESCAPED, SiO 7 pope 1K - OBSOLETE PREVIOUS marion. | by, PE aes sue. one SEA We awe saint Res he eh nes a tn ae = senting on name sos yam ~ HY 50955 DBocld: 324293736 Page 52
Ce2 ry Caer aa com + CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET. ee a - | | [reser TT | (When Filled In) (FIELD COMMENT: TERROR | ST ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN INCREAS ING IN en ae Spiers, SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE FUERZAS ARMADAS DE LIBERACION - NAC FONAE (FALN, ARMED. FORCES OF NATL ONAL L 1 BERAT ION) TOOK TEMPORARY _. POSSESION.c OF. THE OFFICE OF THE PREFECT IN THE TOWN OF SAN DIEGO DE “LOS ALTOS, ABOUT 26 MILES FROM CARACAS, ON 4 FEB. THEY TIED UP THE J) POLICEMEN’ ON. GUARD, STOLE A FEW RIFLES, AND PAINTED. THE WALLS WITH ANTI= | _ GOVERNMENT, SLOGANS, ON 5 FEB, AN ATTACK WAS MADE ON THE HOME OF COLONEL oe JOSE. ANTONIO GONZALEZ, “COMMANDER OF THE. MILITARY TRIBUNAL, LOCATED... 0] IN A WELL-TO- DO RESIDENTIAL AREA OF CARACAS. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER. “ATTACK ON 12 FEB WHICH RESULTED IN THE GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHING ROAD _ obs | \.sLOCKS’ AND SENDING TROOPS AND POLICE INTO THE AREA, ON THE | ae OF 9: FEB AN ARMED ATTACK WAS MADE ON THE ‘AMERICAN (PORTION - © GARBLED WILL FWo) “WHERE, OFFICES WERE SET ON FIRE "AND EQUIPMENT DESTROYED, a AND ON, THE NIGHT OF 9. FEB: SEARS WAREHOUSE IN ANT MANO WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED BY. MEMBERS OF THE: FALN. THREE BRIDGES ON THE PAN AMERICAN HIGHWAY, BARQUIS IMETO AREA, STATE OF LARA, WERE ‘DAMAGED BY BOMBS: ~~ | ON 12 FEB: AND. AN ATTEMPT, WAS MADE. ON- THAT DAY To BLOW UP A CREOLE: GL. LINE, IN CATIA LA-MAG, FEDERAL DistRict, _BUT ONLY ONE SMALL BOMB EXPLOBEDS CAUSING MINOR DAMAGES) . | ou. FIELD DISSEM: STATE ARMY. NAVY. AIR CINCLANT CINCARIB. | * 5. HEADQUARTERS: COMMENT : MISS ENG - PORTION wile BE. DISSEMINATED: ONEY IF. IT MATER IALLY AFFECTS THE SENSE “OF THIS REPORT « a vee ~ Ce acti DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SER ET ACTION: ASL NAuy AF, ‘JCS, ~OSD © F . a DAs IN: Tee HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 53
“Eytremist And Police Activities In Venezuela Venezuela’ has been afflicted over the past several | months with a rash of Castro-Communist terrorist actions. ‘Many incidents, involving shootings and robberies, are - eonnected with the Movement of the Revolutionary Left, ~° . ‘the Venezuelan Communist Party, and the Armed Forces ,.... : “of National Liberation -- the Castro-Communist group -eredited with the destruction at the Maracaibo oil © ’fields during the Cuban crisis. These activities are - probably designed to discredit and weaken the Betan- . court Government. | % The police have demonstrated considerable proficiency, cin preventing major outbreaks and in acting rapidly ‘to arrest terrorists... They have rounded up extremists “responsible for the holdup and looting of a printing / Supply warehouse and the burning of the Dupont paint —. . warehouse and have captured the Communist leader of. “guerrilla bands operating in the Falcon area of . “northwestern Venezuelae 0 HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 54
Hw 50955 Docld: 32423736 Page 56 7 NELVI Yost NOLLVZINVDYO LSINAWWOO yor
0955 if SHORET COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION FOR LATIN AMERTCA Taformetion on the Communist aposratus for Letin America and ite relationship with Cuba end the Sine Soviet Bloe is largely derived frou highly classified intelligence whieh is provided separately, From the vaports eurteined in thie nection, it way be qondluded that the organiza- tional Links very from country to scowrtxy depending upon, aming other fectors, the legel status of the Coumuniet party, whether diplomatic representation i6 located in a country, the relative strength of Comamist alliences with other leftist or opposition parties, and the charscter of ourrent government leadership in these countries, Next attached is an wndlaseified report prepared in Ortober for release ag a White Payer. ALtbough thie payer wes not released due to thé missile erista, it repre-~ sents en agreed summary (State, DUD, CIA end USIA) of the Comuniot apparstue In Latin America, The report contains briefs on Commniet aétivities in each of the Letin Aueriesn countries, the reports vary With reepect to the country priority for Castro/ Commnist ection im Latin America. Brasil, Venesuela, end Britich Geisna are mentioned most frequently as the likely priority targets. There are aiso conflicting reports on the relative independence of Castro from the Soviet Union and indications thet the publicized Sino Soviet disegreements ave reflected in local Comminiet organisations throughout Letin America. TAB Cuben Relationships and Policies Towsrd latin Ameries This teb contelns relevant exeerpte from the draft NIE now under preparation. (USIB is meeting on this ites and Docld: 324273736 Page 57
HY 0955 the most current agreed positions will be made avellable te you im the event there is any eignificant change.) Also included et this tab are a number of sienificent reports indicating thé probable orlentation of Castro/Commniat actions directed toward Retin America. The last item at this tab eurmarizes the unsuccessful armed ineuraions of 1959 (Panama, Nicaragua, and Doninicen Republic). | TAB 2 Soviet Activities and Conflicta This teb contains a number of items indicating poseible Guban- Seviet conflicté as reflected in Letin Ameries, The last two items reflect the concern attached to the possible establish- ment of a Soviet fishing port in Cuba, Situation in Letin Amerios This tab contalnes a number of current situation and pertinent background reporte on verious Latin American eountried in the 7 follewing order: Centrel America, Panama end Mexico} Bolivia; 7 Brasil (4); Colowbiay Costa Rica; Ecuador: Heiti; Hexieo: Panama Peru (4); and Venezuela (3). B- Docld: 324273736 Page 52
L.~ The Car exime denies that material support is being given y anti- seins group euteide Cuba. Captra eden. ‘that. @uch decistence is : saseaxy since ‘the people of these “county: By ° cs Ciba "'s example, ard @ becoming. aware of thelr revolutionary potential. The publicly stated position of hs Cuban leaders is thet their SOUnERY,, , “the firet soclaliet gate in rica,” bas become Sane emmple, iy hess cor". Infact, however, Gabats ‘oral ‘and werberdal. sport : at ommnistoinflucnded 6 bec oe sels in veotying ‘degrees in every ‘oni: Of “the ‘19 other Iatin eC pGeOms an: effeetive ifistrument sotrey denperatie walitiend tustdtutioun ie fetta Awerton.. 2.  CGyban subversion has become more. subtle singe 1959, when a Cubans ted eupeddtionar fored vas launched age Dominican Republic and wairdon forces" lett Cuba for abortive attacks the governments. swagua, end Haiti. Now Cuban subversive efforts generally fell 4n, three ¢ . eat tegorise: ‘ fhe %. ‘The intensive propage hemmed at Letin Auerica. by Cuban medio Stations end cirewiated thyough printed miterial and inter tional "neva" agency, and; port. given subversive groups in aunt ood ¢ a > Seat 5 1961 that nis goverument wou dareh: ae to "noor studente” fren other latin Aueriean county ap . "for the next gsehool term and 100 scholershins to students from other eountries of the worlds: Hunéreds of young Jatin Americans have been: eubjected to Commmist indocteination. In addition to whatever: sore twoltiing they receive ‘ta Sux, many of then receive training in 4lis. rfere end other techniques of xevolution, 4, - Cuban Jetugees who have arpived recently in. the United States. have Gad. de sd inforwation on the training programs otferéd to some of these “young latin Aserdeane, HW 50955 Docld:32423736 Page 459
Hv a.  OGne refugee, a deserter from Castro's Bevis reported from siel. Imoyledge that in late 1961 there were a number of students fran Chile, Euuador, Argintina, Guatemala, and Brazil Living in a Havens, suburb ‘ho pogularly attended ¢lasees in Marxiém-leninion, propaganda techniques, and other subjects to prepare then for active ‘vevolubionary roles in their homelands; He senate that. those male studerite who were between 16 and 20 : BS thats training to the Minas del Frio b. Another refugee, who. lived in Oriente province, éa pce wath mi tigenon in the erea and fron Latinn — rapes & ba . The trainees receive instruction in ie : ; y Subversion, sabotage, piopaganda, and i SOLe : BSUge “add not know how many Tetin Americana were igo wed, but ‘believed the. duration of gach course was about eight weeks, after which another x group veplased the one thet had been training. 5, Mish of the travel, of latin American. students to Cuba. for f teeing Bnd indedtrination is handled by the Inetituto Cubano de Amistad con les Pueblos (ICAP = Cuban Institute for Petendantp. with Feoples); Avene, ; Oriente, 6. ube ts also a major takeot# point for’ Latin Americans traveling to and ie Gowan Sino-Soviet Biss. over 4 Auerlenns 2 4 from las: ‘tional beewicacts by Cuban radio stations mintain oe ropagends. level Bt all times, with veguiarly scheduled speci mintries ag well as general, wransmlosle peso fhe general, theme of @11 these tr Sale -: ple” 46 avuekening the “people” of Ietin America to “the ¢ opportunity 3 for revolutionary ection against the “corrupt":regines in ry + and against “Yankee inperialisn” whieh sllegedly supports then, Baty iu B. “Toese prograns Specit ouitrics are went: ; aimected and produced with the guigance 9f exiles oven & the countries concerned Fesident in Cuba. 50955 Daocld: 32423736 Page 60 , of students from other Latin American countries
Ds The program to the Dominican Republic, for instenee, is ennounced as the program of the Dominican Liberation Movement (MLD), snd the program > 3g entitled Patria Libre. At present, Reaio waren beans the 20 intaute : Patria Libre progr: program to the Domiudean Republic on Thursdays and Saturdays. dust prior to the program, the Radito Hevans amoundsr explains that the, etation ia meking ite facilities available to the MLD for its program. There ave geome ereag in the Dominican Republic where, due to the absence of lecal. redio stations, the Coben broadcasts are the only ones heard. Laat. July, the subversive content. of these broadcasts to the Deminican Républic led the Dominican government to protest te the Organization of Averiéen States. 48, ithe content of such broadcasts is exemplified in the stated goels ' of the "Volee of Revolutionary Nicaragua," the program which ts regularly i. beaned by Redie Havana to Wiceragua: On 31 August thia program celebrated ite first exniversary by repeating its original statement of it8 purposes! "The Volee of Revolutionary. Nicaragua hes set iteelf the goal or contributing to pointing out the real way to Nicaragua, liberation from the domination of Yankee iuperdaliam and the Somoze tyranny. Elections. (scheduled for next February to choose President Semoza' @ successor) with the Semozes in pover, and under thé State Department ‘a economic and political control of Wicarague, will be a faree. Without. .« 3 prior revolutionary overthrow of the Semoza » tyremy there can be no free eleations in Nicaragua nor can & popular government be eeteblished. This program will be et the wervice of the revolutionaries end egainet the electioncers...The Voice of Revalutionary Nicarague wlll defend the Cuben revolution because it is an inportant part of the Latin Americen. people's Liberating revolution.” il. Cuban propegenda is al So disseminated through the offices of “Presna Lating, the Gubengubeidized international “news agency" whikh 0955 has clese wor! working yelationg with TASS, the New China News Agency, aud other propaganda medie for the Gino-Seviet bloc. 12. Cuban printed material is cirouleted throughout the hemlephere Che Guevara's book on qguerrille werfere has received wide distriimition. Periodically, the Mexican government, most recently last, August, hag been obliged to confiscate large quontities of propanginda materials from Latin Americans paeeing through that country enroute from Cubs to their homelands. 13. Cuban covert aupport for Comnnist or pro-Commmist groups in other Latin American countries is provided in a auuber of ways: In the five Latin American countries where Cuben diplomtic migaioné are still resident. (Mexico, Brazil, 2 Ueumiy, chile, and Bolivia), these mis#ions have often been the channe The Cuben enbessy in Mexico te know to have provided Docld: 324273736 Page 61
Hv frequent assistance to exiles from Guaterinda, Nicaragua, and other Central Ameriean countries living in Mexieo. Tn. other instencea, assistance is. provided through travelers coming from Cube and through Prensa Latina _ representatives. financial. The Cubans appear to have been careful einee 1959 to avoid being caught in a bleteant act of subversion “that cou 0955 be used to justify concerted imter~Awerican action. Financial assiatance is often just as ueefnl] and much lage risky than actual weapons deliveries. Ine mmber of American countries, emall arms and other weapons are availeble for a price. Unserupulows or careless arms dealers in the US have @lgso eontributed to the arma traffic from which pro-Cestro groups have penefitted, directly or indirectly. 15. As the following coumtry-by-country rundown indicates, Cuban support for eubversive activity hes affected in varying degrees every one of the 19 other Let dn feier Ioan countries. a. Argentina: Brneste “Che” Gunvare, en Argentine by opine, han reteainediiiis deep interest in Argentina's political affairs. 25 May, the Argentine national holiday, he eddressed the group of Argentine eltioens resident in Cuba and t614 them that he hoped that neck year they would be celebrating in Argentine under “the flag of soclelion.” At ancther point in. this address he said: “Our revolution is one which needs to expand ite ideas...and other people are helping us. Let the other peoples of the hemisphere get engry and take up @rms or deize power ond ald us an this task which is the task of the entive hemisphere and of humanity." She os eke The Argentine commmity in Cuba last April organized the "Cubsn-Argentine Friendship Inetitute” with headquarters in Havans. One of the leaders is dchn William Cooke, who was for a time chief of former Argentine dictator Peren's political machine in Argentina. Cooke continues active in thet faction of thé Peronista party which seeks concerted action with the Argentine Commmiats. Cooke madataing regular contact with sympathizers inside ond outside Argentina through travelers and through his wife, Alieia Eguren de Cooke, a rapident of Montevideo; Uruguay, who apparently has regular means of communication with individuals in Argentina. Argentine eitisens have been reerulted through this channel to go to Cube for training. There are also strong indications that terrorist activities by Argentine Peronists and Commmists havé been encouraged and pérhaps ersisted through this channel. Frio Prior to the diplomatic break between Argentina and Cuba . Laas. February, the Cuban embassy in Buenos Aires provided financial essletance to Sutl«government groupe there. An Argentine jownalist who hes contacts in she Communist party there raported last Decénber, ter ingtance, that the Argentine Communist party had reeelved the sum of 50,000 pesos from the Cuban exbaggy a6 a contribution to the radivay workera who were then on strike in the provinee of Cordoba. h Docld: 324273736 Page 62
Hv Though the guban embassy is ne iJonger in Buenos Aires, Cuban clandestine assistance to Argentine Peronist-Commamist groups continues. On 19 July of this year the federal police in Buenos Aires reported the wm- earthing of 6 center of Commnist and Peronist ectivities in the capital, Two Buenos Aires policemen were ghot. and killed at a surburben warehouse in June. Investigations revealed that a quantity of explosives and propaganda were stored in the warehouse. The trail led to the arrest of ene Jose Meria Aponte, a journalist end known Peroenist setiviat, and one Mario Massi, owner of the firm which owed the warehouse. It wes revealed that Mesei hed been maintaining comtect with Cuban Commmists, with John Williem Cooke, and with an unidentified woman associated with the Cuban embassy in Uruguay who was probably Alicia Eguren de Cooke referred to above. According to the Argentine police investigation, some 150 Argentine citigens had been sent from Argentina te Cuba (through Uruguey and Mexico) for training in guerrilla warfare, On their retwmn to Argentina, these men were to be used - in planned activities in the provinces of Permosa, Tucuman, Salts, and the 0955 wooded areas of eastern Argentina. A number of other individuals were appre- hended by the Argentine police in connection with the subversive activity revealed in these investigations. be Bolivia: Bolivia has been the recipient of special Cuban attentions. The number of Boliviens receiving "scholarships" in Cuba this year--between 130 and 150-- esppears disproportionately high. The Bolivian government felt ebliged to request the departure of Cuban Arbaseedor Tebares in 1960 and of Cuban Charge Garcia Triens in 1961 for blatent intervention in internal Bolivian affairsa, in¢luding support for Bolivien Commuoiste and attempts. to incite extreme leftist members of the governing BNR party to leave the party. In June 1941, the Bolivian government published a aeries of documents linking the Cuban enbessy with a Camammist conapivacy to seize control of the government. One of these documents, o statement by an arrested Bolivian agitator who had been in close contact with the Cuban exbasay, gave the nemes of a number of Bolivians whe had received financial support from the Cuben embassy. This evidence ves used to justify the maquest for the Cuben charges recell. The present. Cuban charge in Bolivia, Ramon Aja, has algo been active though perhaps e bit more discreet than his predetessors. He hag been particularly energetie in cultivating relatione with Bolivien campesinos. The peasant union in the Cliza Velley of Bolivia has been reported te be the recipient of Cuban finsneial assistance. @. Brazil: Daring the pesttwo years the Castro regime had developed increasingly close ties with Frencisco Juliac, self-proclaimed Marxist and leader of the Peagant Leagues in the troubled northeast region of Brazil. Juliaoc, whose wife and children are resident in Cuba, has treveled there on several oecasions, and & number of his esecetates and rank « and-file members ‘of the Leagues have gone to Cuba for agricultural training which is undoubtedly heavily lerded with ideological indectriuation. Transportation direct from northeast Brazil to Cuba has been provided by Bubana airlines on at least one occasion. Circumstantial evidence strongly suggests that Juliao has received financial assistence for his movement from the Cuban government.. Brazilian Communist leaders have privately stated, in Docld: 324273736 Page 63
HY 0955 ae fact, that Juliao's Peasant Leagues have received not oly money but also shipments of small arms from Cube. These Bragilien Commnist leaders also said that the reason Julieo sent his family to Cuba was his fear that they might be endangered in the civil war he expects to erupt shortly in Brazil, The Cuban government has also during the past year cultivated particularly clese relations with leaders of the disaident Comomiet Party of Brazil (CPB). One of the CPB leaders who hed visited Cuba last May told a friend of a long converestion he he@ had with Fidel Castro in late May. Castro expressed identity of feeling with the dissident Braziijen Commnicts end eritielzed the regular Comimmist party for its failure “to take @ atrong revolutionary line" in accordance with the decision of the 22nd party congress of the Cosimmist party of the Soviet Usion. Castro approved the insurrectioneary policy of the CPB and urged the leaders to orgenize guerrills activities and start the revolutionary movement in Brazil “as soon a8 possible." Castro advieed then that government reprisals against revolutionary action in Brazil would serve only to increase populer dis- content in Brazil and swell the ranks of the revolutionsries. He advised CFB leaders to give special emphasis to securing afewide a tase as possible , agricultural workers and the inhebitents of rural areas. Bescc wba ee The Cuban embassy in Rio de Janetro, like Cuban embassies elsewhere in Latin America, has been a source of assigtente to Communist and pro-Commmist elements. Last May leaks to the Braziliem prese reported dis« cussiong in the Brazilian cabinet on the subversive activities being directed by Cuban ambessador Joaquin Hernendesz Armag. The Navy and Army Ministers are reported to have expressed particular concern over Hernandez' eetivities. a. Chie: Senator Salvador Allende, leader of Chile's Commmist~deminated popular front and a acading presidential aspirant, has made at least two trips to Cubs. . The Cuban embassy in Santiago is the source of propaganda — suypert for pro-Comamist groups, mostly those associated with Allende, who are intent on coming to pover in Chile through elections or revolution. Orlendo Prendes, ‘cultural attaché of the Cuban eubassy, is known te be supers.) .-; vising the printing of Cuban propaganda on a clandestine printing press in the home of Julio Bocenegra, who also prints propaganda for the Chilean Comminist party. This activity has been going on for some time. As long ago as Aggust, 1961, Chileen officials investigating political agitation 6nd resulting unrest in the Salemanea area learned that after a visit to the area by & Cuban diplomat the previous month, pro-«Cuben propaganda was being aistrfouted in the area, and Commmists and pro-Commmnists there were sajing “The mountains of Salemanca are going to bé the Chilean Sierra Maestre." Last March, when Cuban Minister of Education Armando Hart vent to Chile for an inteynational conference he took with him several socks of propaganda. _ @+ Colombia: The United Prent for Revolutionary Action (FUAR), ergenized eerily thia year by Coloxbian extremists, ig bélieved to have received financial assistance from Cuba to promote its objective of ereating & guerrilla movement aimed et the overthrow of the government. A Colobian 6 Docld: 324273736 Page 64
ae citizen who has contacts among FUAR menbere reported last June that Fidel Castro had just given the group $15,000 and promised further financial aid semi-annually. Gloria Gaiten de Valencia, the wife of @ FUAR leader and the daughter of the Colombian leader Gaitan whose asgassination in 1948 sparked the digastroua Bogota rioting, is s Long-time personal. friend of Fidel Castro. He hes vieited Cuba frequently and probably returns to | Colombia with specific advice and assistance from the Cuben government. The FUAR has succeeded in drawing mexbers from the extremist wing of the regular Colonbian Commmnist party whe are dissatiefied with that party's reluctance to engage in ipen révolutionary action. ¥. Costa Rica: The small Costa Rican Commamist party, the Popular Venguard party (PVP), is charged by the Cuban government with the selection of young men to be trainéd in Cuba. Riboberto Carmons and Jose Murilic, PVP members, left Costa Rica last June for teaining under this progren, and PVP leaders had plans for organi¢ing guerrille treining programs in Costa Rica under the direction of the Costa Ricans who had received training in Cuba. a er | §- The Dominican Republic: The provisional Council of State, which ie preparing the country for ifs first free elections this December in more than 30 years, has been 2 major target for Cuben gubversion. A cadre of Dominican Commnists. is headquartered in Cuba, end elandestine con- tact is probably mainteined with aympathizers inside the Doniniecan Republic. Broadcasts to the Dominican Republic from Cuba have helped incite the frequent riots in Santo Domingo. The feet that broadcasts from Cuba heve on occasion referred to very recent events in the Dominican Republic strongly suggeats the presence of clandestine radio contacts between the two countries. hs Eeusdor: The Comminist party of Eeuador has formed the nucleus of a small guerrille organization. This group was drawn largely from | the pro-Castro Revolutionary Union of Heuaderean Youth (URJE), which was involved in @ two-day battle with government forces lagt April. ‘The leader ef the April affair, as well as several other Ecupdoreand involved in sub- versive activities, haa received guerrilla training in Cuba. A URJE leader told a friend lest June that this organization hag so far in 1062 received $22,000 in financial ald from the Cuban government. Manuel Araujo Hidalgo, pro-Commuist former Eeuadoreen Minister of Interior who has-visited Cuba end who recently traveled in Communist . Ching, appears to be working with the URJE. He is reported to have received & considerable amount of money from the Cuban govermment for his efforts, according to a private atatement by the URJE leader. _ a. El Salvador: On 1 March 1961, the Balvadoren government broke relations with the Castre regime after it hed received evidence of _ conversation between the Cuban dhorge, Roberto Lessalle, and leading Salvaderan Communists in which Lagsale urged increased revolutionary activity. _§+ Guatemala: On 5 March 1962, @ Cuban arrived in Mexico with a message for a leader then in Mexico of the Guatemalan Commmiat-influenced HW 50955 Docld:32423736 Page 65
HW 0955 13 sovenber group, which had recently engaged in guerrilia activity an Guatemala. The Cuban gave him $4,000 which he said wad the first install- ment of a total of $10,000 to be used te establich a new guerrilla front in Guatemala. On 8 Merch, Castro's emissary gave the Guatemalans the balanne of the $10,000 and told one of the 13 November leaders that the decision to provide them with the money was taken by Fidel Castro personally. Castro, he eaid, had sent instructions that the group did not have te account for how the money was spent, thet no strings were attached, and that he hopes. they are succesful go he ¢an provide them with additional assistence.. Later the Cuban emissary met with leaders in Mexico of the orthedox Guatemalan Commnist party. These Guatemalan Communists had apparently complained that the Cuban money waa not going to them. They were told that Castre wanted the money te go to the 13 November group because thie group hed demonstrated ate capacity to fight the Guatemalan government, a eopacity which the Guatemalan Commmiste had not show. The Cuban said: "It is not a matter of standing eround with Arab fatalism waiting for events to take place-«=- Ve should act efficiently se as to precipitate the death of imperialian. Because of thie we are ready to help anyone who may decide to struggle against imperialism anywhere.” Cuban propaganda media have sought through publicising the activities of the 13 November group to increase ite prestige and chances for success: A Prensa Latina reporter published an alleged interview with 13 November Leader Yon Sosa. k. Hedtir A eadre of Heitian Commmists led by Rene Depestre is resident in Cuba, and memy thousends of Haitien citizens living in eastern Cuba are now being subjected to Commmict regimentation and indoctrination. i. Honduras: Prior to the break in Cuben-Honduran diplomatic rélations in April 1961, Cuban personnel wader the cover of consular and diplomatic offices engaged in proselyting in the north coast region of Honduras. Honduras now is the target of a gartioularly vicious reguler radio program beamed especially to Honturad by Radio Havana. Many Hondurans are in Cuba under the" ‘aeholarghip" program. Me Mexico? the Cuben enbassy in Mexteo City, the consulate in Merida, end the "Gupan~i ezican Cultural Center" in Merida have ell ¢ engaged in propeganda activities designed to enedurage the pro~commnist CoBe in Mexico, particularly the Commmnict-inflwuenced National Liberation Move~ ment. (MLN). Former Cuban anbaseador in Mexieo Portuende is reported by people in close contact with MLN teadera to have concluded an agreement whereby acme of the money sent by Havana te cover the expense of the embassy is ear- maxked as a contribution to the MLN. Mexicen officials were disturbed et the participation ef Cuban exbessy officieala im inciting the anti-US demon- strations by Mexican studente in July end August 1960. Mexican authorities heve periodically impoundsd quantities of Cuban propaganda being sent through Mexico to other Letin AnerLean countries. The most important aspect. of Mexico in Cuban propaganda and subversive operations im Letin America is ite use by the Cubans as a way station or jumping off place between Cuba itself and the rest of Latin America. Docld: 3274273736 Page 66
a. n. Niceragua: A eedre of Nicaraguan Communists is based in Cuba. Contact between them and pro-Castro Micaraguans in Miearague and in exile in other countries of the Caribbean area is maintained at least on a sporadic basis. A maber of Nicaraguans periodically have traveled to Cuba, and some have received training there in guexrille tecties. Reliable reports indicate that some of these Cuba~trained Nicaraguens have been emong tha Small guerrilla bands that have infiltrated Nicaragua across the largely un- guarded Hondrusn borders The Nicaraguan government is the target of a regularly broadcast Radio Havana program to Nicaragua which is announced ag the program of “free Niesraguana.* ® Panama: Cuban finanelal assistance ia believed to be channeled to the pro-Commmist National. Action Vanguard (VAN) in Panama. One of the VAN leaders, Deputy Thelma King, is a frequent traveler to Cuba claims to be a personal friend of Fidel Castro. may: Peraguayen exites in Uruguay and Brazil have received Cuban financial assistance. Four mewbers of the United Front for National Liberation ee » & Commmist Paraguayan exile group in Uruguay, receive the equivalent. of $230 monthly each from the Cuban embassy in Uruguay to finance clandestine pro-Castre aétivities in Uruguay, according to & Paraguayan exile in Uruguay who is in elose touch with FULNA. q “Berut At least eight Peruviens traveled to Cuba by way of Mexico last June to receive training and indoctrination in that country. Other Peruvian Communists or pro-Commmists have Long been in Cube and a. regularly broedeast Radio Havens program fe beamed to Peru. ve. Uxuguey: The Cuben embassy in Montevideo hag been engaged in promoting pro-Castro propaganda. In Januery 1961 the Uruguayan govern- ment was obliged to declare the Cuben erbassador persona non grata for intervening in internal Uruguayen affeire. 8. Venezuela: The Castro regime has been extremely vitriolic in its propaganda blasts egelust the Beteneourt administration in Venezuela. Cuban assistance has been channeled to mexbers of the militant opposition Leftist Revolutionary Movement (MIR), which ig attempting to develop a guerrilla movement in Venezuela with the aid of its ally, the regular Vene- gielen Commmist party. While there is Little evidence to indicate direct Cuban involvenént in this Commmist effort, & significant muber of the lead- ing figures involved, including Fabricio Ojeda, are kuow to heve traveled to Cube, where they probebly received financiel and other aasigtance in addition to offlelal encouragement end prepagenda support for their activities, HW 50955 Docld:32423736 Page 67
aw eet 0955 EXCERPT FROM DRAFT NIE 85-63, 4 FEBRUARY 1963 Policies Toward Latin America 42. Here Castro has more capability for independent action than in any other field except the internal politics of Cuba. Gastre is deeply cormmmitted to a policy of armed insurrection throughout Latin America. Because of his own experience he has a deep-seated belief that only through ineurrection can revolution be promoted in Latin America. Further, he apparently believes that a successful revolution in another Latin American country would give great irapetus to the revolutionary movement and would algo conseli-~ date his own regime in Cuba. In trying to foment insurrections, he apparently does not believe it crucial that he cannot now give direct military assistance to them, nor does he seem te consider it impor - tant whether he has or has not Soviet support. For the Soviets, however, such an inflexible approach emacks eof the Chinese position and causes great problems in dealing with other Latin American Communiats. Most important, however, it is probable that the Soviets believe such a posture will damage Soviet prospects for penetration of Latin America and inevitably bring about a confronta- tion with the US. Docld: 324273736 Page 69
. SECRET EXCERPT FROM DRAFT NIE 85-63, 4 FEBRUARY 1963 16. Cuban overseas military capabilities remain severely limited by lack of the requisite air or sea lift. The Cubans could probably net undertake an overseas operation on a srale larger than | one battalion. Fer political as well as military reasons, the Castro regime is most unlikely to undertake military operations of thig nature. It would prefer to concentrate on rendering clandestine aupport te local insurgents. HW 50955 Docld: 32423736 Page 70
EXCERPT FROM DRAFT NIE 85-63, 4 FEBRUARY 1963 31. The decline of hie prestige has at least for the moment reduced Castro's capability for subverting popular groups and moving them into action against their own governments and against US interests., Local fidelistas have encountered greater difficulty in mobilizing masse support for anti-government strikea and demonstrations on other than local igsues, HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 7i
id 0955 EXGERPT FROM DRAFT NIE $5.63, 4 FEBRUARY 1963 32. Nonetheless, Castro continues his appeal for revolution in Latin America on the Cuban model. Those Latin Americans who are committed to violent revolution continue te look to Castro for help, particularly from his training program in Cuba and hie large-scale dissemination of printed and broadcast Propaganda. Gormuni st agitators are concentrating their efforte increasingly in rural areas, as they have done in Peru recently, In addition, there has been an increase in sabotage and other violence perpetrated by extremists, of the sort not requiring the participation of large popular groups, yet designed to provoke drastic countermeasures by governments and to increase popular anti-government sentiment. These widespread activities have demonstrated that the ability of local Communists to engage in terrorist and subversive activities and their willingness to accept Cuban “and Soviet support do net dpend upon Castro+«s prestige or upon their ” opinion of hia doctrines and policies. Docld: 324273736 Page f2
id 0955 SECRET) her, who Lives in Argentina, told a ¢laniestina souree in mid-Decerbér thet during her recent vieit te Cuba her sed, teld her that Cuban leaders now feel they will heve to rely mre end more oh thei? ovn efforte to promte Communist penetration in South Auérica, Guerrillas will be used on o lovee seale att x they bave received training in Cuba, Guevara geld, He explained to his mother that this te necessary since both he and Castro feel Karushcher “et. them down” and hes no further interest in épxreading Comamiem in South Aserton, Guevara added that he and Castro believe they and the Chinese are better Coummigts than Khrushchev, (CIA DD/P Buenos Aires, 19 Decenber, Comment: This reyort. is consletent with reeent public speeches by Guévare which have eppliasised the tmportent role of Guba with respect to the “anti-1, dtialist revolution” in Latin Ameries, (smcier) Docld: 324273736 Page f3
Hv 0955 SECREM NO FOREION pisseN CIA Report 21 Dec 62 Rome Translation of report deted 6 Dec 62 from Itelian Eubassy Hevana to Foreign Ministry in Rome. "As I noted in my 9 November report is is difficult for Castro to remain calm. Therefore the revolutionary regime will continue with all means at ite disposition to disseminate subversive propaganda in the vhole continent, a6 demonstrated by the fact thet a1. the etates of Letin America (including Mexico) are taking strong measures ageinst the dissemination of this propagenda. But it is doubtful that today Castro can do mich move and sane/sonerdtuben @ veal menaee to the security of other countries, if only because he lacks the necessary funds. I tend to share the opinion of the Aubassader to Bragil that the Cuban leaders are trying to concentrate all their subversive efforts in one country, snd that they have selected Venézuela for varlous reasons, in- cluding the old 111 feeling between Cagtro and Betancourt. I note in passing thet, aveording to whet was told me by the aforementioned Ambassador, during the recent méeting of the 045 the Venecuelan representative asecused the Cubans of promoting the recent attempte in hie country but, when asked to furnish proof, he wes uneble to do so.” | SECRET (NOFORN) (CONTROLLED DISSEMINATION) Docld: 324273736 Page 74
HW 0955 Prevelutions wll be Gisweted fren Cuba there SECREL, &. volstive of « leading Comundet in Guba (who has ereviously given xeliable mivende Informatio: ts) oxpressed ot Oh 30 Hoveuber thet there will be rewolte in Garibbeen countries whieh will seeqerade ce “notional revolutions” go ae to eegete the actucation of Cuben complicity, Tn fect, however, these i wevolubionarios fron sing traiaed in Cups. (CTA po/p tw 8727, Coumont; Thies polete wp what is probably the most effective means of Cuben subvereion in Letin America = the training of hundreds ie of Latin Americans in Guba, (SERED) ELF - SECREE nd Docld: 324273736 Page 75
rid 0955 ee > -OREIGN DISSERG fhe recent spate of public addresses by leadine Cubsn offtetala on the subject of tusurvestion in other Letin Amerlean countrias reficote a mere segressive shace than prior te the “missile erisis" and suggests thst decision to step up Cuban support for subversive groups in other winiel may be under discussion within the immer circle 7 Hart have been in the fexofront eines iste Novenber in publicly expressing the view that the | nly road to the “Itberetion" of the Latin American peoples ie the road of * insurrection, Fidel Castro's earlier pub 46 ling hed been to deny the necessity for Cube to “expert ite revolution: Cubata"exenp te” waa suffictent, This Ihe i¢ given only perfunctory attention in the revent Guevera and Hart speeches. The line emerging in these apeschet appears even stronger than that espouted in the “Second Declaration of Havena” sited that in cortein circumstances Commnist-donineted eoslitions could came to power by peaceful mens. The whole tener of the recent speeches guggeute that Cuba intendd to provide every estistence within ite means te Latin American ing attention éivan in the Cuban preds to developments t4 Venecucla in recent weeks strongly sugasete a more than aeedenie interest in dewelopnente there, tehy-Like dedication - Canadian Anuastader Kidd, epeculating on the "tx to permanent revolution” sppas ent. dn @ 21 Novewhér speech by Armmdo Hart, ocamented that Cuban leaders may be attenpting te counter “tha manlli- i ation of the withérewa2, . of the Russien miseiles" by making x to “Aight revolutionary fires in neighboring countries.” (Coament on: STIAL) (SECREE/s0 PORETGT _ oe Docld: 324273736 Page 76
cantar meet oot cect itt ate Man HW 0955 SECRET-NO FOREIGN DISSEM SUPPLEMENT THE CASTRO THREAT TO LATIN AMERICA | = Despite diminished prestige, especially among government leaders, Castro retains great influence over politically ‘unsophisticated Latin Americans. He is also supported by Western Hemisphere Communist parties and the vast majority of extreme leftists. Castro's main appeal lies in his claim to be the leader of a successful revolution against "Yankee imperialism" and in the support he is ready to provide subversive activities throughout Latin America. ; The degree to which Cuba is involved in. current hemisphere unrest is not clear. Antigovernment nationals and Communists of various Latin American countries, however, have made frequent visits to Cuba to receive pro-Castro indoctrination and propaganda. During 1962, 1,000 to l, 500 are believed ‘to have received intensive education ‘and training in sabotage and ‘guerrilla warfare. Significant representation has been noted from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Nicaragua. .There is no definite proof that Cuba is now exporting arms to any dissident groups, “but propaganda materials, explosives, and financial | support are reliably reported to have been furnished. Cuban leaders have also called with increasing frequency for open rebellion as the "only road" to liberation for the Americas; they have been especially vociferous since the first of the year. Leading officials, such as Castro, Blas Roca, Che Guevara, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Juan Marinello are among those calling for revolutionary violence. The , "Betancourt tyranny" in Venezuela has been designated a primary target, but Peru and Chile apparently also have high priority. * The use of the Prensa Latina organization and the agent network already in existence makes it virtually sure that Havana will intensify its clandestine activities... Latin American governments are generally now more alert to ‘Castro's threat. Inadequate. security forces and widespread poverty throughout the area, however, make it almost certain that Cuban-supported: insurgency’ will have an-effect out of. proportion to the number of people involved. (SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM) 8 Feb 63 DIA Intelligence Bulletin Page (1) SECRET-NO FOREIGN DISSEM a mei tn ene Docld: 324273736 Page fT? ee
SECRET-NO FOREIGN. DISSEM (4 rs Cuban Developments of Following’ Fidel Castro's call for revolution in fo Latin America in his 2 January speech, other Cuban : speakers are emphasizing the same theme. Che Guevara told a group of Central American delegates in Havana recently that they must prepare for simultaneous revolutions in all Central American countries and pointed to Venezuela and Chile as major targets for revolution. Long-time Communist leader Blas Roca, on 23 January, praised Venezuelan Communists for their recent acts of sabotage and pledged continued Cuban support for the struggle of the people against the Betancourt "tyranny." Venezuela has long been a major Castro-Communist target, and Blas Roca's remarks imply Cuban Support for the present upsurge of Communist activity there. deus se re x 4 3 } 4 i 4 4 i weedeat lanes lr eae katt “te Faker 28 Jan 63 _ DIA Intelligence Bulletin Page 2 oo (REVERSE BLANK) | SECRET-NO FOREIGN DISSEM i . ce eter: Tent ee ae kt ec HW 50955 Docld:32423736 Page Té
HY 0955 1. Avmed incursions. No seoner had the Revolutionary Government of Cuba taken pover then it Leunched a program for exporting ites revolution to other countries in the Hemisphere, particularly in the Caribbean erea. The memories of the invasions and attempted invasions of Panama, of Nicaragua, and of the Dominican Republic, following clegely upon one enother in the spring end summer of 1959 ere still fresh. Support of Cuban officials for military expeditions againat the Governments of these countries, although vehemently denied, has been esteblished beyond reasonable doubt. With thé invasion of the Dominican Republic came the realization among the American Repiiblics that) dhternational tensions. in the Caribbean area, to which Cube had significantly contributed, hed risen to the extent thet a Meeting of Consultation of Minjeters of Foreign Affairs of the American States wes necedsary. The Investigating Committee appointed by the Council of the GAS, acting provisionally a8 Organ of Consultation wonder the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocel Assistance, in the Panama cas@ in June, 1959 con cluded "that the Republic of Panama was the victim of an invasion, organized abroad, that sailed from a Cuben port and was composed almost entirely of foreigners". The Committee report eteted that the Chairman of the Committee was able to confirm that 82 of 64 imprisoned inveders Docld: 324273736 Page 79
were Cubang. Further, the Government of Panama, prior to the departure of the invasion group from Guba informed the Cuban Government of reports shout. this impending event, invoking the 1928 Habana Convention on the Duties and Rights of States in the Event of Civil Strife. The Cuben Foreign Minister in turn adeured Pansme thet the Guben covertiment would take the necesdary preventive measures. _ 4m connection with several of the invasions or attempted invasions of Nicaragua fron Costa Riea 6nd Honduras‘in- June, 1959, end the individuels orgeniging them, documentery and other types of evidence whieh came to light demonstrated Cuben offictale support in the form of arms and financial contributions. | a Officiel Cuben complicity in the invasien of the Dominican Remiblie in the game month was clear. The expedition wes organized, trained, end equipped in Cuba with the undoubted adsietence of Cuban officials. An officer on active duty with the Cuben Rebel Army was one of the expedt~ tion's leadere. The Cubes ifevy escorted the three landing craft used by the invading foreée on thelr voyage to the Dominican Republic. Even during the Pifth Meeting of Congultetion in Santiago, Chile, ® report was received of the invesion of Haiti on August 13, 1959 by a group of armed nen coming from Cube. ‘The Heitien Government, after the Sentlego meeting expressed ite fears of further iavasion ettempts. It charged that the August 13 invasion from Cuba was @ violation of the i928 Habana Convention on Duties and Rights of Statea in the Event of Civil Strife. The assistance of Cuban officiiis, dncluding the Cuban. (2) HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 60
aaa aa Sa Ambassador to Halt’ and his five military attaches, in the attempt to overthrow the Heitien Government was denounced by that Goverment, ‘the Cuben Goverment, though admitiing thet the invasion was launched in Cubs and all but cone of the participants were Cubens, conveniently die~ avowed the acte of the Cuban citizens involved. ra (3) HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 61
HY 0955 SECRET EXCERPT FROM DRAFT NIE 85-63, 4 FEBRUARY 1963 33. There have been indications of disapproval of Castro«s policies on the part of those Latin American Communist parties which are committed to a more gradual and lesa violent approach to revolution. Castro has shown himself willing te collaborate with any group, Communist or not, willing to resort to violence and in so doing to clreumvent some of the regular Communist parties. Some of the latter resent such tactics and have appealed to the Soviets against Castro. It seema Ukely that the question of relations with other fanCommunist parties, as well as the question of tactics, is likely to hamper Communist revolutionary efforts in Latin America and cause strains in Seviet-Guban relations. oe i ca at ag ae Docld: 324273736 Page 63
. AG 0955 29. ... Among much of the revolutionary left, discussion hag tended to shift to the need for indigenous, nationalist revolutions, and away from internationalism and alliance with Moscow-oriented Communists and fideli etas. SECRET Docld: 324273736 Page 64
HY 0955 (BECRET Panamanian Commmist Party (POP) leader Ruperto Thomas’ recent trtp to Guba wee evidently am effort to persuade Castro to support the PUP rather thon the nore aétivist Ponominian yroCommnist VAI grou. When he xehurndd to Panama on 14 December, Thomsa reportedly anid that Jeres Tumer, who alsa went to Havens in Septenber and has not returned, dnct the PDP tn Guba. @nd other VAN leaders aré et111 campadening ag: laim t6 have told VAN leaders they must cooperate co support. ant seem consigtentiy to fever the VAN with nal ‘trips. The Cubs Ss may distrust the POP's poor organiuation and bélieve VAN cherges thet the PDP ic infiltrated. However, the VAN te a tether uneteble sroup and tha Cubana are probably trying to ep om good terms with both, Thomas sald he received mo military training but wes tought a few things 14 ke how to dlementie eo mehine am, Thomas commented that no ye lax group deemed te be in command in Cuba, Pesuleing in euch dleorder that it was a wouter the revolution wevived, Hé believes the ORT te merely a mechanian. — ¢ a visa, 60 he returned to Panama vie Mexieo would not isaue Thon Pregue where he talked with Cxech Commmmist officials and may have pleaded the POP case against VAN with them, (CIA Panema City TD0S.3/ 531,754, 20 Dee, SECRET) Docld: 324273736 Page 65
MAS ION L INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 2 This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionaga Lows, . 793 ang 794. the transmissrornrevelation of which in any manner 40 an unauthorized person is prohibited by lew. me aon SEC REY (When Filled In) . era CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONT ROLS bee Fatt, (4 COUNTRY | VENEZUELA «EAST GERMANY “SUBJECT | VENEZUELAN ATTENDANCE AT THE a | .' EAST GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY CONGR fos po PRECEDENCE ROUTINE a DATE OF REFERENCES "INFO, YANUARY 1963 » PLACE & -.. + DATEACO, VENEZUELA, cARAcaS (7 & 7 FEBRUARY 1963} ‘| APPRAISAL. 2 - FIELD REPORTNO, HVS 2652 4 THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT {8 TS | SOURCE PARA 7¢ . A’ MEMBER: (B) OF THE COMMUNIST. PARTY OF VENEZUELA, FROM A FELL boa hE MEMBER WHO WORKS IN THE NATIONAL PARTY OFFICES. ioe “para 2: . A mMemBcr (8) OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF. VENEZUELA, FROM POMPEYO | words, dances fates aiaak ve Dott ARY OF WOMEN'S AFFAIRS OF THE PCV, WERE TWO oF THE DELEGATES OF THE PCV TO THE EAST GERMAN COMMUNI ST ARTY CONGRESS HELD DURING JAN ‘63. THEY RETURNED TO VEN EZUELA WITH A LENGTHY DOCUMENT WHICH CLEARLY DISCUSSES THE IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE COMMUNIST PARTIES OF CHINA AND THE USSR, THIS DOCUMENT LS BEING CIRCULATED AMONG SOME MEMBERS OF THE PCV. - 2. POMPEYO MARQUEZ, MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL SECRETARIAT OF THE PCV, Exchided from automate downgradiag ond decasuficcnon HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 686
GERMAN: COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS TOOK A NEUTRAL POSITION REGARDING THE ® ERENCES BETWEEN. CHINA AND THE USSR WHERE EAS THE OTHER LATIN AM “COMMUNI S PARTY. REPRESENTAT I\ SUPPORTED THE POS! TION 0 “THE USSR. REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNIST. PARTIES: CONGRESS CAUTIONED: THAD EXTREME CARE SHOULD. BE TAKEN BY THE GQUERRILLA FORCES, 3. FIELD DISSEMs: ‘STAT . ARMY NAVY . AIR’ CINCLANT CINCARIB. eT Coane 4 3 | a 2 ACTION: | ACSI, NE AVY, AF, JCS, OSD INFO : DOSOP pEare 7? DA CIN.  16376- HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 687
fa , S§SCRET-NO = Cuban Anniversary Celebrations Soe SE baby be lesratrions The Cub included infantry, naval, formations. FOREIGN DISSEM (See pictures artillery, following ) an Armed Forces parade in Havana yesterday armor, The most significant display was and air that ga Pecks Q oF e _ as and possible cruise missiles. + of SA-2 missiles Ground units included 15 companies of the 2d Western Army, units of the National Mil and other infantry onits in a "new para de step" resembling the goose step. The artillery unit had antitank guns, heavy artillery, multiple rocket laumchers and AA artillery, Three battalions of medium tanks, heavy tanks and assault guns, along with the surface-to-air and possible cruise missiles made up the final unit of the parade. The air formations included helicopters, propeller- type training planes, and MIG-15's, 19's and 21's Seviet participation in the parade has not been established, @alikough Soviets and Czechs may have piloted some of défense systen, whe aircraft. Premier Castro's speech: following the parade brought no surprises aside from its unusual brevity. He made an effort to indicate Cuban control of the air including the SA-2's, and, in a probable reference to US reconnaissance flights, said fi there could be an incident O base "at any time”. Castro reiterated the five demands he first made after the announcement that the Soviets would withdraw offensive missiles from Cuba. He inciuded his President al u usual anti-US statements and slurs at Kennedy and made a low-keyed appeal for cy" within the Communist Bloc.|_H He called for, et eR Oe FELT ake en EE revolution in Latin America, with special emphasis | on Venezuela, and cited Cuba's "historic task 2 98 4 Fp eae of..serving as an exanuple" for that revolution., in the USSR, Cuban and Soviet spokesmen lauded Cuban- Russian friendship and unity, and the Soviet spokesman, Suslov, pledged that his country would "never leave Revolutionary Cuba alone in distress." (CONFIDENTIAL ) SOURCE: VARIOUS 3 Jan 63 DIA intelligence Bulletin Page 1 HY 4S0954 Docld: 32423736
ean AW aa 0955 63 ri ‘}) oe rl ud ep © Fi © REIGN DISSEM e reportedly continues, the threat of retaliatory action from forces rallying around deposed Air Force Chief Lemus has apparently diminished, and the majority of the armed forces still supports President Ydigoras. The President's intention with regard to: leftist ex-President Arevalo, who plans to return and seek the ‘presidency in next December's elections, is an unsettling factor. The armed forces universally oppose Arevalo. Some factions want to replace Ydigoras with a civilian-military junta and call. new elections before Arevalo becomes eligible to run in March. Shoula Arevalo return, the military will probably move to prevent his candidacy and the coming months may be critical, — Honduran President Villeda Moraies, although not a strong ieader, is expected to complete his term. The ruling Liberal Party will probably retain the Presidency in the October elections, and maneuvering for the nomination has begun. Rodas Alvarado, President of the Congress and one of the three leading contenders, has used his position to build up strength, but the armed forces regard him as the least desirable and.a developing anti-Rodas coalition may prevent his nomination. Either of the three leading candidates would probably follow the present government's pelicies, including its relatively soft Communist stand. The Communists, white not yet a direct threat, are steadily increasing their influence in the labor field and are exploiting the country's discouraging political, economic, and social conditions. Ei Salvador, faced with a serious Communist threat about two. ars ago, continues to show political and economic progress, . but there are clouds on the horizon, President Rivera, who assumed control last summer in a full return to constitutional govermument, still has widespread Support and military backing. The government is moving ahead with its reform program, but there is some resistance. to the proposed new income taxes, Communist activities have been curbed, but the Communists still retain a subversive capability particularly among labor and student groups. There is concern over the likely election of a pro-Communist as rector of the university, a center of sub- version and intrigue, WG. ica continues to be one of the most democratic and y stable countries in Latin America but there are ions of unrest stemming from the. deteriorating economic ituation., The ruling National Liberation Party, which was turned to power in last year's election in a bitterly contested ‘tb pésceful election, represents the liberal left, although it ides a number of moderates such as President Orlich and sowe s of his, cabinet. The Communist Party is small and illegal éil orgauized and effectively led. I¢ recently instigated orders in the banana zone ang, while not an immediate threat, c potential should economic conditions worsen, ; I 28 Jan 63 - DEA Intelligence Bulletin . Page (2) % political reverbera go U hy be my oe Ee ors s @ is oc ¢ eS OO ar et 2 0 GS hm anes pect t © 3 ic 4 ry © 3 (REVERSE BLANK) SECRET-NO FOREIGN DISSEM ry sie teemusiaenetlleneemetaentiabaibaanienadmniatib teat aaidinmmmendinatinestaininiteisseninemes etme tieessseet aa eeececcoetectemeerrsesexxrerctreaceeaecmeecete-aerieseeemrsesamr ea Docld: 324273736 Page 89
Panama is relatively quiet. Although Panama has failed to receive any commitment for a Long-sought yenegotiation of the Canal Zone treaty, continuing talks on areas of Gisagreement and some concessions have eased tensions and softened violent anti-US ed, however, by the propaganda. Public emotion may again be arous recent petition, filed by a Communist lawyer, requesting the Supreme Court to declare the treaty unconstitutional. President Chiari | . has also indicated he expects to press for increased compensation be during the forthcoming talks. On the internal scene, President Chiari has failed to provide a strong administration. Corruption continues; the cabinet is divided by conflicting loyalties and ambitions; badly needed reforms have not yet been adopted; and the chronically depressed economy remains stagnant. fhe stability which has marked the 30-year dominance of Mexico's Party of Revolutionary fnstitutions (PRI) is gradually - being eroded. Extreme right and left factions of the PRI are -'vying for domination. In attempting to placate both, President Lopez Mateos has adopted inconsistent and vacillating policies, pleasing neither group. Forces outside the PRI also pose an increasing threat -- particularly the recently formed Independent Peasant Central (CCI) with which leftist ex-President Cardenas is associated. The CCI, organized to exploit unrest among the land- C less peasants, may also attempt to challenge the PRI politically. To undercut the CCI, the government plans to complete the iand distribution program by the end of Lopez Mateos' term late next year. Although this may alleviate discontent in the agrarian , - sector, rising population and mounting unemployment will continue to be major problems. - (SECRET ) - 28 Jan 68 DIA Intelligence Bulletin Page (3) oe (REVERSE BLANK) : oo SECRET-NO FOREIGN DISSEM Serene tee. aomeees. soon tate nan ge ARLE NW 50955 Docld: 324273736 Page 930
HY 0955 Construction of the fishing port in the Bay of Havans, whose snnountement a8 a Soviet undertaking caused so mich concern laet fall, ted by a team of Goviet technicians end Cuban engineers and wlll. start In February - according to a Havana radio announcement. The port is te be completed by the end of 1963 end is to cost 12 miliicn pesos, which vill be met by @ loan from the Soviet Union, to be amortized ever 10 yeers, The port ia expected to serve 130 vessele of the Soviet fishing fleet and from 24 to 30 of the Guben fleet, It will have installations such as freener plants for 10,000 tons of fish, factoriss. for processing Sea producte, machinery for making no lees than 860 tons of ice a day, a floating dock to repair ships of up to 2,500 tons, and well-equipped repair shops. ‘The announcement emphasized that the port is te be operated by and will be the “absolute property of the Cuban state." it has @leo been announced that Poland has now formileted plans for building the shipyard envieaged in the port of Mariel. ‘The inetalletion will be managed by Cuban techni¢dens who are presently receiving training in Polish shipyards on the Baltic, Ship construction will reportedly reach @ Level of 70,000 tons par year, (FBIS 58, 17 January, end Daily Report, 16 January, OFFICTAL USE ONLY) | Docld: 324273736 Page 91
rly , ~oraction o on deciding and _publictzins : Jamaican” territorial waters in 1 order 3 to, avoid incidents y wwith | ‘Soviets and Cubans. on Although GOs obviously counting on receipt US military equipe. i ment, seems unlikely that ‘this expression GOT concern motivated a ovimerily by desire to speed up delivery, Embassy. inclined aN to view Jamaican approach as healthsome indication GOI at. B :. Cechnieal level beginning, to appreciate. -famifications Of .. — , Cuban problen, . 2). ACTION: STATE (ARMY. ACSI) eo Ly} INFO. _DCSOP, .OSA,. JCS, USDEL IADB . - DouERTY. Ce OA INSTOA65 Wr SMD: Cr | __prob] biem, He asked | whether i$ could srov erritorial __ Waters of _Six-and-six x miles. claing “three e~mile limit, FROM: Kingston ER. 10: Secretary of State: COL. a Shab Lees? to? may NC: 567, February 11, 6 p.m. rnclassin ed eerily Bl, ecretary External AffSs, rosy | chet GOS concerned over re oie over ports it had received. that ishing Cubans not only fishi 1g vessels, | but, also Eorseds c boats ; and submarine cha le chasers. He fore esaw Soviet- supplied ; ships ; as having potential _adverse effect on Jamaican ishine industry ‘a as well as presenting pe possible security provide more detailed - Ships which would operate from Soviece built ! ‘fishing base" in Cuba, in ia view of reports, he planned to urge. Cabinet to take éxy He is a considering 3 ‘recommending to Cabinet that: Jamaica clain ~ometca claim Jamaica now apparently aerate’: . REPRODUCTION FROM THIS COPY IS CONPIDENT TAL PROHIBITED UNLESS “UNCLASSIFIED” $0955 Docld: 324273736 Page 92
SECRET-NO FOREIGN DISSEM SUPPLEMENT THE SITUATION IN CENTRAL AMERICA, PANAMA, AND MEXICO Central America is relatively stable. Preparations are under way for President Kennedy's scheduled meeting with the Chiefs of State of these countries at San Jose, Costa Rica, on 18 and 19 March. Tensions are rising, however, in those countries having ‘,elections scheduled this year; Mexico's political stability is threatened;. and the Cuban subversive potential remains a problem throughout the area. During the forthcoming meeting, an attempt will be made to center discussions on areas of common interest. Economic integra- tion of the Central American region -- one of the major objectives of the Alliance for Progress Program -- will undoubtedly be em- -phasized. Central America, which has been moving toward greater political unity, has begun to take steps toward economic integra- “ tion, and presently envisages the creation of a Common Market by 1965. The Cuban subversive threat is also likely to be given top priority. All of the Central American countries regard this as one of the major problems and are seeking ways to meet it. On 3 February, Nicaraguans are scheduled to cast ballots for the first time in nearly 80 years for a Presidential candidate who is not a member of the Somoza family. Rene Schick -~ the government's Liberal Party (PLN) candidate and hand-picked by the Somozas -- is expected to win easily, however. Effective oppo- sition to Schick collapsed when the major opposition party -- Traditionalist Conservative (PCT) -- boycotted the elections because the government refused to permit OAS supervision. The only opponent is Diego Manuel Chamorro Bolanos, a last-minute candidate of the splinter Nicaraguan Conservative Party (PCN), whose entry into the race seems to have been engineered by the government to provide a semblance of opposition. Cas stro-. Communist. elements, militant conservatives and others may ‘attempt to create disorders before or during the elections, but the Nicaraguan National Guard is believed capable of. controlling any troubles short of.a general uprising or wel l-coordinated rebel invasion ~- neither of which seems likely. Anti-Somoza Nicaraguans have alleged fraudulent registra- ‘tions and may attempt to challenge the elections. Although Sehick may not turn out to be a Somoza ‘puppet , opposition suspicions will be reinforced with the likely retention of General Anastasio Somoza as Director of the National Guard. Repercussions in Guatemala from the recent abortive Air Force revolt have not been too serious. Al¥bough ‘plotting 28 Jan 63 DIA Intelligence Bulletin = =—* Page :- (1) ; (REVERSE BLANK) - SECRET-NO PORE EIGN DISSEM HW 0955 Docld: 3274273736 Page 94
HY 0955 i and arming to counter the strikers who are led by Campesino Strike Scheduled in Bolivia o=§8 ©”. A planned Campesino (peasant) strike in Bolivia today | could icad to violence if .it.occurs. The Government | reportedly pians to block all entrances into La Paz, i and campesinos loyal to the government are assembling | pro-Communist Torribio Salas. A government spokesman claims that ‘the Cuban and Czechoslovak Embassies are financing the strike and that the Cubans are training campesino militia in other areas as well. President Pag has reportedly said he will do every- thing to prevent the strike but will call on loyal campesinos for aid if he fails, If armed conflict Gevelops between the two groups of campesinos, the Armed Forces would probably be forced to step in. President Paz might also have to take action against trouble makers like Salas, something he has tried to avoid. (CONFIDENTIAL) SOURCE: ARMA LA PAZ CX-11 (C) DIA Intelligence Bulletin — Page (REVERSE BLA NK . SECRET-NO FOREIGN DISSEM 63 cence we en OD ent heme ee ete ee anenemety w 1 Docld: 324273736 Page 97
Pia SECHEN, ISSENR od Three top Bedzilien Conmuiet Party officials, ineluding lide Carlos Prestes, are reported leaving for Cuba vie Pregue prior to 15 denuary to digeuss certain political problems with the Cuban. * Commuiiats Kesponsible for pro-Cuban activities in the different Latin Awerican countries. Before leaving they planed to be briefed by a Brecilien Commish Party monber who bas just. returned from a vieit te party lesders in Uruguay, Argentine, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia to get thei opinions shout holding the “latin Americen Congress in Support of Cuba," now Tescheduled for Moréh, in Rio ér Bac Paulo, (CIA, Rio de Jeneira, TH 42868, 31 Decenber, Suey NOP HY 50955 DBocld: 32423736 Page 9¢
HY 4S0954 iCal NO FOREIGN DISSEAy Mi The Netional Executive Comission of Bregii'e orthodex Co centat ty (FCB) reported; muna planned to meot on 7 danuary to discuss the: party position in relation te Francisco Julies, Bragilian Peasent~League leader who hoe béen closer to Bracil's disetdent hard-line Comamist Party than to tte orthodox group (6PB), The PCB leaders plomhed to eonsider the possibility of sending e high-level party delegation. to Cube to confer with Fidel Castro, not. only to improve relations but to protest a meport that Castrol ie supporting Juliano, (CIA Seo Paulo, THCS.3533404, 9 Jenuary, SECREP) Comment: Cuba has for seme time had a divisive influence on Bragilien Commnist affaires. The diasicent Commmniet Parky formed in ete 196] hes « Dike duliao ~ fevered @ nore revolublovary Lind end has arenitly reewived considerably wore support from Cuba than has. the arty. Another indloxbion of the divisive influence of Cube. wt that Frencisco Leives Otero, PCE | leader responsible for nebters pertaining to Cuba, attecked party mibservience to the CPSU at a neationel POR confererice on SO November, Leiveas meintained thet the POR should discuss the Sine-Seviet dispute with complete independence, father then mad ‘tein Silenés on it as it had been dofag, (SECRET) "TN DISSE Docld: 324273736 Page 99
CENTRAL INTELL IGENCE AGEN , This material contains information affecting the National Defensa of the United States within the “moaning of the Expionsge Laws, Titie 18, USC) Soct. 4 793 ond 795, tha transmission of eavelation of which in any manner to en: ‘una uihorned persca is prohibited. by, low, ae SECRET CLASSIF ICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS Au | ao (When Filled Inj * J} ° COUNTRY wexico/erazin - a REPORT NO. Toes +3/537,187 | «SUBJECT «= CLOSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VICENTE LOMBARDO’ ATE:DISIR, Top FEBRUARY 1963 : TOLEDANO AND PRESIDENT MATEOS 3. ‘REASONS . FOR an LOMBARDO'S TRIP TO BRAZIL " PRECEDENCE ~ ROUT INE _ DATE OF ae SO REFERENCES °° IN bb nso, 12 FeeruaryY 1963 we : oe 67594 PLACE & - a ad BATE ACO, MEXICO, MEXICO CITY (12 FEsRUARY 1963) > 0 = tee, APPRAISAL 2 _ FIELO REPORT NO. HMM “7075 THis 8 UNEVALUATED meoeMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT JS TENTAT SOURCE 4 PERSON (28 a) IN CLOSE PERSONAL CONTACT WITH LOMBARDO.» “ON 12. FEBRUARY VICENTE LOMBARDO TOLEDANO, | SECRETARY GENERAL. = LOPEZ MATEOS, PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. LOMBARDO TOLD ROMERO HE WANTED - THE PR RESIDENT TO KNOW: ABOUT HIS TRIP TO BRAZIL AND WHY HE WAS” wi GOING. HE ASKED ROMERO TO TELL LOPEZ MATEOS THAT HE WOULD LEAVE a 4 ‘ a MEXICO CITY FOR RIO DE JANEIRO ON 13. FEBRUARY, AND EXPECTED TO BE “BACK IN MEXICO CITY ON 23 FEBRUARY. LOMBARDO TOLD: ROMERO HE WOULD = CONTACT HIM ON HIS RETURN FROM BRAZIL IN ORDER TO ARRANGE A PRIVATE LOMBARDO SAID’ HE HAD SEVERAL THINGS 17084 GROUP i Excluded from automabe downgrading ond declomafication a Ti aoe . (ar “aK: HY 50955 DBocld: 324293736 Page 100
SSS SEE RS S 7 is fe i EAL eey Rr Ya See peal 7T : iO? im EX to . Sa cae feaang i Hjseval tiene i as fd GC: 8 (When Filled In) - BY : IPA Lo a To DISCUSS WITH LOPEZ MATEOS. ay LOMBARDO GAVE ROMERO THE FOLLOWING REASONS FOR HIS TRIP TO “BRAZIL. HE SAID THAT A GROUP OF BRAZILIAN PERSONALITIES AND “INTELLECTUALS HAD CONVOKED A CONGRESS WHICH 1S SCHEDULED TO SE HELD. idan R10 DE JANEIRO IN MARCH 1963. HE SAID THE Two PRINCIPAL AIMS OF THE CONGRESS ARE: “1A, TO CREATE AN ORGANIZATION IN DEFENSE ‘OF CUBA, “BL TO EXAMINE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS EXISTING IN LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES: IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC "DEVELOPMENT OF | LATIN AMERICA. | oa So. LOMBARDO SAID THAT SOMETHING WENT WRONG IN BRAZIL BECAUSE, “APART. FROM THE COMMITTEE WHICH CONVOKED THE CONGRESS, A SECOND 5 | SEPARATE, comM!T TTEE HAD SPRUNG uP WHOSE AIMS ARE. TH IE SAME, AND THAT A ‘SORT OF RIVALRY HAS DEVELOPED BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS, LOMBARDO SAID THE RESULT WAS "THAT MY COMRADES IN EUROPE HAVE ASKED ME TO GO TO BRAZIL TO INTERVENE; IN THE. MATTER, TO TRY TO ORGANIZE A SINGLE UNETED COMMITTEE, AND MAKE DEFINITE PREPARATIONS FOR THE P HOLDING. OF THE CONGRESS. IN ORDER TO ENSURE. {TS SUCCESS." _ LOMBARDO - SAID "THE COMRADES” IN EUROPE" SHOULD HAVE SENT AN ARGENTINE) A CHILEAN; A URUGUAYAN, OR SOMEONE NEARER BRAZIL, (‘BUT THEY INSISTED ON SENDING AIM BECAUSE HE HAS EXPERIENCE, “AND THEY ARE CONVINCED THAT HE CAN . 4 STRAIGHTEN THINGS OUT - SATISFACTORILY. ae THE CONGRESS | IS HELD IN MARCH. AS ce Binet Wioyeouies Ane _LOMBARDO TOLD ROMERO 1 LIN 17084 HY 50955 DBocld: 324293736 Page 101
| ‘ @. |. SCHEDULED, HE WILL NOT ATTEND IT. HE SAID "THE PRIMA DONNAS" “1° AND ORNAMENTAL FIGURES WILL TAKE OVER THEN, AND | AM NOT ONE OF ©, | THOSE." ROMERO REMARKED THAT LOMBARDO IS A MAN OF WORK, LOMBARDO “+ | SAID, "1 GO TO ORGANIZE SO THE CONGRESS WILL NOT FAIL, THAT 1S MY 1) [> MISSION, NOTHING MORE, AFTER THAT ANY ONE FROM MEXICO CAN TTEND." “15, (FIELD COMMENT. LOMBARDO'S PLAN TO LEAVE MEXICO ON 13 FEBRUARY “| FOR PANAMA AND RIO DE JANEIRO HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED. ) 6, FIELD DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR FBI l&NS CINCARIB. e ACTLON:. AGSi, NAVY, AF, JCS, CSD ‘DA IN 17084 END OF MESSAGE = = ETE: ne = see ane wn ge mmr emma HW 50955 Docld: 32423736 Page 102
DEPARTMENT : Amcongen, SO PAULO | "DATE: . February 6 1963" SUBJECT : Sample survey of worker: sentiment: “shows receptivity © ° . - toward communism; S20 Paulo business leaders re~ ‘ ported by one observer as generally unconcerned over Communist danger. ; Two straws in thes wind that have come » recently to my atten~ )_j tion indicate the existence of an unhealthy attitude toward communism . on the part of at least some segments of SEo Paulo? s working and ' —i managerial classes. Further indications in support of or in ‘refutation t of the se Signs, will | be submitted as they are noted, 7 oes (On January 31, L was visited by the two top American ex= be ecutives ‘of a- Brazilian subsidiary of a large American corporation. § "| They said. that their firm, following a practice instituted some years of ago.of periodically sampling worker sentiment in their plants, had i just finished a small survey conducted very informally by trusted © ' Brazilian employees. among 55 or 60 of their semi-skilled workers to discover how the latter would feel about the establishment in Brazil ofa communist system, of government. The result of this survey was 905. 1 30 shockingly different from that of earlier pulse-taking that these ae | executives thought the Consulate General should know about it. Eighty < " percent of the workers. approached had indicated that while they did not © _ | pretend to know, much about communism, they thought they would be © : . oa! “4 better off undet a communist regime than they are at present. Among - ° ‘the reasons most commonly given were that things were so bad in .. Brazil that any change would be for the Sestx and that communism Ce i would put an end: to the rascality (malandrag em).which is so prevalent. ey “k ‘The other twenty percent thought that communism would be bad for the. ; country. : " . oa ; LES Names: withheld at their, request. . : OFFICIAL USE ONLY conn OR DEPT. USE ONLY. pom os 322 Outents ang Ulassiication HY 50955 DBocld: 324293736 Page 103
SF = ., ; ~ Oee Jal”. a fre 7 ae . . ik 8 DBs a OFF ICIAL USE ONLY wen The company executives attributed the pro- ~communist ‘sentiment. ‘as revealed, mainly to the economic difficulties ex~ perienced by low~income families as a result of the rampant, : inflation. | They said. their. labor relations were good, that while , their pay scales were not as high as those in some other industries,. some popular fringe benefits were provided, and that to the best of _ “their. knowledge there had been no communist agitators at work '. among their r employees. : - Not long before this visit I was lunching one day at the . Jockey Club with Sr. Paulo Ayres Filho, a Brazilian banker-and pharmaceutical manufacturer who is the spark-plug of IPES (Instituto de Pesquisas Economicas e Sociais), the principal demo- — cratic action group in the local business world. Looking around him * at the other tables, occupied by a good many well-known figures of . S80 Paulo! s conservative upper classes, Sr. Ayres said to me, “Apart from the ‘two of us, there isn't a man in this dining room who... ° “is! seriously concerned over the communist danger i in n Brazil. ae oy No conclusions, ‘obviously, “should be ‘a@rawn from: such | . slender: ‘indications:.. It has’ been my observation, however, that “most Brazilians either believe that a communist take-over would “be impossible in: Brazil, or. believe that even if it occurred, it _ - would take. a. relatively mild form. with which they could live. “The | — -Braziliants: ‘boasted calm, whichis genuine and in most circumstances a vir tues, could in’ the. present. state of affairs be the cause of § his undoing. | . Daniel M » Braddock — “Minister Consul General noe OFFICIAL USE ONLY... Senne artnet At RR ti EEE EE = Aa Se rae trai et geet HY 50955 DBocld: 324293736 Page 104
raven ee wi oO 12 a A Fi HON : j ‘ oe This magterial contains infomation affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title ; 18, U.S.0. Secs, 793 amd 704, the transmission or revelation of (Mich in any manner to on unauthorized person is prohibited by law. spe | —_ S-E-C-R-E-T ee - _NO FOREIGN DISSEM CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY . CouNTRY Colombia/Cuba «=. . REPORT NO. CS ~3/536,069 | | SUBJECT Cuban. Support. of Guerrillas DATE DISTR. 4 February 1963 in Colombia ' eS NO. PAGES 1 REFERENCES RD DATE OF October 1962 INFO, ae “i. PLACE & Germany, Munich DATE ACQ. (14 December 1962) FIELD REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. SOURCE: An official | service, from "a fairly reliable source i with contactS in Buenos Aires." Appraisal of Content: 6. 1. Maximo Gruber, a major in the Cuban Army and one of the leaders of the G-2 section, has been appointed technical leader of the Communist guerrillas in Sumapaz, Colombia. ! Gruber, a Polish Jew, was formerly a commisSar in Spain. His wife is European. His son Maximo is a graduate of the Lenin Institute in Moscow. On his frequent trips to Bolivia, Uruguay, and Cuba he carries a Bolivian diplomatic pass- - - port identifying him as "traveling inspector of the , Bolivian Foreign Ministry." 2, Gruber is being assisted in his tasks in Colombia by Jaime Guerra, also known aS Captain Veneno. One. of his liaisom officers to the Communist Party.of Colombia is Blanca Diaz y Collazo, a lawyer and former member of the ‘Cuban Embassy in Bogota, who was trained in Prague in 1952. 1. ‘Headquarters Comment. An official | service “reported in April 1961 that Maximo Grobart, nationality unknown, waS training guerrillas in the Sumapaz area; Grobart, who claimed to be of Hungarian origin, had a Cuban passport in the name of, Jose Blanco and might -have had other.passports of different nationalities. HY 50955 DBocld: 324293736 Page 1045
{HE VB IV INGEN IR EOS nA “ORMATION REDO RF Ha CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY . This “material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is probibited by law. * (_S+H-C-ReEoT Costa Rica/Cuba REPORT NO. CS -3/534,724 Departure of Costa Rican Commmist to DATE DISTR. = 22 January 1963 Live in Cuba . ’ — . NO. PAGES i REFERENCES RD November 1962 Costa Rica, San José DATE ACQ, (23 Novenbor Ge) ; FIELD REPORT NO. HRS-3006 SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 1S TENTATIVE. Costa Rican (B) with good contacts in Costa Rican Communist Party circles. Appraisal of Content: 2, KASS SSS NPB e Garlos Guillen Fernandez, Costa Rican Communist sho was formerly very active in the Sociedad de Amigos de la Revolucion Cubana (Society of Friends of the Cuban Revolution), left Costa Rica on 1 November, on his way to Cuba, where -he planned to remain indefinitely and to work. Fa Boclda: 324293736 Page 106
1 4 i 4 ‘CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY . ‘This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.8.0, Seca. 793 and 704, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. Pe C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L | COUNTRY Ecuador/Cuba/Latin America REPORT NO... CS-3/535,791 . » | SUBJECT Request by Cuban Diplomat in DATE DISTR. 1 February 1963 _ . Chile to Member of the . fo va ae - Revolutionary Union of Ecuadorean NO. PAGES ra a eo Youth for Information on Leftist ae Activity in Ecuador REFERENCES © RD ~-W-2107 DATE OF a ‘NFO,  Mid-January 1963 PLACE & . oo co mo - DATE ACQ. Ecuador, Guayaquil (22 January 1963) FIELD REPORT NO.. HEG-2108 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. 4 4 3 qa : i 1 { SOURCE: | Member. (C) of the Revolutionary Union of ‘Ecuadorean Youth. -.*. “Appraisal of Content: 3. Ce —_ i . Lnbncha Teta atte be EN cake atin, Cc - Alfredo Vera Arrata, a member of the National Executive Council . - of the. Revolutionary Union of Ecuadorean Youth (URJE) until his “- ‘expulsion from URJE during its National: Convention held in early | _. January 1963, has received a letter from Pedro Martinez Pirez, _. First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Santiago, Chile, in _ whiéh he asks” Véra~to“send”a person to Chile-to inform him on current leftist activity in Ecuador. Vera plans to send D ~ Jaime Galarza Zavala, also expelled from URJE, if funds can. be: i '. raised for the trip...“ e.. et _ : - \Pield-Comment, Martinez is in charge of Cuban subversive | activities, in Chile, Peru,“and Ecuador. - 0 mic acuenereT Ose eT at A Scns tn Bs jieaaridhe en fot Ratan a rnin we Ding 3a Loess lea vhavenab aah = = = = as os ——— oe HY 50955 DBocld: 324233736 Page i107
a This material contains information affecting the » 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of wh SECRET (When Filled in} CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C Secs. * ich in any manner to an uneuthoraed person is prohibited by law CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS COUNTRY -£ ‘CUBA HA TA © suauect PLANNED MILITARY COUP TO OVERTHROW™ sates parame, 14 i te PRESIDENT DUVALIER OF HAITI ed — ~ Q _ PRECEDENCE “ROUT.INE a DATE OF ; REFERENCES IN 674 | ” INFO. S: FEBRUARY 1963 —— T4597 4 : tet . PLACE & is “DATE ACQ,-UN ITED STATES (28 JANUARY, 8 FEBRUARY 1963) % APPRAISAL 3” FIELD REPORT NO. a “SOURCE : Bod “PAUL E. MAGLOITRE, FORMER HAITIAN PRESIDENT, 1S PLANNING] Fe ‘TO OVERTHROW PRESIDENT FRANCOIS DUVALIER. OF HAITI] IN A MILITARYLS “COUP, | - MAGLOIRE CLAIMS. TO HAVE THE BACKING OF THE HAITIAN ARMY, wie Be BE HELD IN NEW YORK ON 28 FEBRUARY. Be MAGLOIRE EXPECTS TO RECEIVE FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND MANPOME “FROM C CERTAIN CUBANS IN EXILE. “ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ Y ECHAZABAL, © FORMER CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO HAITI, 1S LINING“UP. CUBAN EXILE SUPPORE RODRIGUEZ HOPES THAT IF THE CUBANS PLAY A PROMINENT’ ROLE, THEY GRoOuP t Excluded from automate downgrading and .  declassficonon / | STATE/INR an] SIZED RT STATE/OIR FORM 1K. nso PREVIOUS sprrions, 7-8" HW 50955 Daocld: 32423736 Page 106
7 : 7 ~ — RS i 4 fer , cut! T=SHp foizsa meeeg ot PY © ; Ht SPRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY te ye TRS Tol metester comtetey. tntormat . “cece bace thw, ans i. hist material conteins information afiecting the Nationel Defansa of the United State: within {he meaning of the Espronsge Laws, Tithe (8, a ‘ Ba 93° ‘aad 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner fo an unauthoraed person is arohibited by faw,  beyen ; ety CECPE ~ MINATION CONTROLS are) — Bo free | . z wal oe | SECRET 4 os : {When Filled in) REPORT NO, TOCS =3/537,185 OECISION OF GUARDIA CIVIL JUDGE TO RELEASE parE DISTR. qb resruary: 1963 COMMUNISTS , COMMUNIST LEGAL ADVISER IN GUARDIA CIVIL © precenence ROUTINE , . Loree - REFERENCES ., IN 6756 FEBRUARY 1963 190: Lima {12 FEBRUARY 1963) FIELD REPORT NO. HPL 2756 APPRAISAL OF CO: NTERT iS 7 fPENTATIVE. ‘Te MAJOR GUIELERMO HINOSTROZA, WrO WAS NAMED AS THE GUARDIA CIVIL JUDGE TO: TAKE THE STATEMENTS OF THE COMMUNISTS ACCUSED OF - PLOTTING SUBVERSION, DECIDED ON 12 FEBRUARY 63 THAT HE COULD NOT ASSUME. RESPONSIBILITY FOR BRINGING THE COMMUNISTS TO TRIAL. HE INTENDS TO 1th FEBRUARY IN THE ABSENCE OF A DECISION BY THE GOVERNING JUNTA (FIELD COMMENT ¢: THE PRESS REPORTED HINOSTR ZAS APPOINTMENT AS AD HOC JUDGE OR MAGISTRATE FOR THE SECOND POL! CE JUDICIAL ZONE IN THE ARRAIGNMENT PROCESS. IT ALSO REPORTED THA 7 CQLONEL ENRIQUE DIEZ CANSECO WAS THE GUARDIA CIVIL LEGAL ADV ISO THE CASE... ACCORD | NG TO A USUALLY RELIABLE SOURCE. WITH GOCD Excluded from eutemanc downgrading ond declawsficahon = wee CLASSIFICATION ~~ DISSEMINATION. CONTROLS . , 7 cRrour 1 SECRET hie EeRere STATE/INR {DIA ARMY/ACS IT NAVY AIR [STATE/DIR HW 50955 Docld:32423736 Page 114
HY : (Wh ren Fh sed In} CONTACTS AMONG COMMUNI ST PARTY LEADERS, THE PARTY 1S PLEASED DIEZ CANSECO IN THE CASE BECAUSE HE WAS A COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZER WHO CONTRISUTED TO THE. PARTY IN THE NINETEEN FORTIES. PARTY RECORDS FURN{SHED BY THE POLICE IN 195) SHOW ACTUALLY THAT HE WAS A PARTY MEMBER). | | | 2. NAVY CAPTAIN ENRIQUE CARBONNEL, CHIEF OF THE SERVICIO DE ars INTELLIGENCIA NACIONAL, PLANNED TO DISCUSS THE SITUATION WITH "THE PRESIDENT OF THE JUNTA™.~ AND URGE HIM TO PREVENT THE RELEASE OF THE COMMUNISTS. JAVIER CAMPOS MONTOYA, CHIEF OF THE STATE _ SECURITY DIVISION OF THE POLICIA DE” INVESTIGACIONES DEL PERU, INSISTS THAT THE. GOVERNMENT HAS AMPLE EVIDENCE, INCLUDING SOME CONFESSIONS, | ON WHICH TO. CONVICT THE COMMUNISTS. CAMPOS EXPRESSED DISAPPOINTMENT AT “THE RECOMMENDAT 1 ON OF THE JUDGE, WHOM HE DESCRIBES AS WEAK, oo BUT HE HAS SOME. HOPE THAT THE JUNTA WILL OVERRIDE THE DECISION. 3. FIELD Di SSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR CINCARIB. ACTION:  ACSE, NAVY, AF, JCS, OSD NFO + Bcso BA IN 170381 ~END OF MESSAGE CLASSIFICAT! ON — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS seven tasemnpecnmayerteniany se pe 9 0955 BDoclda: 324293736 Page 115
HY / 0955 ea ustionole  kawe bean identified, ecuording to 8 ustelly veliabbe sna eumgetent soured, among the leaders of the 17 December ie violesed of the Ub-omed ée Cosmmist=Led eo Gubers bad aloo been aetive to are niga dn the Pawuvies, kx ndlene weye eald ta hews plemied to aynthtonize a mujer new selaure mipaign with the violence against Caere de Passo, Bo auch ined have been cyported yet. BDoclda: 324293736 Page 116
HW 0955 (TR gh pa pa oes mo 4 + SECKET=NO FORE! a o: an YP Crs ca sa E dgeebens 9 wy LA ony Se, ier) } a eruvian Communist Elements Coordinating Their Activities Orthodox Communists in Peru are apparently puttin aside their differences and moving toward cleser co-operation with the extremist Trotskyist fection,~ believed to be leading the recent outbreak of disorders. The groups are reportedly co-ordinating ‘previously random plans to carry out extensive destruction of industrial and agricultural installations and to provoke uprisings. Cubans and other Latin American nationals as well as Havana and Moscow-trained Peruvians are said to be instrumental in this latest development. Members of the Peruvian junta have expressed serious concern over the internal situation and hinted that they favor strong action. Although constitutional guarantees have been: suspended-in a fourth department ,and several Army units have been moved into the areas of disorders, the junta has taken no further action. It has requested riot control €quipment from the US and says it is ready to embark on an anti-Communist program upon assuravce that the equipment is forthcoming. (SECRET) SOURCE: EMB LIMA 612 and 613 (S); AIRA LIMA C-1 (Cc) Jan 63 DIA Intelligence Builetin Page 8 (REVERSE BLANK) SECR ET-NO FOREIGN DISSEM ce nena se. i ne elses ine mie me ee EE es = a eee ae Bocld: 324293736 Page ii?
SECRET — NO FOREIG oN DISSEM Peruvian Junta Makes Firm Anti-Communist Move The junte has regarded members of the leftist but Continued Communist—incited disorders and an alleged Havana-~Mescow plan to take over the sovernment prompted the military junta to suspend constitutional guarantees in Peru and institute a nationwide state of stége early on 5 January. Military commanders assumed political control in their respective zones, and a reported 800 Communist Party leaders and pro- Communist subversives have been arrested. The Lima headquarters of several Communist and Communist-front organizations, as well as their “publications, have been closed. According to the Communist plan, subversive activity was to have been intensified between 15 and 20 January in all parts of Peru, with assaults on banking and commercial institutions, military garrisons, vital communications facilities, and universities. A clandestine radio station operating on the Bolivian border allegedly was to direct and co-ordinate this activity. non-Comzimist American Popular . ‘Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) a greater danger than the Communists and originally tended to blame them for the disorders. There is no proof that APRA _has been involved in anything but legititmate strike activity. Suspension of constitutional guarantees would enable the junta to strike at “APRA to discredit and weaken it before the scheduled elections next June. (SECRET) SOURCE? EMB LIMA 622 (S), 623 (LOU) and 624 (U) 7 Jan 63 DIA Intelligence Bulletin Page 11 oe (REVERSE BLANK ) SECRET. -NO FORE 1G N DISSEM HW 50955 Docld:32423736 Page 118
SECRET=NO FOREIGN DISSEM SUPPLEMENT THE VENEZUELAN SITUATION * A number of high-ranking Cuban leaders since the first of I the year have publicly called for revolution,in other Latin American countries, with Venezuela singled out as a country re with top priority. Coinciding with these appeals have been reports that the Venezuelan Communist Party (PCV) planned to step up terrorist activity to discredit President Betancourt before his US visit. The recent incidence of terrorism, which has included i attacks on the US Chamber of Commerce office building and the burning of Sears, Roebuck warehouses, is apparently part of this campaign. ao Involved in the current terrorism is the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN). The FALN, although purporting to represent all of the opposition, includes some prominent Communists and is emerging as a paramilitary force of the PCV with its main strength in the Caracas area, C) Guerrilia bands also operate in western Venezuela, but there is no firm evidence that their activity is coordinated with that in the Caracas area. Venezuelan army units, with air support, have been used in a recent campaign against these guerrillas. The armed forces are generally capable of maintaining internal security and of defending the nation's borders against neighboring countries. The vast majority supports constitutionality and is loyal to the Betancourt government. The armed forces would not thesitate, however, to take over the : government in order to maintain order or to forestall a : Communist uprising. The armed forces were earlier greatly _ . frustrated over the government's inaction against Communist- instigated disorders. Betancourt's recent willingness to take more vigorous action, however, coupled with the strong 3 support given the US during the Cuban crisis, has overcome ; much of this dissatisfaction, and armed forces' support of the government is greater now than it was six months ago. ! The officer corps is generally free of Communist penetration, although there has been some infiltration in the Marine corps, two or three battalions having been involved in leftist-led revolts during the spring of 1962. ~ (SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEM \ 13 Feb 63 DIA Intelligence Bulletin Page (1) (REVERSE BLANK) SECRET—NO FOREIGN DISSEM By Re ee HW 50955 DBocld: 324233736 Page 119
SECRET-NO FOREIGN DISSEM at Extremist And Police Activities In Venezuela Venezuela has been afflicted over the past several _months with a rash of Castro-Communist terrorist actions. Many incidents, involving shootings and robberies, are connected with the Movement of the Revolutionary Left,’ the Venezuelan Communist Party, and the Armed Forces of National Liberation -- the Castro-Communist group po credited with the destruction at the Maracaibo oil fields during the Cuban crisis. These activities are probably designed to diseredit and weaken the Betan- court Government. ' The police have demonstrated considerable proficiency in preventing major outbreaks and in acting rapidly to arrest terrorists. They have rounded up extremists responsible for the holdup and looting of a printing - supply warehouse and the burning of the Dupont paint warehouse and have captured the Communist leader of guerrilla bands operating in the Falcon. area of northwestern Venezuela. (CONFIDENTIAL) ' SOURCE: VARIOUS HY 50955 DBocld: 324293736 Page 120
. - seraeshesttt stctct = —S == SELENE TM ays cages e: nanan eeemeniennenen = S i 40955 Daocld:32 SECRET—NO FOREIGN DISSEM Venezuelan Communists Plan to Increase Violence nN As part of its terrorist campaign, the Venezuelan Communist Party reportedly plans to mark the fourth anniversary of Betanccurt's presidency on 13: February by guerrilla bombings in the Caracas area. Other Communists are to see to it that the capital is flooded with propaganda that day. According to un- confirmed reports, Venezuelan authorities have Charged the Castro government with ordering the recent terrorism in both Venezuela and Colombia under an extensive plan to create collective panic and insecurity in both countries. Colombian military authorities have reportedly é@rawn up a plan to prevent terrorism in Colombia's cities. , (SECRET) © SOURCE: TDCS 3/537,117 (S); FBIS (vu) 423736 Page i271
Leites/Mandelstan/DRAFT/14 Mar 63/fre SUBJECT: Alternetive US Public Posture on Subversion in Letin America ee . i. Although our public’ posture on subversion in Latin America may be too firnly esteblished for instant end rad Zical revision, the following 7 ‘enalysis is offered on the assweption that some change in emphasis is both possible and desirable, now or st sous time in the future. “8. Givan the existence of a Communist ‘sta te; oF... either nasor per- , . i suasion, what is the Likelihood that it will engage In subversion coward. 4 neighboring stetes? — 7 . . J ao Total. ALL experience of the pest forty years demonstrates J “that a Commnist state emanates subversion : as the sun emanates heat. oo Jk b. But let us be clear thet +ywo kinds of subversion sre involved: {L) Herdwere-centered - thet is, funds, guns, tools of sabotage. ° (2) Egalitarian and libertarian idesle, 9 | Z a Fy 3, How much does this fact of inevitable subversion raise the prob- cage ‘ebility of Commniem spreading to tax countries? | ae “Subversion is never a sufficient condition - ~ end frequently | - 8 ones cessary ones, i Subversion is really, dangerous to. a 2 target state, there ig per se sorething seriously wrong 4n th at state. ‘ prence's "Nasser: Fallacy" of 1956; France euwberked on the Suez adventure on the assumption 4 in Algeria would magically 5 Cy - thet if Nasser were disnosed of, the tx yed out, few would dispute the af dis Seppe ac, Although the game was mot conclusion: thot France! 8 assumption was YONG; OF, for that matter, sesh _ evan oO SENESTRTVE HW 50955 Docld:32423736 Page 1232
that France would have been in an even deeper morass if her military forces hed managed with the British to cecuny Cairo.) “us How feasible is it to control subversion at the source without destroying the Communist State? Usually _ is infeasible ta do sO OF the costs are prohibitive. — s For instance, the costs of a protracted tight quarantine which ‘ae could prevent the export botia of nevdwere~-oriented_end idéa subversion, en oe would be very high, even if the ACULVLLY were accepted by Cube. ‘and the—- Soviet Union, This would mean inspecting every veal searching every traveler, forcing planes down for inspection, ete, We submit (a) that ‘ideas would still be exported and (>) that by so doing we would magnify | : | I the importance ‘of Cuba beyond imagination. tt would pecone a kind of _. forbidden fruit, The analogy with prohibition in this country comes to “-mind, This course involves an increment of prestige and lure to Cuba waich would bé likely ‘to outweigh the doubtless desirable diminution in the export of trained, subversives end associated hardvere. Furthermore, nn Bo given the success of such an etfore Ge the obvious Soviet ‘counter would be - eee to use ot ther: chennes which we. could not survetl without ‘Major East- ne - ° West: confrontation. “tthe Cuban subv orsion export organization mignt well fs “nove + to Moscow, Prague endfor even Péiping. ‘Therefore ;, eke @ public . stance “opposed: to Cuban subversion without having resolyea on invasion dis to be committed ‘to & policy bound tc demonstrate US Impotence. 5, If we want to control subversion at the source by destroying i | al the Communist State , Cuba, hoy useful is 1t for us publicly to emphasize [ hardware-centered subversion as the reason? ere RIEL ee HY 50955 DBocld: 324293736 Page 123