Date

Jul 18, 1963

Description

A U.S. Army report on U.S. government efforts against “Cuban subversion” for spring 1963 includes a short section that describes a range of CIA activities in Colombia. Colombia’s customs chief believed that his agency had “identified a courier operating between Colombia and Cuba” and had “mounted an operation to uncover his Colombian contacts.” The CIA Station in Colombia had one “asset”—a controlled, undercover agent—“in Cuba attending guerrilla warfare training.” Another CIA “asset” was “being debriefed after his recent return from Cuba,” while a third would “depart soon for two months training in Cuba.”

Leads developed by agents sent to Cuba led the CIA station to open investigations on Colombian Congress members and officials from the Bogota city government. Meanwhile, the CIA office in Colombia was funding and directing the activities of a “Colombian Civic Action Group, composed of influential local businessmen,” that had “established an anti-Castro propaganda unit” and that was “actively collecting evidence of Cuban subversion in Colombia to support its propaganda campaign.”

Source

JFK Assassination papers, file no. 198-10007-10022

U.S. Army General Counsel Joseph Califano, Jr., to Joint Chiefs of Staff (Earle Wheeler, enclosing report: “Report of Sub-Committee on Cuban Subversion on Progress Made During April-June Period in Curbing Cuban Subversion in Latin America,” Secret, 18 pp., (includes cover memoranda)