INFORMATION REPORT: POLICY GUIDANCE DIRECTIVES FOR CUBAN INTELLIGENCE REPRESENTATIVES IN PANAMA AS ISSUED BY THE MA DEPARTMENT (INTELLIGENCE) OF THE DGI
Originator: CIA
Document date: 08/18/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

## Page 1

104-10186-10315

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

INFORMATIONERERORT.

INFORMALIONARE

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

GIR

ala material contalse talomalia alectice the Mallonal Deleces of the CaliM 8:8169, M1Uia le mraDloR of the RapiOdREs Lavo. Tu

1.EB C. Boce Til dnd Tre the tractaladon of rentialton of unth la any minanes so an undulsorera partos la prohibited by lam

S-E-C-R-E-T

NO FOREIGN DISSEM

COUNTRY Cuba

REPORT NO.

DATE DISTR.

C5-311/02108-64

18 August 1964

SUBJECT

¡Policy Guidance Directives for

Cuban Intelligerce Representatives

in Paname as Issued by the dA

NO. PAGES

Department (Intelligence) of the

DGI

9

REFERENCES

CS-311/00115-64

CS-311/00345-64

DATE OF

1964

INFO.

RETURN TO CIA

PLACE &

Background Use Only

DATE ACQ. (June 1964)

FIELD REPORT NO.

Do Not Reproduce

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE CRADINOS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE

SOURCE:

A former Cuban officer who served with the Cutan Intelligence

Service until April 1964.

Headquarters Comment. The following is a translation of a

document which

source provided this Agency and concerns the

General Directorate of Intelligence (Direccion Goneral de

Intellyencia

for Cuban

- DGI) MA Department's policy guidance directive

departments:

DIRECTIVES OF THE M-A SECTION

COUNTRY: PANAMA

ISPERATIVE

1. Collective Action

2. Anti-Guerrilla Schools

3. Position of the Political Parties Toward the Cuban

Revolution

4. Relations with the U.s.A.

5. Cubans in the Yarkee Army

6. Revolutionary Organizations

5

4

7. Movement of Solidarity with Cuba

S-E-C-R-E-T

NO FOREIGN DISSEN .

Weir

2

STATE

I DIA

I ARMY

REPCIACLONT

CINCSO =

(Nora; fied dietribution indicated by '..)

I NAWY

I&NS

TAIR

• INSA

iXASK

I oce

FBI

2

INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT

LX-1604

NP (AMMUG-1)

CS-311/02108-64

CILS

For Districution See Attached Page

12(101 E/OST. ACSI. ONI! SY. FRT

I.nirs

---

## Page 2

14-00000

Hdgrs Dissem

NH/COPS

NH/PO/A

WH/PO/B

WH/1

WHI '3

WH/3.V

HH/$

WH/S

WH/6

WH/R

#II/SA/EOB

KH/SA/MOB

WH/SA/R

WH/SA/Int

171/SA/CJ

WH/SA/SO. N'S

CI/Staff

CI Liaison

CI/RSA

RID/AN

AF/1

AF/2

AF/3

AF/4

AF/R

AF/CI

EE/K

EE/SA

EE/BR

EE/YA

EE/H

EE/P

EE/C

EE/IIS

FE/PMI/1

FE/JKO/J0

FE/JKO/K

FE/R

FE/CI

NE/AA/L&S

NE/AA/AP

NE, AA/E

NE/AA/I

NE/S/P

NE/6/C&I

NE/Intel

NE/CI

WE/1

WE/2

WE/3

WE/4

6/12

13

1

30

1

5

1

3

1

1

5-E-8-R-E-T

NO FOREIGT DISSEN

-la -

NE/5

NE/UC

NE/R

SR/CI

SR/CI,X

SR/RR

SR/O/WHI

1

1

1

Fleld Dissem

WHS, MEXI

WH/MNT:

• HiH/MRID

WH/SDON

WIL/PIBO

WHI/POSN

WH/KNGS

WHl/PRIN

WH/GORG

WHI/PAC:

WIL/MANA

#N/SJOS

HIl/SALV

WH/TEGU

WH/GUAT

NH/LAPA

WH/BOGO

WHS/QUIT

WI/GAYA

WIl/LIMA

N'HS/CARA

KHI/BUEN

WII/COBA

WH/MONT

HiH/ASU'N

NII/SAGO

WH/RIOD

WH/CURI

WHI/BRIL.

HH/ SAOP

WH/BHIA

WH/BEHO

WH/I.GRE

WHI/RECI

WH/SA/NAVE

AF/ALGI

AF/ORNA

AF/RABA

AF/CASB

AF/ACCR

AF/CNRY

AF/BAXO

AF/DARE

1

1

EE/VIE.Y

EE/SSUR

EE/CYRU

EE/ATHE

EE/KAVA

S-E-C-R-E-1

NO FOREIGN DISSEN

194

199

C5-311 02108-64

EE 'SION

EE BERN

EE/GNVA

EE, ZURI

EE/HAMB

FE DJAK

FE/MEDN

FE / SURA

FE, 'TOKY

FE/OKIE

FE / SEOU

FE/SAIG

FE/KOBE

NE/COLO

NE, NEND

NE/LOMB

NE/CALC

NE,/SIDRS

NE/KUWA

NE/KAMI

NE:/DACC

NE/LAHO

NE/RANL

NE/EAGH

NE/BEIR

NE/DAMA

NE/ALEP

NE/JIDD

NE/DAMA

NE/TAIZ

NE/CAIR

NE/ALEX

WE/BRUS

NiE/COPE

NE./HIELS

WE/OTTA

WE/ROME

WEIMILA

WE/HAGU

KE/OSLO

WE/LISB

WE/MADR

WE/EARC

NE/STOC

HiE/LOND

WE/PARI

Liaison Dissem

1

1

1

99

---

## Page 3

14-00000

S-t:-C-R-E-T

NO FOREIGN DISSEM

- 2 -

C5-311-02108-64

8. Canal Zone

9. Situation of the leftist forces

10. Repressive bodies within Panama

11. Panamanian Communist Party

INPORTANT

12. Internal Politleal life of the country

13. Situation, withtn the Armed forces

14. The Church

5. Functions, characteristics, and data on members of thi

oreign service and Diplomatic Corps accredited to th

country.

NECESSARY

16. The Press

17. Government structure and organizational functions

18. Collaborators concerning

the national economy.

INTELLIGENCE GUIDANCE AND OBJECTIVES

COUNTRY: PANAMA

IMPERATIVE

1. COLLECTIVE ACTION

a) Military or political measures adopted In Latin

American anti-Cuban Regional Organizations in

which the Panamanian Government participates.

b)

Use of Panamanian territory for Latin American

military operations - participating

armies - units and their effectives.

operations - methods and places of arrival -

exit from Panama - their destination.

c) The use of Panamanian soldier contingents in

operations against Cuba.

Units and commanding

officers of units that would participate.

d)

held in Panama:

activities against Cuba worked out at these

neetings - Panamanian representatives at meetings.

Tupics discussed at CDCA meetings. CDCA discussions

on Cuba.

Agreements and plans formulated.

S-F.-C-R-E-T

NO FOREIGN DISSEM

---

## Page 4

4-00000

-E-C-H-E-T

NO FUREIGN

DISSEM

CS-311 02108-61

{) Measures taken concerning Cuban travel.

Possibllities f rupture with Cuba by Latin duerican

countries that still maintain themsio

2. COLNTER-INSURGENCY SCHOOLS

•a) Counter-Insurgenes schools maintained by l'ankee

Impertalism in Panama and the Canal Zone -

especially the Canal Zone.

Latin Americans attending these courses; duration

of training cycle; name, rank, and nationality.

courterre ourses er elest structors ants-

trainees; name and rank.

Army. of current assignment

and the duration of their training cycle.

d)

Vanuals and texts used in counter-insurgency schools.

-Special weapons - duration of training cycle.

Specialist schools (1.e. Paratroopers, Froguen) in

Jankee bases. Location of these bases.

f)

Elements training at Fort Davis as CIA agents or

specialists in the various Latin police forces.

Name,, rank, and nationality of trainees and the

duration of their training cycle.

8) Manuals used at the Fort Davis training school,

their techniques and identity of instructors.

Panamanians taking these courses.

3. POSITION OF POLITICAL PARTIES TOWARD THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.

a) Their attitude toward the Il Havana Declaration.

b) Their attitude toward Cuban-Soviet relations

affecting Cuba and world peace.

c) Their reaction toward accusations that Cuba is a

Communist base for aggression toward Latin America.

1. RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES.

a) Alliance for Progress. Peace Corps.

b) Relations with American loan organizations.

c) Azerican military assistance and the role of the

American military mission.

Training of Panamanian military personnel in

American schools.

e) Location of American kases.

1) Special forces schools in Panama.

S-E-C-R-E-T

NO FOREIGN DISSEN

---

## Page 5

4-00000

NO FOREGOR DIS

FOREIGN DISSEM

CS-311/02108-64

B) Naval Order of Battle - fleet Identification -

types

of vessels - number of vessels - unit

identification.

h) American troop concentrations.

Movement observed

within lases.

Movement of ships, aircraft, etc.

Inform whether the build-up during the crisis has

been malitained or reduced.

S. CUBANS IN YANKEE ARMY.

• a) Cuban counterrevolutionartes in Yankee Army tases

in Panama; especially Kolke Base, Fort Gulick, and

Rio Mato• Punta Mala and damintoes.

Units to which

these nercenaries are assigned - their numbers.

Name and rank of their officers.

Length of time

they have been in the American Army.

Date of their

arrival in Panama.

b)

1 to 1 racere a hot pote ot partinenta

of Cuban

Ostensible reasons for their presence.

in Panama in which Latin American units have

and their arrival there.

Arm; Involved, units, and

d)

Movements of Yankee personnel from the Canal Zone

that would denote special preparations or situations.

6. COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS.

a) Counterrevolutionary organizations operating in Panama.

Identity of leaders.

Their sovernment contacts and

assistance received.

Their contacts with other national

sectors - their contact-mechanism.

b)

Communications between organizations (counterrevolutionary)

in Panama and their headquarters in Miami.

Their

contacts in Cuba.

7. MOVESSENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA

" Neat or to on born action as it Cuta has

b) The potential of active manifestations b; progressive.

organizations in favor of solidarity.

8. CANAL, ZONE.

a) The

necessity of Canal Zone penetration via press

reports of

same.

S-E-C-R-E-T

NO FOREIGN DISSEM

---

## Page 6

10.

S-F-C-R-F:-1

NO FOREIGN DISSEM

-5 .

CS-311/02108-64

Operations

data. Eatry and Exit control regulations.

Reguirements for movement within the zone.

Documentation

required.

Internal

customs.

Regulations concerning

ships and crews

while in the canal zone.

Civil and MilItary Internal administratton with dotalls

of lis organization and structure. Data on principal

officials.

d) Intolerable economic and pulitical lurmoil caused ty

Ithe Canal Zone maritime activitios

in Fanama.

Entry and exit of canal.

Disparity in wages letween

North Americans and Latin Americans.

Effect of

commerce.

Attitude

oward Panamanian nationals and their public officials

olics of racial discrimination in the Canal 'Zone

Jamaican negro population and their relations with

Jamaica.,

Hindu population in the Canal Zone and their relations

with British Guiana.

9. SITUATION OF LEFTIST FORCES.

a) Leftist political organizations - thcir liaison

arrangements.

student movement: stricture

of its organizations.

The need

provide Information on these matters..

c)

strength,

they carry on.

of unity,

Imperlalist penetralion. ORIT.

d) Propaganda media of leftist forces.

e) Repressive measures

against leftist forces.

f) Attitude of leftists toward Insurrection.

#) leftist altitude toward the Culian Revolution.

11)

Effects

of the Carlikcan crisis on the leftist

forces,

and consequences.

Periodic and permanent contact with the Left.

Information on leftist reaction toward the

political

economic

changes taking place in

Cuba.

REPRESSIVE FORCES.

a) Repressive

forces operative in Panama. Their

function,

organization, tactics, leaders, and

officers.

S-E-C-R-F-T

NO FOREIGN DISSEM

---

## Page 7

S-E-C-R-E-T

NO FOREIGN DISSEM

-6 -

CS-311/02108-64

b)

Plans and objectives of internal repression.

Tactics utilized against the Litcration Movement

and Solidarity with Cuba.

Their okjectives in

the struggle against these movements.

c)

Agreements in effect now between Panamanian and

Central and Latin American redressive bodies.

Meetings held to coordinate repressive measures

within

the Zone. 'Dates, place, and identity of

those attending

meetingg.

Agreements reached to

fight againgt the Liberation and Cuban Solidarity

Movements:

Practical measures

taken to carry them

"out.

d)

Foreign advisers of the repressive forces (Yankees).

Name, rank.

and role of

advisers.

Specific cases.

In which these advisers have intervened.

"DENI"

activities.

Police regional schools established Training

or Canal Zone.

Instruction offered.

cycle.

Manuals (obtain copies).

Ingtructors.

Panamanian

nationals and other Latin Americans

taking these courses. Name, rank, and nationality.

{)

Central Intelligence Agency. Foreign heads in Panama.

Their

name and duties.

CIA offices.

CIA objectives

in Panama.

Their plans to accomplish these plans.

CIA's national net.

Their outstanding operatives:

their name,

rank, and duties.

Their principal

targets.

Penetration of CIA net.

g)

Interpol contacts.

Coordination with Interpol.

Restrictive measures on Cuban travel. Agents.

11. COMMUNIST PARTY OF PANAMA.

•a) Its attitude toward the Il llavana Declaration.

b) Its attitude toward Cuban-Soviet Relations.

c. Its attitude toward the direction of Culan

national

and

international policies.

„Its attitude or position regarding the

international Communist Movement Schism

1) China-USSR.

2) Albania-USSR.

3) Yugoslavia-China-USSR-Albania.

4) Peace Movement.

5)

Peaceful Co-existence.

S-E-C-R-E-T

NO FOREIGN DISSEM

i

---

## Page 8

14-00000

12.

S-F:-1'-R-1i-T

SO FOREIGN DISSES •

-7.

CS-311/02108-64

....

e) The Party's Internal Situation

1) Strength, leaders (data on leaders).

2) Disputes.

The party's relations with other leftist elemerts.

With

.V.A.N.

• 1) Disputes.

2)

Possibilities of Unity. Their work with

nass organizations.

5) Official Agitation policy of the Party.

of guerrilla action.

1) Their work on Sulidarlty with Cula.

j) Propaganda

media.

k) Party finances - source of their finances.

1)

Establishment of perlodic and permanent contact with

the Communist Party of Panama.

IMPORTANT

PANAMA'S INTERNAL POLITICS.

a)

Bourgeois Political parties,

propaganda media, leaders,

esmansit onta strength,

leaders, programs, Internal dissensions, and their

position concerning the Canal Zone.

Relations of bourgeois political partles with

North American monopolies, with the American

Embassy, Canal authorities, and the church.

Anti-Communist campaigns. Their posture - attacks

on Cuba.

Leaders.

Fraternal Socret Organizations.

Relations with the Panamanian Government and the

"Yankee"

Embassy.

d)

Bourgeois political parties' relations with Armed

Forces.

e)

demonstrations

politicians.

{)

Thelma King.

and

contacts.

Biographic dala, past activities,

S-F.-C.-R-E-T •

NO FOREIGN DISSEM

---

## Page 9

14-00000

S-E-C-R-E-T

NO FOREIGN

DISSEN

- 8.-

CS-311.02145-28

13. ARMED FORCES INTERNAL SITLATION.

a)

Armed Forces: Structure, corps, equipaent.

strength, corps organization, principal

barracks

or camps.

" Data on military leaders and their activities.

c) Coup d'état groups within the Armed Forces.

d)

Milltary relations with other Latin American

countries.

Ideological indoctrination of the Armed forces.

Program postures anc

wedia.

:.

countries.

g) Plans for counter-insurgency training.

h) Armed Forces relations with the Church.

14.

THE CHURCH.

a) Ecclesiastical Hierarchy.

b) Position and controversies between foreign and

national clergy.

Participation of the Church in internal politics.

The Church's

secular organizations (i.e. Catholic

Working Youth).

e) The Church's

campaign against Cula.

1) The Church's penetration of peasants, forters, and

students.

8) The Church's relations with Canal Zone luthorities.

h) Inter-relationships between plans of the Church and

the

U.S.A.

The Church's relations with the Panamanian Governmeat.

Influence of the Church on education.

15. FUNCTIONS, CHARACTERISTICS, AND DATA ON MÈNFERS OF THE BIBEIGN

SERVICE AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS ACCREDITED TO THE COUNTES

a)

UN.

OAS,

Inter-American Defense Board.

S-E-C-R-E-T

NO FOREIGS DISSEN

---

## Page 10

14-00000

S-E-C-R-E-T

NO FOREIGN DISSEN

-9 .

CS-311/02108-64

c) Panamanian officials in Latin American countrles;

Latin Auerican officials in Panana.

d)

the intern tie ed the countagic circles regarding

e) Dispatching of official documents, seals, signatures,

etc:

NECESSARY

16.

THE PRESS.

a) Data on journalists and diffusion nedia in Panama.

b) Possibilities of using these journalists within the

country and abroad.

17. STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL" FUNCTIONS.

a) Relations butween the Executive and the Ministries.

b) The function of Congress. Its most outstanding figures.

Relations with the

"Yankee" Entassy, the North

American monopolies, and the canal authorities.

c) Data on the closest collaborators of R. Chiari.

d) The Judicial Power.

Personalitles occupying high

positions.

Important laws.

Repressive

Relations

laws.

of the Judicial branch with other

branches of the government.

•) Other governmental organs - their functions.

The necessity of recruiting collaborators to

gather information on

these issues.

1B. SPOTTING OF COLLABORATORS TO INFORM ON THE NATIONAL ECONOMY.

a) New economic policy of United Fruit.

b) North American investments.

c)

Position of Panama regarding Central Americar

conomic integration.

:

S-E-C-R-E-T

NO FOREIGN DISSEN

---