SECOND PROGRESS REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE
Agency: ARMY
Originator: ARMY
From: JAMES K. PATCHELL
To: MR. VANCE
Document date: 5/9/63
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ORIGINATOR: ARMY

FROM: JAMES K. PATCHELL

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MR. VANCE

TITLE:

SECOND PROGRESS REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE

DATE :

05/09/1963

PAGES:

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SUBJECTS :

CUBAN SUBVERSION IN LATIN AMERICA

TRAVEL TO CUBA - IMPEDIMENTS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMEN'T

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: IB; 4

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 04/02/1998

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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.

tweak. Patchell

James K. Patchell

Lt. Colonel USA

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SUB-COMMITTEE ON CUBAN SUBVERSION

4 MAY 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Subject: Second Progress Report of the Sub-Committee

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

Report,

Sub-Committee. on Cuban Subversion,

which provides an

account of the actions taken during the month of April by the

several departments and agencies in executing the actions

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.

Nucal

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 163.

c. The Organization of @ Caribbean Surveillance System

15 March 163.

d. The Exchange of Intelligence - 25 March 163.

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

I. 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 name major avenues as the

action programs proposed by the Sub-Coumittee.

An interdepartmental

team is currently visiting

the Isthmian capitals; consulting with

Ministers of government and authorities designated by them in the

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fields of immigration control, customs control, coastal surveillance

and the organization of a local counter-subversive agency.

For the Sub-Committee:

V. H. KRULAK

Major General,

USMO

Chairman

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ENCLOSURE

PROGRESS ACHIEVED DURING APRIL IN IMPEDING TRAVEL TO CUBA

1. The Department of State has:

a. Participated 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 various Latin American and other

governments, discouraged participation in the Cuban solid-

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

success of the Congress from the Castro Communist point of

view.

2. The Department of Defense has:

a. Continued the US sea and air surveillance of the

area surrounding Cuba unt1l 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 1 July 1963.

c. Established an Intelligence Center at CARIBCOM Head-

quarters, in connection with the program of surface

surveillance of the Caribbean, for rapid processing and

dissemination to countries concerned, via the American

Ambassadors, of intelligence on the movement of subversives.

Study of the establishment of intelligence centers in the

Caribbean revealed that the Intelligence Center should be

established at Caribbean Command Headquarters and that a

center need not be established at Headquarters, Caribbean

Sea Frontier.

d. Established on 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

HAS

UNDER SHRVEILLANCE.

Ordered to the Canal Zone a Coast Guard Mobile

Training Team for a period of six months, beginning:

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

handling and maintenance together with surveillance

techniques to those Central American countries having

40

foot Coast Guard Utility Boats.

In addition, the Mobile

Training Team will assist as required in establishing a

permanent Small Craft Training and Inspection Facility in

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

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

use by the MTT and will be delivered there about 20 June.

3. The Central Intelligence Agency has:

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APPENDIX

RESOLUTION I PASSED AT THE 3-4 APRIL MANAGUA MEEJING 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 of 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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