JFK Assassination System Date: 8/27/201 Identification Form” Agency Information Released under the John F. ~ ,. ennedy Assassination Records 5 AGENCY : ROCKCOM —_ Ollection Act of 1992 [44 Sec RECORD NUMBER: _ 178-10004-10055 b107 Mote). Case#:NW 55355 Pate: 11-24-2017 RECORD SERIES: ASSASSINATION MATERIALS AGENCY FILENUMBER: MISC. ROCKEFELLER COM. AND CIA FILES (4) Document Information ORIGINATOR: CIA FROM: TO: TITLE: — [Restricted] DATE: 08/21/1962 PAGES: 7 SUBJECTS : CUBA CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS CIA , CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS ' ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES “DOCUMENT TYPE: MEMORANDUM CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/04/1993 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.4 . 40 HW 55355 Docld:321127381 Page 1
An yoo NE ‘4s ae ~~} J .-7E 62 2 - | S \ . NY | 21 August 1962 Se | | RS) s Ad y% A CHRONOLOGY OF UNEVALUATED REPORTS ON RECENT SOVIET MILITARY AID TO CUBA Early July 1962--Around 12 July Fidel Castro personally ordered the evacuation of a farm just south of Havana city, Saying he needed all the farms border- ing a special zone. Rumors were that the area was to be used for military ‘Storage. 15_ July-15 August--In this period 18 Soviet ships with rela—- tively light loads passed Istanbul from Soviet ports ore tho Black Sea and falsely declared their destina- tions; COMINT later indicated that all 18 were bound for Cuba. Such Soviet behavior has frequently in- dicated military shipments in the past, and many of the 18 ships involved are frequent arms carriers, Subsequent reports have confirmed that many of these ships did in fact deliver military or military- related equipment to Cuba. During the same period two Soviet ships traveled to Cuba from the Baltic with small naval craft on deck. py EE tom ' 25 July--Residents of several private homes in the vicinity of a former reformatory near El Chico, Havana prov- jnce, were ordered to vacate their homes within 72 “jours, Cuban authorities told the residents that r Mm yt ore . I ai “ns +f fy Tt teeters cee epoRoose(rpin dishes Ci Gass eee St Vb ete from: weep gram HORN . Upearcd Uselybiee * Gerald R. Ford Library . HW 553555 Docld:327112761 Page 2
“§ NOFORN the housing was needed for Soviet technicians, Several days later a number of trucks ar iven by Soviet personnel and carrying equipment arrived -in the area, | 26 July-~The Soviet merchant vessel Mariya Ulyanova docked at Havana, discharging a number of Soviet passen- gers, An untested source reported the number of passengers aS high as 1,600. The normal passenger capacity of the ship is 340, | 27 July—-The Soviet vessel Uritskiy discharged passengers at Mariel, and the Soviet vessel Khabarovsk dis- charged passengers at Bahia Honda, Untested sources reported 1,000 to 1,100 persons disembarked from the . Urdtskiy and 1,500 from the Khabarovsk, The normal passenger capacity of each ship is 340, 29 July--The Soviet vessel Latvia discharged from 1,000 to 1,200 passengers in Mariel, according to untested sources, The Latvia, which had declared 365 passen- gers at the Bosphorus, haS a normal passenger capa~ city of 340. . Late July--An untested source who is a member of an anti-~ Castro group inside Cuba reported that 5,000 Soviets, 3,000 North Koreans, and between 1,000 and 2,000 Africans "with rings in their noses" had recently entered Cuba, The Soviets were said to have occu- pied key military installations “in Cub aa. Photocopy ; : oe a Gerald R. Ford Library HW 55355 DocId:32112761 Page 3