AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10189-10061 RECORD SERIES: HO AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  62-116395-1651X1 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: NSC FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT_TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: DAVIS. JEANNE W. © DIRECTOR. FBI 05/25/1976 26 CC, REQ » PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 08/18/1998 Redact - RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(A) JFK Act 6 (1)(B) INC 2 MEMO, 8 LTRS, 5 LHM HY 50953 Boctld: 32177477 Page 1 NEW CLASSIFICATION: UPDATE DATE: — 02/12/2001 ~
HY Rem Q 50957 4 * ITY CouNnci, WASHINGTON. 6 ¢ . ao tr TOP SECRET ATTACHMES + « MEMORANDUM F OR: Federal Bureau of Investig SUBJECT: Senate Select Committee LBJ Library Documents Reguens as to whether the enclosed documents, which were classified by or concern your agency, may be made available to the Senate Select Committee on a ~ classified basis or made available for access on NSC premises. Task that ~ you have @ppropriate officials in your agency review these documents and inform my office (395-3449) by c.o.b, tomorrow whether you have any objection to making copies of these documents available to the Senate Select Committee and its staff, | Neng le LE SIS = 65) K cma eet ENGL: csp (979. Boclda: 32177477 Page 2?
SECRET UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVEST ICATION ing CELEAAE OF C2. NPORMATION 4¢ IN THIS DOCUMENT. Ge 72% f November S, 967 > . Co WASHINGTON, D.C. 20533 ran Reply, Meuse Kefer to : > 939 Bie No, TRAINING OF NEGROES IN CUBA , This Bureau is in receipt of a copy of a Central intelligence Agency (CIA) communication dated October 31, 1857, regarding the training of Nesroes in Cuba. Tne original o= the communication was addressed to the Honorable Walt W. Rostow, Special Assistant to the President . (8) (U| . Information is contained therein to the effect that nree Cuban sources during the past four jonths have reported © existence of a training school near Santiago de Cuba where rom 100 to 150 young men are being groomed for Subversive Operations against the United States to include sabotage in connection with race riots directed at bringing about a Negro revolution in this country. One source reported that the training includes courses in English, taught by Soviet _ dnstructors. While two of the CIA Sources described the Students as Negroes, there was no indication that any of the _« Negro students were from the United States. The third Cra -=» Source described them aS young men from North Vietnam, | Noxvth Korea, ifrica, and Latin~American countries (gu) 4 Information in the possession of this Bureau indicates that the above-described training school may well be an outgrowth of the Tri-Continental Conference, held in Havana, Cuba, in January, 1966, the declared purpose of which was organizing guerrilla warfare in Asia, Africa and Latin America. During the year following the conference this Bureau received continuing reports that the Cubans were endeavoring to implement the aims; of the conference. Since Castro first came to power in Cuba in 1959, we have been alert to his possible use of refugee - channels to infiltrate agents and saboteurs and have initiated appropriate investigative steps to detect this. In January, 1967, an additional program was instituted aimed at detecting Cuban— trained agents and saboteurs entering the United States through iegitimate Cuban refugee channels. Such refugees have been arriving in Miami since December, 1965; at the rate of approximately 4,000 each month. in the ten months since our Cuban. refugee program was first instituted, over 1,700 cases have been opened based upon information in the backgrounds of various refugees "\ pointing toward 2 sotential or propensity on their parts to & undertake intelli: ce, Sabotage, or other subversive nissions On behalf of the Cuban Government. Currently, .these cases are . ‘being opened at 2 rate of about 200 a month? ) . 4 . m Wutomatic tho fe Pewee ees ae seme oe wee Ree ns awa _ aa HW 50953 Docld:32177477 Page 4 PEVATA OAL DRIAICO TALIRIOMAT TIN ares +
x HY TRAINING OF NEGROES IN CUBA During late July and early August, 1967, a Latin- American Solidarity Organization (LASO) conference was held in Havana, at which the Cubans indicated that they were continuing their efforts to implement the declared aims of the Tri- Continental Conference. Numerous resolutions were promulgated at the conclusion of the LASO conference, one of which exhorted North American Negroes"to respond to the racist violence of the imperialist United States Government.with an increase in direct revolutionary action.'' The American press and other news | media extensively reported on the presence of Stokely Carmichael, foremost “black power" advocate of violence, in Cuba at the time of the LASO conference, which began on July "31, 1967. Since that date all field offices of the FBI have been alerted to Castro's obvious intention of infiltrating agents into this country for the purposes of sabotage and influencing the black nationalists and other subversive movements throughout the United States. ; our Agents on a selective basis have briefed officials of various local, county and state police agencies of the problem posed by the possible use of minority groups in carrying aut sabotage on behalf of Cuba. These officials have been. requested to alert their racial and security informants to provide any clues which would aid the ferreting out of potential saboteurs. In daily contacts. with cooperative security officials of plants handling key Government contracts, department . tools for use by Castro in subverting the United States, 50953 stores, supermarkets, and similar establishments employing Sizeable labor forces, our Agents have alerted such officials to our interest in being expeditiously advised of data indicating groups or individuals within their organizations are potential — To date, no concrete evidence has been developed to indicate that any Cuban-trained saboteur has entered this country since the widely publicized Cuban sabotage ring in New York City was discovered and immobilized in 1962. Neither has any evidence been developed of clandestine entry of Cuban- trained Negroes for any other purposes, including infiltration of the black nationalist movement. The FBI cu ntly is | operating [Ip Cuban-trained,intelligence agontafe double agents. N or potentTal double agents ainst the Cubans one of these Cuban-trained intelligence agents have any information indicating Castro has been successful to date in infiltrating Negroes ‘fcr the purposes described above. ~ 2. SECRET te ee ere a aed COE . | Docld: S21774377. Page 5 i 07, I VAIRON RAINES INHNSAN | IRRARY
etal eeatrs) Wak da Reply, Please Refer to F; fe No . a Mella ces siep yds Le ON STRESS. On June 2, jexnandez, a Cuban refugee, was i City Office of the Federal Bureau of Espinosa advised as follows: z £ On May 29, 1965, he returned to New York Spending twenty-six days in Paris, f contact with individuals involved i | Fidel Castro and other Cuban Gover ( figure in this plot is Rol \ Espinosa and an intimate \ Fidel Castro. Cubela is \  L. Cubela y Secades, who of Cuba and is now practicing Blanco, an employee of the Cuban Fore plot. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVE PLANS TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN LEADER UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE STIGATION .S 1965, Victor Domindador Espinosa nterviewed at the New York Investigation. and aing figures in this The main B, W) ' He conferred in Paris for about ten days with Alberto Blaneghs Embassies and onsulates abroad is Girected toward the assa brother Raul Castro, Ernesto "Chet in the present Cuban Government, of the Cuban Intelligence Service. individuals is to take 1965, when all the Cuban deader annual July 26th celebration in Havana. L ante involved in the plot hope to seize ~ 3 and call for American help. Cubela an aH w2tn him in this plot d United States would hel SSination of Fidel place in public, City after France, where he was in na plot to assassinate muent leaders, ando Cubela, a close friend of 7 friend and current neighbor of identical with former Major Rolando has resigned from the arme forces a medicine in Havana. iberto Cx 14) iga Ministry Juan Almeida Bosqug@ are the other lead ajor = who was thenj¥on an inspection tour of Cuban C,82(4) He learned that the plot — Castro, his Guevara, &@ Cabinet member and Ramiro Valdes, the Chief The assassination of these possibly on July 26, S would be together at the After the assassination, the radio station d others associated ésire to know whether or not the p if the plot was Successful and if Mm automatic . ; CLASSIFIED BY 5 (8 SLO/GCe PN oa pave cect ere DECLASSIFY ON: pa qo co DY CAQ) ut (31% on ¥4 3 HY 50953 Boctld: 32177477 Page 6 PEVAIIOM DME wary
- He was in Spain for about twenty hours during nls — recent trip and in that country he contacted other Cuban i tee - : | an SE cielo | : a7 > PLANS TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN LEADERS = —_ . the United States would be ready to give this asSistance at & moment's notice as the plotters may be able to hold the Gévernnenh Por only a day or two. 3 2 | i vA exiles and learned that a man named | | who is in (6 / charge S) | is aware of this plot to 2 certain degree. The Cuban exiles i. \ by not trust and allege he has been compromised \ coe PX a Cuban girl nicknamed "Tota," who was sent from Havana oS rn \ pain fer (5) Specific scific purpose ef getting in contact with =. an ‘ a a Co a eS ph Re C) to be put in “eontact with. a representative of the Central Intelligence Agency wno was thoroughly - Familiar with -che Cuban situation and knowledgeable concerning the in dividuals involved in the plot. . . | 7 | a4 ui : Lf “} i cf SECRET | 4 E ! ee a a ‘ i _¢
we? | ke ORELEASE OF Gia sue yo | IN THIS DOCUMENT.GMB 7-26-44 THE WHITE HOUSE November 6, 1967 WASHINGTON ; 4:50 p.m, MR, PRESIDENT: , | ' Attached is a FBI memorandum relating to alleged — ‘training of Negroes in Cuba for disruptive tactics inthe U.S, a , An October 31 CIA communication on this subject J was addressed to Walt Rostow. It reported that -thereisa training school near Santiago de Cuba , where from 100 to 150 young men are being trained in sabotage tactics aimed at bringing about a Negro revolution in this country, It is reported that Soviet instructors teach courses in English, as there is no ‘indication that any of the Negro students were from- the United States, Another CIA sourcé described — the young men as being from North Vietnam, North 7 Korea, Africa, and Latin-American countries, CN) ‘| To date no concrete evidence has been developed to indicate that any such saboteurs have entered this: Sete - oo country since a. Cuban Sabotage ring in New York a City was discovered and immobilized in 1962... The FBI cupeantiy is oOperatingLL8 Cuban-trained Jable agents inst the Cubansax None of these have any | . information indicating Castro has been successful to nn date in infiltrating Negroes for these purposes. a _ Marvin goat Classified by OS PmBlue HW 50953 Docid: 32177477 Page 3