“SECRET 27 March 1963 MEXICO 1. Mexican nationals traveling to Cuba totaled 238 in 1962 and. 157 in the first two months of 1963. 2. A fairly reliable source reported in mid- 1962 that about 150 Mexicans were receiving guerrilla training at Minas del Frio, Cuba. A defect”
“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”
“o 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 se”
“SECRET students charge that direction, material, and ) financial support for these disturbances is channeled through students who have received train ing in agitation while visiting Cuba as "athletes." More than 50 Mexican students attended the Latin American University G”
“propaganda activities designed to encourage the pro-communist cause in Mexico, particularly the Communist-influenced National Liberation Move- ment (MLN). Former Cuban ambassador in Mexico Portuondo is reported by people in close contact with MLN leaders to have concluded an a”
“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 ”
“funds for further activity. 9uba has established some contact with bandit gangs infesting.. the Colombiancountryside. Army troops who are fighting the bandits have found Cuban propaganda in the possession of these bandits. Some bandit leaders may have had guerrilla training ”
“practice of stamping all passports to show travel to or from Cuba has largely nullified this effort by travellers to avoid the stigma of travel to Cuba. All Cubans arriving in Mexico, whether in transit or otherwise must have Mexican visas. This is not true of other national”
“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”
“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”
“for pro-Castro activities. Two Cubans were ar- rested on arrival in February 1962 and deported as agitators. 5. Mexican government agents on 24 May 1962 killed Ruben Jaramillo, Mexican Communist and guer rilla fighter, at Morelos, and subsequently arrested one of his guerr”
“"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”
“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”
“involved in the strike violence at La Oroya, Peru, last December, which culminated in several million dollars worth of damage to the smelter of the American-owned Cerro de Pasco mining company. One of these Cubans has also been directing the armed invasions of big ranches in”
“(). 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”
“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”
“IN RMARION TO R ONNREPO RTA CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning et the Reptonage Laws, Title 18, URIC. Becs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to ”
“$230 monthly each from the Cuban embassy in Uruguay to finance clandestine pro-Castro activities in Uruguay, according to a Paraguayan exile in Uruguay who is in close touch with FULNA. q. Peru: At least eight Peruvians traveled to Cuba by way of Mexico last June to receive t”
“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”
“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”
“operating between Colombia and Cuba and has mounted an operation to uncover his Colombian contacts. 6) Costa Rica Station reports little pro-Castro activity during April. No recorded travel to or from Cuba has taken place. Local authorities appear inclined to cooperate in control”
“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”
“13-00000 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM attention, which is given through the Cuban embassy- acMontevideo. Some FULNA members have received guerrilla training in Cuba. A once-weekly pro-Castro broadcast in the Guarani language has been heard in Paraguay since mid-November 1963”
“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”
“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”
“oxenavin Colombia From Colombia reports have been received of increasing Cuban assistance, primarily in the form of training courses by instructors who have been trained in Cuba, to the Worker-Student- Peasant Movement (MGEC). A emali guerrilla band encountered by the Colo”
“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. ---------------- -”
“from our penetrations of the Communist par ties, from controlled agents we have been able to maneuver into the training courses in Cuba, and from cooperative travel control authorities in Latin American countries. The Cuban Embassy in Mexico City gives the trainee a visa on”
“uban doctors who wished to attend a Urology Congress SECRET NW 66000 Docld:32424012 Page 10 6 SECRET in Mexico. Several station assets have recently travelled to Cuba for intelligence purposes. 12) Panama At the urging of station, the Guardia Nacional has been ordered to increase”
“propanganda materials from Latin Americans passing through that country enroute from Cuba to their homelands. C* Cuban covert support for subversive groups: 13. Cuban covert support for Communist or pro-Communist groups in other Latin American countries is provided in a muber”
“provisional Council of State, which is preparing the country for its first free elections this December in more than 30 years, has been a major target for Cuban subversion. A cadre of Dominican Communists is headquartered in Cuba, and clandestine con- tact is probably maintai”
“frequent assistance to exiles from Guatemala, Nicaragua, and other Central American countries living in Mexico. In other instances, assistance is provided through travelers coming from Cuba and through Prensa Latina representatives• 3 .14. The assistance is usually financial.”
“4. - SECRET €) w.d. • to follow the guidance of the Enbasay and the Station in .controlling travel to and from Cuba and the Soviet bloc. activities of Caban subversives in Ecuador, at lease for the 2‘w % - 10 s L-v • • % -Cat CS* • —4 *) wiCad b othat abn — soy 6.A-m So-kla”
“& -Excluded , GROUP I from automatic SECR :2 19 downgrading and downgrading a declassification• A“re--*SF A 813:1107% 41raDmr 4 CIA Intolli ce Anmex * 1. Travel to and Cubs % ■i Brazil. Chartered Cubana Airlines flights between Cuba and Brasil have become a maj”
“nd the greater implementation of stricter travel controls. 2. Movement of Cuban Propaganda Guatemala According to an unconfirmed report received in July, a Bureau of Information of the Communist Party of Guatemala is being formed in collaboration with Prensa Latina and is to be m”
“Bocanegra, who also prints propaganda for the Chilean Communist party. This activity has been going on for some time. As long ago as August, 1961, Chilean officials investigating political agitation and resulting unrest in the Salamanca area learned that after a visit to the ”
“, customs control, coastal sur- veillance and the organization of a local counter-subversive agency. For the Sub-Committee: SECRET NW 65990 Docld:32401396 Page 3 1 V. H. KRULAK Major General, USMC Chairman 2 SECRET PROGRESS ACHIEVED DURING APRIL IN IMPEDING TRAVEL TO CUBA 1. The ”
“n. Nicaragua: A cadre of Nicaraguan Communists is based in Cuba. Contact between them and pro-Castro Nicaraguans in Nicaragua and in exile in other countries of the Caribbean area is maintained at least on # sporadic basis. A number of Nicaraguans periodically have traveled to”
“be received from many places indicating that the suitcase full of currency is still one of the most common methods used by the Cubans for trans mitting funds for use in supporting subversive activities throughout the hemisphere. Instances where such funds have been confisca”
“13-00000 —SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM 7. Latin Americans returning to their coun tries after having received training in Cuba often take a round-about route to conceal the fact that they have been in Cuba. Many takeminelBowlet Bloor WilhighosmbomPrague. They then go through”
“program in Cuba. 9. Numerous reports have alleged that Cuba is supplying arms clandestinely to some Central and South American-based extremist groups. Only in the case of the arms cache discovered in Vene zuela on 1 November, however, has there been in controvertible proo”
“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”
“operating between Colombia and Cuba and has mounted an operation to uncover his Colombian contacts. 6) Costa Rica Station reports little pro-Castro No recorded travel to or from activity during April. Cuba has taken place. Local authorities appear inclined to cooperate in control”
“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”
“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”
“SECRET assets who have reported from Cape Haitien, Port de Paix and La Gonave and La Tortue Islands that they were unable to uncover any evidence of travel to or from Cuba. No cooperation between the station and Haitian authorities can be expected under the present political”
“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”
“special assignment then he was appointed to stay behind in Mexico" tomorarily and toThenotCuban : official there. clandestine pg agave contact mlbha him instructions Qubanand and funds, Embassy he;: ■ ■: w directed the later groups which transited Mexico. Cl"e,"uiee"feirdoo ■”
“citizen who has contacts among FUAR members reported last June that Fidel Castro had just given the group $15,000 and promised further financial aid semi-annually. Gloria Gaitan de Valencia, the wife of a FUAR leader and the daughter of the Colombian leader Gaitan whose assass”