0 c CA f t'Al N a J 1 tt W ALT J A U N OS DJ it4Jt J0k Q NEML 1 t i A Ea ua ei ADl lIML tnt l' ff g i iASt it 'J W c ap1 J- NTltA Ul U$A F b llUllGAmU QENE AL JONE$ USMC ·- e - '- ll t Q ffl¢Btal GtHl m u C'O ' ' lfli' itteia of Af J'a J i tU l Tak llil · • J'm-y A· g 3t l'J63 c- t1l'bing Citbaft liibVi t ttdon A J mMlJriee Att c 1 e4 iiii' tbi final r rt of the S' eo mmlttee • $ul v a ie tl M •eUcn• Tir i1k1Jn D JQl 1 Jbigut l96 J eu mg Cutm $ t e stoa lr1 wt A• ica Signed Joseph A Califano Jr Jo eph A Call J r- O a w C •nt i l A tta bli l1t Aa Stat d JJ 0 1 J tVwMJ A-cc DIA Col Nigra Mr Califano Mt Col Haig AS - S 0 S vtrM OSA ASG Control l h 3 1 - ff IE IBl mt 50955 Docld 32276192 Page 44 °' 1- -- --- ·REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE ON CUBAN SUBVERSION_ ' ACTIONS· TAKEN DURING JULY-AUGUST 1963 · GHOUP 1 Excluded p • · d r rom a t ownnrad' n u omat to ' t g and d eclass f • ··t· · · ' r ' ' - i ca' 1on SECRET· Control of Travel to and from Cuba Central Intelligence Agency a Developed highly useful information on frequency - · • - Cuban chartered flights to Brazil names and nationali- ties of passengers and crew and lax measures of control followed by Brazilian authorities Transmitted this tion to station chiefs in the Latin American travelling on those flights •Maintained close watch over travel to and See Annex B for table of known travel of Latin during July and August ·i ti1i¼ J t' li f' c As a result of information furnished to him by • _ the ·'CIA Station in Buenos Aires an4 with the Station's urging - i the Argentine Minister of Interior indicated that he would · 1 i make every effort to prevent Argentine delegates from attend- _ fI 111ffing the International Union of Architects Congress in Havana k f' i tf d At the urging of the CIA Station and the Embassy · · ·••·' the Bolivian Minister of Interior issued in mid-July an order prohibiting the granting of travel pennits to Cuba or other bloc countries to Bolivian nationals e Partly as a result of the efforts of the CIA __ in Santiago the Government of Chile prohibited the- ' entry into Chile of organizers of the Cuban-sponsored Secon American Youth Congress which had been scheduled to · · ··· take place in Santiago in August This was one of the · · tors which led to postponement of the Congress f After considerable prodding by the CIA Station ·and the Embassy the Minister of Public Security of Costa Rica presented legislative proposals to the Costa Rican Assembly which will require all persons intending to travel · · ·to Communist countries to have their travel approved by a · newly created Costa Rican security agency · · g · CIA Station in Mexico City developed infonnation · concerning the clandestine arrival of passengers in Vera·cruzO I• • • - ·•----- --••• - _ G ••---•-• - · •• • _ -• • • • ••• ••• --•· • 0 • - ' SECRET ·· · Cuban merchant ships Efforts· are being made to more information and to encourage stricter controls by ·' Mexican authorities 0 ' Department of State ' ' a Instructed Embassy Conakry to try to persuade authorities to deny use of-airport facilities by flights on Habana-Moscow route These efforts achieved a • · temporary withholding of permission for future regular flights' at least until such time as the Soviets devetop their own · °' '' · refueling facilities at Conakry C ' b Instructed Embassy Rio to approach Brazilian t authorities to express our deep concern at the growing f JL-frequency of Cuban non-scheduled flights to Brazil and request• '·· · 1 their cooperation in curbing them Also instructed our ·· f Embassies in several Latin American countries to work with station chiefs in furnishing the names of nationals· of those _ countries travelling on these flights to local authorities· - ' £ j tand urging them 1 to institute tighter controls on their t' f i ' r '- own citizens travelling to Cuba and 2 to express their · · · •· i concern to the Brazilian Government over Cuban use of BraziL n ' f as a way station for transporting subversives c As a result of representations made to the British Government about Cuban flights to the Cayman Islands carrying Latin American subversives the British developed ·an administrative scheme which will effectively prohibit the use of British Caribbean dependencies by Cubana as tr ansit · · ·points for·passengez s The British intend to require transit visas of passengers passing through their areas and to ect applications·for such visas except in certain special cases Persons not possessing visas would be prevented from leaving their aircraft or would be returned to their of origin · · · d • ln tructed Embassy Mexico City on August 29 to ' · -· '· inform the·Mexicari airline CMA that the United States is · -opp_osed oriooc sa ··that CMA operate chartez light to· · - l- -· • ·r 1 ' '· - · ' • · · SECRET ' - ' 3- - i '- carry refugees from Habana to Cep tral America · CMA as t 1ie'r ' '' result stated that· they had--no- intention of proceeding _ 1i 1t £urther with this project 1 f 1 · - ' ' e Instructed our missions in Curacao arid the Hague _ investigate a report that KLM was planning to renew ·' TL t r ti ' scheduled Curacao-Habana flights and to reiterate US -· _ J f ·opposition to resumption of air service to Cuba • KLM • - - · i S f fr-1 ' _Jt' our Embassy that there is no plan to initiate service · ' i fj_ ' l t'' - J · scheduled or non-scheduled to Habana _ ·_ t to i· r '' • f - - ·• £ if iS 1 it n lD ' • Tl _ • f Ins_tructed Embassy Ottawa to express our _ l1J i objections to a proposal that a Cubana charter j1 _ J T up a s econd group of U S students in Montreal r 31r Jfi 'to Cuba The flight was not authorized · i tJ g Instructed Consulate Georgetown to investigate fCubana approaches to secure flight faciJ ities Mission 1reported on August 1 that the Governor h d no knowledge of · fany talks between the B G Ministry of Ccrnrnunications and · tthe · Cuban Government regarding landing rights for _gµban _ planes· The Governor indicated his intention to inquire further and to keep us advised London reported that ne ·the Cuban nor the British Guiana Governments had raised the i·issue of landing rights with H M G ' t fi t t1 · h - Urged the governments of Mexico Canada Jamaica · · and the Netherlands to refuse to assist the Cuban Government iit l in its efforts to find a short route for return of the 58 Jt- American students who illegally travelled to Cuba Also informed Pan American Airways that we were opposed to a Cuban A 1__ - ' '' request for a PAA charter· fligh·t to fly the students from · · i df t _ t Habana to New York 1 - 1 · · fJ 'f Instructed our missions at Port of Spain ·and - ' Barbados on ·several ·occasions to approach these governments_ Jto express the concern of the U S at indications _of Cuban •' i • c i inter st in the use ·of their aviatioh facilities · · · i · -- i 1 lifti · Embassy· 'Por of· Spaini discussed with t he 'Foreign Secretary' · · S'- • E l _ t of -Trinidad ·various legal moves available that would enable -c · - ' - · ' · ' '' SECRET i ·· _ 4 to control mQvements of aircraft within their territory ·citing examples of such controls instituted by Mexico ' pc f t f i' '·'C's s c and Ireland He indicated receptiveness to the proposal f '• ' • · the list of suggestions be made available to the aviation officials concerned j During a previous reporting period Emba sy urged the government of Chile to refuse vtsas to Cuban delegated to a preparatory meeting for the I I Latin American Youth Congres 9 scheduled for August in the Chilean •· i '· '•capital Inability of Cuban delegates to obtain Chilean for this meeting is one of the contributing factors to· ' the Cuban sponsors announcing during August that the meeting · had been postponed 1 ··· 0 k S nt general instructions to our missions in 'countries which participate in the Intern 11tional Union of Architects asking them to urge the coopz r ation of in preventing or discourag f 1 3 the attendance of nationals ·to the VII UIA Congress fn Ha e na September October 4 1963 Followed this up with instructions to individual posts to try where feasible to dissu - de -·· · architects from free world countries from serving on·the j for the selection of a Bay of Pigs monument · Urged Canadian Government to block a plan to food parcel shipments to Cuba on a commercial that would have required the establishment of charter flights by Canadian planes of Movement of Cuban Propaganda · Central Intelligence Agency Responding to the urging of the CIA Station pofice the State of Guanabara seized large ·quantities· of propaganda brought into Brazil by passengers on the spec flights · For example some so· pounds of prlnted ·propaganda was· taken from the various· passengers who arr' iv ed __ the· 16 ·August Cubana light · - · · · · ·· i _ · '·· - t •1· •' ' ' •· tc • i r _ '' · ' - ·• SECRET• · · of Clandestine Movement of Guerrillas Department of Defense a Continued surveillance of the area surrounding Cuba during the months of July and August at the same rate and wi_th the same emphasis as prior to 1 July 1963 b Continued to maintain U S Forces primarily Atlantic Command available to assist other governments in the interception of suspicious ·in territorial waters as might be requested No si 1ch · requests were received fr om any ·other government durin g the ·· · - ' ·' period covered by this report However U S Forces did ·track of the location of the Soviet merchant freighter MITCHURINSK which was ·suspected of ca rying subversives jfarms from Cuba to British Guiana in mid-July MITCHURINSK ' iiwas under U S surveillance from its departure from Habana t ·until Unit ed Kingdom for es assumed the task of keeping this J' _ ship under surveillance upon its approach to Georg2town · - · ' -t British Guiana Subseque 1tly British police -search ·1 f±MITCHURINSK in British Guiana waters revealed nothing of W·t suspicious nature of · • Central Intelligence Agency At the repeated urging of the CIA Station in Lima the Peruvian Government late in August published a new anti terrorists law providing· a penalty of no less than five ' · · imprisonment for persons who participate in guerrilla· activities or in the illegal manufacture of· weapons or · ives · · ·a The Peruvian National Intelligence Service lead furnished by the CIA Station in Lima ton vessel reportedly involved_ in arms traffic of State · · Ins tructed · our ·consulate General in · inv stigate reports tha _ c ommercia ' • • ll ' ' ' • •' • • • s · • · ' •' - - • • • • C • T • • • • '4- l· - • SECRET -6- · ·_ illicit arms ·traffic out· of Cuba had ··cfeveloped - between British Guiana and Cuba ' lnvestigations to have been negative · · -- · _ · _ _ _ Control of Transfer of Funds' Department of State Cooperated with the Foreign Assets Control Office · ·of the Treasury Department in developing blocking controls · respect to Cuba which went into effec t on July 9 1963 Strengthening of Counter-Insurgency Ca I §bilities · · · Departn ent of Defense a Continued the installation of military communica ' tions facilities in Latin America Operational dates for multi-channel radio stations to be installed in Nicaragua and Tegucigalpa Honduras have been dela r ed to October 1963 and 15 December 1963 respectively because of·· ' •ic no engineering and contractual requirements · Negotiations continuing with Colombia and Ecuador for installation U S military radio facilities Completion of a new ' commercial trans-isthmian cable in the Panama Canal Zone' within the coming month is expected to improve military·· ' cormnunications within the United States and the Jn- Chief U S Southern Command • b Continued the surveillance of Cuba by U S Forces reporting as before to U S commanders organiza tions and agencies R ports of surveillance have been disseminated to all who have a requirement to know c Established a 24 hour per day 7 day per week· duty watch at the U S Military Groups in the Caribbean · cbuntries in conjunction with implementation of the military· alerting system Continued efforts to staff the U S · i 7 a k ifrn Southern Command Intelligence Center with properly cleared trained personnel this center is the military focal point·' for relaying information concerning the movement of s · -L _ • subversives · Filled partially i · the authorized billets' ' -_lri ff - · -· · Jj fJ - - -·- - - ··-- _·· ' ·• - -- • · - - - - ' ' '-· • · · ·• SECRET - 7 -· the U S Southern Command Intelligence Center and took •·· under consideration the problem of an increase in ·the ·structure in the Center The Commander-in-Chief U S southern Comm and together with his intelligence officer _ r visited Honduras and Nicaragua and determined that no · significant prpblems existed which would interfere with effective operations in those countries d Act1on previously initiated by the Commander U S Naval Forces Southern Command C0MUSNAVS0 to establish a Small Craft Inspection and Training Team SCIATT as a ·contribution to the Caribbean Surveillance System is progress Ling satisfactorily Permanent assignment of U S Coast Guard _ e _ personnel to SCIATT in· the_ Canal Zone has been ·approved and · 1JJI the U S Coast Guard has taken appropriate implementing _· c- actions e During the period of this report the SCIATT ducted- an _on-the-job training course at Puntarenas Costa Rica - Training was given to 13 members of the Gu£rr-dia Civi-r - - - - -_- ··-· · of Costa Rica who were either newly assigned to the li-0 foot ·coast Guard utility boats CGUBs or were to be· assigned lS 'replacement crew members - ' -···-··· f A quarterly inspection and evaluation of provided other Central American countries was conducted _during the period 17 to 31 August by a mobile training team·- MTT made up of SCIATT personnel g Continued efforts to improve the internal of Latin American armies through the provision of Inte Advisors Presently there are such advisors· ·assigned to Latin countries emphasizing counterintelligence·and i Fl ' - h 'During the reporting period MTTs conducted ·' ing' _in_ counterinsurgency for the armed forces of Col mbia-· Bolivia Venezuel Peru and El Salvador • _ _ · - · · ' - · _ · l SECRET ··· -8 Intelligence on Cuban Subversion Central Intelligence Agency fffit Jl k CIA Stations throughout Latin America continued in a great majority of countries to furnish to the local internal 1 1f j · security organizations with whom they are in liaison informa· 1 y •r ' 2 tion concerning travelers to and from Cuba as well as such · • V f1 i f1 • • - _ inf orma t1 on as came to CIA' s attention concerning the movementf i ti _ r1 ttt funds arms and propaganda materi l In many instances rf Jit W the furnishing of information to the internal security ' · ' t fl fiftttnA -s r ice by the CIA Station was paralle ed by the furnishing ·o_ il tfJ s1 m1 lar information to the Foreign Office by the Ambassador f f i- or his representative The response to this information has ' ·f' • f' ' varied greatly 11 e Central American countries' in general ·-' - began to pay greater attention to the information and act on y • ' it J· it At the other extreme · the Brazilian Govemment · during _· · t tf c·· ·X tthe reporting period showed little inclination to follow up- - ·_ ' · -- l t 1 Htt 1 - ·' •• _ f• 1 - 0 ff ·lt dr on t e t n tate il1 f Jf a Reiterated to the Foreign Minister of Pe u our ' -'ftf 9 J0 -interest in having the facts of the Puerto Maldonado inci ep j · l ' t'- brought to the attention of the OAS and urged that this · 11c' -- 5't - '_ t · iii ' Urged the G overnment of Guatemala to submit communist activity to the OAS • -i f--rr c f ' ance of Cuban Dielomatic Commercial 1 11 T f J i- Deeartment of State · Instructed Embassy La Paz to follow up closely on f - chatges of involvement by the Cuban m1 ssion · 1 n internal- •· s j f ' f ' 'f - t policies of Bolivia and at the Embassy• s discretion to - '·' tf _ f JJ f f _ i point· out to Bolivian officials the opportunity for a possib' · -t' 1 £ J· •J-J ' tfa - i •· · ·' ·b k i ·1··· i i h'' -•'b Eb La P · · a ble to • ·· • · • •·· ·Jt r i -' t H t 't 1 F · fi' rea n r e at ons wt 'u a m assy az·was not J ·1 t • ' • press for a break when the ey_idence of Cuban · · not prove to be as conciusive as· origina1_1y·'repor · __ · ' i · ii • • ' · · _- 1 • ·•· Other Special Actions · · _· Department of State a · Obtained action by the COAS on July 3 on the ·Lavalle Committee Report transmitting the do cument to the _ governments and urging them to implement the specific and· t£ 7 t· · r general recommendations contained therein soon as - i · ·- - ·-• • '--• J ' • · poss 1 • b 1e · as f J i ·- ' J - f b Through Embassy Managua inf or med the Nicaraguan 1 1'i iii Government of the matters which we wanted to have considered f4 lrduring the friforma 1 meeting of the Ministers of Security arid i- ' nterior of the Isthmian countries held in Managua August -_ f 26-28 · in preparation for the second formal meeting of the · · · Managua S curity Conference countries later this ·year' • _ - J c Explained •in detail the nature of the·· ··cuban - __ _ · - -threat and the related policy objectives of the U S during ·ff con versation in London and in Washington with Mr Adam· ·• ' 1ewly appointed British Ambassador to Cuba ' t United States a Information Agency The Agency's press service during the f period transmitted 12 articles commentaries and back- §i f • grounders on its wireless file service to USIA posts throughr out Latin America for placement in the local newspapers and - the Voice of America Spanish broadcasts to Latin America carried·a total of 28 commentaries and features on the subj l f J of Cuban-based subversion lbese stories were designed to il fi l1 alert people in Latin America to the dangers of this isubversion b In response to standing Agency ·instructions· to give special attention to developments related to Cuba-based · subversion USIA posts · Latit America were prompt in · reporting incidents· providing · editorial comments from ' ···t·· in • -··· ' ·· · - · · ' - ·»· • · · · -'··· SECRET -10- · the Latin American ·press all of which was used in the ·-·Agency's radio and press output The main developments treated in the Agency's radio and press coverage included Castro's July 26 speech urging revolutions in Latin America the discovery of terrorist weapons factories in G ayaquil the Ecuadorean Vice · President's accusation' of Cuban responsibility for terrorism the Cuban use of Grand Cayman as a way station for subvers ·elements from Cuba the expulsi on from the_ University of a · • Bolivian youth leader for receiving funds from Cuba tro-trained guerrillas in Honduras and Bolivinn protests against meddling by the Cuban Embassy in the miner's strike ·A voice of American roving reporter in Lat i n Amc ica - F t provided sevE iraJ reports on the subversion pictui-e in coun- t tries he visited • - '- c In support of the Agency's effort or Cuban-based '_ ''subversion the publicaticn s center in Mexico began work on· three pamphlets during the period based on Castro• a report · · ··_of his visit to the Soviet Union showing that· he contradicted· himself· in some of his extravagant claims of Soviet progress · the losses suffered by CubaD labor under Castro and the · · tfate of political prisoners in· Cuba · When ted ·· · will be · distribute9 · • ' • • • • ----- - •--- -- ---- • ' ••··· •• p · t···- CIA Intelligence ' Anne x' ' iit L -· j to and from Cuba ' 'f i1 _ '·· · · · - ''· · t '- ·· f t J f f t ei_l • Chartered ub airlines flights octween Cuba and t t•· ·· t ii Brllzil have become a major means of tra niiporting non-Cuban 'i0-' 1ttffr Latin Americans to and from Cuba The fi_ e such fl gh s iJ tti l 4 tf f '- since late July have carried nearly 400 non-Cubans - 't i 'f • f ' i t · r1 G · · ·-· ' Jff l Ki erff· rt _ ·c-u- -· The firnt of the recent series -- on 25 July t f ' l' i · ·· - ' J i broug_ht 7 j_ La tin American passengers to Havana for the l ' J ' 1- 26 July celebrations ·· The c it _her four flighto -- on 15 1iltf ' 22 28 and 29 August -- transported over 200 Latin 't' f51 ir J i' J Amer f cans to Brazil from Havana Some of the ai r craft · ' f- ' - l involved returned to Cuba with smaller numbers of passen- · ft St gars Many of the 200 Latin American passengers had · ·· - Fl · been delegates to the 26 July ceremonies but oth srs had ' J t lff• ' apparently been in Cuba for longer periods and some had 0 ui e t ·if probably received training there Of_ the passengers· cm - 15 '-·i ' f these four flights to Brazil 75 were natives· of - Z_·- - _ -_ • -_ _ · - _-_ _ 1t Caribbean area countries •Their circuitous travel througtv -- - -- ··• - - •• - 1'1 ' • •• • - - • • r • l _ __ • 1-S-Z - ·1• ·-' •Ir ·• · · ' 1 1 li r to' help conceal the fact ttift iiI i • •' a -- lh a dE e c na 'N rfr fi1 ir 1 - - fr Hernandez Salazar the only Costa Rican woman known to· '- ' '· it have been sent to Cuba for training as a guerrilla 1 t 0'1 rwarfare instructor She had been in Ctlba -since September t iji t v 1 i I f · i 1962 · The other Costa Rican passenger was Carlos· Guillen ' 1 t c - $ i J 1 tf ·former head·'- of ·the Costa· Rican Soc'iety of· -Fri ends of· · · · · ·· • _ z 11 - _' · t · _ s· - • ·' r - •-• -· · · ·- · · 1-t ·· - -·- · _ f 1 i i1L1' - £1 · - f the Cuball R volution• who had beefl in_ Cuba 1nce Novem er ' Hi- t f 1i cf t ' f · 1 •1iti ••••• SECRET Ecuador · The CIA Station in Quito reports that the mi Junta which assumed power in Ecuador on 11 July be expected· to follow the guidance of the Embassy and ' the Station in controlling travel to· and from Cuba and ·· •· c•· cc• · -• s • _• the Soviet bloc · The activities of Cub in subversives' Ecuador at least for the present have been inhibited by the mass arrests of Communists and pro·eubans and by the outlawirig of the Commt inist Party the junta · _ Honduras_ ' It is r ported that the Honduran Communist Party_ -has· issued or 1 krs to its members not to attempt to _ •·· rtra 1el to Cuba at the present time ·· This action· is c• ·appa rently the resu t of the inCreasing ' ·igilance of i _ the Honduran government and the greater implemerrtat of stricter travel controls ·· · · · • i•· · · ' · _ 5 - · __ ' · 2 Z r12vement of Cuban Propaganda Q uatemala According to an unconfirmed report received in· a Bureau of Information of the Communist Party of· _ •§Guatemala is being fonned in collaboration with Prensa · ·1 a J i tJ l and is to be managed clandestinely It expects · · to receive news by shortwave radio from Cuba and print - _bulletins for distribution _by radio stations _ This mat' · · indicate a pattern by which Prensa Latina will attempt · '' tto distribute on a more clandestine basis in other areas in Latin America o - · · f c ··•t '' •• · · ••• •• Honduras· · It was reliably reported that in mid-July 1963 a 'i t ' small coastal freighter landed 14 large boxes of Communisf · ·· · '· lti propaganda on the northern coast of Honduras the · ' J r- having been transferred at s a from a larger vessel _1 SECRET-· -· 3 ··- t· of Guerrillas and Arms ·· ·- · ·· Argentina • _ Extremist members of the Peronist Party apparent 1 under the leadership of such figures as Hector Villalon ¥ and John William Cooke were repo1 ted to be receiving -- ·f eTI ou r ig6m ant · and ·promises of larg9 s q of money from' - J Cuba in support of their efforts - train and or gar 1 ze ·- subversive groups in Argentina Villalon has stated · · th a his plan -calls for expanding and accellerating subversive activities in Argentina culminating in a complete take over within two yea rs There is ·no indica ·r tion th-4t Peron himself has agreed to this plan It has been reported that leaders of the Commun ist Party of Argentin s havr- l been greatly annoyed by the ten'dency of -•t ' ' ' the Castro_ -ef lme to support the revolutionar -1 Peronists J · ··without havirig consulted the Communist Party of Arg ntina· _ t to 0 '0 _ ·-- ' ' _ It is reported th at the SO called Army of Vn tional Liberation ANL of Argentina which is a relatively -tsmall Castroist organization directed from Cuba by John William Cooke has in recent weeks been negotiating for the purchas of arms 1ind has been offered submachine·· guns -bazookas and other weapons by two or three privat ' suppliers It was reported however that the ANL· was j having difficulty getting enough dollars from Cuba · make significant purchases possible · livia The Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Relations on 23 'August protested formally to the Cuban Charge d'Affaires in La Paz against the Cuban Embassy support to the · miners ' i 'during the recent eris is • Subsequently however Foreign Minister Fellman informed the Cuban Charge that he need f rnot fear that the Government of Bolivi would break-_ · ·· ·w fdiplomatic · relations with Cuba - There has in fact ·b_een ffi _ iJi Ri7 i -' ·rno hard _information linking the Cuban Embassy ·with_ th · 'n_ i p '' ' present ·mining -- crisis ·_tn spite of some-· unconfirmed -_ ·· · t _ ' reports iof · Cuban support - · '' i f 'i rti 1 tf e' a ' •·· · Brazil Cuban Ambassador to Brazil Raul Roa Kouri is' reported to have attempted to encourage peasant league leader Francisco Julio to revitalize the leagues in · northern Brazil According to some reports efforts are · being made to unify the leadership and bring dissident • _ elements under the general direr tion of Juliao Other _- reports indicate that although th Cuban Embassy is· ·_ pr ow '°iditi g guidance ·and possibly 'financial suppor t to the· 'movement it had not· yet resolved the internal dissension in the ·1eagues · _ · I Co lg llb n t t From Ccl i bi 1 reports have been received· of incre _ ·' asing Cubau assiatance primarily in the fona of training j_courses by inatructors ·who have been trained in Cuba · Hf tf f rto the 'Worker-Student-FP-asant Movement MOEC A small -' ' - ·guerrilla band encountered by the Colombian a - r in July 1963 was broken up when five members of the ba nd J were killed and two others captured A small quantity of arms and a considerable amount of books and pamphlet · on revolutionary warfare photographs of Fidel Castro · Camilo Cienfuegos and Mao Tse-tung and bulletins of ' ' ·the MOEC were· found at· the' camp· _site Recent repo rts · · have·indtcated an increase'in the terrorist efforts o --· he MOEC and increased ·promises of assistance from ·Ch j· Guevara with regard to the train i ng of additional· members · · - Costa Rica There have been a number of unconfirmed reports alleging small-scale training of revolutionaries on Costa Rican territory for guerrilla activity in · Nicaragua • For example in mid-July an increased mimbei 'i ··· ' · f of guerrillas were reportedly being trained in Costa ica _@I i j •by Adolfo Garcia Barberena well-known Nicaraguan ··· · ' - t r r • J tt ·· • · - revolutionary leader and member·• of the FL ' Nationar - p -• ' i i 1 i _ • Liberation Fro nt - a· Communist•dominated Cuban '·suppotj ed t i 0 7 0 SE - FtJ I ti- i i t't -- - - tfaf - ' '- L · ·• ' · 'f' f B f i f • • · ' • ·- · • '' · • ' • 4 r SECRET 5 -'anti-Nicaragua r volutionary group In early August ··_· -Alberto Serrato leader of the FLN in Costa Rica __ - reportedly left with a group of Nicaraguans for the -_ · _ -• r- - • · Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border Another report indicated · that Hector Bog antes Zamora Costa Rican agit ator was · suppo·sed to have left San Jose in mid-August-' for the_ Nicaraguan border to supervise the passage of ·· guerrillas from -Costa Rica into Nicaragu1 t Bogantes _ recently returned from atten ding the MR y Da y celebra• - · tions in Cuba is said to have been assigned this· · responsibility by the Costa Rican Communi t Party ·• So far as we know the GON whi ch is normafly well -- _ informed a nd highly sensitive to such activities on its _ borders hss not made any complaints or othen rise s -concern or wa reness of these eported activities -5' The Honduran anned forces began to move ag d nst a· _group of pro-Castro· guerrillas operating against ·the Uca raguan Government and active in the vicin l ty of the - · Nicaraguan-Honduran border The Nicaraguan National ·has been conducting operations on its side of the border against the insurgents since July The dense jungle diffi cult terrain however will impede the efforts - both forces to eliminate the guerrillas Information on the guerr Llla force is scanty and conflicting It is apparently composed of members of National Liberation Front FLN a Communist·d minat ·_and Cuban-supported revoluti-onary organization a_ctive primarily in Honduras and Nicaragua· since the fall of 1962 The strength of the forc_4a is_ not known ·· · · ' ' • Nicaragua · - · · · - - · · · - --·--- ·- - -- - ··_ -· - • • ' i' - SECRET 6 - fHe said that theiF mission was to establish a base - in the Isabella mountains - -Depart m_e nt of Jinotega in 'order to indoctrinate the peasants· and to ··train them in guerrilla tactics He admitted that he hl l_d re¢eived six -i months• guerrilla warfai e t_raining in· Cuba ' and that- - othe£ f FLN leaders' had received · simi_la r training He lso · said that the FLN training camp in ·Honduras was ear El 1 • on· the Patuca River Jc - ' n- _· _ -··• ·- sfer ·of Funds ' t British Guiana In British Guiana Guiana Import-Expo rt Corporation Gimpex 'ecei ved a one million dollar advance payment deposited by the Cuban Alimpex Corporation fer ·goods to be delive- ed to Cuba in the future Gimpex has in tum - · ' c loaned this money to the Government of British Guiana · Cheddi Jagan's People's Progressive Party is the major · stockholder in Gimpex Mohammed Kassim Manager of has indicated that Gimp' x will be able to secure f dditiona ' loans from Cuba in amounts sufficient to_ tide the Jagan· - · tgovemment over any foreseeable crisis ·· -It w is also reported that Gimpex plans to buy aircraf t spare parts' f 1 and other machinery in the IJnited States for reshipment- $ · tc Cuba · · · · · ·· · ·· ·· General Reports continue to be received from many places _ ' rlr •c t · -indicating that the suitcase full of currency is still one fl'vJtt Jiof the most common methods used by the Cubans fc r trans ' ·· tJ i M f ·• ' ··- mitting funds for use in supporting · subversive activitie·s ttl t roughout· the hemisphere InstaricesJwhEare s ucn Junds _ i-' - have - been ·confiscated by the police Ju1 ' o cutre j-ecejtti 0 nama' and Ecu d or 1 JJ f - Ki f ·H n j lv dor J l ' v-K · CJc ' BRAZIL· 14 'b 25 0 0 0 20 1 29 1 · -1 _ _ -- ------'-- -- _ _ -_ _ _ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 1tr ' Q Iro1JoMB1A· · 12 COSTA RICA ' ' ·I ti --- i 1· ' l 4 i ' U TEMALA'' •--· i · -1 - · · • _ · r· _ t I HAITI _ '· eIPONDURAs J Mi AI'C - Ef 0 't 65 'F i' CICO - 5 PANAMA JPARAGUAY I PERU · ' · I TRINIDAD' 15 3 4 • '' 0 _ _ _ __ -AUGUST · TO FROM·-' · ' t 4Vf _ i '- ARGE T INA BOLIVlA· • 4 0 5 3· BRAZIL 0 24 BR · GUIANA 7 10 22 47 · •· -' ' E-i i i C i i 00 1·· COLOMBIA 6 COSTA RICA DOM REP ECUADOR · · EL SALVADOR GUATEMALA HAITI HONDURAS· JAMAICA 0 8-Physical Ed from 26 July Celebratipm 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 34 2 63 0 ·s - · 0 0 0 2 9 'f_ ' ·o 9-Returning were members of •i ' MIR ' whp • ii § i ' received guerrilla ·tr i i11irlg · h ' 1i q'i · ·· 2 i ii l ' i· •i · · ' ' · · · _- · •· · • · • _ 1 _· • _ i • · i_ irf -