176-10036-10065 AGENCY : : 176-10036-10065 RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM : TO: TITLE : DATE : PAGES : SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : RECORD NUMBER 2/18/1963. Box1 - JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM NARA National Security Files Draft Briefing Notes: Funding 2/18/1963 ' 5 9/10/2000 National Security Files, Box 59: Cuba Subjects, Cuban Subversion,
roe Seen a gegen (pn antnete nate ine, ante EE EET gy AREY eRe we nh A ee I a ee x: APM Ta ad i * tote... wer nd . @ie a C. SECRET  & ‘4 DRAFT BRIEFING NOTES = 18 February 1963 FUNDING I. Cuban financing of subversive operations in Latin “America is, easy to-ascertatn amv~hardto document. Our evidence, shows that it is generally effected by couriers carrying ‘cash. A. A Venezuelan politician, Fabricio Ojeda, re- ae turned from Cuba in March of 1962, and was seen by several witnesses to have large quantities of US currency stuffed in a false-bottomed com-. partment of his suitcase: There is no law against bringing currency into Venezuela, so that authorities could not even determine how | “much he had brought in. Ojeda later was cap— tured, tried, and sentenced for guerrilla™ac- | tivity. oo B. A ‘Nicaraguan exile, ‘Julio Cesar Mayorga Por to= carrera, was flying from Mexico to Honduras in September, 1961, when weather forced the plane to overfly Honduras and land in Nicaragua. He was found to be carrying $3 ,600 in cash from _ Cuba for Nicaraguan rebels in Honduras. Cc. Last March Ecuadorean troops raided a guerrilla training camp in the mouitains west of Quito and. SECRET
D. arrested some 48 members of the URJE (Union of Revolutionary Ecuadorean Youth) i The ‘leaders:‘of the group admitted having received guerrilla training in Cuba, but there was’ no other evidence. at the time of any Cuban involvement. The URJE; however, was a Communist-front group whose leaders had thrown off the discipline of the regular Com-_ munist party, and this January the Communists man- aged to have a URJE convention, run by Young Con- a munis ts , expel the leaders. They were accused, “according to published accounts, of having wasted $44, 000 supplied by | Cuba for guerrilla activities. One of our reliable sources in the Communist ‘Party / bas informed us that the . next-to-last Cuban chargé in Quito blamed the fiasco on the fact that his successor had passed ' the money ‘to the URJE without coordinating with _ the regular ‘Communist party. A highly placed Guatemalan Communist who defected - last November has given us a specific account of procedures by which Cuba sent cash to Mexico to buy weapons which were then smuggled into Guate- mala, BD an SECRET
Stee ee ee ate ee a A A a a err GRR esheets ENG Eas Sate gan ohne fan atandeegehres tn sh ES SPOT hn nn Cc SECRET Ce. i We also have considerable evidence ‘of involved - . bank transfers’ by: which Cuban money eventually - reaches tatin American front groups to. pay for political and propaganda activity. In some countries where ‘the Cubans still have diplomatic ‘missions, we have. obtained photos tats showing. “that Cuban diplomats paid for printing of. front- ‘group propaganda. Just ldst month, -one of the first Brazilians to receive guerrilla warfare training in 1961.was . picked up with a Suitcase full of ammunition. he -was carrying to some of those same guerrilla training. camps .exposed when the Varig plane crashed in Peru, , Interestingly enough, the Brazilians believe ‘that ‘the money Cuba had been providing’ for. ‘the camps actually came from Com- munist China. _ Since the — exposure ‘of the varig,  documents--and probably since the guerrillas first reached the Cuban embassy in Rio with their complaints about mismanagenent, confusion, and» corruption--the Cubans have apparently stopped financing this operation, but the evidence “shows it is still :limping along. The man with” | "the suitcase full ‘of ammunition said that a woman ‘attorney in Rio had given him the money to: ‘buy ‘a large hacienda as a new guerrilla camp. We .know oa +~3- SECRET ©
moe ae SECRET C that this woman is a cut-out in the communica~ "tons between. the pro-Conimunist Peasant Leagues, which have run the ‘camps , and the Cuban, embassy. Il. The principle that guerrillas must be self-sustain= ‘ing has obviously been applied. to finances. as well. ' Communists have staged waves of bank robberies in . Venezuela, Peru, and Argentina. . . AL The most spectacular hold- -up was that of a bank ina ‘Lima suburb last year which netted almost $100,000. . Some of the participants have ‘been . caught ‘and are being tried “in the mass trials. of. more than 200 Communists just starting in Peru. We know that the hold-up was carried out by a combination of guerrillas’ and ordinary . criminals, who divided the loot fifty-fifty.— _ Some of ‘the share of. the common criminals has ‘been récovered, but the Corimunist half is. be- lieved: to’ have reached the sizeable guerrilla forces of Hugo. Blanco in the ‘Cuzdo valley. | | oo oe, Just last week ai bank in an outlying Venezuelan bien was robbed of $25, 000 by’ men wearing FALN armbands; : . Ce. Argentine police last July. raided a Buenos Aires warehouse and: found evidence that it had been the headquarters for. a gang of terrorists--ap- parently working: with both the Peronists and the SECRET
Communists--responsible for a wave of hold-ups, burglaries, and attacks on police posts designed to obtain funds, weapons, and explosives. SECRET