ARRB REQUEST: CIA-IR-32: AMWORLD- INFORMATION ON PURPOSE AND RELATION TO CUBAN EXILE GROUP
Originator: ARRB
From: ARRB
To: CIA/HRG
Document date: 12/18/1997
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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Assassination Records Review Board

600 E Street NW • 2nd Floor • Washington, DC 20530

(202) 724-0088 • Fax: (202) 724-0457

December 18, 1997

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Mr. John Pereira

Chief

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of Intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

. Washington, D.C. 02505

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Re:

Status of CIA Responses to Assassination Records Review Board's Requests for

Additional Information and Records

Dear John:

I am writing to follow-up on our telephone call earlier today and to convey my serious

concern about the status of CLA's responses to the Review Board's requests for

additional information and records. Although CLA has completed its responses to

several requests, and many others have been answered in part, a significant number of

requests have not been answered - including some that were made more than two

years ago. On many occasions we have been assured that responses would be

forthcoming, only to have promised dates come and go without answers. It is now

extremely important that these requests be answered promptly so that we may conduct

a proper follow-up if necessary. The issues that we can now identify as being of the

highest priority are identified in the text below by double asterisks (**)' and we request

that they be answered within the next month. We request that the remaining requests

be answered by April 1, 1998.

The remainder of this letter is divided into two parts: first, a listing of the formal

requests tor information and records

guest for ind mection Perecortme wond, ul underst and informal requests fol

following points differs from ours so that we can resolve any potential discrepancies.

'As identified more fully below, the issues are: CIA-1 Organizational Material,

-IA-6 Cables and Dispatches, CLA-13 Backchannel Communications, CLA-IRO.

ITLINGUAL Documents, CIA-IR-04 Disposition of Angleton Files, CLA-IR-07 Claud

Barnes Capehart, CIA-IR-15 Electronic "take" from Mexico City, CLA-IR-21 DRE

Monthly Operational Reports, CLA-IR-22 "A" Files on Clay Shaw and Jim Garrison.

BOARD MEMBERS: John R. Tunheim, Chair • Henry F. Graff • Kermit !. Hall • William L. Joyce • Anna K. Nelson

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Mr. John Pereira

December 18, 1997

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CLA-IR-32 AMWORLD.

The Review Board seeks information regarding the purpose of AMWORLD and

its connection with the Cuban exile groups.

The Review Board has been provided some information in regard to this request

that appears to be incomplete. The CLA is now seeking additional information to

correct or to clarify its previous answers. The Review Board seeks an immediate,

full, and accurate formal response to this request. Once the formal statement is

provided, this request will be complete

Conclusion

Please let me know if you have any supplements or corrections to the lists above. We

would very much like to ensure that these matters are handled expeditiously. As

always, we appreciate your cooperation and assistance.

Sincerely,

T. Jeremy

Executive Director

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CC:

Assassination Records Review Board

J. Barry Harrelson

Linda Cipriani, Esq:

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ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY

2 February 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Fredrick C. Wickham @ DO

Lee S. Strickland @DA

< Mary Lou Cummings

John F. Pereira

FROM:

J. Barry Harrelson

JFK Project Officer

OFFICE:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

OIM/HRP

ARRB Requests - Priorities

ARRB letter did 18 Dec 1997, Status of ARRB Request for Additional

Information

I have been advised by the ARRB staff that an updated "Status of Requests" letter will be sent to

the Agency early next week The following requests will be listed as priorities to be completed in

February::

CIA-14

Mexico City Station Annual Reports (DO)

CIA-IR-06

QKENCHANT

(DO)

CIA-IR-08 "Family Jewels"

(DCI/IRO and DO)

CIA-IR-09 George Bush

CIA-IR-11 Warren Commission Critics

(DO, DA, DCI/IRO)

CIA-IR-27 Security Files for Five Individuals,

CIA-IR-32 AMWORLD

(DA, DO)

(DA)

(DO).

I have partial responses to some of these requests; call me if you have questions or need the status of

your response.

CC:

Eileen M. Wukitch @ DO

Becky L. Rant @ DA

Kathryn I. Dyer @ DA (bcc: Bonnie K. Hunter-Y-)

Sent on 2 February 1998 at 01:26:47 PM

ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY

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SECRET

CL BY: 0232058)

CL REASON: Section 1.5 C

DECL ON: X1

DRV FRM: HUM 2-82

6 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Gary M. Breneman-Y-

FROM:

Gloria M. Boyd @ DO

OFFICE:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

AIRO/DO

(C) CIA IR 32 - AMWORLD

Description of AMWORLD as requested.

Original Text of Lawrence E. Boring-Y-

Original Text of Lawrence E. Boring-Y-

CL BY:(013872)

CL REASON: Section 1.5 C

DECL ON: X1

DAV FAM: HUM 2-82

From the Desk of Lawrence E. Boring- Y-

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NOTE FOR:

FROM:

OFFICE:

DATE:

Gloria M. Boyd@DO

Lawrence E. Boring}Y-

(U) DO/IRO/PRB

08/05/98 02:06:16 PM

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SUBJECT:

(C) CIA IR 32 - AMWORLD

(C)

In response to the AMWOLD follow-up questions posed by the AARB:

"Was part of the program to put in place a government in exile?

"Was there ever a government in exile?

I would offer the following as some suggested language.

(C) "Based on file reviews and recollections from officers involved in the Cuban program, there was never

a Cuban Government in Exile. During the planning for the Bay of Pigs operation it was envisaged that

after the invasion site had been secured, Miro Cardona and the Cuban Revolutionary Council would be

flown to the area to establish a new Cuban Government. The invasion site was never secured.

(C) "The AMWORLD Project, begun well after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and after the release

of Manuel Artime Buesa and other Bay of Pigs veterans from Cuban prisons, was designed to support

and unite several Cuban exile groups under the control of Artime in an effort to enhance the cohesion of

the exiles and augment Artime's capability to launch propaganda and paramilitary attacks against the

Cuban mainland. The overall mission of AMWORLD was to foment a popular unrising in Cuba which

could lead to the ultimate overthrow of Fidel Castro. There is no evidence that AMWORLD's mission

even remotely came close to fruition and no evidence that a projected government in exile was ever

considered as a viable option."

CC:

Sent on 5 August 1998 at 02:06:16 PM

CC:

Sent on 6 August 1998 at 10,47,47

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18 September 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Laura Denk

Executive Director, ARRB

FROM:

J. Barry Harrelson

JFK Project Officer, HRP/OIM

SUBJECT:

ARRB Request CIA-IR-32, AMWORLD

1.

The following is responsive to referent request.

2. AMWORLD was a project designed to support and unite

several Cuban exile groups under the control of Manuel

Artime Buesa.

Its purpose was to try to enhance the

cohesion of the various exile groups and provide Artime more

capability to launch propaganda and paramilitary attacks

against the Cuban mainland, the ultimate goal being to cause

a popular uprising in Cuba

which would overthrow Fidel

Castro's communist oriented dictatorship.

3.

Pigs

AMWORLD did not start until after the failed Bay of

invasion and after the release of Artime and other

invasion veterans from Cuban prisons.

The goals and mission

Of AMWORLD, of course,

were never fully recognized and the

idea of Cuban government in exile not realized.

4. This completes our work on this request. If you

have any questions, please advise.

J. Barry Harrelson

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