INFORMATION REPORT: FIDEL CASTRO'S SUCCESS IN SPLITTING THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF VENEZUELA AND CASTRO'S PLANS FOR SUBVERSION IN NICARAGUA.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 02/23/1965
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Fidel Castro's Success in

Splitting the Communist Party of

Venezuela and Castro's Plans for

Subversion in Nicaragua

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CSDB-312/00468-65

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FIELD REPORT NO.

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

SOURCE:

A prominent Cuban exile who is a fairly reliable reporter and ho

retains some contacts in Cuba; from a former high-level Cuban

official who was once active in the revolutionary movement and a

confidant of Fidel Castro, but who is now anti-Castro.

tinues to maintain contacts with many Cuban officials at all

• levels of government.

reports that appear

Source has provided a limited number of

to have been accurate.

1, Cuban Premier Fidel Castro Ruz has sent large amounts of money,

In Cuba.

and ammunition to Venezuela, and has also trained Venezuelans

With this money and arms,

Castro has succeeded in split-

ting the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) to the extent that

Castro now has more control over the PCV than the Soviet Union has.

Many members of the PCV, following Fidel Castro's orders, have

taken to the hills as guerrillas.

Castro is strongly supporting

and has extended considerable aid to the Venezuelan Fuerzas

• Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN, Armed Forces of National

liberation)

2. As of early January 1965 Castro was planning to concentrate an

extensive effort against Nicaragua in the near future.

intends to "raise the temperature" in Nicaragua through guerrilla

activity and a strong propaganda campaign against General Anastasio

Somoza out.

free to take over the country, using the same tactics as those

utilized in Vietnam.

Headquarters Comments

1, TDCSDB-315/00362-65 describes a meeting between Castro and a

group of Venezuelans, including the chief of the FALN, which

took place in Havana on 7 December 1964.

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