Originator: NSC
From: DAVIS, JEANNE W.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 05/25/1976
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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AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_ NUMBER: 124-10189-10061

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-116395-1651X1

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: NSC

FROM:

DAVIS. JEANNE W.

TO: DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 05/25/1976

PAGES: 26

SUBJECT:

CC, REQ

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

08/18/1998

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NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

02/12/2001/

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RESTRICTIONS:

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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL

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MEMORANDUM FOR:

SUBJECT:

Mr. Clarence M. t...

Director

Federal Bureau of Investa

Senate Select Committee Recit

LBJ Library Documents

In connection with their current investigation of the assassination

of President Kennedy, the Senate Select Committee Staff has been

allowed to re-review documents in the LBJ Library relating to the

Kennedy assassination and alleged assassination attempts against

Fidel Castro. The Committee staff has now requested copies of certain

documents they reviewed in library files and the NSC has been asked

to authorize provision of these documents to the Committee. As an

alternative for particularly sensitive items, we may agree to grant

repeated access to some documents on NSC premises.

Before we answer their request we would like the views of your agency

as to whether the enclosed documents, which were classified by or concern

your agency, may be made available to the Senate Select Committee on a

classified basis or made available for access on NSC premises. I ask that

you have appropriate officials in your agency review these documents and

inform my office (395-3440) by c.o.b. tomorrow whether you have any

objection to making copies of these documents available to the Senate

Select Committee and its staff.

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IRAINING OF NEGROES IN CUBA

This Bureau is in receipt of a copy of a Central

Intelligenca Agency (CIA) communication dated October 31,

1967, regarding the training of Negroes in Cuba.

The original

of the communication was addressed to the Honorable Walt W.

Rostor, Special Assistant to the President. (8) (Al

Information is contained therein to the effect that

three Cuban sources during the past four months have reported

the existence of a training school near Santiago de Cuba where

from 100 to 150 young men are being groomed for subversive

onerations against the United States to include sabotage in

connection with race riots directed at bringing about a Negro

revolution in this country.

One source reported that

training includes courses

in English, taught by Soviet

instructors.

While two of the CIA sources described the

students as

Negroes, there was no indication that any of the

Negro students were

from the United States.

The third CIA

source described

them as young men from North Vietnam

No: il korea, Africa, and Latir due iran sountries (DU)

Information in the possession of this

Bureau indicates

that the above-described training school may well be an outgrowth

of the Tri-Continental Conference, held in Havana, Cuba, in

January, 1966, the declared purpose of which was

organizing

guerrilla warfare in Asia, Africa and Latin America. During the

year following the conference this Bureau received continuing

aports that the Cubans were endeavoring to implement the aims

of the conference.

Since Castro first came to power in Cuba

in 1959, we have been alert to his possible use of refugee

channels to infiltrate agents and saboteurs and have initiated

appropriate investigative steps to detect this.

In January, 1967,

an additional program was instituted aimed at detecting Cuban-

trained agents and saboteurs entering the United States through

iegitimate Cuban refugee channels.

Such refugees have been arriving

in Miami since Decemoer, 1965, at

the rate of approximately

1,000 each month. AIn the ten months since our Cuban refugee

program was first instituted, over 1,700 cases have been opened

based upon informazion in the backgrounds of various refugees

pointing toward a potential or propensity on their parts to

undertake intelligence, sabotage, or other subversive missions

on behalf of the Cuban Government.

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TRAINING OF NEGROES IN CUBA

During late July and early August, 1967, a Latin-

American Solidarity Organization (LASO) conference was held in

Havana, at which the Cubans indicated that they

were continuing

their efforts to implement the declared aims of the Tri-

Continental Conference. Numerous resolutions were promulgated

at the conclusion of the LASO conference, one of which exhorted

North American Negroes 'to respond to the

racist violence of

the imperialist United States Government with an increase in

direct revolutionary action."

The Anerican press and other news

media extensively reported on the presence of Stokely Carmichael,

foremost "black power" advocate of violence, in Cuba at the time

of the LASO conference,

which began on July 31, 1967.

that date all field offices of the FBI have been alerted to

Castro's obvious intention of infiltrating agents into this

country for the purposes of sabotage and influencing the black

nationalists and other subversive movements throughout the

United States.

Our Agents on a selective basis have briefed officials

of various local, county and state police agencies of the

problem posed by

the possible lise of minority groups in carrying

out sabotage on bonali of Cuba.

These officials have been

requested to alert their racial and security informants to

provide any clues which would aid the ferreting out of potential

saboteurs.

In daily contacts with cooperative security

officials of plants handling key Government contracts, departnent

stores, supermarkets, and similar establishments employing

sizeable labor forces, our Agents have alerted such officials

3á, our Azehts have

to our interest in being expeditiously advised of data indicating

groups or individuals within their organizations are potential

tools for use by Castro in subverting the United States.

To date, no concrete evidence has been developed to

indicate that any Cuban-trained saboteur has entered this

country since the widely publicized Cuban sabotage ring in

New York City was discovered and immobilized in 1962. Neither

has any evidence been developed of clandestine entry of Cuban-

trained Negroes for any other purposes, including infiltration

of the black nationalist movement.

the fol curcently is

operating 1a Cuban-trained

ntelligence agents as double agents

or potential double agents

gainst the Cubans*

None of these

Cuban-trained intelligence agents have any information indicating

Castro has been successful

to date

in infiltrating

Negroes

for the purposes described above

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PLANS TO ASSASSINAIE CUBAN LEADERS DOtH

ssily oll:

On June 2, 1965, Victor Domindador Espinosa

Hernandez, a Cuban refugee, was interviewed at the New York

City Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Espinosa advised as follows:

On May 29, 1965, he returned to New York City after

spending twenty-six days in Paris, France, where he was in

contact with individuals involved in a plot to assassinate

Fidel Castro and other Cuban Government leaders.

The main

figure in this plot is Rolando Cubela, a close friend of

Espinosa and an intimate friend and current neighbor of

Fidel Castro. Cubela is identical with former Major Rolando

L. Cubela y Secades, who nas resigned from the armed forces

oi Cuba and is non practicing medicini in davana. KAlberto (S J(4)

BLanco, an employee of the Cuban Foreign Ministry gand Major

plot.

Juan hameida Bosqueas

the other leading figures

In this

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He conferred in Paris for about ten days with

Alberto Blancewho was thenan an inspection tour of Cuban (SJ(4)

Embassies and Consulates abroad.* He learned that the plot

is directed toward the assassination of Fidel Castro, his

brother Raul Castro, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a Cabinet

in the present Cuban Government, and Ramiro Valdes, the Chief

of the Cuban Intelligence Service.

The assassination of these

individuals is to take place in public, possibly on July 26,

1965, when all the Cuban leaders would

be together at the

annual July 26th celebration in Havana. After the assassination,

those involved in the plot hope to seize the radio station

and call for American heip. Cubela and others associated

with him in this plot desire to know whether or not the

United States would help if the plou was successful and if

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PLANS TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN LEADERS

the United States would be ready to give this assistance at

i moment's notice as the plotters may be able to hold the

Covornmont for only a day or two.

He was in Spain for about twenty hours during his

recent trip and in that country he contacted other Cuban

exiles and learned that a man named Williamson, who is in

charge of the Central Intelligence Agency Office in Madrid(S

a Cuban girl nicknamed "Tota," who was sent from Havana

to Spain for the

specific purpose of getting in contact with

Gilliamson.

He requested to be put in contact with a representative

of the Central Intelligence Agency who was thoroughly familiar

with the Cuban situation and knowledgeable concerning the

individuals involved in the plot.

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THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFISATION AND/OR,

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT. GMB 7-28:94

November 6, 1967

4:50 p.m.

MR. PRESIDENT:

Attached is a FBI memorandum relating to alleged

training of Negroes in Cuba for disruptive tactics

in the U.s.

An October 31 CIA communication on this subject

was addressed to Walt Rostow. It reported that

there is a training school near Santiago de Cuba

where from 100 to 150 young men are being trained

in sabotage tactics aimed at bringing about a Negro

revolution in this country. It is reported that Soviet

instructors teach courses in English, as there is no

indication that any of the Negro students were from

the United States. Another CIA source described

the young men as being from North Vietnam, North

Korea, Africa, and Latin-American countries. ($ (U)

To date no concrete evidence has been developed to

indicate that any such saboteurs have entered this

country since a. Cuban sabotage ring in New York

City was discovered and immobilized in 1962

FBI cuntiy is operating 8 Cuban-trained/&0,he

agents gainst the Cubans None of these have any

information indicating Castro has been successful to

date in infiltrating Negroes for these purposes 300)

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