MANUEL ARTIME - OGC FILES MADE AVAILABLE TO HSCA STAFFERS.
Originator: CIA
From: BATHE, ORVILLE, AC/WH/COG
To: MEMO FOR THE RECORD
Document date: 07/25/1973
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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BJ: WATERGTE

25 July 1973

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Manuel Artime

Artime was an INRA official in the Castro regine

on 1959 but broke with it in late 1959 or early 1960 over

a communist issue and was exfiltrated by CIA.

He was the

political representative for Brigade 2506 and was captured

during the Bay of Pigs.

He was sentenced to be executed

but this was later conmuted by Castro-to life imprisonnont.

In 1962 Artime was released to the U.S. agspart of a

prisoner exchange.

Fron June 1963 through April 1965 Artime conducted

paramilitary operations (Project AMWORLD) against Cuba

under the political banner of his exiled group, Moviniento

de Recuperacion Revolucionaria (MRR).

lhe troject expenses

during this period were approximately $7 million.

support was terminated effective 1 May 1965 but support for

political operations was restored in June 1965 at the rate

of $15,000 per month.

This was scaled down to $5,000 a

month in September 1965,

to $3,000 a month in June 1965, and

terminated on 31 December 1966. Artime accepted this

termination gracefully in a meeting on 13 January 1967.

That ended the fornal operational relationship with Artine,

although he maintained infornal contact with CIA, most

recently with Robert Shaw when Shaw was COS, Nanagua,

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Orville Bathe

AC/ WH/COG

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