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ORIGINATOR: ARMY

FROM: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR.

TO: MR. JOHN H. CRIMMINS

TITLE:

INTERDEPARTMENTAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF CUBAN AFFAIRS: REPORT ON

THE STATUS OF ACTIONS DESIGNED TO COUNTER SUBVERSION

DATE: 01/10/1964

PAGES:

62

SUBJECTS :

COUNTERINSURGENCY

CUBAN SUBVERSION

LATIN AMERICA SECURITY

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/07/1997

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COMMENTS: Califano Papers, Box 6, Folder 10. Army memo from Joseph Califano to Mr. Crimmins on status of

actions to counter Cuban subversion in Latin America with other related documents.

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1 QUAN 1964.

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MEMORANDUM FOR MR. JOHN H. CRIMMINS

Coordinator of Cuban Affairs

Department of State

SUBJECT:

Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee of Cuban

Affairs: Report on the Status of Implementation of

Actions Designed to Counter Subversion

Enclosed berewith in the Report on the Status of Implementation

of Actiona Designed to Counter Subversion for the period 1 December

1963-1 January 1964. The format of this report adheres to the topic

outline disseminated at the meeting of the Subcommittee on Subversion,

September 13, 1963.

It is requested that thin office be provided with 12 copies of the

final report. It is assumed that each of the representatives will have

an opportunity to consider the final report before it is forwarded.

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Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

Joseph A, Califano, Jr.

General Counsel

Enclosure

As Stated

Mr. Califano

It Col Haig

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STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIONS TAKEN

SY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO

COUNTER SUEVERSION FOR THE

FERIOD I DEC 63 - 1 JAN 64

3. Control of Clandestine Movement of Guerrillas and Arms,

a. General A. P. O'Meata, USA, Commander-in-Chiel, US

Southern Command, met with Vice Admiral Ray C. Needham, USN,

Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Atlantie and morobero of their

repostive statio during the period 1l to 15 December 1963. Diacus-

siono encompasaed methode of improving the esdating auzvelllance/

Intercept system throughout the Caribbean. Exiating US plans were

revlewed, continuance of the ahip visit program inatituted in Neven-

ber 1963 was agreed upon, and combined exercises to test country

capabilities to intercept simulated intruding shipe were planned for

carly executior. Drecasiono by General @'Meara were continued

with the Socretary of the Army and with representatives of the State

Department, CLA and the Joint Stall, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

b. Commander Mine Dividion 44 with minesweepere USS

STURDY and USS SWERVE completed visite to Central American

ports in Costa Rica, Nicarague and Guatemala. Deficiencice in the

capabilities of all threo countrica to counter subveroive inflltration

wore reported. Additional visits, designed to assist in correcting

deficiencies, are planned. USCINCSO aleo plans, through Commandere

•f U8 Military Groups, to assist in developing existing capablities.

C. Based upon information from CAS Panma representative

on & November, USCINCSO directed US operatione to find a small

boat which reportedly left the Colon Fred Zone with a cargo of arms

destined for the vicinity of the Colombias-Venezuolan border. Day-

ligh& vioual aerial survelllance lights were Instituted immediataly,

with radas-equipped aircraft taking over surveillance during hours

of darmess.

Colombian and Venezuelan anthoritica were notified

through Us diplomatic channels, but no direct communications

between US surveillance aircraft and Colombian forces in the

vicinity of the probable landing area were established before termi-

antion on 14 November, This effort, though not successhal, bar

evoked considerable effort by US State Department, Defense Depart-

ment and CIA activitiee to improve capabilities and procedures.

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d. Action wae commenced in she Colon arca to provide means

to keep track of shipo and boate entering or leaving the Colon Free

20n8 in order to monitor the movements of those suspected of carrying

contraband Assistance to USCINCSO was provided from the contimenta)

United States in carzying out curvoye ao to equipment required on ad

secretive a basio an possible, and special optical equipment to include

probable night televiion wae approved by the Seezetary of the Army

fos expedited delivezy to USCINCSO.

•. A joint survey and mobile sraining team from USCINCSO

continuod assistance to Venozucian authorities in improving indi ganone

capabilities for survellence and intercepsion of intrudero.

4 US Southern Command Operations Plan 50-63 was developed

to provide for three levels of operational aosistance to Venesuela in

curveillance and intercept e paradione. Representatives of the US Strike

Command and the Air Defense Command viaited USCINCSO to aeriss in

developing detailed eupporting plana.

intormation was obtained by USCINCSO concerning is-country

communications capabilites of Colombla sad Venezuela to recoive and

diaseminate nurveillaaco information provided by US forces.

5.

Strongthoning of Countertaagency Gapabiltes.

US Army training included the following: 13 etudente from 6

countries completed Cl operationa coures la the Canal Zone; & studento

from 5 countrics completed CI orientation course in the Canal Zone;

24 studento from & countzica completed Military Intelligence course

in the Canal Zone, Il Chilesa studento completed special Military

Intelligence ortentation course, thrce Canal Zone-banod Ci Moblle

Training Teamo (ATT) carried out traising programs in Ecuador.

Pozu and Venezuola, and one Canal 2000-based CI MTT commenced

• *raining program of Panamanian National Guardemen.

b. US Navy training included the following:

(1) The Small Craft Inspection and Training Team

(SCIATT) completod tralaing the third cinos of Central American

nationals, bringing to 63 the total numbor of studento trained sines

May 1963.

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(2) The semiannunt maintenance chock of two

Panamanisa 40 foot Coost Guard Utility Boats (CCUBe) wad com

monded on 16 December by an on-the-job training (OJT) progzam.

Work should be completed by 10 January 1964,

(3)

Work was temporarily suspended on two 40 foot

COusa In Coste Rica due to the loch of critical epare parto. It la

anticipated wok will be completed by 15 January 1964.

Increasca in the stoch levels of the Canal Zone stockpile

of riot control eguipment were directed on 20 December 1963, In-

creases will enable USCINGSO to respond to urgent requeste fron

Katin American goveronents. Buildup concerned primarily tear

goo grenades, gas macka, carbince and ahotgun ammunition.

Final arrangemento were made with the Bertram Boat

Company of Miami for delivery of 10 outboard-inboard fibet glasa

boato to Cabamis,

Veneruela for use in the Lake Maracaibo ares.

Boats, spares and an MTI will be dallvered to destization by

14 Jamary 1964-

* Action has bean taken to expedite the sbipment of radio-

clectronic gear to Jamaica for une in the joint surveillance program

deoigned to combat Castro-Inspired Insurgency in the Garibbean

are?. Equiprent ahould arrive i3 Jamaica within the next few wecks.

%. A US Air Force Air Commando MTT demonstrated in

Acuacion, Fazaguay.

B. Other Special Actions+

a. Latin American Military Communicatione System (LAtiCE)

in Ecuador and Nicaragun and the Ground-to-Air focilities in Ecuador

have been completed.

b. Authority to proceed with the LAMCS in Honduras was

received from the US State Department on 17 December 1963. Thia

facility should be completed within 120 dayo.

c. Emergoncy power unite to improve reliabllity of US Army

and Air Force Minsion radio statione in Colombia and Venozuela,

chipped from the United States, arrived in Bogota and Caracaa 700-

pectively.

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To: C/Staff

Subj: Interdepartmental Coordinating Comte of Cuban Affairs: Rpt on Status of

Implementation of Astions Designed to Counter Subversion (U)

Iw Incl: None

Dis: Colo Haig 1-3-64

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SAOGC/LtColHaig/1c/ 59856/18Dec63 •

December 18, 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR COLONEL WADE ROBERT

Office of the Secretary of Defense

(International Security Affairs)

SUBJECT:

State Paper Entitled "Terrorism in the Latin

American Countries on the Critical Insurgency List"

Enclosed herewith in a paper prepared by a member of the

Cuban Coordinating Committee at the Department of State (Mr.

William Bowdler, 182-3736) for use by the Department of State

representative at the Special Group (Counterinsurgency) meeting on

December 19, 1963. The paper was provided to this office by State

on December 18 with the request that Department of Defense

comments, particularly on the basic memorandum, be obtained.

Although this office is very much concerned with the aspects of the

paper which deal with the problem of Castro-inspired subversion,

the broader implications of the paper pertain to the Latin American

area and the military assistance programs related thereto. These

are, of course, matters of primary concern to your office. There-

fore, the attached paper is forwarded to you for appropriate action

with the request that your commente, if any, be coordinated with

this office so that they can be correlated to actions currently under

the purview of this office.

Signed:

A. M. Haig

It Colonel, USA

General Counsel

Enclosure

As Stated

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Mr Califano

ItCol Haig

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SAOGC/LtColHaig/1c/59856/18Dec63

December 18, 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR DIRECTOR, DDRE

Office of the Secretary of Defense

SUBJECT: Anti-Sabotage Operations in Latin America

The Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee of Cuban

Affairs (ICCOCA) has recently considered a CIA proposal to provide

guidance to US firms in Latin America confronted with Castro-

communist inspired sabotage of their facilities and assets. CLA has

contracted for the preparation of a report which will consolidate the

experiences of several US firms in Latin America in combatting

sabotage. After consideration by the ICCOCA this report will be

furnished through our country teams in Latin America to local US

firms to assist them in instituting appropriate anti-sabotage programs.

I would be most

grateful if you would prepare a brief report

designed to supplement the CA project which would include enumera-

tion of general guidelines which might be adopted by US firms in the

Latin American area in combatting sabotage. In particular, an

enumeration of known appropriate anti-sabotage devices available on

the commercial market together with the manufacturer's names would

be most helpital:

A member of ray staff has discussed this project with Mr.

Phelps of your staff, who has indicated that DDR&E might be of assist-

ance in this matter based on a recent field trip to Venezuela where

problems peculiar to that area were studied at the request of the US

Ambassador. It is also possible that commercial devices developed

for South Vietnam would have applicability in Latin America. Because

this project is designed for distribution to several Latin American

countries, it is requested that where possible guidelines be developed

which might have general application throughout Latin America, but

with emphasie on key subversive target areas. Present plans antici-

pate finalization of thie project by December 23, 1963.

signed:

A. M. Haig

It Colonels USA

General Counsel

OSA,

ASG

Mr Califano

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MEMONANOON FOR

30331C1

ME. JOHN H. CRIMMINS

Coordinator of Cuban Attairs

Department of State

Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee of Cuban

Altairs:

Report on the Statos of Implemestation of

Actiona Designed to Gounter Sabrersion

Enclosod hermith is the Roport on the Stato of lapiamentation

of Actions Designed to Conster Subversion for the period I November

1 December 1953. The format of this report adheren to the topic out-

Une diesominated at tho mectlng ai he Subcommittee on Subversion,

Septerbor 13, 1963.

It is requented that this office be provided with la copies of the

unal report.

It is abouned that cach of the representatives will have

an opportunity to

consider the linal repozt before it is forwardod.

Signed

Joseph do Calilano, Jr.

Joseph A. Callians, Jr.

Goneral Coannel

Enclosure

Ao Stated

Mr. Califano

Lt Col Haig

ASG.

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STATUS OF IMPLIMENTATION OF ACTIONS TAKEN

BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO

COUNTER SUBVERSION FOR THE

PERIOD 1 NOV - 1 DEC 1963

3. Control of Clandestine Movement of Guersillas and Arms.

a. On 9 November 1963 the Commander-in-Chief, U8

Southern Command (USCINCSO) advieed the Joint Chiefs of Stafl

(JCS) of reports concerning suspected subversive arme emuggling

Into Venezuela o1 Colombia from the Colon Frce Zone, Paname.

USCINCEO initlated surveillance at first light on $ Noverbes 1963

to detect and track curface

veseels which might be engaged in the

nubversive tratic. The Jes directed the Commander in-Chief,

Atlantic (CINCLANT) to commence survelllance with radar equipped

aircraft and to keep USCINGSO advised of all information. Sue-

pectod craft were not poaltively identified or intercepted; however,

there were indications that an unidentifled surfece reasel olf the

Rio Hoche area of Colombie and in Colomblan watere was probably

in contact with amall boate oporating from the Colombian coastline

at night.

D.. An directed try the Jolat Chiefe of Stall, USCINGSO

developed a plan under which the United States could provide assist-

ance to Venesuelan forces, on throe levele of participation: designed

so prevent the surreptitious movement of Castro-Coramunist arme

and personnel into Venezucla. To be fully effective, the plan calle

for US elemente operating from Venezuelan territory which is not

conaidozed a likely subject for approval by the Government of

Venezuola at the present time.

c. A joint survey and mobile training toam of eleven men waa

provided by USCINCSO to Venezuela on 22 November 1963, upon

approval of the concept by the Government of Venenuela. The purpose

of the team lo to train Venezuelan military personnel in organizing

and operating a joint operations center; in Improving capabilities

in the plotting and coordination of latelligence data, and aerial photo-

graphy; and in coordinating all Venesuclan military and paramilitary

oxganisations involved in surveillance and intercept operations.

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5.

itrengthoning of Counterineuxgency Capabilities.

Two mineoweepere from the US Atlantic Command, USS

STURDY and USS SWERVE with Commander Mine Division 44 cm-

barked, commenced a achedule of visite to Caribbean ports in Costa

Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Visite are intended to assist each

country in improving ite coastal and off-shore purveillence effort,

to improvo intercept capabilities with reopect to the prevention of

infiltration of arms and subversive personnel through the countries'

territorial waters, and to eatablish procedures which would provide

for US cssistance in final Interception when requested. Visits in

November, under the supervision of USCINGSO, covered Puerto

Kimon, Costa Rica; Bluefieldo and Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua; and

Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.

b, Seventy-cight Latin American officero, praviouoly en-

rollod, were in attendance during November at coursed otressing

counterineurgency conducted by the US Army Canal Zone school.

Two officers graduated from the US Army Counterineurgency Couxse

at Fort Bragg, North Gazelina on 12 Novembes 1963 and two addi-

tiorni officers are now in attendance.

Seven US Army Counterinsurgency Mobile Training Teame

based in the Canal Tons, connieting of twenty officers and thirty-five

enlisted men, provided training in seven Latin American countries

during November.

d. Nine enlisted men from Chile were in attendance at

Marine Corpo ochoole at Camp Pendleton, Califorala la November:

€. US Coast Guard training in small boat operations was

provided in the Conal Zone for fifteen students from five Caribbean

coantries in the operation and maintenance of forty-foot Coant Cuard

utility boats, A Coast Guard mobile training tearn of one officer and

two enlisted men, based ln the Canal Zone, provided training in

Costa Rica fos the roconditioning of Goast Cuard utility boate.

Five

members of the Costa Ricon Guardia Civil are roceiving on-the-job

training in connection with reconditioning of the boats.

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1. A US Air Vorce countertneurgency toam of five officers

and eight enlisted men, based in the Canal fone, provided treining

for Ecuadorian Als Force personnel in Ecuador.

8=

At the request of USCINED, and with the enthusiastic

support of the Venezuelan Government, a small boat program has

been initiated to provis security for the Lake Maracaibo region.

Arzangements have been made through the US Navy under Military

Credit Sales agreement for the manufacture of diz (6) 25-loot and

four (4) 31-foot inboard-outboard, fiberglose hull boata by Bortram

Boat Company, Miami, for delivery in December 1963 or enzly

January 196k.

* SEAL-trained Mobile Training Team (MTT) of

one officer and five enlisted men will be provided by the Navy and

will repost to the equipment supplier in time to become fully ac-

quainted with the boats by 15 December. The MTT will accompany

the boats to Venezucla and will romain up to two monthe la country

to provide necessary familierization training.

6. Exchange of Intelligence on Cuban Survelllence.

a: Upon recelpt of intelligence pertaining to suspected arms

amuggling froz the Canal Frce Zone, Panama into Colombia ox

Venezuela, the USCINCSO relayed thie information to Colorobia and

Venesuela by the Military Alerting System. The US Ambasador to

Colombia conveyed the information to the Government of Colómbia.

Colombias Navy and Air Force elements were assigned increased

survelliance miestone in the Caribbean coastal area of Colombla by

Colombian military authoritica and renults of their survelllance

activities were provided to USCINCSO by the US Military Group

Commandes In Colombla. The results of US air surveillance of

the expected route and landing area, undertaken by US Aiz Force

and Naval air clements were transmitted to the US Military Group

Commander in Colombia for paseage to the Colombian military

authorite,

b. The moter veesel BLUE STAR, of Panamanian regiatry,

was apprchended by Ecuadorian authoritico in November 1963 as

It was attempting the clandertine introduction of contraband articles

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lato Ecuador. Ship movement infermation had been provided to the

US Naval Attache Bogota by the District Intelligence Offleer of the

Fliteenth Naval District. There wao no apparent involverent of

Cuban arme os Cuban trained personnel in this instance.

Other Special Actions.

Construction ie now in progress on the Latin American

Military Communication System (LAMCS) in Cuito, Ecuador; the

terminl station la expected to be comploted in December 1963.

The station in Nicaragua la expected to be completed in carly

December 1963.

bo.

In reeponoo to a requeat by USCINCSO, action was taken

on 15 Novembez 1963 to expedite delivery of communicatione equip-

ment required to implemont a Jamaican integrated coastal eurveillance

system.

The ayotem wan originally opproved ao part of the $500

thoueand one -time grant of Military Assistance material directed

by the President in April 1963, but world-wide shortages of specifie

items thicatence to delay shipment in some cades until FY 1965. In

view of the urgency of this requirement, priorities were adjusted

to provide delivery by 1 January 1964, The itomo include:

12

3

AN/CRC radios and instaliation kite

AN/ARC 3 radios

AN/PSM 6

Wattmeter

€.

The Jolat Chiefe of Staff and the Offce of Public Safety,

State-AID, aze studying the poseibility of increasing the etock level

of certain items of Not Control Egulpment la the Ganal Zons, in order

to meet rapidly and effectively multiple contingencies that may occur

In Letin America, In the part, the sise of some requeste have nececil

tated shipment of certain items directly from the United States, with

resultant increase in coat and time.

USCINCSO had been anted for

hio recommendatione on eteck levele.

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OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIR$

2 DEC 1963

In reply refer to:

1-28596/63

MEVORAIDUM FOR MR. JOSPEH AX CALTEANO

b Jep/

THE GONERAE COUNSELg

DEPARIDENZ

08 7H00 ARV

SUCJECT:

Interdenartnental, Coordinating Cormibtee of Cuban AMalza:

Report on Status of Urplenentattos of Actlons to Counten

Subversion (U)

The enclosure to your Meno

anium llo: Bl, subject as above, dated

26 itovenber 1963, han been

receaved.

The report appeazs to be

corplete end app

for cutmieszon to the Frosident.

i.r

SIGNED

Frank K. Sloan

Beputy Assistant Secretary

augM7rCallane

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26 NOV 1963,

bant to binet don

Deg Aost Sac/Ded ISA

(Bogional Attairs)

JOR CANERAL&. W. CARPENTDA, WA, USAN

SUBJECT:

Melerence:

Interdepartmotel Coradinating committee of Cuban Ailalen:

Neport on Statas of laplementation of Actions Desigaed to

Gouster Subversles 10)

Do More 104 cbject ao abovo dated doptember 19, 1963

Aetached herevith le A Anal draft of the Roport to the Precident of

tho Sabconmittee on Coban Fabrersion on Progress Made During September

1963 in Curbing

cubas Sharession it

Latin America.

It la reguestos that comments,

"any, bo provided the ottee ly

1800 henss, 1 December 1903, The Degastont ol Delenoe portion 0f

cabinet report lo baged on sabitoniona provided in renpuare to zeferenced

Signed

Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

Jeseph A, Calliano, Jr.

Conoral Gounsel

Baciomse

As Stated

CC:

Mr. Yarmolineky (OSD)

It Col Haig

Mr. Califano

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Control of xavel to and From Cuba

Depar

at of State

a... Instzucted Eabasay Tunis to call to the accentloa

of the Foreign Ministry our concern at incrcared evidence

of Aempilot attempts to establich North Africa routes to

Cabs, especially through Algeria, and our conviction that

Tuniole has a valld case in ehwarting any Bloc civil eit

penetration of Africa.

ba". Instructed Embassy Conakry to contact Quincen Govern»

ment officials, reminding then of their past assurances

chat no Aesarlot alighte to Cuba would be permitted to

une Country Excilities, and to express our concer et

recent indications that heroilot was preparing to establion

service to Cuba vie Conalary.

Inatructed Consulate Fort au France tO Inestigate

and report on alleged landing and zefualling of Cubana

aircratt et Guadeloupe. Aleo double-checked directly

with the Shell Company, the supplier of the fuel.

Instructed Inbassy Parla to query the French Coverment

about alleged Cubena use of the Cuadeloupe facility, and

to express our concert at this evidence of Cuba's attent

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Iron Latin America.

do: Inscructed Embassy No to make a new approach to

the Bzazilion Foreign Hindstry to enzeas our concer

at Cuba's continuing use of "charter" flights to Brazil

and che laxity of Brazilian officiala In the control of

passengers. Durins the course of the month the Brazillan

Coverent bogan tightening conczole against Cabana

111ght3. Speckelcally, Oll requesto for landlag permission

were henceforth to be procesed by the foreiga Office,

with appespriate delays. Also tighter passenger, erow

and cargo controls wore to be instituted when & Cubana

Elight is porniited to use Brazilian facilities.

C. Dotemined that the U,k, had specifically warned

Cahma chat no avicion fucl was avallable in Earbados and

that KM.G, would, In the fucire, respect Shell Company'®

decision to deny fueling to Cabana planes.

Continued inter-Departmental astorte to provent

reamcion of forzy serice betwees Cuba and the U.S.

which a British citizen, Harold verber, bas been attempt

ang to enzablish during the past soveral ponta.

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Instructed Consul Geozgetown to Investigate and

leport on evidence the Deportuent Iceived which indicates

that Guba 1s planning to sell merchant vessels to Britleb

Culana In order to Escilitato she establistacnt of

regular service for passengers and cargo.

Central Intelligence Ar

ADAZ

d.: In connection with the Seventh Congress of the

International Inion (UIA) held 1a Fabana September 29

October 3, 1963 the Buenos Alres Station:

(1) encounaged the Argentine National Federation

:, Architects to oprose Azgentine attendance at the

Habane meeting, wich the result that 25 of the 39

practicing architeots uso had planed to atland can-

celled their participation;

(2) arranged to prevant the attendance of any

officelly auchorized Argentine delegation at the Habana

meeting, but encouraged the attendance of an official

Argentine delegation of anti-Communiot coloracion at an

International architects meting to be held in Menico

1a Cctober;

(3)

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(3) delivared a nemorandum to she Minister of

Interlos concerning Cuban charter flights to Brazil Which

supported the Ambanrador's request that the Argentine

government espress concern over such flights.

Do. Rio de vanciro Station continued to furnish

the Embassy with daco on Gunna flights to Brazil used

In representacions to the Brazilien Foreign Office.

Also Induced Rio airport officiale to impose stringent

passport control and bazaage efforts.

These efforts

contributed to the Braallion Coverment"s failing to

leads Landing permits for Cubana flights on Septenber

21, 24 and 25, 1963 forcing their cancellation. When

Cubans, because of harnament at Mio, began using the

landing facilities In Sao Paulo mhere controle were.

non exletent, CIA Inlelated and obtained a local 11aia0n

exonent fox sinilar harassumt in the event of future

Cabana flights to Sao Faulo.

C+.

Mexico City etation Inspired & press campaiga

of hoot and mouth and smallpos epidenies in Cuba, prior

" to the Architects Congress to discourago participation

In the Habana nesting.

the resulting quarantines and

Innoculationa

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Innoculations sere & factor in discouraging 52 of the

60 Monican professional architects who vere expected to

so to Habana fron actending the Congress.

Il. Control of

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III, Contzos o Clandostine Movement of Cuercillas

and anns

Lapartment of State

Made the niceocary arzangements through Embassy

Tegucigalpa with.

the Coveriment of Honduras for the

dispatch of three U,s, hollcopters to give logistical

assistance to the Fonduzan Army In ito effort to locate

and climinate the band of gueradiles allegedly operating

in the Vatuca River arce along cho Honduran-Micaraguan

border.

Three du-13 helicopters fron USSCuraCoN supported

Fondursn arned forcen conducting counter-ingurgency

operations in the Patuca Rivas ared. A total of 27 sorties

were flom renalcing in delivery of 3028 pounds of supplies,

evacuacion of 12 sick Hondurse soldiers; airlife of 19

passengere

to polats in the oparacional arca, and

recovery of 400 pounds on supplies from the opecational

IV.

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IV.

Control ol

Transfer of Funda

department as state

i. Inctrated Enbansy Manico City to infor the

Mesican aizline SAESA that chels proposal to purchase

surplos Cuban aircraft would in fact result in the

accrual to Cubs of a significant anount of hard currency.

and the U.S, would have to oppose the tranesetion,

Further, 11 dollars nore lavolved in the purchase,

it would be a violation of the Cubas Assets Control

Regulatioos:

B. Infozned Departnent of Treasury, Foreiga Assets

Centzol Office, of the activities of Somadelp Enterprises,

a Mieni fim engaged in sending ronituances to persons

In Caba in violation of the Caban Assocs Control

Regulations.

c. Instructed Consulato, Bellae to incom

Mr. Richard Joyce,

as Anoricen national, that bis

commercial transactions wits Cuba wore in violation

of the Cubes Assets Coatrol Regulations and that he

Is prohibited from engaging in onch stade.

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Department of Dafeuse

d. Tuirteen Latin Anorican officers graduated fron

the counter-insurgency Operations Course of the U.S.

Army School for Insin Amrica in Cie Panana Canal Zone

on 20 September. During che mont, & total of 91 Latin

American officors enrolled in courses stressing counter

Inourgency at the Amy Canal Zone school.

1. Eight U.S, Any counter-insurgency mobile

croining beans were providing training to the armed

Forces of five latin Anerican comeries during the period.

J.S. Mc Force coupter Lnaugoney training teams vere

In two comtsies.

co In the Cenal Lone, 15 students from five countries

were under instruction in the operation of conot zuard

atality pacrol craft used for coastal survelllance.

S1% scudents from two countcies vere undezgoing cintlar

training in the UnltedSScates

d. A 0.5. Navy comter insurgency training team

3o 1a Venezuola to assist in laproving the necurity

DE 011 Installationa in Lake Macecuato.

Stewar

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Coate Rica and Monduzas sore provided one

Coesna 185 aircraft each for medical civic action and

Internal scourity purposes.

On May 25, 1963, three M435 FANAN belicopter®

were provided to che goverment of Colombia on a 90-day

The Coloublen Coverrment requested an extension

of the loan and a 30-day extension has been approved.

Sentzal Intell

0202

trial basis, a fomer meher of the 13 Novenber guerilla

sroup and debriesinge are in process.

Megociations

contlane wich the Goveramant of Cuatenala for the

formation of a now internal security service.

Do. Ilma Station has agroed to fumio the Peravlan

Investigations Folice (112) with an outbonrd notor

to increace sheir patrol capability on rivers crosaing

the Bolivian Ezentiar. Que Inforuation 1s thae che

rivers crossing this froncier have provided the primary

avagues for recent arteupt to gain clandestine entry

of personnel and weapons into Peru.

VI.

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VI. Excl

not intellinence on Cubin Subversion

Department of Desease

Laginearing Installation worle continued on radio

stations fox Managus, Nicaragus and Tegucigalpa,

Hoadures e

No further prozzoss has been made in reaching

agreenents wich Coloubie and Ecuador for rights to

establish radio stations in thoue countries.

Inscallacion

of the new trans-lothmian commercial cable in Panama

is derring completion.

Cantal Intellizance

Cia Stations contined Cheiz exchange of intelligence

intonation with local Intelligence Agencies. The

tollering ections are of special significance:

8. The CIA Station in. Duonos Aires furnished the

Argentine State latelligance Service (St0B) wich

Internation on the travel of Argantines to Cuba, aud re-

quested that z1u provise nans traces and debriet these

tzavellers on thots retum wasnever Seasible. SUDD

provided the traces, but did not conduct any debescalags.

The Stacion bes not Sele it feasible to try to remedy

this outosion in vieu of the pessoonel changes expected

within Siot after the new governent 10 installed on

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As &

s result of intonation panced by the logota

Station to the Aininistrativa Departuent of Security

(D4S) concerning Colonbian travolless to Cuba, a number

of pasapore violations lave bcon discovered in which

cravallere to Cuba are using passporta issued to ochar

persons.

Tere is a reluctence, hovever, on the part

of the Colonbian Covarment to prosecute this type

of violation.

At the urging of the ClA Stacion In Line, the

Nacional Intelligence Service (SIN) lastructed ene of

Its penetrations of laitiat groups to campaign for a trip

co fuse la ordar to receivo querrilla varfaze treining:

The asset has been offered, and hos accepted, an opportunity

to mike the tzip by the loftist Revolutionary Movsuchc

(na), primary vehicle of liben babveraive astivities

Sa Perue.

Briefing and deurleting of the asset wilt be

done by the Sir.

The Peruvian Naval Intelligence Service (SNIS) has,

In tesponso to the efforte of the Station in Lina, sent

one of 100 agents to Chile where he will sign aboard a

Chiloon Ereighter coliing de Habana.

The asset lue been.

Bivia opocitie intelligence requirenents to fulfill.

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The Priso Minister and Minister of Coverment and

Police has requessed fron the CIA represcatacive in

Lind any intornation that he night supply on subversive

clonents poning e thrcat to the Coveriment of Pert.

This roquest has openod an additional channel to the

higheat lovel of the Governnent with & conommitaat

prospectios effective action when needed.

Through regular 11a1son chanaols, the Venezuelan

Gonoral Directorate of Polico (DIGDEOL) has boca provided

by CiA wich the names of u11 Vendeclans known to have

cravelled to Cuba fron Fotruary through Auguse 1963.

This actâvity will be corzied out on a continuing badis;

che names are nor boing Incograted inco the regalas

watch Mot Lepc ad Inccraacional alrporta in Venosuela.

Thos tar, ac least

three returnces hava been arcested

on the baste of the inforation mupplied to DIGLEOL,

D1s:20L has indicaced ice appreciacion of the daca

being supylted aud desires that che armangement be

contilased.

Survellense s1. Cuban Dialetie, Camassial and Cultura 1

Dantons

special actiona to report:

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VILI. Other Soscial Actiane

Undecd States Inforuation Anever

¿. The Agonoy"s press service cranenittod' seven

articles zelating to Cuben subversion on its tireless

file servica to JS1S offfoca throughout latin Amaziea

for placemene in the local nevopapers.: Devolopmente

reposted in these arcicles included demando by the solivian

Senate for the ounter of the Cuben Chargé d'Affaires.

terzorian aod povarment counteraction an Venezuelay

the

beiruze in Forador of as arms and explosives cache

reportadly eccelved fron Cuba, several articles on the

Incemattonal Union of Architecss Congreso in Labora

(emphasiaing the intent of the Cantro regina to use the

Congress as a forun for lte propaganda claine), and

Asolocant Secretary Mnetin'a los Angeles speech in which

he pointed ous the restna"s altinity for Chinese comunist

icotrine and its continued enphnois on violent revolution

and eusvercion.:

In all, the press nervice trannicted

27 arcicles and commontazion duzing Septenber ca the

subject of Cuba, the other arcieles dealing for the nost

part wich econonic and political conditlons inside the

cortzy ds evidencod by the regin's eun aduissions and

the zeports of zatugeae.....

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B. The Voice o% America Spanick broadcoste to Latin

America during Septenter carried a total of 20 noe

analysed, countaries, press sound-ups, and interviers

rolated to the subject of Cuban subversion, Sone of

the develorneuts treated included the following:

A comortary on commios eubasales as channels for

subvezsion; a neue aslyais on the U.3. scudents vio

vialted Cuba; Ascistant Eccretary Martin's Los Angeles

specch; A naus analysés on Cuban asbversion as an obatacle

in the nonalization of 1.5 "Sovlet relacions; a three-

pact sorier on universâsy autonosy in Latin Amrica;

fanture on the lotter of & Colmblen stuacne who

vent te Cuba on a scholazabip and me diaillusioned by

the commics indoctrination, a cocontary on the Guevara"s

recent article on revolutionary stratogy; and a conuntary

on guccilla craining in Cuba. Many of these icons were

repeated soveeal cince in the brondeasts.. The "Rendervous

with Caba" hour caraied four or liva commtartes dias

Miss and intervies nightly on econouáe and political

developsente

inside Cuba. CC apocial note, the Caban

radio 2ud Cestro hintoll reacted angrily i Voice of

Amorâca booadcaste about Che Cumarala arbiele and so con-

DOT CaSICS

thac Cuba has accepted an agricoltural cole in

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7 3.5

the coummise bloe and had postronad its plans zo

Induserializo:

en septenbes 27, the Ageney isoued e circuler

Instzuccion so alllits Latis Ancticon posts urgiag

Creater attention to opportmities for publiolaing Cuban-

ociaulaced subversion; suszesting the varions sypes of

intornacion activicios to sopport this offort, and requesting

monthly reports of field accions taton to implenane the

This was dono as a follou-up to the original

Instruccion on Subon subversion ubich was issued Apell 3,

2963.,

Centank Zstelllzande.4

Avene

CiA de Trazlicassleted In tho defection and

exploitation of & Caban acholete Roberto lorez Ontarse

1 Porto Alegzo on & Sontenter 1963. Toron vas a menbes

of the Cuban basket-ball Coan which participatad in the

Horld Univocsity Canos. (OISU) hald in Porto Alegre

Frazil In carly Septenbor 1963...

bo Assiatance vas givon to the Govezment of

Contenin la che Intemogation of sone of thoce via

were arrested in cometion with the Coramiat Pazty

dociente choc nero conficcace in late May 1953..:

SBORDE

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sis 15 m

Caly one of those incerrogated acnitted to any involvenent

with the captured docments, she Commiat Farty,

guerilles, or anching else that coula be construed

do incrininating. The one vo did adait knowledge

denied that he was lnvolved in any way. The Coverament

of Cuntenala bants to laterrogato Chio person azgi2 2t

& Inter date.

C. CIA Station In Meatevideo szranged for er

Interview Sotvaen an Unuayan military intelligence

officor and a recont: dotsotoe from the Montevideo

Cuban Dabassy doeing which escensive infomation seganding

Cuban subversive astivicies mus revoaled. The Druguayan

officer prepared a report containing this tata and

presented it to the Notional Gouncil of Govarmont which

has beer clov to indicate concom ovur commist sub

vereive sctivity in Jouguay

As a resul of this zeport,

the MCG has directed the Minlater of Interior to appolae

• apocial comalsalon to aludy the problen ot Commist

sabverston and to nche recoumondations as to what couras

of action should be taton by the Unguayer Sevenuent.

Shoulê the Covermoent min to proos for passage of

Scronger

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ecronges anti-subversive logielacion cha Stacion bas talen

stopo to prepare Uruntyon pablic opinion by ploming

sinuitencous Ioctl presa raleases of tha salient

estores os the defeccor report with dirilar press

Esportlog in the Unlcad Seates where the docctor willse

broughe to Light-

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OSA

353

CUBA

29 October 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR: THE GENERAL COUNSEL

SUBJECT: Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee of Cuban Affairs:

Report on Status of Implementation of Actions Designed to

Counter Subversion (U)

(U) The following information is submitted in response to Memo

randum No. 64, General Counsel, dated 19 September 1963.

2. (S)

Reference Topic 5 (Strengthening of Counterinsurgency

Capabilities):

a. Canal Zone -

(1) Fifteen students from six Latin American countries are

attendees in the ten weeks Counterinsurgency Operations Course of the U.S.

Army. School of the Americas which began 30 September 1963..

(2)

There are 24 students from eight Latin American countries

attending the 16 weeks Military Intelligence Gourse which began 23 August

1963.

b. CONUS -

(1) Three students from three Latin American countries are

attending the Special Warfare Course at Fort Bragga N. C.

Course at Fort Cordon, croren.

(2) One Peruvian student is attending the Civil Affairs

c. In the month of October 1963, eight Counterinsurgency Mobile

Training Teams (MTT) (14 Of{-48 EM) were deployed in six countries to

conduct counterinsurgency training.

d. A U.S. Army officer is attending the Conmand and General

Staff School of the Uruguayan Army and upon completion of this course in

December 1903, will be assigned to the OUSARMA, Uruguay. He will perform

intelligence advisory functions as an additional duty.

e. An additional officer has been assigned as assistant USARMA

in Guatemala, increasing the capability for intelligence assistance in

that country.

OSA. ASG. CONTROL NO. 2505A

Ря (т)

DOWIGRADED AT 12 YEAS INTENALS:

NOT AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED

DOD DIR 5200.10

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SUBJECT:

version):

Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee of Cuban Affaire:

Beport on Status of Implementation of Actions Designed to

Counter Subversion (U)

(S)

Reference Tople 6 (Exchange of Intelligence on Cuban Sub-

The number of intelligence exchange agreemente between the

V. S. Army and local military services in Latin America has been increased

to 13.

b. The additional officer assigned as Assistant USARVA, Guatenala,

raises the collection potential in that nation and may develop information

which can be exchanged with Latin American countries.

J. D. ALGER

Major General, GS

Assietant Deputy Chief of Staff

for Military Operations

for Special Operations

G. S. BLANCHARD

Colonel, GS

Director of Special Warfare

ODCSOPS

2

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October 29, 1963

OSA 353-CUBA

10/29/63

MEMORANDUM FOR MA. JOHN CRIMMINS

Coordinator of Cuban Affairs

Department of State

SUBECT:

Interde inton the ate Come ting on

Latin Americans la the United Statea"

At a meeting of the Subcommittee on Subversion on October 10.

1963, the Department of Defense (DOD) Reprosentative was requested

to review and up date the DOD portions of pagee 4, 5 and 6 of nubject

report. Enclosed herewith ia a line in line out reviaion of the raport.

A revicion has also been made to page 7, which le designed to make

the DOD portions of the report current.

Signed:

A. M. Haig

It Colonel, USA

eNJoseph A. Callíano, Jr.

Cenazal Couneal

FW

1/30/63

Attachment

As Stated

se) Mr. Califano

) Lt Col Haig

ASGi

ZECHELVSA DE 1HT

ZECBELVIA OL THE VUNA

DEI 30

SECRET

01/100

EXCLUDED FROM

AUTOMATTC

PECPAOET

BRUNCHED

DOD DIR 5200. 10 DOLS NOID

COORDIALON & RECORD

30

11: 56 AM '63

SEE ARM"

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DOD Revision to Paper Entitled

*Training of Latin Americann in the United States"

3. Milary Assistance Programe

At the presentime end of F'Y 63, 8,277 1791 Latin

American military studente are

were receiving. or are programmed te

peselse have received training in the United States under the Milltary

Mosiotance Programa.

Courses vary in length from two-week orientation

tonro to 83-week flying training cournes. However, the majority of

inetraction is for periode of less than sis months, and is distributed

in fielde as follows:

Flying Inotructioa (8-83 weeks)

472

154

Command, Staff and Operational

(direction and control of

armed forces, 4-23 weeka)

Communications/Electronica

(6-29 wooka)

768

638

66

36

Equipment Maintenance and

Repair (5-28 wecks)

336

23₴

Logtotics (2-14 weeke)

Adminietration (4-10 weeke)

Professional Specialized

(Engineering, Medical, Legal

ete - 4-20 weeka)

46

806

Orientation (2-3 weeko)

696

198

OSA. ASS. CONTROL 10 2494€

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7.

Dilcultion Encountered in Fulling Avallable Militazy

Quotos An the United States

The failure of Lotin American countries to take full advantage

'of military quotes offered has boen a persistent problem. In 1962, for

example, 15 per ceat of the quotas offered were unfilled. This unfavor -

able situation derives from many causes. Duriog to cureco ecal

yes l0 per dent of aniMed Army quotas have -boon due to danbilit; 40-

moOt cour pro-pogniciton, 13 per cent bocauso of lack-el cuffledent.-

funde, and-19 per-esat become eS poliieal spheavele, The arred forcen

of the average Latin American country are small, and the availability of

qualified candidates who can be sparod for extended periode of obligated

service and the lack of a professional non-comminaioned officer corpo

also tende to discourage the training of enlisted men in United States

schoolo, since large sume from limited budgets to train enliated men

who will remain in service only a brief time. Another significant

deterrent is the pos diem rates required by law to be paid by some

countries to sosvice personnel sent outalde tbeir homoland. in

Argentina, Bracil, Colomble and Uruguay the logal satee for person-

nel serving abroad are too high to be eupportable by defense budgets;

while in other countries, ouch as Bolivis and Paraguay, the standard

rates are too late to provide a rensonable living for atudente.

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CONEIDENTIAL

Octaber 19, 1963

SUBJECT:

74 FOR GENERAL LANGE G. WEBELEA (CS)

GAPTAIN L. & RUNWAIT, 1%, UON (OND)

MACK GENE. A ALCIS USA

BEAT ADMIAL W.I.A. WERE, 08N

MAJOR CENERAL J.W. CARPENTER, I. CRAS

BRIGASIEE CENERAL WILLIAM JONAS, 0OMC

Interdepartmental Coordinating Committse of Caban Altalgas

Report of Meeting of Subcommitice

on Sabvezston:

Cineulated horowith for Infosmation lo a report of the Scicboe

• 10,

1963 noting of subject cuboositi00,

Signed

_ Joseph A. Califano, J50

Jocogh A, Gallfans, JE.

Cooral Counsel

Alashmant

ho Statod

CC:

Mr. Yarmolinaky (OSD) - set

Mr. Calitano netans in

Lt Col Haig.

son canal

PEC9210!A0.

04.1EE

239.1111

01101

US.A

353

CUBA

10-19-63

f.W: 1-30-63

CONFIDENTIAL

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CONFIDENTIAL

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY

WASHINGTON 25, D.C.

VESTOFA

October 14, 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT:

Meeting of Subcommittee on Subversion,

October 10, 1963 t

Outlined below is a summary of deliberations of subject sub-

committee during the meeting of October 10 at 1430 hours in Room

6273, New State. Agenda is at Tab A.

Agenda Item 1

The Final Subcommittee Report for the months of July and

August was circulated. The report has been circulated to points of

contact by separate correspondence.

Agenda Item 2

The Subcommittee discussed the SCCS letter which referred to

the recent trip of US students to Cuba. (Attached to enclosure l) It was

apparent to all that criticism of the US could be implied from this letter.

The Chairman stated he would provide the SCCS with the substance of

State's telegram 647, which outlines actions undertaken by the US

Government against the students.

Agenda Item 3

a. CIA, in coordination with the Esso Corporation's Chief of

Industrial Security, will prepare guidance data for distribution to Latin

America which could be utilized by US commercial firms for the pro-

tection of their facilities against sabotage. The DOD representative

was requested to ascertain whether ARPA had available some commer-

cial protection devices which might be applicable for use in Latin

America against sabotage attacks. The CIA representative stated he

believed ARPA had developed some devices for this purpose.

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b.. State will prepare a circular telegram to all Latin American

Ambassadors requesting that an immediate review of Country Team

Emergency and Evacuation Plans be conducted to insure that plans were

adequate to meet a stepped-up campaign of Castro-inspired sabotage.

Agenda Item 4

In lieu of a written report on the Honduran guerrilla problem,

the DOD representative proposed a firsthand report to the Subcommittee.

Colonel Walter Hutchins, who has recently returned from assignment as

US Military Attache to Honduras, presented a review of the subversion

situation in that country and then answered questions from the Subcom-

mittee.

The general thrust of Colonel Hutchins' remarks confirmed that

there has been considerable Castro subversive activity in Honduras. The

most serious inroads are achieved through communist radio and press

and communist educators. Colonel Hutchins commented that recent

guerrilla activity along the Nicaraguan border was probably limited to

groups totaling between 100 and 200 men. He emphasized that Cuban-

trained Honduran guerrillas are successfully transiting by air through

Grand Cayman Island and British Honduras with some transiting Havana

to Jamaica via Belgrade. In response to a query from a State representa-

tive, Colonel Hutchins pointed out that he believed that both Honduran

military and commercial interests were genuinely concerned with Castro

subversion and that some of their leaders were perfectly capable of

discerning the true nature of the communist threat to Honduras.

Agenda Item 5

The Chairman stated that the paper for training Latin Americans

in the United States (included in the "Krulak Report''*) was too broad in

scope for implementation by the Subcommittee and proposed that it be

rewritten under narrower parameters. In this regard, the Defense

representative was requested to review pages 4, 5 and 6 of the paper

on training contained in the report with the view toward bringing the

Defense portion up-to-date.

Miscellaneous

The Chairman stated that preparatory actions on the Isthmian

meeting at San Salvador tentatively scheduled for the second half of

November would be held in abeyance pending further developments in

the Honduran situation.

A. M. Haig, Lt Colonel, GS

*Report prepared by the Subcommittee on Castro-Communist Subversion

CONFIDENTIAL containing a series of action programs designed to impede the Castro-

Communist subversive effort in Latin America.

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CONFIDENTIAL

October 9, 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR: Subcormittee on Cuban Subversion.

SUBJECT: Meeting of October 10.

You are invited to a meeting of the Subcommittee on

Cuban Subversion of the Interdepartmental Coordinating

Committee of Cuban Affairs to be held on Thursday,

October 10, at 2:30 P.M. In Room 6263, State Department

(ARA Conference Room) •

AGENDA

1. Consideration of draft of monthly report for September.

2. Discussion of letter (copy attached) from SCCS of

Pan American Union.

3• Status:

of papers on contingency planning.

4. Report by DOD on Honduran guerrilla problem.

5. Consideration of the paper on training of Latin

Americans in the United States.

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-SPECIAL CONSOLTACDE COMMITTEE ON SECURITY

GOMISION ESPECIAL DE CONSULTA SOBRE SEGURIDAO

• CORDSSAO CONSULTIVA ESPEGIAL DE SEGURAMCA

COMMISSION SPECIALE DE CONSULTATION SUR LA SÉCURITE

PAN AMERICAN UNION

Washingiono.D.c..U.g.A.

Cableaddress: PAU WASH DC

October 1et., 1963

Six:

As you know, the Special Consultative Committee on Security 1s

presently holding the first of its regular mectings, in accordance with

the statutes approved by the Council of the Organization on April 23 of

this year.

For the botter fulfulment of its work, and in accordance with Article.

13 of thee statuted, the Committee intenda to request of the governments

of the member statas of the Organization any information that they may have

regarding apoctic activities of international communiom in thia hemlaphere.

Among the important activitias of this kiad are the trips that many

Individuala make to Cuba for well-know ulterior purposed. In thie connec

top, I should greatly approciate it if you would furnish the Committee with

whatover information your government may deem it advisable to present

rogarding the trip that a largo group of U.S. citicena recently made to Cuba

at the invitation of that country'e goverent, about which the Committee

has learped through nowspapor reports that have recontly appearad in thia

country and in Latia America, Thie Information would be treated with the

confidence that your govorment desmod approplate.

Thank you la advance for your valuable asslatance in this mattar.

Accops, Sir, the ansurance of my highest conelderation.

Jullo Casät Doig Sanchez

Chairman

Special Consultative Committee

on Socurity

Mr. Ward P. Allen.

Alternato Representativo of the United States

Council of the Organication of Amorican States

Washlagton, D. C.

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9 4 0CT 1963

OSA

353-CUBA

SUBJECT:

#. ZUMWALt, 1h, UEN (OSD)

MAJOR GENERAL 1. D. ALCER, USA

MEAN ADMIRAL. WENDS, USN

MAJCA CENTRAL J. W. CARPENTEN, IX, USAS

BRIGADIER GENERAL W. B. JONES, DaNG

10/14/63

Intezdapartmental Goozdinating Committee of Cuban Attairs:

Actiono Taben Daring July Augunt 1963 in Gurbing Cabar

Enbrorsion in Ladle America

Attached is the Goal report of the Subcommittee on Subversion on

Actiona Takes During July hugnet 1963 in Curbing Cuban Subversion in

Latin Amories.

FW

1/30/63

Signed

Joseph A. Califano, Jr®

Joscph & Calitase, J%.

Cicneral Gounsal

Attachmeat

ho stated

CC:

Mr.

Mr Yanolricky (053)

MI. Califano

It Col Haig

ASG

OSA, ASG Control No 2 384 H

FILE

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FROM CLASSIFIED INCLOSURES

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Control of Iravel to and from Cuba

Central Intelligence Agency

a. Developed highly useful information on frequency

of Cuban "chartered" flights to Brazil, names and nationali-

ties of passengers and crew, and lax measures of control

followed by Brazilian authorities. Transmitted this informa

tion to station chiefs in the Latin American countries of the

non-Brazilians travelling on those flights.

b. Maintained close watch over travel to and from

Cuba. See Annex B for table of known travel of Latin

Americans during July and August.

C. As a result of information furnished to him by

the CIA Station in Buenos Aires and with the Station's urging,

the Argentine Minister of Interior indicated that he would

make every effort to prevent Argentine delegates from attend-

ing the International Union of Architects Congress in Havana.

d. At the urging of the CIA Station and the Embassy,

the Bolivian Minister of Interior issued in mid-July an

order prohibiting the granting of travel permits to Cuba or

other bloc countries to Bolivian nationals.

e..

Partly as a result of the efforts of the CIA

station in Santiago, the Government of Chile prohibited the

entry into Chile of organizers of the Cuban-sponsored Second

Latin American Youth Congress, which had been scheduled to

take place in Santiago in August. This was one of the

factors which led to postponement of the Congress.

f. After considerable prodding by the CIA Station

and the Embassy the Minister of Public Security of Costa

Rica presented legislative proposals to the Costa Rican

Assembly which will require all persons intending to travel

to Communist countries to have their travel approved by a

newly created Costa Rican security agency.

g• CIA Station in Mexico City developed information

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on Cuban merchant ships. Efforts are being made to obtain

more information and to encourage stricter controls by the

Mexican authorities.

Department of State

a. Instructed Embassy Conakry to try to persuade

Guinean authorities to deny use of airport facilicies by

flights on Habana-Moscow route.

These efforts achieved a

temporary withholding of permission for future regular flights,

at least until such time as the Soviets develop their own:

refueling facilities at Conakry.

b. Instructed Embassy Rio to approach Brazilian

authorities to express our deep concern at the growing

frequency of Cuban non-scheduled flights to Brazil and request

their cooperation in curbing them. Also instructed our

Embassies in several Latin American countries to work with CIA

station chiefs in furnishing the names of nationals of those

countries travelling on these flights to local authorities

and urging them: (1) to institute tighter controls on their:

own citizens travelling to Cuba, and (2), to express their

concern to the Brazilian Government over Cuban use of Brazil

as a way station for transporting subversives.

c. As a result of representations made to the

British Government about Cuban flights to the Cayman Islands

carrying Latin American subversives, the British developed

an administrative scheme which will effectively prohibit the

use of British Caribbean dependencies by Cubana as transit

points for passengers. The British intend to require transit

visas of passengers passing through their areas, and to

reject applications for such visas except in certain special

cases. Persons not possessing visas would be prevented from

leaving their aircraft, or would be returned to their point.

of origin.

d. Instructed Embassy Mexico City on August 29 to

inform the Mexican airline CMA that the United States is

opposed to a proposal

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carry refugees from Habana to Central America. CMA, as a

result, stated that they had no intention of proceeding

further with this project.

e.

Instructed our missions in Curacao and the Hague:

to investigate a report that KLM was planning to renew

scheduled Curacao-Habana flights and to reiterate US

opposition to resumption of air service to Cuba. KLM. assured

our Embassy that there is no plan to initiate service,

scheduled or non-scheduled, to Habana.

f. Instructed Embassy Ottawa to express our strong

objections to a proposal that a Cubana charter flight pick

up a second group of U.S. students in Montreal to fly them

to Cuba. The flight was not authorized.

g. Instructed Consulate Georgetown to investigate

Cubana approaches to secure flight facilities. Mission

reported on August 1 that the Governor bad no knowledge of

any talks between the B.G. Ministry of Communications. and

the Cuban Government regarding landing rights for Cubana

planes. The Governor indicated his intention to inquire

further and to keep us advised. London reported that neither

the Cuban nor the British Guiana Governments had raised the

issue of landing rights with H.M.G.

h. Urged the governments of Mexico, Canada, Jamaica

and the Netherlands to refuse to assist the Cuban Government

in its efforts to find a short route for return of the 58

American students who illegally travelled to Cuba. Also

informed Pan American Airways that we were opposed to a Cuban

request for a PAA charter flight to fly the students' from

Habana to New York.

1.

Instructed our missions at Port of Spain and

Barbados on several occasions to approach these governments

to express the concern of the U.S. at indications of Cuban

Interest in the use of their aviation facilities:

Embassy Port of Spain discussed with the Foreign Secretary

of Trinidad various legal moves available that would enable

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GOTT to control movements of aircraft within their territory,

citing examples of such controls instituted by Mexico, Canada

and Ireland. He indicated receptiveness to the proposal that

the list of suggestions be made available to the

aviation

officials concerned.

j. During a previous reporting period Embassy

Santiago urged the government of Chile to refuse visas to

Cuban delegated to a preparatory meeting for the II Latin

American Youth Congress scheduled for August in the Chilean

capital. Inability of Cuban delegates to obtain Chilean

visas for this meeting is one of the contributing factors to

the Cuban sponsors announcing during August that the meeting

had been postponed.

k. Sent general instructions to our missions in

countries which participate in the International Union of

Architects asking them to urge the cooparation of governmental

authorities in preventing or discouraging the attendance of

their nationals to the VII UIA Congress in Habana, September

29 " October 4, 1963. Followed this up with instructions to

individual posts to try where feasible to dissurde

architects from free world countries from serving on the jury

for the selection of a Bay of Pigs monument.

1. Urged Canadian Government to block a plan to

commence food parcel shipments to Cuba on a commercial basis

that would have required the establishment of scheduled

weekly charter flights by Canadian planes.

2.

Control of Movement of Cuban Propaganda

Central Intelligence Agency

Responding to the urging of the CIA Station, police

of the State of Guanabara seized large quantities of

propaganda brought into Brazil by passengers on the special

Cubana flights.

For example, some 50 pounds of printed

propaganda was taken from the various passengers who arrived

on the 16 August Cubana flight.

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Department of Defense

a. Continued surveillance of the area surrounding

Cuba during the months of July and August at the same rate

and with the same emphasis as prior to 1 July 1963.

b. Continued to maintain U.S. Forces, primarily from

within the Atlantic Command, available to assist other

Caribbean governments in the interception of suspicious craft

in territorial waters, as might be requested. No such

requests were received from any other government during the

period covered by this report. However, U.S. Forces did keep

track of the location of the Soviet merchant freighter

MITCHURINSK, which was suspected of carrying subversives and

arms from Cuba to British Guiana in mid-July. MITCHURINSK

was under U.S. surveillance from its departure from Habana

until United Kingdom forces assumed the task of keeping this

ship under surveillance upon its approach to Georgetown,

British Guiana. Subsequently, British police search of

MITCHURINSK in British Guiana

waters revealed nothing of a

suspicious nature.

Central Intelligence Agency

At the repeated urging of the CIA Station in Lima,

the Peruvian Government late in August published a new anti-

terrorists law providing a penalty of no less than five

years imprisonment for persons who participate in guerrilla

activities or in the illegal manufacture of weapons of

explosives.

The Peruvian National Intelligence Service is working

on a lead furnished by the CIA Station in Lima concerning a

200 ton vessel reportedly involved in arms traffic.

Department of State

• Instructed our Consulate General in Georgetown to

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conceal illicit arms traffic out of Cuba) had developed

between British Guiana and Cuba. Investigations to date

have been negative.

4. Control of Transfer of Funds

Department of State

Cooperated with the Foreign Assets Control Office

of the Treasury Department in developing blocking controls

with respect to Cuba which went into effect on July 9, 1963.

5. Strengthening of Counter-Insurgency Capabilities

Department of Defense

Continued the installation of military communica

tions facilities in Latin America. Operational dates for

the multi-channel radio stations to be installed in Managua,

Nicaragua and Tegucigalpa, Honduras have been delared to 15

October 1963 and 15 December 1963, respectively because of

new engineering and contractual requirements. Negotiations

are continuing with Colombia and Ecuador for installation

of U.S. military radio facilities. Completion of a new

coumercial trans-isthmian cable in the Panama Canal Zone

within the coming month is expected to improve military

communications within the United States and the Commander™

in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command.

b. Continued the surveillance of Cuba by U.S.

Forces, reporting as before to U.S. commanders, organiza-

tions and agencies. Reports of surveillance have been

disseminated to all who have a requirement to know.

C.

Established a 24 hour per day, 7 day per week

duty watch at the U.S. Military Groups in the Caribbean

countries in conjunction with implementation of the military

alerting system.

Continued efforts to staff the U.S.

Southern Command Intelligence Center with properly cleared,

trained personnel (this center is the military focal point

for relaying information concerning the movement of

subversives) Filled, partially, the authorized billets in

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the U.S. Southern Command Intelligence Center and took

under consideration the problem of an increase in the billet

structure in the Center.

The Commander-in-Chief, U.S.

Southern Command together with his intelligence officer

visited Honduras and Nicaragua and determined that no

significant problems existed which would interfere with

effective operations in those countries.

d. Action previously initiated by the Commander,

U.S. Naval Forces, Southern Command (COMUSNAVSO) to establish

a Small Craft Inspection and Training Team (SCIATT) as a

contribution to the Caribbean Surveillance System is progress

Ing satisfactorily. Permanent assignment of U.S. Coast Guard

personnel to SCIATT in the Canal Zone has been approved and

the U.S. Coast Guard has taken appropriate implementing

actions:

e. During the period of this report, the SCIATT cone:

ducted an on-the-job training course at Puntarenas, Costa

Rica. •

Training was given to 13 members of the Guardia Civil

of Costa Rica who were either newly assigned to the 40 foot

Coast Guard utility boats (CGUBs) or were to be assigned as

replacement crew members.

A quarterly inspection and evaluation of the CGUBs

provided other Central American countries was conducted

during the period 17 to 31 August by a mobile training team

(MTT) made up of SCIATT personnel.

& Continued efforts to improve the internal security

of Latin American armies through the provision of Intelligence

Advisors. Presently there

are such advisors assigned to 14

Latin countries, emphasizing counterintelligence and counter-

subversion.

h. During the reporting period MTTs conducted train-

ing in counterinsurgency. for the armed forces of Colombia,

Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru and El Salvador.

1. Civic Action MTIs were sent to Guatemala, Bolivia,

Colombia, El Salvador, Jamaica and Ecuador

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Exchange of Intelligence on Cuban Subversion

Central Intelligence Agency

CIA Stations throughout Latin America continued in

a great majority of countries to furnish to the local internal

security organizations with whom they are in liaison informa-

tion concerning travelers to and from Cuba, as well as such

information as came to CIA's attention concerning the movement

of tunds, arms and propaganda material. In many instances,

the furnishing of information to the internal security

service by the CIA Station was paralleled by the furnishing of

similar information to the Foreign Office by the Ambassador

or his representative. The response to this information has

varied greatly. The Central American countries, in general,

began to pay greater attention to the information and act on

sit. At the other extreme, the Brazilian Government during

the reporting period showed little inclination to follow up

on the information.

Department of State

a.

Reiterated to the Foreign Minister of Peru our

interest in having the facts of the Puerto Maldonado incident

brought to the attention of the OAS, and urged that this

action be taken as soon as possible.

b. Urged the Government of Guatemala to submit

evidence of communist activity to the OAS.

Surveillance of Cuban Diplomatic, Commercial and Cultural

Missions

Department of State

Instructed Embassy La Paz to follow up closely

charges of involvement by the Cuban mission in internal

policies of Bolivia, and, at the Embassy's discretion,

point out to Bolivian officials the opportunity for a possible:

break in relations with Cuba. Embassy La Paz was

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press for a break when the evidence of Cuban intervention

did not prove to be as conclusive as originally reported.

8.

Other Special Actions

Department of State

Obtained action by the COAS on July 3 on the

Lavalle Committee Report transmitting the document to the

governments and urging them to implement the specific and

general recommendations contained therein as soon as

possible.

b. Through Embassy Managua informed the Nicaraguan

Government of the matters which we wanted to have considered

during the informal meeting of the Ministers of Security and

Interior of the Isthmian countries held in Managua, August

26-28 in preparation for the second formal meeting of the

Managua Security Conference countries later this year.

c. Explained in detail the nature of the Cuban

threat and the related policy objectives of the U.S., during

conversation in London and in Washington with Mr. Adam Watson,

newly appointed British Ambassador to Cuba.

United States Information Agency

a. The Agency's press service during the reporting

period transmitted 12 articles, commentaries, and back

grounders on its wireless file service to USIA posts through-

out Latin America for placement in the local newspapers and

the Voice of America Spanish broadcasts to Latin America

carried a total of 28 commentaries and features on the subject

of Cuban-based subversion.

These stories were designed to

alert people in Latin America to the dangers of this

subversion.

b. In response to standing Agency instructions to

give special attention to developments related to Cuba-based

subversion, USIA posts in Latin America were prompt it

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the Latin American press, all of which was used in the

Agency's radio and press output.

The main developments treated In the Agency's radio

and press coverage included Castro's July 26 speech urging

revolutions in Latin America, the discovery of terrorist

weapons factories in Guayaquil, the Ecuadorean Vice

President's accusation

of Cuban responsibility for terrorism,

the Cuban use of Grand Cayman as a way station for subversive

elements from Cuba, the expulsion from the University of a

Bolivian youth leader for receiving funds from Cuba,

Castro-trained guerrillas In Honduras, and Bolivian protests

against meddling by the Cuban Embassy in the miner's strike.

A Voice of American roving reporter in Latin America

provided several reports on the subversion picture in coun

tries he visited.

In support of the Agency's effort or. Cuban-based

subversion, the publications center in Mexico began work on

three pamphlets during the period based on Castro's report

of his visit to the Soviet Union (showing that he contradicted

himself in some of his extravagant claims of Soviet progress),

the losses suffered by Cuban labor under Castro, and the

fate of political prisoners in Cuba. When completed, these

pamphlets will be reproduced and distributed in quantity

throughout the area.

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CIA Intelligence Annex

1. Travel to and from Cuba

Brazil

Chartered Cubana airlines flights between Cuba and

Brazil have become a major means of transporting non-Cuban

Latin Americans to and from Cuba. The five such flights

since late July have carried nearly 400 non-Cibans.

The first of the recent series - on 25 July -

brought 7i Latin American passengers to Havana for the

26. July celebrations. The other four flights -- on 15,

22, 28 and 29 August -- transported over 200 latin

Americans to Brazil from Havana. Some of the aircraft

involved returned to Cuba with smaller numbers of passen

gers. Many of the 200 Latin American passengers had

apparently been in Cuba for longer periods and some had

probably received training there. Of the passengers on

these four flights to Brazil, 75 were natives of

Caribbean area countries.

Their circuitous travel through

Brazil was evidently designed to help conceal the fact

that they had been in Cuba:

Costa Rica

Two Costa Ricans were among the passengers on a

chartered Cubana plane which was turned back to Havana

at Grand Cayman on 11 July 1963. One. was Luz Marina

Hernandez Salazar, the only Costa Rican woman known to

have been sent to Cuba for training as a guerrilla

warfare instructor. She had been in Cuba since September

1962. The other Costa Rican passenger was Carlos Guillen,

former head of the Costa Rican Society of Friends of

the Cuban Revolution, who had been in Cuba

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Ecuador

The CIA Station in Quito reports that the military

junta, which assumed power in Ecuador on ll July, can

be expected to follow the guidance of the Embassy and

the Station in controlling travel to and from Cuba and

the Soviet bloc. The activities of Cuban subversives

in Ecuador, at least for the present, have been greatly

inhibited by the mass arrests of Communists and pro-

Cubans and by the outlawing of the Communist Party by

the junta.

Honduras

It is reported that the Honduran Communist Party

has issued orders to its members not to attempt to

travel to Cuba at the present time. This action is

apparently the result of the increasing vigilance of

the Honduran government and the greater implementation

of stricter travel controls.

2. Movement of Cuban Propaganda

Guatemala

According to an unconfirmed report received in July,

a Bureau of Information of the Communist Party of

Guatemala is being formed in collaboration with Prensa

Latina and is to be managed clandestinely. It expects

to receive news by shortwave radio from Cuba and print

bulletins for distribution by radio stations.. This may

indicate a pattern by which Prensa Latina will attempt

to distribute on a more clandestine basis in other areas

1n

Latin America.

Honduras

It was reliably reported that in mid-July 1963, a

small coastal freighter landed 14 large boxes of Communist

propaganda on the northern coast of Honduras, the boxes

having been transferred at sea from a larger vessel. The

report has not, been confirmed

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Until

•3..: Movement of Guerrillas and Arms

Argentina

Extremist members of the Peronist Party, apparently

under the leadership of such figures as Hector Villalon

and John William Cooke, were repotted to be receiving

encouragément and pronises of large surs of money from

Cuba in support of their efforts to train and organize

subversive groups in Argentina.

Villalon has stated

that his plan calls for expanding and accellerating

subversive activities in Argentina culminating in a

complete take over within two years. There is no indica-

tion that Peron himself has agreed to this pian. It has

been reported that leaders of the Communist Party of

Argentina have been greatly annoyed by the tendency of

the Castro regime to support the revolutionary Peronists

without having consulted the Connunist Party of Argentina:

It Is reported that the so-called Army of National

Liberation (ANL) of Arzentina, which 1s a relatively

small Castroist organization directed from Cuba by

John William Cooke, has in recent weeks been negotiating

for the purchase of arms and has been offered submachine

guns, bazookas and other weapons by two or three private

suppliers.

It was reported, however, that the AN was

having difficulty getting enough dollars from Cuba to

make significant purchases possible.

Bolivia

The Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Relations on 23

August protested formally to the Cuban Chargé d'Affaires

in La Paz against the Cuban Embassy support to the miners

during the recent crisis..

Subsequently, however, Foreign

Minister Fellman informed the Cuban Chargé that he need

not fear that the Government of Bolivia would break:

diplomatic relations with Cuba. There has, in fact, been

no hard information linking the Cuban Embassy with the

present mining crisis in spite of some unconfirmed

reports of Cuban support.

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Brazil

Cuban Ambassador to Brazil, Raul Roa Kouri, is

reported to have attempted to encourage peasant

league

leader Francisco Julio to revitalize the leagues in

northern Brazil.' According to some reports efforts are

being made to unify the leadership and bring dissident

elements under the general direction of Juliao. Other

reports indicate that, although the Cuban Embassy is.

providing guidance and possibly financiläl support to the

movement, it had not yet resolved the internal dissension:

in the leagues.

Colombia

From Colombia reports have been received of incre-

asing Cuvan assistance, primarily in the form of training

courses by instructors who have been trainad in Cuba,

to the Worker-Student-Feasant Movement (MOEC). (. small

guerrilla band encountered by the Colombian aimy in

July 1963 was broken up when five members of the band

were killed and two others captured. A small quantity

of arms and a considerable amount of books and pamphlets

on revolutionary warfare, photographs of Fidel Castro,

Camilo Cienfuegos and Mao Tse-tung, and bulletins of

the MOEC were found at the camp site. Recent reports

have indicated an Increase in the terrorist efforts of

the MOEC and increased promises of assistance from Che

Guevara with regard to the training of additional MOEC

members..

Costa Rica

There have been a number of unconfirmed reports

alleging small-scale training of revolutionaries on

Costa Rican territory for guerrilla activity in

Nicaragua.: For example, in mid-July an increased number

of guerrillas were reportedly being trained in Costa Rica

•by Adolfo Garcia Barberena, well-known Nicaraguan

revolutionary leader and member of the FLN (National

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anti-Nicaragua revolutionary group). In early August,

Alberto Serrato, leader of the FLN in Costa Rica,

(reportedly left with a group of Nicaraguans for

• the

Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border. Another report indicated

that Hector Bogantes Zamora, Costa Rican agitator was

supposed to have left San Jose in mid-August for the

Nicaraguan border to supervise the passage of Nicaraguan

guerrillas from Costa Rica into Nicaragua. Bogantes,

who recently returned from attending the May Day celebra

tions in Cuba, is said to have been assigned this

responsibility by the Costa Rican Communist Party.

so far as we know, the GoN, which is normally well

Intormed and highly sensitive to such activities on its

borders, has not made any complaints or otherwise signifled

concern or awareness of these reported activities.

Renduras

The Honduran armed forces began to move against a

group of pro-Castro guerrillas operating against the

Nicaraguan Government and active in the vicinity of the

Nicaraguan-Honduran border.

The Nicaraguan National Guard

has been conducting operations on its side of the border,

against the insurgents since July. The dense jungle and

difficult terrain, however, will impede the efforts of

both forces to eliminate the guerrillas.

Information on the guerrilla force is scanty and

conflicting. It is apparently composed of members of the

National Liberation Front (FLN), a Communist-dominated

and Cuban-supported revolutionary organization active:

primarily in Honduras and Nicaragua since the fall of

1962. The strength of the force is not known:

Nicaragua

A captured guerrilla of the FLN (National Liberation

Front - a Communist-dominated, Cuban-supported, anti-

Nicaraguan group) confessed that he was a member of a

group of 46 who entered Nicaragua from Honduras on 22 July:

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He said that their mission was to establish a base camp

in the Isabella mountains, Department of Jinotega, in

order to indoctrinate the peasants and to train them in

guerrilla tactics. He admitted that he had received six

months' guerrilla warfare training in Cuba and that other

FLN leaders had received similar training. He also said

that: the FLN training camp in Honduras was near-El Lagarto,

on the Patuca River.

4. Transfer of Funds

British Guiana

In British Guiana, Guiana Import-Export Corporation

(Gimpex) received a one million dollar advance payment

deposited by the Cuban Alimpex Corporation for

goods to

be delivered to Cuba in the future. Gimpex has, in turn,

loaned this money to the Government of British Guiana.

Cheddi Jagan's People's Progressive Party is the major

stockholder in Gimpex.

Mohammed Kassim, Manager of Gimpex,

has indicated that

Gimpex will be able to securs additional;

loans from Cuba in amounts sufficient to tide the Jagan

government over any foreseeable crisis. It was also

reported that Gimpex plans to buy aircraft, spare parts

and other machinery in the United States for reshipment

to Cuba.

General

Reports continue to be received from many places

Indicating that the suitcase full of currency is still one

of the most common methods used by the Cubans for trans.

mitting funds for use in supporting subversive activities

throughout the hemisphere. Instances where such funds

have been confiscated by the police have occurred recently

in El Salvador,

Panama and Ecuador.

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ANNEX

JULY 1963

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INATIONALITY

ARGENTINA

BOLIVIA:

BRAZIL

TiRe GUIANA

Chile

COLOMBIA

COSTA RICA

TOM. REP.

ECUADOR

FY SALVADOR

GUATEMALA"

NAITI

HONDURAS

JAMAICA

MEXICO

NICARAGUA

PANAMA

PARAGUAY

PERU

TRINIDAD

URUGUAY

VENEZUELA

20

29

12

37

33

65

15

17

2,2

OT ALS

319:

KNOWN TRAVEL OF LATIN AMERICANS TO AND FROM C BA

JULY

TO

FROM

-PURPOSE OF TRIPTO CUBA

26th of July Celebrations.

14

25

26th of July Celebrations.

26th of July Celebrations.

26th of July Celebrations. A returning Chilean Diplomat

26th of July celebrations:

25th of July Celebrations.

26th of July Celebrations:

26th of July Celebrations:

26th of July Celebrations.

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30-Football team. 3-to 26th of July Celebrations

26th

of July Celebrations.

26th of July Celebrations:

26th of July Celebrations.

26th of July Celebrations:

15

26th of July Celebrations:

most attending

will remain

to

work

26th of July Celebrations.

47.

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NATIONALITY

ARGENTINA

BOLIVIA

BRAZIL

BR. GUIANA

CHILE

COLOMBIA

COSTA RICA

DOM: REP:

ECUADOR

EL SALVADOR

GUATEMALA

HAITI

HONDURAS

JAMAICA

MEXICO

NICARAGUA

PANAMA

PARAGUAY

PERU®

TRINIDAD

URUGUAY

VENEZUELA

parang

KNOWN TRAVEL OF LATIN AMERICANS TO AND FROM CUBA

AUGUST, 1963

AUGUST

TO

FROM

22

24

10

47

14

PURPOSE OF TRIP TO CUBA

26th July Celebrations

22-Returning from 26th July Celebrations Dad

Herder Institute in Leipzig.

8-Physical Ed. Seminar - 1-Seeking funds - 10-Returning.

from 26 July Celebrations.

2 3613

26th July Celebrations:

I-Study at University of Sofia

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26th July Celebrations.

10

16

26th July Celebrations

9-Returning were members of (MIR);

who received

guerrilla training

26th July Celebrations

26th July Celebrations

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