MEMORANDUM FOR DIRECTOR, JOINT STAFF
Agency: ARMY
Originator: JCS
From: HAROLD K. JOHNSON
To: DIRECTOR, JOINT STAFF
Document date: 5/7/63
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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FROM : HAROLD K. JOHNSON

TO : DIRECTOR, JOINT STAFF

TITLE

: MEMORANDUM FOR DIRECTOR, JOINT STAFF

DATE

: 05/07/63

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SUBJECTS

: ICCCA - SUB-COMMITTEE ON CUBAN SUBVERSION

IMPEDING TRAVEL TO CUBA

MOVEMENT OF SUBVERSIVES AND SUBVERSIVE TRAINEES - CUBA

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: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : SECRET

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 02/05/98

OPENING CRITERIA

COMMENTS : Califano Papers. Memo from Johnson to Director, Joint

Staff re: attached ICCCA memo and paper concerning and

action plan for Cuban subversion including impeding

the movement of subversives and subversive trainees.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF

WASHINGTON 25, D.C.

May 7, 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR DIRECTOR, JOINT STAFF

SUBJECT:

Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee of Cuban

Affairs: Second Progress Report of the Subcommittee

on Cuban Subversion

References: NSAM 213

Memorandum from Deputy Secretary of Defense

to Mr. Bundy, Special Assistant to the

President, dated 10 Jan 63

Memorandum from Secretary of Army to Mr.

Cottrell, Chairman, Interdepartmental

Committee on Cuba, dated 11 Jan 63

Attached is a copy of the second progress report of the Sub-

committee on Cuban Subversion. This report incorporates Service,

Joint Staff, and OSD submissions. It was received at 1740 hours,

7 May 1963.

Should you desire to make any further comment, it would be

appreciated if the comments could be forwarded by 1700 hours, 8 May

1963. Should there be no substantive comment, a telephonic response

is requested.

for

WBCosson

HAROLD K. JOHNSON

Major General

USA

Acting Deputy Chief of

Staff for Operations

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SUB-COMMITTEE. ON

CUBAN SUBVERSION

4 MAY 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Subject:

Second Progress Report of the Sub-Committee

1. Attached for comment is a draft of the Second Progress

Report, Sub-Committee on Cuban Subversion, which provides

account of the actions taken during the month of April by

several departments and agencies in executing the actions

approved by the President on 8 March 1963.

The enclosure

the report is an essentially verbatim recording of individual

agencies.

2. It Is requested that your comments on the draft re-

port be provided by 1700 hours, 7 May 1963.

If there are

none of substance, we will go to press on the smooth version,

and send it to the Cottrell Committee without further meeting

of our group.

If substantive suggestions are made, we will

have to have a meeting.

Kucati

V. H. KRULAK

Major General, USMC

Chairman

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SUB-COMMITTEE ON CUBAN SUBVERSION

MEMORANDUM FOR THE INTERDEPARTMENTAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE

ON CUBAN AFFAIRS

SUBJECT:

Sacond Progress Report, Sub-Committee on Cuban

Subversion

ENCLOSURE:

Progress Achieved during April In Impeding Travel

tọ Cuba

1. The enclosure hereto summarizes progress made by the several

departments and agencies, during the month of April, in executing

the actions approved by the President on 8 March 1963, to control

the movement of subversives and subversive trainees to and from

Cuba.

2. In addition to the program on control of subversive travel;

action programs were completed in all of the companion areas, and

were forwarded for approval on the dates indicated below:

a. Controls on movement of propaganda material - 14 March '63.

b. Controls on Movement of Arms - 14 March 163.

The Organization of a Caribbean Survelllance System -

75 March '63.

d. The Exchange of Intelligence - 25 March '63.

e. Controls on the Movement of Funds = 10 Apr1] '63.

f. Training of Latin Americans in the United States -

26 April 163.

3. A significant development during the month of April bearing

on the action programs proposed by the Sub-Committee was the

Ministerial Meeting held In Managua, Nicaragua on 3-4 April.

The Managua meeting produced a set of eight resolutions which,

When Implemented, will proceed along the same major avenues as the

action programs proposed by the Sub-Committee. An Interdepartmental

team 1s currently visiting the Isthmian capitals, consulting with

Ministers of government and authorities designated by them in the

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fields of Immigration control, customs control, coastal surveillance

and the organization of a local counter-subversive agency.

For the Sub-Committee:

V.. H. KRULAK

Major General, USMC

Chairman

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ENCLOSURE

PROGRESS ACHIEVED DURING APRIL. IN IMPEDING TRAVEL TO CUBA

1. The Department of State has:

a. Participäted in the drafting of a resolution passed at

the 3-4 April Managua Meeting respecting discouragement of

travel of Latin Americans to Cuba for training in subversion.

The text of the resolution is appended hereto.

b. Headed an interdepartmental team currently visiting the

Isthmian capitals whith the objective of securing the fullest

and quickest Implementation of all the recommendations agreed

on at Managua. Prior to the departure of the team, Department

of State posts were instructed to inform the host governments

of the trip and to encourage them to identify the kinds and

extent of technical assistance it would be most useful for the

United States to furnish.

c. Caused to be noted in U.S. passports since I April

that they are not valid for travel to Cuba.

d. Following an Indication that the Bolivian Government

might be willing to increase efforts to impede travel of 1ts

nationals to Cuba, Instructed the U.S. Embassy to recommend

that the GOB:

1) Ban travel to Cuba by Bolivian nationals except

for official or special purposes approved by the GOB;

and establlsh legal penalties for violations;

2) Require Bolivian citizens to have a passport or

other GOB document to travel abroad;

3) Make such document invalid for travel to Cuba unless

specially endorsed;

4) Seek arrangements with third countries which are

Important transit points under which third countries w111

assist the GOB In preventing unauthorized travel by Bolivians

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and will help identify violators.

5) Drawing on the recommendation in the paper on "The

Movement of Subversives and Subversive Trainees" and other

sources, Instructed the non-isthmian posts to encourage host

governments to take additional counter-subversion steps.

Each instruction was tailored to the local situation 1n

the

recipient country and Included appropriate suggestions

as to strategy which might be used in securing implementation

of the desired actions.

6) Requested posts in Latin America to encourage host

governments to take appropriate measures to discourage

participation of their nationals in Cuba's May Day cele-

bration and to prevent charter flights from their country

to Cuba for the celebration.

7) Through efforts with various Latin American and other

governments, discouraged participation in the Cuban solid-

arity Congress. U.S. efforts contributed to limiting the

success of the Congress from the Castro-Communist point of

view.

2. The Department of Defense has:

a. Continued the US sea and air surveillance of the

area surrounding Cuba until 25 April 1963, at the same

rate and with the same emphasis as existed prior to that

date. Since 25 April 1963 additional sea surveillance

has been realized between Cuba and Haiti, due to the

stationing.of the Caribbean Ready Amphibious Squadron at

the entrance of the Gulf of Gonaives occasioned by the

deterioration of internal conditions within Halt.

Reports of

subversive movement, or suspected subversive

movement, obtained by US surveillance are avallable for

Immediate transmittal through the US military alerting

system.

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b. Continued action, at high priority, on the Install-

ation of military. communications facilities in Latin America:

As of 1 April, a commercial submarine cable from Florida

to Panama became operational. This cable gives reliable

voice.and teletype communications to CINCARIB Including

both classified teletype and voice, Negotiations are

continuing in Honduras, Colombia and Ecuador for the

installation of military radio facilities.

Installation

of a multi-channel radio station has been completed in

Costa Rica. A similar facility in Nicaragua 1s scheduled

for completion by 1 July 1963.

c. Established an Intelligence Center at CARIBCOM Head-

quarters, In connection with the program of surface

surveillance of the Caribbean, for rapid processing and

dissemination to countries concerned, via the American

Ambassadors, of Intelligence on the movement of subversives..

Study of the establishment of intelligence centers in the

Caribbean revealed that the Intelligence Center should be

established at Caribbean Command Headquarters and that a

center need not be established at Headquarters, Caribbean

Sea Frontier.

d. Established on 1l April a U.S. military alerting

system operated by CINCARIB and CINCLANT. Pursuant to the

request of the Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee on

Cuban Affairs the Department of Defense has suspended the use

of the Military Groups in the alerting system and 1s working

with CIA to reduce duplication of effort to a minimum:

e. Alerted U.S. forces, for the most part within the

Atlantic Command, to be prepared to provide U.S. assistance

in the final interception of shipping in territorial waters

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upon request by the country concerned.

Currently, forces

are assigned by the unified commander Involved, to meet the

singular problem encountered. Preparations have been made

to respond to a possible requirement in the case of the

Venezuelan ship FERRYMAR III.

f. Ordered to the Canal Zone a Coast Guard Mobile

Training: Team for a period of six months, beginning

15 May 1963, to provide training, In Spanish, In boat

handling and maintenance together with surveillance

techniques to those Central American countries having 40

foot Coast Guard Utility Boats. In addition, the Mobile

Training Team will assist as required in establishing a

permanent Small Craft Training and Inspection Facility in

the Canal Zone. One 40 foot utility boat has been permanently

assigned to the U.S. Naval Station, Rodman, Canal Zone for

use by

the MTT and will be delivered there about 20 June:

3. The Central Intelligence Agency has:

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b. Increased Its efforts designed to control the move-

ment of persons; arms and propaganda materials to and

from Cuba.

A summary of actions by country 1s provided

below:

Che

Guevara's mother was arrested on 23 April upon her

return to Argentina for importing Castro propaganda

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4. The U.S. Information Agency has:

a. Sent circular instructions to all USIS field posts

in Latin America advising each to stimulate publicity

in the local press and radio, to encourage identification

of Cuban trainees through personal-contact work with

students and labor,. to

report promptly evidence of Cuban-

aided subversion in each country, to report statements by

local leaders and editorial comment, and to publicize

econömic conditions In Cuba as means of discrediting

travellers

to Cuba. The Agency's Washington media

were issued a detailed guidance onithe subject on

. 28 March.

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b. In addition to the regular news reporting (VOA)

of the Managua Ministers' Meeting, broadcast 15 commen-

tarles and features on the subject of Cuban subversion

to Latin America during the month of April. Among these

were a dramatization based on the story of an Ecuadorean

boy who was attacked by communists in Guayaquil for carrying

anti-communist film, a chronology of subversive acts

Involving Cuban diplomats, and a history of subversion

from the Trojan horse through Nazi fifth columns to

present-day Cuban subversion.

c. Transmitted by teletype 13 articles on Cuban

subversion during April to USIS posts throughout Latin

American for placement in the local press. These

Included news stories, commentaries, and backgrounders.

Among.

the subjects treated were the Managua Meeting, the

Guayaquil incident, the story of an Ecuadorean terrorist

trained in Cuba who was wounded by his own explosives.

Assistant Secretary Martin's Pan American Day speech,

and several commentaries on training. In Cuba. The

Agency's publications center in Mexico also published

a pamphlet based on the defection of the Guatemalan

ex-communist leader Carlos Manuel Pellecer, Including

letters in which he revealed communist subversive

tactics:

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APPENDIX

RESOLUTTON I PASSED AT THE 3-4 APRIL MANAGUA MEETING OF MINISTERS

The Meeting of Ministers of Government, Interior and Security

convoked pursuant to the pertinent section of the Declaration

of Central America

signed by the Presidents of

the seven countries

In San Jose, Costa Rica on March 19, 1963.

AGREES

To recommend to their Governments that they adopt, within

the limitations of their respective constitutional provisions,

measures to be put into effect immediately, to prohibit,

restrict and discourage the movement of their nationals to and

from Cuba. To this end, they propose the adoption of the

following measures:

(1) Provide, as a general rule, that every passport or

other travel document which may be issued carry a stamp

which indicates that said passport is not valid for travel

to cuba.

(2) Declare officially that nationals who are permitted

to travel to Cuba should have the permission duly inscribed in

their official travel document.

(3) Promulgate regulations restricting the granting.of

visas to foreigners who have travelled to Cuba within a

stipulated period of time.

(4) Notify travel agencies and transport companies of

these measures for due compliance; and inform the governments

of other countries through the most appropriate means.

(5) Request the Governments of the Hemisphere:

a) not to allow the nationals

of signatory countries

to travel to Cuba unless they possess a valid passport or

other document issued by their country of orgin valld for

such travel;

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b) not to accept visas, tourist cards or other

documents issued to their nationals for travel to Cuba

which do not form an integral (non-detachable) part of

their passports or other travel documents;

c) to observe the limitations placed in the passports

or: other travel documents of the nationals of signatory

governments and not allow them to depart for Cuba;

d) to inform the signatory countries through appropriate

channels of refusals to allow one of their nationals to

depart for Cuba; and

e) to provide the signatory governments the names

of their nationals which may appear on the passenger l1st

of any airplane or ship going to or coming from Cuba.

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