“AMERICA. PROPAGANDA MAILED TO CUBA HAS PLACED MORE EMPHASIS ON MILITARY TARGET IN PLACE OF MORE GENERAL PROPAGANDA THEMES TREATED. AMTHIGH RADIO PROGRAMMING HAS BEEN CUT FROM TWO HOURS DAILY TO ONE AND ONE HALF /THIS SHOULD ACHIEVE REDUCTION OF $60,000 - $70,000 PER YEAR IN ”
“4-00000 7 A CLASSIFICATION To DISPATCH SECRET PRO POSED PROCESSING ACTION MARKED rom INDEXING ACCOM PUSHED Chief, WH MO INDEXING REQUIRED XX NO ONLY QUALIFIED HEADQUARTERS DESK CAN JUDGE INDEXING FRCM ABSTRACT Chief of Station, JMWAVEt micorilm Wutr TYPIC/AN”
“awakening the "people" of Latin America to - the opportunity for revolutionary action against the "corrupt"sregimes in power and against "Yankee imperialism" which allegedly supports them. 8. There are regular programs beamed by Havana radio to Nicaragua, the Dominican Republ”
“1 4-00000 •3• b. Operation Vtrgen del Cobra. Designed to exp left the B beptesber anniversary of the Cuban patron saint as a day of sourning expressing oppoas tiou to Castro’s attacks upon the church, religious freedom, and Cuban freedom. Progress: All local and Western He”
“13-00000 -2- .Idea. : ith ose Lavastida, a prominent lay leader, he is now visiting Caineguey to solicit the support of the local Bishop. ( Lavastida will seek similar support in Santiago, Tentative plans call for a congress or rally on Assumption Day, 15 July.. - • 7. T”
“moves noted in paragraph. 1, above, were reported separately in detail, and a full set of "black list" correspondence was forwarded to Headquarters in UFGA 21616 with a request for any further MHVIPER loads which might contribute to the further effectiveness of this campaign.”
“over short and acdius wave. 9* Wo support a Cuban exile group producing a weakly minute tape for distribution to a number 02 thirty minats Caribbean basin stations, and a weekly fifteen ginate tape for distribution through LAAB channels to Central and South American station”
“13-00000 Tab B Fro OMTY - OLUAL1 / PROPAGANDA i 1. Articulation and transmission of opposition views has already begun. Private opposition broadcasts (i.e. purchase of commercial time by private individuals) have occurred in Miami (medium wave) and arrangements have ”
“described in 2.a. above were mailed to a carefully compiled list of banks, business firms, etc. In the U.S., Europe, and Japen.- - About 1,600 copies of these releases translated into Spanish were also distributed.’ d. The AMSCROLL radio program is on the air over AMTHIGH fo”
“13-00000 EYES ONLY SECRET 3. Newspapers are also being supported and further support is planned for the future. Avance, a leading Cuban daily (Zayas' paper), has been confiscated as has El Mundo, another Cuban daily. Diario de.la Marina, one of the hemisphere’s outstan”
“13-00000 1 - 2 - b. UFGA 3926 dated 1 May 1962: 19-124-25 Dispatch from JMWAVE to Headquarters, which forwarded (not attached) a paper prepared within the Station on-the subject of the restructurization and revitalization of the C.R.C. Noted that the Station had major co”
“as designed to fill the gap in coverage by the regular news media. It was accepted in the hemisphere NW 65924 Docld:32356768 Page 8 -7- SECRET SECRET 5 as an accurate and objective reporter of events. It prepared four news bulletins a week which were distributed to 1200 Latin Ame”
“as designed to fill the gap in coverage by the regular news media. It was accepted in the hemisphere NW 65924 Docld:32355013 Page 8 7 - SECRET SECRET as an accurate and objective reporter of events. It prepared four news bulletins a week which were distributed to 1200 Latin Ameri”
“over WMIE and several Latin America Istations. Representative themes were: Congo atrocities inspired by: | Communists, Venezuelan student support of the Cuban cause; Argentine I trade union support of world boycott against Red Cuba; economic crisis ■in Cuba; factional struggl”
“13-0000.0 TOP SECRET King’s initial memorandum contained no information about potential locations of transmitters, personnel security, inter-Agency coordination or costs. Almost immediately following the memorandum from Col. King to the Director, the subject of propaganda”
“Delegation broadcasts "Trinchera" once a week by radio Chi in Bolivia.- The Delegation broadcasts daily " Trinchera" by radio "Amauca" Uruguay.- The Delegation broadcasts " Trinchera" three times a week by radio " Rural". . ; Colombia- The Delegation broadcasts daily "Trinche”
“as designed to fill the gap in coverage by the regular news media. It was accepted in the hemisphere NW 65924 Docld:32356933 Page 8 7 SECRET SECRET as an accurate and objective reporter of events. It prepared four news bulletins a week which were distributed to 1200 Latin America”
“9. The program to the Dominican Republic, for instance, is announced ; as the program of the Dominican Liberation Movement (MLD), and the program is entitled Patria Libre. At present. Radio Havana besms the 20 minute .' Patria Libre program t@ the Dominican Republic on Thursda”
“14-00000 -4e c. Maritime broadcasts were cancelled for period for vessel maintenance. An electronle engineer has been hired and construction of TV intrusion equipecut has begun. This equipment will be used on the maritime broadcast and bo targeted against the Havana area.”
“13-00000 TOP SECRET Despite the handicap imposed by the lack of Spanish language capability at the Station, Radio - Swan was the most effective of the propaganda activi ties supported by the Agency; and with Station WRUL, New York, these Agency-sponsored radio broadcasts”
“this type of attack. Calling Castro (on 19 January) the "Soviets' barking hound dog" is a sally in this direction. 3. As usual with programs of this, nature the size and reaction of the audience is most difficult to ascertain. -It is some comfort to be able to record that du”
“guerrillas (samples in Attachment 3).| 6. News releases were issued on a number of current topics,| AMSCROLL as usual taking the economic warfare angle on the news of the | day as it effected Cuba. The 17 releases of this period were sent to | newspapers, wire services, magaz”
“CLASSIFICATION DISPATCH BYMDCL AND NUMBER CONTINUATION OF SEC RET UFGA 19,393 DISPATCH 1b. 4,800 copies of the pony AMSPELL newspaper were mailed into Cuba (Attachment No. 2, under separate cover.) Both the pony I and regular editions stress the conflict between theold-guar”
“13-00000 TOP SECRET also pointedly reveal the inconsistencies of his statements." Following receipt of this call from the Deputy Director, Esterline passed the word on to Dave Phillips with the comment that he thought perhaps such broadcasts might be used as filler during”
“of $464 for visa and medical costs involved in the travel of a group of Cuban exiles from Jamaica to the United States. 4. The AMSTRUT-2 weekly radio spot on AMTHIGH continued with out schedule change during the quarter. Significant themes included: comments on the degraded ”
“14-00000 4. CONTINUATION o? DISPATCH S-E-C-R-E-T UFGA-4211 10. Subjects also felt that propaganda should be directed morei toward that sector of Cubans that are not fanatic Fidelistas or .1 communists, and have not committed themselves to the opposition movement. for suc”
“been moved up to every fortnight, and efforts to get it printed on a commercial printing press in Havana appear to be successful. Regular couriers are being trained for delivery of the newspaper to the provinces. PEREZ also reported their progress in mounting two clandestine ”
“Onty Do Not Reproduce. NW 65987 Docld:32405928 Page 1 1/BR 104-10165-10158 PAGE 2 JMWAVE 2347 SECRET ARRANGE THROUGH HIS PERSONAL CONTACTS, B. EXILE MORALE, INCLUDING WOFACT AGENTS, VERY LOY, WITH AMCORE-2'S FLAIR FOR PUBLICITY WE BELIEVE TRIP VEL HELP BOOST EXILE MORALE AND AT S”
“programmed nightly. These special programs are ex emplified by . the programs transmitted to the Domini- can Republic on 28 January. One was a ’’manifesto” by Dominican Communists (who are based in Cuba) on the recent election of the "demagogic imperialist agent" Juan Bosch”
“OUTGOING 5 A0" wust. u’t • H.»I i) a U a a a 3 SKCRET nata.tiug annum cencunta STAFF DIRECTOR CONF: INFO: FILE 459557 0 most Usamers 0 - - to DISSEM BY: PER 02t,t064. 0 v # a lt BEGAN PREPARING INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTY MSMISERS TO AID IN SUPPOSLA THETR COUN”
“14-00000 €- DISPATCH W30 CLASSIriCATiOn. PROCESSING SECRET ACCO • ACTION 1. 0 4to jmis: rrmincising Chief, WH X I * mocying erouiro INFO •ALL- weaVAwLKS CCS a40g ectung 1FROM SUBJECT Chief of Station, JMWAVE.2 TYPIC/ANSPELL/Operations - AMSPELL Progress Report, ”
“APRIL, LAST PAGE -”MARTYRS OF THE NEGRO. - STRUGGLE."" con RADIO LIBERATION AND RADIO PROGRESO /HAVANA RADIO STaTIONS/, 26 APR IL, GAP A.M. AND12 NOON - THE CHIEF OF THE MISSION TO CUBA OF THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT HAS SENT A MESSAGE TO AFRO-AMERICANS ON”
“SECRET -3- Free and Communist worlds. To these ends, prominence was given to problems with the sugar crop, .statements prepared especially, for AMSCROLL by such, defectors as AMBRAY-1, AMBINGO-1, and selected - defectors from the Cuban merchant marine. The program ran a seri”
“Since March 1966, 1,000 envelopes containing AMSPELL propa ganda have been mailed to Cuba ph a monthly basis. This propaganda is directed particularly at students who support the regime (copies - of the propaganda are being forwarded under separate cover). 3, Press The majo”
“Benjamin de la Vega. d. An editorial in the Miami News of August 30th" e. An article by Humberto Medrano in the "Diario de la Americas" of September 1st. f. A story in the "El Universal" of Caracas, Venezuela, of September 1st. g. TV stations Channel 4 and Channel 7 broadca”
“14-00000 OUTGOING MESSAGE • • SAl cun’amubs or 9 A” tow OMF 0 0 0 0 0 a 0. 34 l**e-arom SECRET Dave fine 0euur wessaogmeen-cgnumean. on SAAGG ManD seoro isett.A tom STAFF DIRECTOR 0 mnoee DISSEM BY: CON: INFO: FILE 608503 0 0 Nomose R*** to 0 Penes PER # G”
“were not broadcast Fon "Newspaper of the Air" was that Juan AMADOR Rodriguez, the director of y the program, had been attacking the members .of the Armed Forces of CASTRO 5..in his comments on the program, whereas ARTIME’G statements were precisely directed to the Rebel Army.”
“COVERAGE AND LETTERS FROM AMSHADY AUDIENCE. ARRANGEMENTS HAVE NOW BEEN MADE FOR SALE OF BOOK IN LATIN AMERICA THROUGH LEGITIMATE COMMERCIAL CHANNELS. 16. AMRAZOR-1. NO SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE. SEE REFERENCE B FOR DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT ACITIVITES. AMRAZOR HAS BEEN ESPECIALLY- • E”
“we kept informed about the situation in the Dominican Republic and the participa tion of the Cubans and Domini cans in the Miami area in what was going on.U J 33. During this whole period, in view of the division existing among the . exiles and of the formation of so many ne”
“CLASSIFICATION TO DISPATCH SECRET PROCESSING ACTION DARAID rom IRCEING ACCOM j PUSHED Chief, WH NO imcrxiN mrouinto ova ONLYQUALFtD FJD MADQUAFTERS OSA CM wcot RONG IFROM ABSTRACT Chief of Station, JMWAVE wicporite Sutter TYPIC/AMSPELL/Operational" o AMSPELL Pro”
“14-00000 1 pf'T oxbuil 10 Octooor 1961 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Meeting with Dr. NIRO Cardona on 6 October 1. Dr. MIRO arrived about 9:50 a, m. for the meeting we had set at 10:00; again he was driven by his secretary whom he introduced. As during the fir”
“CONTINUATION or DISPATCH . S-E-C-R-E-T UFGA-4211 220 NE 26th Terrace, Miami. Subject was employed as receptionest in the office of her brother Carlos BARO, 06 a dentist in the L & 23rd Bldg.Vedado. Subject arrived in Miami on PAA Flight 422 onS May 1962. .2. Subjects a and”
“material in those cities are publishing the LIANCHOR material. The clipping services will be asked to watch for articles with the LIANCHOR by-line, the by-lines of LIANCHOR writers and the headlines or titles which are assigned by LIANCHOR to the articles mailed to the newsp”
“1954 we began to pass information to the "friends" abou the training camps which were being opened in New Jersey to prepare and 1 train people for the invasion of Haiti. We infiltrated Bone of our pe op. into this group and thus kept informed of everything that went on. 27. A”
“ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEWSPAPER REPL ICA - TO COUNTERACT PRO-BAT I STA PROPAGANDA IN THE CUBAN EXILE COMMUNIST THE S05 IS AN EDITOR. - 919 .-3JECTA -1%”
“Reel 72-RICO-26 -3- 2 May 1965 14.2 contd. (Protectorate). Mejia said that they fight to the last man against this. Mejia will phone VIG. It is extremely important that Radio Habana. deny that Mejia is involved in this, ne well as the name of the group (which is Communist).”
“Vi c t XC Tana Lie 13-00000. 2. or Wal rom WAVE 70710 662 Key l e August 19/61 r, Dec 1961 SovicEP 1 AmPHE-T . ) 06 Enclosed find an approximate list of expenses that Armando Munero .gave me for consideration. However, he would like to talk it over as to the rest o”
“14-00000 to n ’'1 0. DIRECTORIO RE VOLUCIONARIO ESTUDIANTIL ***********T***00*00--01-920122002--/780*91012-VX*009*806667//**80****T90.7*t-s*wwor**e**itltr*****r-dedz jose antonio echeverria con tus ideas en morche 1 PE:.- The Delegation at F. r: performed the followi”
“tm AnrT SuUfe1 Amsroll D+P MEMORANDUM 4 April 1967 As TO : Chief of Station, JMWAVE WPW-1333 FROM : PW/MARCHIBANK Distribution 3 - COS SUBJECT: TYPIC/OPERATIONAL 1 - PW/MARCHBANK AMSCROLL Progress Report 1 - PW/Chrono 1 January - 31 March 1967 1 - REG A. OPERATIONAL HI”
“other programs, subjects reported that on 1May, relatives in the Matanzas area telephoned them in Havana to tell them that the "students'' (DRE) were on again (TV intrusion). Also,1 ' later in the day, friends in the Vedado area called to tell them to 1 tune Into Channel 2, th”