SECOND PROGRESS REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE
Originator: ARMY
From: JAMES K. PATCHELL
To: MR. VANCE
Document date: 1963-05-09 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SECOND PROGRESS REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE

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CUBAN SUBVERSION IN LATIN AMERICA

TRAVEL TO CUBA - IMPEDIMENTS

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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY

WASHINGTON 25, D. C.

May 9, 1963

NOTE FOR MR. VANCE

Attached is copy of Second Progress Report of the Sub-

committee on Cuban Subversion. The Services and ASD/ISA have

concurred in this report with a few minor nonsubstantive sugges.-

tions (these are noted in ink).

• CIA and USIA have concurred. State, however, has objected

on the grounds that certain actions have been taken with respect to

the Alerting System without sufficient authority.

Another meeting of the Subcommittee has been scheduled for

Friday afternoon in order to resolve this difference. I plan to attend

and will report any substantive actions.

Jamesk. Pateull

Pames K. Patchell

Lt. Colonel USA

Attachment

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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.

Report,

Attached for comment 1s a draft of the Second Progress

Sub-Committee on Cuban Subversion,

which provides an

account of the actions taken during

month of April by the

several depärtments and

executing the actions

approved by

the President

on 8 March 1963.

The enclosure to

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.

Ku tail

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:

Second Progress Report, Sub-Committee on Cuban

Subversion

ENCLOSURE

Progress Achieved during April In Impeding Travel

to Cuba

I. 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 163.

b. Controls on Movement of Arms - 14 March '63.

c. The Organization of a Caribbean Surveillance System

15 March 163.

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

e. Controls on the Movement of Funds - 10 April 163.

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 zame major avenues as the

action programs proposed by the Sub-Committee.

An interdepartmental

team is currently visiting the Isthman capitals, congulting 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,

Chairman

USMC

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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 1 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 its

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 establish 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 will

assist the GOB in preventing unauthorized travel by Bolivians

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and will help identify violators.

e) 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 in

the recipient country and included appropriate suggestions

as to strategy which might be used in securing implementation

of the desired actions.

P)e 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.

g) Through efforts with varlous 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 Haiti.

Reports of subversive movement, or suspected subversive

movement, obtained by US surveillance are available 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 is scheduled

for completion by. I 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 11 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 is 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. USS PURDY CURRENTLY

UNDER SURVEILLANCE.

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 MIT and will be delivered there about 20 June.

3. The Central Intelligence Agency has:

a. Completed its efforts to improve U.S. government

communications in Latin America by the installation of

the remaining.two. commercial leased circuits.into

Guatemala City and Managua, and the stationing on a

permanent basis of 35 CIA radio operators in Latin

America in replacement of temporary duty personnel. In

November 1962, CIA's active radio facilities in 20 Latin

American capitals were augmented with on-line crypto-

graphic facilities and temporary personnel to handle the

bulk of all .U.S. government communications in the area.

These facilities, known

as Joint Communications Centers,

are now being operated by CIA on a 24-hour basis, as a

service.

to all

U.S. government agencies. Latin American

traffic handled by the CIA base radio station near

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Washington has increased from 3,000,000 groups handled

in October 1962 to 15,000, 000 groups handled in March

1963.

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

is provided

below:

1) Argentina - Station, in conjunction with the

Embassy, has continued to press the Argentine govern-

ment to enact effective travel control legislation

and to adopt measures recommended by the Special CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE

ON.Security. Co

mittee of the OAS. Information on

Argentines travelling to Cuba is being furnished to

the Argentine government by the station.

Several

potential travellers to Cuba have been spotted and

are being assessed by the station. Information from

three recent returnees from Cuba is being obtained

through debriefings. Station reports that because of

Increased Mexican controls, all truly clandestine

travel to Cuba from Argentina is now via Prague.

Che

Guevara's mother was arrested on 23 April upon her

return to Argentina for importing Castro propaganda.

2) Bolivia - Station and Embassy have been urging.

Bolivian government

to adopt stricter travel .controls,

without apparent results

so far:

Names of travellers

known to have returned from Cuba are being furnidhed

to the Bolivian government.

Thus far, no action is

known to have been taken by the Bolivian government on

the strength of such information. Station comments

that

problem with Bolivia is not in lack of information

available to government on Cuban subversion, but in

getting Bollvia to do something about it.

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3) Brazil - Information on Brazilians who have

received subversive training in Cuba has been made

available

to the Brazilian Foreign Office, through the

American Ambassador, and to the National Security

Council through CIA liaison with the NSC's Security

Service.

An asset of the CIA station in Rio is in a position

to harass and delay. Cuba-bound travellers in those

instances where the Station is able to tip him off

regarding their destination. He can also harass

returnees

when informed in advance.

The Station is

taking steps to get appropriate information to him

promptly.

4) Chile - Chilean internal security authorities,

at urging of

station, are trying to impede and harass

travellers to and from Cuba.

Government is now requiring

passport applicants

to state destination, and passports

must be turned in after travel. The Foreign Minister

has stated much progress is being made, with cooperation

of the Mexican government, and that travel of Chileans to

Cuba has been dramatically reduced in recent weeks.

Station and Embassy are continuing pressure on Cuban

government in this regard. Names of travellers to Cuba

are being passed to the Ambassador, who furnishes them

to President Alessandri (who has asked

that this collab-

oration be

kept secret): Information from CIA unilateral

operations against Cuban Embassy is being used by a newly

created Chilean surveillance. team.in checking

out purpose

of travel projected and in following up on returnees from

Cuba. The station has an agent in daily contact

with

leaders of the extreme militant left and is exploring

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the possibilities of

sending three station assets

. to

Cuba for training

and

intelligence missions.

A Cuban

First Secretary was declared personal non grata during

April for using false identity documents, and the Cuban

charge d'affaires was subsequently recalled by his own

government.

5) Colombia - Chief: of Customs has indicated to station

his willingness

to institute an improved travel control

system.

one

station asset expects to travel to. Cuba

in the near future.

Station believes

it has identified

a courier operating between Colombia and Cuba and has

mounted an operation to uncover his Colombian contacts.

6) Costa Rica - Station reports little pro-Castro

activity during April. No recorded travel to or from

Cuba has taken place. Local authorities appear inclined

to cooperate in control program.

7) Dominican: Republic - Efförts to get Juan Bosch to

take active steps against Communists and travellers to

and from Cuba have been fruitless to date, as have been

efforts to establish a new and effective internal security

organization in the Dominican Republic. Bosch appears

to have lost his previously stated enthusiasm for such

service, but efforts

to

persuade him to approve

a

proposed budget for the service are continuing:

8) Ecuador = Station

reports that, largely as a result

of both overt and covert propaganda activities of us.

agencies in Ecuador,

the public awareness.of Cuban sub-

version has

changed

from apathy to genuine concern.

The

government, however, is no more inclined to take action

than before.

The National Director of Immigration has

stated that he personally would like to do whatever he

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can.

to. stop

travel to Cuba, which he realizes is for

subversive purposes, but present laws do not permit him

to impede travel via third countries. He 16 exploring

possibilities of reprisals

against citizens who return

from Cuba. He has checked a list of names and passport

numbers obtained by CIA from airline manifests in Mexico,

and reports that not one name or passport number corres

ponds with official Eucadoran records, Indicating the

possibility of fabrication of passports by Cuba,

A recent Ecuadoran returnée from Cuba, recruited by

the station, lost his hand

in testing

a homemade bomb

made in accordance with

instructions received in Cuba.

He made a

public statement and wide publicity was

arranged.

by the

station and USIS. Plans are to keep this

incident alive as

proof of

in Cuba for terrorist activity in Bouador.

revolutionary treining given

The station chief has accompanied

the

American

Ambassador

on visits to the Ecuadoran Ministers of Defense

and Government to stress the threat. of Cuban backed

subversion.

Approximately 7,000 pounds of Communist propaganda

are being destroyed monthly as a result of a unilateral

operation of the CIA Base in Guayaquil

9) Haiti - Station reports that several assets have.

travelled to points outside Port-au-Prince in an effort

to learn of possible travel to and from Cuba, Repocta

from areas of Capt Haitien, Port de Paix, and La Gonave

and La Tortue Islands, were negative.

10) Honduras - The government has shown little inclination

to tighten up on travel control. A travel control syscen

presented to the Minister of dovernment has been fully

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approved by him, but not yet put into effect. Several

known Honduran Communists have recently travelled to

Cuba. Information as to their identities is being fur-

nished to President Villeda through the J.s. Ambassador.

11). Mexico - A CIA source states. the Cuban Embassy, has

issued 10-15. visas during April on pieces of paper

separate from the

passport, but the government's pracbice

of

stamping

all. passports to.show.tragel.to.or from Ouba

has largely

nullified

this effort by travellers to.avoid

the stigma of travel to Cuba. Ali Cubans arriving in

Mexico, whether in transit

or otherwise must

have Mexican

visas.

This is not true

of other nationalities, who need

no visa if in transit. The government continues to

confiscate propaganda material from Cuba sporadically at

the airport. The government recently refused

visas. to

five Cuban doctors who wished to attend a Urology Congress

in Mexico. Several station assets have recently travelled

to Cuba for intelligence purposes.

• 12) Panama - At the urging of station, the Guardia

Nacional has been ordered to increase its vigilance concern

ing returnees from Cuba and to prevent them from establish

ing an effective organization.

Several recent returnees

from Cuba are being debriefed regarding their training and

contacts, and several CIA assets are expecting to leave

for Cuba in the near future for training.

CIA has

increased its personnel assigned to travel control. functiens

at the Panama City airport, now permitting

a three-man

detail for each eight-hour shift.

Station

1e. continuing

ice pressure

on Panamanion officials to bighten travel

controls.

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13) Uruguay - Station has made arrangements with Iocal

service to pigeonhole or "lose" applications for good

conduct certificates - which are needed to secure pass

ports, and must be renewed every six months - in cases

where information from the CIA station or from the

Uruguayans' own sources indicated intention of

travelling tọ Cuba. Pertinent information from CIA

unilateral operations is being passed regularly to

cooperating Uruguayan officials. Station has a further

check in that the Mexican Ambassador to Uruguay is now

checking all applicants for Mexican visas with

the

station. On the basis of information

furnished to. him;

he held

up visa applications of Uraguayan.Communist

Labor delegates who planned to attend May Day celebrations

in Havana. Creation of this bottleneck may force some

travellers to abandon the Mexican route to Cuba and turn

to the longer and far more expensive route via Prague.

Information on past travel to Cuba by. Uruguayans, furnished

by the station, was included in a study of Cuban sub-

version prepared by Uruguayan Military Intelligence

Service for the National Council of Government.

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

studerts

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

economic conditions in Cuba

a$

mears

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-

taries and features on the subject of Cuban subversion

tò 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.

Thege

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.

RESOLUTION 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 origin valid

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 11st

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

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