Central Intelligence Agency Information Report
Originator: CIA
Document date: 05/21/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10053

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TITLE : Central Intelligence Agency Information Report

DATE: 5/21/1963

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CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 9/10/2000

OPENING CRITERIA

COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 48: Cuban Subjects: Exiles information

report. Box 1

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_ FINDMAN

CUBA/VENEZUELA

REPORT NO. TDCS -3/5420081*6

JOINT CUBAN EXILE EFFORT TO

PROMOTE ATTACKS AGAINST SOVIET

TARGETS IN CUBA

DATE DISTR.

21

MAY 61

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PRECEDENCE

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INFO.

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APPRAISAL

16 MAY 1963

REFERENCES

ІЗНУ: 42296

VENEZUELA, CARACAS (18 MAY 1963)

TDCSDB S346540702

SCULLINGE

FIELD REPORT NO.

WIESNER

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

SOURCE

AN OFFICIAL BRITISH SERVICE.

1. ON 16 MAY 1963 ARNALDO SEHWERERT, HEAD OF THE

VENEZUELAN BRANCH OF THE MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO DEL PUEBLO

(MRP, REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT), SAID THAT THE MRP,

ALPHA 66, AND THE SEGUNDA FRENTE NACIONAL DEL ESCAMBRAY (SENE,.

SECOND NATIONAL FRONT OF THE ESCAMBRAY) HAD JOINED FORCES TO

PROMOTE ATTACKS AGAINST SOVIET TARGETS IN CUBA. A CUBAN EXILE

SHIP WITH ABOUT 15 TO 20 MEN WAS THEN AT SEA FOR THAT PURPOSE;

THIS WAS TO BE THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF RAIDS BY ALPHA 66 AND

SINE UNDER THE COMMAND OF ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO. THE STRENGTH

OF THE EXILES CONSISTS OF THIS SHIP AND TWO LAUNCHES WHICH ARE

TO BE OPERATED FROM A SIMILAR MAIN BASE NAMED "BASE ESPERANZA, "

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ALL OF WHICH ARE OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.

2. THE EXILES HOPE TO REPLACE TWO LAUNCHES WHICH WERE

SEIZED BY THE UNITED STATES.

3.. HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: TDCSDB-3/654,702, DATED 19 MAY

1963, REPORTED THAT COMBINED INTERNAL FORCES SUCCESSFULLY ATTACKED •

MILITIA HEADQUARTERS AT TARARA, A SMALL PORT APPROXIMATELY 10

MILES EAST OF HABANA, DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF 19 MAY

1963. ACCORDING TO A PRESS RELEASE DATED 20 MAY 1963, AN ATTACK

ON 19 MAY AGAINST THE TARARA MILITARY BARRACKS IN HABANA WAS

REVEALED IN A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED IN CARACAS BY A DELEGATION. OF

FOUR ORGANIZATIONS WHICH PARTICIPATED IN THE ACTION.. THE FOUR

ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDED ALPHA 66, SFNE, MRP, AND THE ANTI-

COMMUNIST LIBERATION FRONT.

4. FIELD DISSEM: CINCARIB, CINCLANT.

END OF MESSAGE

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