“SECSET -12- 1, Civic Action MTTs were sent t Guatemala, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Jamaica and Ecuador. 6. Exchange of Intelligence on Cuban Subversion Central Intelligence Asenez CIA Stations throughout Latin America continued in a great majority of countries to furn”
“SECRET A trainee who recently returned to Peru after several months of training in Cuba, said that all his fellow trainees were asked to mark bridges and other similar demolition targets on detailed maps of Peru. They were also required to fill out : lengthy questionnaires”
“SECRET OCI No. 0515/63 27 March 1963 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY MEMORANDUM: Cuban Training of Latin American Sub versives SUMMARY 1. We estimate that at least 1,500 to 2,000 Latin Americans have received guerrilla training or political indoctrination in Cuba. 2. We”
“DECEIT -12- 1. Civic Action MTTe were sent to Guatemala, Bolivia, Coloobia, £1 Salvador, Jamaica and Ecuador. 6. Exchange of Intelligence on Ciben Subversion General Intelligence Asonox CIA Stations throughout Latin America continued in a great majority of countries to fur”
“"agriculture" re ceive guerrilla warfare training. This instruction encompasses the use and management of communications equipment; the techniques of military intelligence, including methods of establishing intelligence net works to obtain information from peasants; traini”
“SECRET C. In any event, we know of only two coun- tries—Mexico and Uruguay-where Castro appears inclined for the time being to forego inciting violence, and this only because he wants a favorable climate for his operations into other countries. II. Even before the October”
“SECRET -8- 6. Exchange of Intelligence on Cuban Subversion Central Intelligence Agency CIA Stations throughout Latin America continued in a great majority of countries to furnish to the local internal security organizations with whom they are in liaison informa tion conce”
“•0*• * CTCrTA Llet L- 0 2 Mva y 1961 :..: .C...U V As indicated by the combined INR/ONE estimate, anti-Castro activity within Cuba will probably be muted at least for the next several months. Most individuals whose loyalty is in any way suspect have been arrested”
“SECRET, expecting to leave for Cuba in the near future for training. CIA has increased its personnel assigned to travel control functions- at the Panama City airport, now permitting a three- man detail for each eight-hour shift. Station is continuing its pressure on Panamani”
“SECRET - 10 - VI. Exchange of Intelligence on Cuban Subversionao Department of Defense . ; 1 8 Engineering installation work continued on radio stations for Managua, Nicaragua and Tegucigalpa, /Honduras. No further progress has been made in reaching • agreements with Colo”
“(). 7 seo/vt. . ‘ -12- i. Civic Action MTTs were sent to Guatemala, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Jamaica and Ecuador. 6. Eft-change of Intelligence Nt. han Scoversion Central Intelligence Agency CIA Stations throughout Latin America continued in a great majority”
“believes it has identified a courier operating between ••Colombia and Cuba and has mounted an operation to uncover his Colombian contacts. One station asset is now in Cuba attending guerrilla warfare training, another is being debriefed after his recent return from Cuba, and ”
“SECRET Opa-locka, Florida. This informations secured entirely from un- 4 trained observers and is presented partly as original unconfirmed data and partly as a supplement to intelligence already received from controlled reliable sources. All CAC information is screened for”
“SECRET - 10 € ■ VI. Exchange of Intelligence on Cuban Subversion) Department of Defense . Engineering installation work continued on radio - stations for Managua, Nicaragua and Tegucigalpa,. - . Honduras. ’ No further progress has been made in reaching • agreements with C”
“6 SECRET 4. The U.S. Information Agency; A. Issued a detailed information policy guidance to all its Washington media divisions on March 28 setting forth the basic themes to be followed and types of materials to be developed in exposing Castro Communist subversive activiti”
“SECRET -8- 6. Exchange of Intelligence on Cuban Subversion Central Intelligence Agency ■ CIA Stations throughout Latin America continued in a great majority of countries to furnish to the local internal security organizations with whom they are in liaison informa- tion con”
“() SECRET -16- b. In response to standing Agency instructions to give special attention to developments related to Cuba-based subversion, USIS posts in Latin America were prompt in reporting incidents and in providing editorial comments from the Latin American press”
“13-00000 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM 14. Mexico The Castro regime has been careful in the past to avoid antagonizing the Mexican government, in view of the importance to Cuba of maintaining its embassy and its civil air connections through Mexico. The Cubans continue to use”
“SECRET III. Training We estimate that:.at least 1,000, and perhaps as many as 1,500 persons came to Cuba during 1962, from all the other Latin American countries with 0 the possible exception of Uruguay, to receive ideo logical indoctrination, or guerrilla warfare train-”
“received training in guerrilla tactics or political indoctrination. 12. Haiti Known Cuban activity in Haiti is limited to two daily propaganda broadcasts by Havana Radio. -9- NO FOREIGN DISSEM -SECRET”
“which were organized at the time of the President’s visit to Costa Rica, are being encouraged to collect information of all sorts cnncerning Cuban subversive activities, and to participate in propaganda activities aimed at Cuban subversion. Other station propaganda assets hav”
“covert actions. Obviously, the recruitment of a sole individual involves a system of screening which theoretically must not be compromised either in the process of sorting or during the subsequent utilisation and post-utilisation periods. . There la • marked tendency for Cuba”
“SECRET EXCERPT FROM DRAFT NIE 85-63, 4 FEBRUARY 1963 32. Nonetheless, Castro continues his appeal for revolution in Latin America on the Cuban model. Those Latin Americans who are committed to violent revolution continue to look to Castro for help, particularly from his tr”
“a. One refugee, & deserter from Castro’s army, reported from personal knowledge that in late 1961 there were a number of students from Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, Guatemala, and Brazil living in a Havana suburb who regularly attended classes in Marxism-Leninism, propaganda tech”
“the Ecuadoran Ministers of Defense. and Government to stress the threat of Cuban backed subversion. Approximately 7,000 pounds of Communist propaganda are being destroyed monthly as a result of a unilateral operation of the CIA Base in Guayaquil. 9) Haiti Station reports that sev”
“While the network of informants protects the home front, officials of the National Directorate of the IntegratedRevolutionary Organization (ORI) are increasingly occupied with the export of Castroist- communism to the Western Hemisphere. Flight manifests of Cubana Airline”
“been delivered and is in the process of being activated. G. Continued efforts to improve the internal security of Latin American armies through the provision of Intelligence Advisors. Presently there are such advisors assigned to 14 Latin countries, emphasizing counterintel”
“o Cuba has been dramatically reduced in recent weeks. SECRET NW 66000 Docld:32424012 Page 8 4 SECRET Station and Embassy are continuing pressure on Cuban government in this regard. Names of travellers to Cuba are being passed to the Ambassador, who furnishes them to President Ale”
“SECRET A relative of a leading Communist in Cuba (who has previously given reliable advance information Of important developments) expressed the opinion on 30 Novesber that there will be revolts in Caribbean countries which will masquerade as "national revolutions" so as to ”
“ets a year to various Latin countries and France. NW 65924 Docld:32355013 Page 4 - 3 - SECRET SECRET b. Union Deportiva de Cuba Libre (UDCL): A sports oriented organization established by CIA in October 1962. Led by a well known Cuban sports figure and a prominent Cuban sports wr”
“DRAFT SECET 2 of 9 copies' „ - - GROUP I _ Excluded fromAndautor downgrading Oactlal and doclassification , 1. Control of Travel to and from Cuba Central Intelligence Apency 1 a. Developed highly useful information on frequency of Cuban "chartered" flights to Brazil, na”
“■ - SECRET - 15 * > the communist bloc and had postponed its plans to . industrialize. c. On September 27, the Agency issued a circular instruction to alllits Latin American posts urging . . greater attention to opportunities for publicizing Cuban- ostimulated subversion,”
“the DRAFT BRIEFING NOTES SECRET 18 Februar Cida CUBAN SUBVERSION IN LATIN.'AMERICA I. Introductory Statement The public pronouncements of Cuban leaders, the daily record of events in Latin America, and reports from our intelligence sources within Communist and other l”
“SECRET 2 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Memorandum % CUBAN TRAININ G OF LATIN AMERICAN SUBVERSIVES 27 March 1963 A SECRET HW 50955 DocId: 32283208 Page 2”
“ideology. The refugee did not know how many Latin Americans were involved, but believed the duration of each course was about eight weeks, after which another group replaced the one that had been training. 5. Much of the travel of Latin American students to Cuba for training ”
“SECRET -11-• b. As a result of information pesse.d by the Bogota Station to the Administrative Department of Security 3 (DAS) concerning Colombian travellers to Cuba, a umber of passport violations have been discovered in which n travellers to Cuba are using passports issu”
“( I i 277/ the WH Division budget I - Probably Castro’s attempt to export his revo lution reached its peak in 1962. The first Castro- inspired guerrilla action in Latin America occurred in March of that year, when Indians in the interior of Peru attacked the towns of ”
“SECRET 25 February 1963 .CUBAN SUBVERSION IN LATIN AMERICA I. Introduction The public pronouncements of Cuban leaders, the daily record of events in Latin America, and reports from our intelligence, sources within Communist and other left-extremist elements throughout th”
“SECRET 1 .'- Control of Travel to and from Cuba . Central Intelligence Agency a. Developed highly useful information on frequency of Cuban ’'chartered'’ flights to Brazil, names and nationali- ties of passengers and crew, and lax measures of control 1 followed by Brazilian”
“categories: a. The indoctrination and training of hundreds Of Latin Americans in Cuba; b. The intensive propaganda beamed at Latin America by Cuban radio stations and circulated through printed material and the Cuban-subsidized international "news" agency, and; C. The cover”
“Tractors for Freedom Committee, Detroit, Michigan. MILITARY AND NAVAL MATTERS (Miami file 105-2878) PSI in this case furnished information re the location of militia training camps and anti-aircraft guns in certain areas in the Interior of Cuba. FOREIGN POLITICAL MATTER - CUBA IS”
“13-00000 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM A clandestine source Miihas gdod oonercts with Chileans tudentsui Cuba reported in February that tamrecently returned student said some 40 Chileans would soon be leaving Cuba to return to Chile. The source said these Chileans"had recelve”
“training in Cuba. "Four of these were VAN - members. Another group of recently-returned trainees was reliable, reported in early May to be seeking to establish a new revolutionary group in Panama and to launch revolutionary activities in the near f ut ure. ---------------- -”
“penetration of the Cuban Intelligence Cervico [ and the APCJ. 7. Information on Doninicans being trained in Cuba, not only in guerrilla training, but as a. ents. r ■”
“in 1962 is reasonably accurate. We also believe that the scope and volume of this training is being stepped up, just as we know that it incresed in 1962 over 1961. The basic training covers cross-country movement; of guerrillas, firing, care of weapons, and general guerrilla”
“n and changing the site of the XVI Amateur Baseball World Championship from Cuba to another country. c. Comite DeOrganizaceones Juveniles Cubanas in el Exilio (COJCE): A youth organization headed by a former Cuban Boy Scout leader. CIA began support to this organization in Decemb”
“.SECRET -11- b. As a result of information passed by the Bogotalme Station to the Administrative Department of Security- (DAS) concerning Colombian travellers to Cuba, a number of passport violations have been discovered in which travellers to Cuba are using passports issu”
“SECRET 27 March 1963 CUBAN TRAINING OF LATIN AMERICAN SUBVERSIVES SUMMARY 4 .Page 1 DISCUSSION A. Recruitment of Trainees • • .2 B. Travel. • . . 2 C. Numbers of Trainees ft 4 D. Training. 5 E. Subsequent Employment and Countermeasures 0 6 F. Purpose and Propaganda.”
“SECRET 1. Control of Travel to and from Cuba Central Intelligence Agency a. Developed highly useful information on frequency of Cuban ’'chartered" flights to Brazil, names and nationali ties of passengers and crew, and lax measures of control followed by Brazilian authori”
“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 wea”