“8 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. 1, RAFAEL CALDERA, LEADER OF THE SOCIAL CHRISTIAN PARTY (COPE) IS SUPPORTING PLANS FOR A MILITARY OVERTHROW OF THE NEWLY ELECTED VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT OF RAUL LEONI. CALDERA PLANS”
“proposal made in the State Department version 29 that has been discussed that the dissident groups, that in case 24 they managed to take over the government and there was some I 25 kind of fighting that they should request help from Venezuela, j TOP SECRET”
“14-00000 SECRET CA INTERNAL USE ONLY INTIGENCE INFORMATION CABLE DATE 29 JANJAPY 1973 818958. PAGE 1 OF 2 PAOSS The following broegence tiformatien, trerenited him a CA Reld Station, requires rovlow wohin the Clandestine Service be- for boingrelecsed outside the Agency”
“■ PAGE 5.RUEAZIA 9328 syomsn NOFNRN WNINTEL1 0 19 78 VISIT OF PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER. ALTHOUGH THERE IS ATENDENCY TO BLAME THE UNITED STATES FOR VENEZUELA’S CURRENT SECRET FINANCIAL PROBLEMS, IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT DEMONSTRATIONS WHICH MIGHT TAKE PLACE WOULD BE AIMED AT PRESIDE”
“-00000 nuv’ii : 03) temcAiH OUTGOING MESSAGE V a GllNAL caNTEnUSE ONLY act cor ACP toe we tiso. Plot or Picat OMF 0 0 0 0 0 0 a Cussiication SECRET* weseade aeeseeicanumoeacn weseadenanolme visicaroe care-time ancee core- CONF: O mean 0-myvmio_ 0 nowois INFO: F”
“government. Cuban Embassies serve as cover. C. Considerable intelligence has been received of Cuban attempts to establish an operational relationship with guerrilla groups in Colombia with ultimate goal of overthrowing the Colombian government. d. French intelligence repo”
“Somoza. The purpose of the meet ing will be to attempt to enlist the support of Somoza - in an attempt against the government of Enrique Peralta. A-1 asked for instructions from KUPARK on whether or hot to attend the meeting. In any event, Alejos stated that the plans call ”
“G 90 'PAGE 6 RUEAIIA 932°-Ci========= NOFNRN WNINTE € • AWARENESS GROUPS SUCH AS THE COMMITTEE AGAINSTTHE HIGH COST OF LIVING, THE STUDENT’S COMMITTEE FOR THE POPULAR STRUGGLE (CLEP), ETC. SECRET THE OR MAINTAINS A FRONT GROUP KNOWN AS THE SOCIALIST LEAGUE (LS, WHICH, I”
“13-00000 2. Venezuela a. The Communist effort to frustrate the presidential election (1 December) continues. b. An illegal transmitter was heard yesterday in Caracas calling CIS for a 48-hour general strike and urging listeners to arm themselves plus 962M, against the B”
“h o f INTERNAL DISCONTENT AND TO MOUnT AN INTERNAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENT. n l. m aw B z A THE JUNTA EXPECTS THAT THE FORMER UP PARTIES LED BY THE conmUNISTS. S M A I H d j A WILL SET UP A UNIFIED FRONT FOR CAUSING CIVILIAN DISTURBANCES AND POLITICAL DISCONTEN”
“14-00000 OUTGOING MESSAGE o v — % : BNNAL CFNTFRUSG ONLY •0« Go AC* 100 vee wo or pices OMF Q 0 □ 0 0 0 e Clsseieeanon A SECRET waeso* Wanc,wG N0CA100 pare-rweanoce core wessage neensicsnumonn CONF: a imben o Nowoss INFO: FILE 454587 DISSEM BY: PER _____ #_ 0”
“14-00000 OUTGOING MESSAGE •[. roI__ 406 SIGNAL csoreaive Onur cor too ten nino st PaGen OMF 0 0 0 0 0 0 5- CLsnie-AtON SECRET: wessonanbiwdmbitaron meseo 1 wege CONF: . Iso: FILE DISSEM BY: 0 wore 0 erveuso_ 0 noinosn 454587 PER __ _#_ 0 em . UNDERSECRETAR”
“14-00000 ROUTINE Intelligence Information Cable . WARNING NOTICE IN 893854 SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED STATE/INE NMCC/MC (1A) CIA/NMCC NICINSA UREAS too ONE CM PAGE 1 O 3 PAGES 1 DIRECTORATE OP • . • , OPERATIONS . . ■ Classified by ayorded Repor”
“from Miami report that most Cuban exiles feel that the Havana announcement is an attempt to cover up the failure of Castro terrorists to stop Venezuela's presidential elections last Sunday. Other exile sources predict that the announcement and the setback in Venezuela mean th”
“AFADETE SECRET-NO FOREIGN DISSEM Venezuelan Communists Plan to Increase Violence / As part of its terrorist campaign, the Venezuelan Communist Party reportedly plans to mark the fourth anniversary of Betancourt's presidency on 13' February by guerrilla bombings in the Cara”
“13-00000 JaUA VALIy L/ld nA] Lyre oronrT ottnEi THE POLITIC AL OPPOSITION 1. CIA is already in close touch with three reputable opposition groups (the Montecristi, Autentico Party and the National Democratic Front). These all meet the fundamental criteria condition”
“1. Venezuela a. The country’s six presiden tial candidates have swung into the home stretch of their campaigns. So have the terrorists, who are still trying hard to sabotage next Sunday's vote. b. There is little doubt that the terrorist effort has all-out Cuban support.”
“13-00000 1. Venezuela a. The country’s six presiden tial candidates have swung into the home stretch of their campaigns. So have the terrorists, who are still trying hard to sabotage next Sunday’s vote. b. There is little doubt that the terrorist effort has all-out Cub”
“S IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TEMTATIVE. Σου ACCORDING TO RAFAEL HERRERA, DOMINICAN WRITER FOR THE LOSTIN DIARIO NEWSPAPER, THE AGRUPACION FOLITICA CATORCE DE JUNIO (APCJ, 14TH OF JUNE MOVEMENT) HAS BECOME VIOLENTLY ACTIVE I”
“spartment of Valle Pegional’’ t. Committee «.4: the Crinmunist Party of Coloi-bia PCC). G) and P.1. inata, uban deep-cover agetd wor kang with the Seventh of January Worker Student - Peasant Movement (MOEC) in In Colombia and Venezuela, Plata nota oral said that the MOT: La ”
“14-00000 SECRET CIA INTERNAL USE ONLY INTRUGEICE INFORMATION CABLE DATE 10 MARCH 1973, IN 855811 . PAGE 1 OF 3 PAGES The following intelligence information, transmitted from a CIA Field Station, requires review within the Clandestine Service be fore being released outsid”
“SECRET -2- 2a specifically for ship repairs, recruiting and training crews, locating sites and facilities for future PM activities, strengthening the political organization of the VRD and propaganda. On 30 January Station Caracas was authorized to inform BETANCOURT that Headqu”
“14-00000 OUTGOING MESSAGE sidAS cNtnvnm 0NLT ade Com • 101 tel and. 2900 OMF a 0 0 0 0 a 2 Cilinianom SECRET was,400 mart stone moraton mere non omour cni ' MIIWOIncesmencenuunen 0 mora DISSEM DY: COHF: INFO: FILE / 0 Nostoes 445768 0 Reruns to PER 0....... # BEE”
“elections at M once. Prime Minister Home is not 1ikely to accede, NBR D. Ecuador The military junta which has run Ecuador DO-A 3,284 819i report that one of the less savory members of the since July may be about to come unstuck. ‘e have a group, air force Colonel Freiles, wi”
“reliably reported to have been furnished. Cuban leaders have also called with increasing frequency for open rebellion as the "only road" to liberation for the Americas; they have been especially vociferous since the first of the year. Leading officials, such as Castro, Blas R”
“the Venezuelan situation now is ripe for a final offensive.. -8- TOP SECRET DINAR”
“C. The Betancourt government has struck back hard. Its new uni- fied command over the security forces, set up at US urging, passed this initial test with flying colors. d. At least 500 extremists were arrested and the round-up is still going on. Their removal will hamper the Com”
“14-00000 IN -893854 TDFIR-314/03534-73 PAGE 2 OF 3 PAGES WARNING NOTICE-SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SECDET / ANDs.- • OCUNCI METHODS INVOLVED/NO FOREIGN DISSEM celaselfieatjon) controls MOST MILITARY OFFICERS DO NOT DOUBT THAT BRIBES WERE INVOLVED, AND POSSIBLY ”
“AND THE MAJORITY 07 TiGM SY-TEIZE WIA AND SUPPORS 282 ARMED STRUGGLE. B. VENEZUELA. BOIR rue CMMUNIST PARTY AND THE MOVEMENT C3 THE REVOLUTIONARY LEPr (MIR). LAUNCHED THE APMED STRUGGLE, BUT BOTH : - HAVE NOW ARADONED rr. BoTH MOVEMENTS CONFINED TUSIR EFFORTS MOSTLY TO THE C”
“SECRET ANNEX F - VENEZUELA Venezuela is the top priority target for Cuban subversion. A campaign Of terror is in full swing. Castro, Che Guevarra, Blas Roca and other high-ranking Cuban officials have, as recently as January 1963, told various visiting Latin American Comm”
“13 of National Liberation (FALN) will probably increase their efforts to disrupt the constitutional succession, which would be the first in Venezuela's history. f. Meanwhile, in the wings are t 3/566 0490 VS the military leaders who may well 143 intervene if they find Be”
“forP4 A. Classes in subversion and guerrilla warfare are ..■ being conducted at training centers im Limed for the Atlantic Coast region, and at Nicoya for tbit Pacific area. One of their basic texts is a pamplat titled ; "Cuba en Marehn” by Freneicce CANTOA. Thear N3jet- % ”
“use shaped charges to sabotage vulnerable oil pipe lines-. Earlier attempts had involved more conventional explo sives. The paramilitary apparat of the Venezuelan Com munist Party, which is directly charged with the mis sion for continuing terrorism in the urban areas, h”
“1 SECRET EYES-41- ONLY of radio propaganda from Ponce, Puerto Rico, which is under the direction of Horacio ORNES, Secretary General of Vanguardia Revolucionaria Domini- cana (VRD). This radio program is heard in the Dominican Republic as the voice of the ORNES organizat”
“13-00000 *: .. . - wean in- -th 9 ‘7l a.o-td it b. Comments by Goulart, that "social disaster" is sure if his program is not passed soon, have drawn sharp rejoinders from moderate and conservative figures and have fed rightist coup plotting. c. Strains are also growi”
“Marinho reported to his gov 24 ernment from (Washington on 5 December that several OAS delegates) have been impressed by the Cuban claim that the weapons found in Venezuela last month had actually been planted there by the United States.- -7- TOP SECRET DINAR 611J”
“13-00000 on Cuts 1 MBs c. The Betancourt government has struck back hard. Its new uni fied command over the security forces, set up at US urging, passed this initial test with flying colors. d. At least 500 extremists were arrested and the round-up is still going on. ”
“SECRET-NO FOREIGN DISSEM SUPPLEMENT THE VENEZUELAN SITUATION A number of high-ranking Cuban leaders since the first of the year have publicly called for revolution in other Latin American countries, with Venezuela singled out as a country with top priority. Coinciding w”
“establish an operational relationship with guerrilla groups in Colombia with ultimate goal of overthrowing the Colombian government. d. French intelligence reports "Che" Guevara is talking of including Martinique and Guadeloupe in Caribbean Federation headed by him. 345”
“:.Menendez Rod:iruez, qulen “separados” en cuanto a la sub Por ahora, esti raprebada” y una vez mas burl a ) pl.eia version armada, mostrando al lista la tercera mision “eco- venezolann, es activamente so distador de Cuba ecmo cl gran nomica" hacia el pais venezo- Neitado en C”
“14-00000 ........ . — 9 U.S. OFFICIALS Satur- day announced that two Cu- ban refugee flights for Mon- day, May 1. will be suspend- ed at the request of the Cu- ban government. Communis May Day activities are sched- uled on the island that day. The U.S. financed flight”
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“SECRET 2. One of our established sources of proven reliability, high in the ranks of the Venezuelan Communist Party ((a veteran • party member and leader of the FALN)), says the Central Committee agreed in Jan uary that a ’'peaceful solution to the present situation in V”
“SECRET - CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET (When Filled In) TDCS -3/537,176 IN 67419 PAGE 2 * -3. (FIELD COMMENT: TERRORIST ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN INCREASING IN 1 0 .VENEZUELA, SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE FUERZAS ARMADAS DE LIBERACION 8 .NACIONAL (FALN, ARMED. F”
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“14-00000 SIGNALCENT RUSE ONL LU rr 908 co* TM ueo OP Pots • e4 • OMF 0. 0 0 a 0 a -q-• 1 SECRET —STINT Maltuwo inoicatOA blJMToeou• cea ser mee **Ce*um68n STAFF CONF: c/uHs INFO: FILE 2122582 LIPAN ADU/Do, c/osal1e2 C/018c/55 3 0 0 0 mbea 458246 wo more DISSE”
“3.00000 tsEd Si their new responsibilities. There are, however, a few signs of dissen sion within this group and between it and civilian politicians. g. One of the more ambitious and troublesome figures is the able but opportunistic General Ton That Dinh, the new Mini”
“SECRET-MO-FOREIGN DISSEM Extremist And Police Activities In Venezuela Venezuela has been afflicted over the past several months with a rash of Castro-Communist terrorist actions. Many incidents, involving shootings and robberies, are. connected with the Movement of the Revo”
“14-00000 SECRET -3- in the Caracas area. He is located at either the convent of Nuestra Senora de Fatima or Nuestra Senora del Rosario. Gutierrez has offered to put A-1 in contact with the i leader and has even given him contact instructions. A-1 is to proceed to Caracas”
“'PAGE 2 RUEAIIA 9327 SE =2=5 NOFNRN WNINTEL o • POLISH DIPLOMATS. (SOURCE: A VENEZUELAN BUSINESSMAN WITH CONTACTS AMONG SECURITY OFFICIALS AND WHOSE REPORTING IS GENERALLY (S) SECRET RELIABLE.) 5. VENEZUELAN EXTREME LEFTIST GROUPS INCLUDE THE BANDERA ROJA (BR); THE BAND”