INFORMATION REPORT SUBJECT POLICY GUIDANCE DIRECTIVES FOR CUBAN INTELLIGENCE REPRESENTATIVES IN COSTA RICA AS ISSUED BY THE MA DEPT (INTELLIGENCE) OF THE GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 08/10/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUBJECT

Policy Guidance Directives

for Cuban Intelligence Repre-

sentatives in Costa Rica as

Issued bi the NA Department

(Intelligence) of the General

Directorate of Intelligence

1964

DATE DISTR

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10 August 1964

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DATE OF

INFO.

PLACE &

DATE ACQ.

(June 1961)

HELD REPORT NO.

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE

SOURCE,

A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cutan Intelligence

Service until April. 1964.

Headquarters Comment.

The following is a translation of a docu-

ment which source provided this Agencs, concerning the General

Directorate of Intelligence (Direccion

General de Intel gencia -

DGI), MA Department, policy guidance directive for Cuban

Intelli-

gence representatives in Costa Rica. The MA Department no longer

exists as such, having been divided into two departments: Illegal

Department (Ilegal) and the National Liberation Department

(Liberacion Nacional - LN).

DIRECTIVES OF THE M-A SECTION

COUNTRY: Costa Rica

IMPERATIVE:

1. Collective Action.

RETURN TO CIA

Background Use Only

Do Not Reproduce

2. Pre-revolutionary conditions.

3. Repressive elements.

4. The Costa Rican Communist Party (Popular Vanguard of Costa Rica).

5.

The solidarity with Cuba Movement.

6. The position of political parties toward the Cuban Revolution.

7. Counterrevolutionary organizations.

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8. Training camps and tases.

9. Costa Rican armed forces.

10. State of the political parties and groups of the country.

11. Relations with the United States of America.

12. Internal situation of the armed forces.

13. _ Lines of information on the Catholic Church.

IMPORTANT:

14.

Functioning,

characteristics, and data on the foreign service

its nembers, and the diplomatic body accredited in that

country.

15. The radio and written press.

16. The Latin Press and its functioning.

NECESSARY:

17. Governmental structure and the functioning of its organs.

18. State of the national economy:

LINE AND OBJECTIVES OF INFORMATION

COUNTRY: COSTA RICA

IMPERATIVE:

1. COLLECTIVE ACTION:

a) Resolutions of political or military nature within the

Latin American regional organizations in which the

b)

c)

d)

e)

Measures on travel to or from Cuba:

Resolutions taken in the body of C.D.C.A. against Cuba,

concrete plans to develop these against the Cuban

revolution.

Utilization of Costa Rican territory to carry out

military

operations along with the military nembers

of C.D.C.A., armies and units who take part in the same.

Resolutions taken in the C.D.C.A. against the National

Liberation Movement of the peoples of that zone

coordination taken between the same towards lending

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collaboration to the governnent through the Army.

Agrocments cr. ¿ha parilculara.

Resolutions taken in the body of the OAS against

Cuba.

Plans to carry eut the

same.

The Costa

Rican Government's participation in these.

2.

PRE-REVOLUTIONARY CONDITIONS:

a) , Possibilities for armed fighting.

b)

General conditions for the Revolution, Existing

contradictions.

c). Publications..

d) Progressive organizations:

points of view of these

organizations with regard to the development of the

Revolution.

e) Existing disagreements between

the revolutionar:

parties;

on what these disagreements are based

Arguments.

f) State of the projected Central American guerrilla

front.

Details known to the

Imperialists.

relations with the country's leftists.

g)

Repression against leftist forces.

h) Contact with the leftists in

order to know regularly

their points

of view at all times and when we need it.

1) The Movements:

workers, peasants, students. Their

organization,

forces, directors, labor, and relations

with the leftists. Degree of unity.

The workers' organization; their structure, strength,

j. degree of unity, penetration by Imperialism.

On the

F.U.T.R.A.. On

the Confederation "Rerum Novarum" (on

the Encyclical by Leo XIll).

k) On the peasant movement. The peasant leagues.

1) The Youth

rene truth movement: its leftist groups. Yankee

m) Possibilities of spontaneous manifestations of

fighting in the country.

3.

REPRESSIVE PODIES. CIA,

• Repressive bodies who function in the countr

'lans and objectives develope

Leaders of the same nown agents, offices, and premises

s these leaders.

which they use.

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0) Foreign adrisers of the repressive codies, name,

and work that the: fulfill.

)

Plans of coordination of the functions of Central

American repression which exists.

leetings of the

countries in che zone for this end.

Representatives

of Costa Rica who attend them.

Agreements and plane

taken. Form of control established.

Cuban elerents who participate in the repressive

tasks in Costa Rica.

Meters of the C.R.C. who

actually turk with the repressive codies.

Name

and lask of the same.

CIA elements who work in Costa Rica. Nationals

and. foreigners who work as agents.

Plans developed

by CIA against Cuba and the National Liberation

Movement.

Offices and places where they work.

Contact with Interpol. Coordination existing with

the same. Restrictive moasures on travel to Cuba.

Agents.

1. THE COSTA RICAN CONNUNIST PARTY (POPULAR VANGUARD OF COSTA RICA) .

a)

Its position towards the Il Declaration of Havana.

•b) Its position on Cuban-Soviet relations.

c) Its position towards the lines that Cuba follows

in the national and international political order.

Its position in relation to the disagreements in the

Communist International Movement.

e) In the case of China and the USSR.

[) In lhe case of Aliania and the USSR.

g) In reference to lugoslavia--China--L'SSR--Alkania.

h) In reference to peace.

1) In that which concerns peaceful coexistance.

i) Internal situation of the Party.

Directors (Data

on the same).

1)

m )

n)

Party

Forces.

Relations with other leftist organizations.

Disagreements.

Possibilities of union with the progressive and leftist

forces.

The position of the VAN in this sense.

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p) Its position concerning the unification of the

Central American Communists Parties with views

of the development of guerrillà fighting.

9) Solidarity-with-Cuba work.

r) ways of fighting officially adopted by the party:

5) Relations with the bourgeols partles.

t) Publieity media.

u)

Permanent and periodic contact with the Partido

Vanguardia Popular de Costa Rica.

THE MOVEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA

a).

The soclety of friends of the Cutan Revolution.

• Organization, forces, directors, participants

elations with the Popular Vanguard Party, an

with other progressive forces.

c) Repression of the Movement of Solidarity with Cuba.

d)

Possibilitles of active manifestations in favor

of Cuba.

e)

Influence of the development of the crisis in the

solidarity with Cuba.

f) Propaganda campaigns in favor or against.

POSITION OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES TONARD THE CUBAN REVOLUTION

a) Towards the II Declaration of Havana.

b) The Cuban-Soviet relations in questions which affect

Cuba and World Peace.

e) On the political and social changes in Cuba, in its

internal and external politics.

7. COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS

a) Delegations of the counterrevolutionary organizations

which function in the country,

their directors,

contact with the Costa Rican Government.

D)

Counterrevolutionary activities developed in the

Agency OPTEL,

Its contact with this Agency and

he publicity Agency of Armando Perez Garmendia,

ind that of the counterrevolutionary organizations

contact with CIA, the "dígoras elements, plans

developed toward the same orjectives.

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el Activities of the delegation of CRC.

Its direciors,

contact of these with

the Party of Figures and with

Figueres. communicatiors existing betweer the CHC

and the Custa Rica Branch.

Through whon is it

accumplisica and what seans are used for the same.

Through whom do the: receive financial aid.

Contact

of CRC with Fascist organizations and wita the Costa

Rican anti-Communist Novement.

Plans.

d) Contact existing between Figueres and Manolo Ray, ald

that the latter

receives from the Figueres followers,

delegate in Costa Rica.

e) Economic or military aid that the counterrevolutionary.

organizations receive from the government or from .

political parties and Costa Rican organizationg:

through what person this is received.

•f) Activities of Jose Suarez Nuñez.

Suarez's campaigns

"against the members of the solidarity and the

parties and progressive groups.

8. TRAINING CANPS AND BASES

a) Training camps of mercenaries who function in the

country.

Location,

number of mercenaries who are

training, type and

time of training, orgarizations

which participate li the same, directors uf the

camps, teachers.

b)

Activities of the counterrevolutlonary elements

who are active in the farm

"El Viejo"

', Guanacaste

Province.

Procedure of the planes that land there.

Destination.

Counterrevolutionary elements who

function in

the same place.

Thoir plans.

Contact

of these with the

radical counterrevolutionary

organizations in Costa Rica--with what elements.

Other maritline or aerial bases of operation of the

counterrevolutionary elements, equipment arailable

in the same place.

Organizations that direct it.

Elements of the sane who

participate or who are

Their plans, objectives.

Movement of equipment.

9. COSTA RICA ARNED FORCES

a) Organization of the vational Guard. Units. Eflectives.

Armaments.

Iransport and bases of the sare. Chief

of these.

b) Report on any structural organic charge sittin the

Jational Guard that affects its structure and functiong.

Date on which this change takes place, morives and

reasons made known for then.

Participation of the Nationnl Guard in the CDCA.

Conditions under which the: participate.

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10.

STATE OF THE PARTIES OR MOLITICAL GROUPS OF THE COLSTRY

a) State in which the: are in relation to composition,

force, penetration, factions, directors, prograus:

National Liberation Party

Republican National Party

National Union Party

Party of National Alliance

Revolutionary Civic Union Party

Independent Republican Party,

Socialist Party

Popular Vanguard Party, and other political groups.

b) Proportion of the Parties in Parliament.

Participation in the government of the bourgeois

political parties,

their means of propaganda, and

internal divisions.

d)

The relations of the political parties with the

Embassy and the North

American monopolies, with

the Catholic Church and with the armed forces.

€)

Their position in the national and the international

sphere.

Organizationg

of fascist

the government, with the

couple had neat me mith

the lankee Embassy.

Its structure, components,

directors,

anti-Communist campaigns, arguments,

attacks on Cuba.

g) Argumentation in which the accusations

are made

that Cuha is a base of Communist aggression against

the American continent.

h) Origin of the base of political parties.

11. RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

a) The Alliance for Progress. The Peace Corps.

b)

The North American military aid, role of the North

American military mission.

Armament supplies.

Installation of air and naval bases and of tracking

• rockéts.

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e)

Anti-Guerrilla schools; programs. direction,

organization, data on

the personnel who direct

onuse schools, students and data on the same.

Teaching

the "Clvil Guard" In Fort Gulick, Panama.

Nanes, data, It's activities applied in the country.

The Yankee Enbass":

Data on its relations with the

reactionar; organizations.

Its relations with the

Catholic Church.

Data on the activitles of the

Ambassador, and of Embassy personnel.

Functionaries

of the government with close relations with it.

Influence of the CIA, Its work, its leaders, its

contacts with the government. and with the Catholic

Church.

g)

Political influence of the monopolies. Their

• means of ideological penetrations.

Relations with credit organizations of the

United Statos.

1) Plans of aid for the development of touriso and

for the construction of roads.

1) Real ends pursued, personnel who work in these

activities, etc.

12. INTERNAL SITUATION OF THE ARMED FORCES

tendencies

13.

b) Possibility of sympathetic feelings toward Cuba

within the Vational Guard.

LINES OF INFORMATION OY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

a) Catholic Ecclesiastical Hierarchy.

b) Attitude and contradictions between the native

and foreign clergy.

Participation of the Catholic Church in the

countr?'

s internal politics.

1) Laymen orsanizations of the Catholic churc

such as Catholic lator youth, Catholic men

Knights of Columbus, etc.).

Penetration

Penetrat one cone dethod church in the lato

The coperative movement:

strength, participating

sectors, structure, leaders.

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Penetration of the Catholic Church in the country's

education, in the various levels.

h) Other non-Catholic religious organizations.

11: IMPORTANT:

Functioning, characteristics and data on the Foreign

Service and

its members, and the diplonatic corps accredited

in that country.

a) United Natións. Organization of American States .

and JID.

b) Costa Rican functionaries in Latin American countries,

functionaries of other Latin American countries in

Costa Rica.

0) Rapid and regular remittance of all information

obtained in diplomatic circles concerning that

country's political life, diplonatic work, anc

extra-official labors of

embassies accredited in

the country.

d) Data on the functioning, etc., of the Foreign Service.

e)

Functions and data

on the functionaries of the

diplomatic corps accredited in that country.

15. RADIO AND WRITTEN PRESS

a) Data on distribution organs and personnel of the newspajers.

b) Data on radio broadcasting organs and their personnel.

c)

Possibility of utilizing the reporters of both types

in that country and abroad.

16.

PRENSA LATINA AND ITS FUNCTIONING

a) Activities of its director and correspondents.

Possibilities ofutilizing them for our work.

b) Utilization of Prensa Latina serrices in the country's

press.

c) Political and journalistic deficiencies in Prensa

Latina:

the Prensa Latina branch.

d). Things which are not adequately made known

concerning events of interest or importance

that occur

in Cuba, by the Prensa Latina branch.

e) Suggestions and ways ofutilizing or improving

the labor of the Prensa Latina branch in total

or definite form.

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17.

18.

NECESSARY:

GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AND THE FUNCTIONS OF ITS ORGANI SAS.

Character of the government, progran, international

policy.

b)

c)

Relations between the presidency and the ministries.

Functions of Congress. Most prominent figures.

Their relations with

the Yankee Embassy and Yankee

monopolists.

Representation of the bourgeois

parties and

socialist classes.

Data on the personalities nearest Orlich.

es. Judicial Power: Persons occupying high positions.

Important laws, repressive laws.

Relations of the

judicial power with the other. powers.

f)

lecessity of finding collaborators who can make

eports regularly and when we need them, concernin

the points noted here.

STATUS OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY.

a) North American investments.

b) Participation of the national oligarchy in the

economy.

Non-North-American capital and its influence.

d) Trend of the employment level.

e) Relations of the country with regard to Central

American economic integration.

{)

Necessity of finding collaborators who can inform

us periodically on economic matters.

g)

Possibilities of a new economic policy by North

American monopolists in that country.

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