44-00000 CRABS IF IC ATI Dt , BIGPATLH SYMBIAN MUM BER CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH SECRET . | UFGA 21797. socicty; “handwritten” cover letters, which are actually printed script to make the propaganda envelopes appear to contain personal letters . when put to the lixht test by-censors: and receipt acknowledyoment formy, a simple slip of paper now attached to al] propaganda mailings ; roquesting the recipient to send the form back to AMSCROLL's post officc bex, ov to any other address in the free world for forwarding to AMSCROLL, as a check on how much propaganda is getting through, During the period AMSCROLL sent out 58,000 envelopes containing 130,000 items, 5, To Latin America primarily, with a seattering of items to Europe, Asin and the United States, AMSCROLL sent out 30,000 items indluding its tabloid house organ (which is now cut down to 4 pages from its former 8, and is published only once a month instead of twice), several booklets reprinted by continued request of correspondonts (one of the largest orders having come from Dominican General Wessin y Wessi shortly before the rebellion) and a map showing training sites in Cuba for Latin Amorican guerrillas (samples in Attachment 3), ; 6, News releases were issued on a number of current topics, AMSCROLL as usual taking the economic warfare angle on the news of the day ag it effected Cuba, The 17 releases of this period wero sont to newspapers, wire services, magazines, radio and TV stations throughout the free world in approximately 350 copies each, The local public media made use of approximately 65% of AMSCROLL’s press reloases, Although occasional indications are recoived that AMSCROLL materials are used in other nowspapor and magazine articles, radio programs and the like, there is no way of making a good estimate of tho amount of such replay, Among tho more important titlos were the following (copies in Attachment 4): a, Free-World Ships Continue Aid to Cuban Economy; be Cuban Budget Includes Proof Economy Crumbling ~- an Analysis| Ce Possible Soviet Curtailment of Cuban Aid Seen d. Greek Firm Bilked in Cuban Trado Negotiations 6. . Japan Secks Expansion of LA Trade While Defying OAS in Cuban Trafic ; Z¢ Sovbloc Undermining Castro Sugar Markets g Castro Auctioning Heirlooms Taken from Fleeing Refugees 7. Other political action and propaganda moves noted in paragraph 1, above, wore reported separatcly in detail, and a full set of “black list" correspondence was forwarded to Headquarters in UFGA 21616 with a request for any further MIVIPER leads which might contribute to | the further efficctiveness of this campaign, 8, AMSCROLL radio programs, 15 minutes daily over both WMIE and AMTHIGH, carricd much the same themes as the ANSCROLL press roleases, but with adjustments as necessary for tho Cuban audience, e.g., while AMSCROLL press releases might complain about continued fred—world trade with and shipping to Cuba, the radio program would emphasize any decreases in the number of ships. 9, Reactions to AMSCROLL propaganda continue to arrive from Cuba, but at a slow pace, The 24 letters recoived during the past period contained 7 newspaper clippings and three pages torn from telephone hooks, as requosted in AMSCROLL radio programs, Nine of the letters mentioned the AMTHIGH broadcasts, one noted receipt of the pony~sized bulletin and two remitted the small acknowledgement forms which accompan} all AMSCROLL propaganda mailed into Cuba, Detailed statistics on these are submitted in a separate report from JMWAVE. — C,) FINANCIAL Salaries (January = Kaveh) $ 15, 360,00 Operational Expenses (January~March 36, 500,00 ° = 5156000 TOTAL $ PAGE NO. 2 of 3 CLASSIFICATION SECRET [x] CONTINUED UGE PREVIOUS EBITION, vee