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9 December 1963
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DAILY_SUMMARY
9 December 1963
This summary of significant information has not been coordinated
outside the Office of Current Intelligence. It does not represent a
complete coverage of all current reports received, nor does time
permit the_complete _evaluation 0f all reports which are_included
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MILITARY DEVELOPMENTO:
Three Independent clandestine sources have reported on
the unloading Of mIlitery equipwent from the Sovlet vessel
MTALLURG BAIKOV 1n Havana harbor On 19 or 20 November _
(Page 1)
Sovlet "coastal defense rockets 0 now belong to Cuban Army
artillery forces , according to a recent speech by Raul
Castro; however 8t1l1 appear to be Involved in
the (communLcations
"Sce;faich
net serves the crulse @Isslle
system (Page 1)
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FIDEL CASTRO '8_SPEECH :
In a 6-7 December speech devoted nafnly to educatlon Cas-
tro 'dlgressed to d1sc488 tbe sItuatlon resultIng from Vene _
zuela '8 charge that the a1wg cache d1scovered on a" Vene
zuelan beach last month had come from Cuba _ Castro Implled
that tbe arms bad been planted by CIA and are beIng used
a8 a pretext for new actlon by the "Imperlalists and theIr
lackeys" "1 agaInst Cuba He expressed confidence that what_
ever the result ; the Cuban revolutlon 51ll not be defeated.
(Page 2)
CUBAN INTERNAL SITUATION :
Faure Chomon Medlavilla Is replacing Omar Fernandez as
trangportation @Inister; Major Jesus Montane Oropesa wIll
be new fonauntcations @inister (Page 3)
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@eavy rainfalD has
apparently caused damages to @IlItary
facllities In( Plnar del Rio ProvInce and hampered travel
1o Qriente Province - (0 (Page 4)
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THE PRES IDENT S ASSASSINATION :
A Spanish-language daily in New York claims Madrid police
are holding a self-confessed plotter against the late Presi -
dent (Page 4)
INSURGENCY AND CIVIL_UNREST:
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A flre on a farm
near Cardenas_ Matanzas) Province has de-
stroyed one acre of
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4) Cexoquen)
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An attempt hag been made to shoot the chlef of the BuRs)
in
Welasco , Camaguey) Province (Page 5)
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A mIlitlanan arrested Ip Guantanano on 3 December for sus_
Pected counterrevolutlonery activities bas been freed,
(Page 5)
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The DSE unit at Clego de Avila) has captured One Insurgent
and Teports the surrender of another; a resident of (ucaro )lo
ha8 been arrested for cashing an out_of-cIrculatlon 50 _
dollar b1ll_ (Page 5)
Thlrty-two people attempting to flee Cuba were captured by
Cuban security forces on 8 December; thls may be related to
an earlier report wbIch stated that an undetermined number
of residents of Lag Villas Province fled the country from
an unknown point of embarkatlon _ (Page 6)
Several @Inor Incidents of gabotage have been dlscovered
on CUBANA aIrcraft. (Page 6).
A DRE leader In Mexico Cty announced that 126 Cuban @Il1-
tlanen were klled 1p 8 clash wItb guerrlllas near Sanctl
Splritus, Las Villas ProvInce_ (Page 6)
CUBAN AIR FLIGET CONNECTIONS :
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"Spatd) ieg approved regulerly gcheduled
Havana {Madrig flights
by CUBANA aIrlInes_ accordlng to an Intercepted message::
(Page 7)
SHIPPING SUPPORT FOR CUBA :
The Argentine Government and the owners of the SS ANAMAR
are determined that It w1ll not take a cargo of Sovlet-
purchased coffee to Cuba _ (Page 7)
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(O4s) DEVELOPMENTS:
Thel Brazilian OAS delegate informed his government on 5
December that several OAS depegsteouha have been impressed by
the Cuban claim that the weapons In Venezuela last
month had actually been planted there by the US _ Apparently
unaware that elaborate efforts had been made to erase all
indications of the Cuban origin of the weapons they wonder
why Cuba would permit evidence of its involvement In send -
Ing arws to Latin American guerrillas to be traceable to
Cuba (Page 7)
The (Venezuelan OAS ambassador)dispatched an urgent message
to hls (orelgn @inistenofn 6 'December expressing_mIsgivings
as to the attitudes of
'&embers of
the speclaL (O4S) comnittee
appointed: to investigate Venezuela 's charges agaInst the
Castro reglne (Page 8 )
In relation to the iovestigation of
the' Venezueian) arns
cache tbe (Brazillan delegate) to @AS) has been instructed
not to show "sympathy or excessive in rela_
tion to Cuba _ 11 (Page 9)
SOVIET_CUBAN RELATIONS :
A clandestlne source: has reported possibly as a current
rumor that Fidel Castro Visited Moscom around 15 November;
there 1s do current evidence that he made any public appear -
ances 1n Cuba around that date (Page 9)
BLOC ECONOMIC RELATIONS :
Five PolIsh merchantmen have been assigned to Cuban run
(Page 10)
The Sovlet-made AN-12 transport has landed 1n Cuba . (Page 10)
NON_BLOC RELATIONS :
The Moroccan foreign minlster has received a Cuban "good _
will" mLssion for the second time ; local expectatIon Is
that formal relations w1ll be re-established shortly.
(Page 11)
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The President of(Dahomey Mleclined an Invitation to attend
the 1 January annlversary celebration in Cuba _ (Page 11)
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CUBAN . SUPPORT OF EXTERNAL_SUBVERSIVE_ACTIVITIES :
The (Chilean ambassador in
(Venezuea
is convinced of the
accuracy of Wenezuelan charges of Cuban subversion _
(Page 11)
There 1s an additional report on the use Of a' Cuban trans -
port plane to supply pro-Castro groups In Venezuela with
weapons _ (Page 12)
Cuban Charge Lasalle 1n Bollvia 1s reportedly supplying
weapons to the leftist section of the governlng party,
8 the serlous pollticel cr18ls there becomes pore In-
tenge (Page 12)
A clandestine source has reported that two Cubans are
with a . group of Peruvlan leftists currently hiding ip
Bollvia and that Castro has agreed to Provlde-money and
guerrilia training
for a rival group . (Page 12)
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MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS:
Three independent clandestine sources have reported the
unloading of military equipment from a Soviet cargo vessel ,
probably the METALLURG BAIKOV on 19 or 20 November Thls
vessel was suspected of carrying a military cargo
iong before
its arrival in Cuba _ (See Daily Summary of 12 November . ) It
carried what was probably the efghth TuTl mflitary cargo to
arrive in Cuba since tbe 1962 m1ss-le crisis One source , a
retired civil engineer whose reporting bas been factual and
1n most instances based on personal observation, reported tbat
the METALLURG BAIKOV unloaded "large quantities of arms and
military equipment" in Havana on 20 November and left the next
day Another source reported that Havana longshoremen bad
stated that a Soviet ship, which tbey did not Identify_
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had
unloaded: arms at Regla Wharf Havana , on 20 November A third
souce , an educated Cuban of Western Buropean extraction who
18 a resident Of Havana
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reported that tanks were among the
equipnent unloaded from a Sovlet vesb0l tbat arrived In Havana
on 19 November The three sources are probably referring to
the same sblpment If tbe report on the delivery of tanks is
true , this would be tbe second consecutive reported shipment
of armored vehicles to Cuba _ The ORENBURG reportedly delivered
sone 45 tanks on 23 or 24 October (See Daily Sunnartes of 28
and 29 October.) It bes previously been reported that another
probable military shipment the nIothb_ 1s now en route aboard
tbo SLUTSK_ (See Dafly 8un728 of 3
"becenber_
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The Soviet "coastal defense rockets" now belong to the
Cuban Army artillery forceb according to 8 recent speech by
Raul Castro Cubans
probabiy
have been tralnlog 1n crulbe
missile operations s1nce lagt spring _
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and tbe rotation and
withdrawa 1 of some Soviet naval personnel 1n September suggested
tbat tbe crutse mLseilo eysten was turned over to the Cubans
at that timezt (A Soviet connunlcatlons not) which probably serves
the crulse missIle system renaIns active however Indica ting
tbat some degree Of Soviet Involvement continues _ (CIA FBIS
14 November UNCLASSIFIED and: NSA 27-CURUNYR16-63 , 28 August
1963 _
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FIDEL CASTRO '8 SPEECH:
Fidel Castro 's speech of the night of 6-7 December was
on the occasion of the gradua t1on of women teachers for the
literacy campa 1gn. He devoted most of the 99 minutes to a
discussion of the development of local educa tion 1n Cuba _ At
one point however be made a moderately long digression to
discuss Venezuela and the situation raised by Venezuela 8 dis-
covery last month of a large cache of weapons some of which
bave been traced to Cuba
Castno stated that while "the imperialists and their
lackeys 1 charge that Cuba 1s promoting subversion in Vene _
zuela rebellion and subversion cannot be promoted from with-
out The Venezuelan revolution, be maLntained , stems from
the Venezuelan people 's Own disgust with their government and
with its permitting the "imperialists" to plunder Venezuela 'S
wea lthb and resources . If subversion could in fact be promoted
from the outside, wby he asked have 411 the resources of im_
perialism falled to 'subvert tbe Cuban Government?
Betancourt "tbat miserable lackey Tt Ls tryLng to incite
the Unlted States to take milftary action agaInst Cuba Castro
charged _ As a pretext the Venezuelans say they have
discovered
arns from Cuba on the Venezuelan coast_ Castro stated . "Some
Of the arns he sa1d , "are safd to have borne an effaced Cuban
seal and Othber arms are sa1d to be bazookas recollless cannon ,
mortars _ But Cuban mortars perchance? No? Yankee mortars :
Yankee bazookas: Yankee recoilless cannon: Arms wbich we did
not manufacture; aIms which we did not buy: tt Castro then went
on witbout specifically denying that the weapons bad come from
Cuba by implyLng tbat the CIA had obtaIned Cuban arms from
Cuban deserters and that It would not be difficult to plant
these weapons in Venezuela (Here be 19 obvlously referring
to the Belgian-made l1ght rifles and submachLneguns wbich bave
been identified a5 among those shipped to Cuba Ln 1959 and
1960 . ) With respect to the US_made mortars bazookas and re-
coilless rifles Castro challenged the OAS
investigating
COm-
mIttee to "Investigate tbproughly M1 make laboratory tests
trace the serial numbers and then "they w1ll be able to reach
only one concluston:
tbet
they belong to the CIA_
Castro then' attempted to show the "brazenness" and 1n-
consistency Of' those wbo would use the Venezuelan arms cache
2s 2 pretext to Invade or to blockade Cuba when for more than
four years the very same kind of subversive activity as is
now being charged to Cuba bas been perpetrated agaLnst Cuba--
witbout any hemispherLc attempt to punlsh the aggressors _
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FIDEL CASTRO 'S SPEECH cont 'd
"Things have changed quite a bit 0i Castro declared "to
a ttack or to blockade Cuba now would not be easy ; we can de-
fend ourselves we are calm; we know wbat we bave to defend
ourselves wIth Then , In an Implled reference to the Soviet
shipment of strategic mLss1les to Cuba last year Castro de-
clared: "When we hear some of these . lackeys of
inpesiaiism
talklng So calmly about invading Cuba wben it has been ` only
one year since the October crisis they are once more proving
uS rlght and are once more justifying Cuba S taking defensive
measures ; this talk led to the October crisls Castro then
declared that "these men are S0 deceived by thelr own propaganda
that they cannot concelve of wbat any Invader would meet here . 11
A war agaLnst Cuba he saId , "would not end wblle tbere was a
single mercenary soldier treading
On our s011."
Castro then returned brlefly to hls vlews as to how peace
can be assured 1n the Caribbean. "Wha tever they want to dis-
cuss witb Cuba he saLd, 01 let them come and dlscuss bonestly
with Cuba ; because we bave stated the Lndispensable prerequisites
for a peaceful a tmosphere _ 1n the Carlbbean:" Thus far how-
Bver "they have answered WIth aggressions on top of aggressions
This course he said "Is doomed to fallure _ M (CIA FBIS Havana
December
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COBAN INTERNAL SITUATION:
shake_up Lo the Cuban cabinet bas moved Faure Chomon
Medlavilla to the post of transportation mLnlster; he succeeds
Capt_ Omar Fernandez whose ministry was recently under attack
by Castro for inefficlencies and "vIces _ Major Jesus
Montane Oropesa is replacing Chomon as communica tIons minlster .
Chomon , wbo served a8 Castro 's first a@basgador to thbe
Sovlet Union, took Over a3 communIca tLons mindster In March
1962_ He 1s currently a member of the Na ttonal Directorate
of PURS _ Fernandez bls predecessor 1s reportedly moving to
an unspecifled position 1n the Minlstry of Industrles under
Che Guevara _
Montane took part 1n tbe attack on the Moncada Barracks
in 1953 and followed, Castro to extle in Mexlco He took part
1n the GRANMA expedition of 1956 when be was captured and im-
prisoned. After the revolution he reportedly received only
a mipor post_Ln the governnent because be had talked too much
In prison. His most recent post ,
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dating from at least August
1962 bas been as nunber two man In the TourIsm Institute
(INIT)
He is sa1d to be an ardent Marxist-Leninist _ wbo
preaches 1t at every opportunity. (UPI 63 6 December UN-
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CUBAN INTERNAL SITUATION cont'd
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Intercepted"€uban military messages
of 7 December indicate
tha serious caid damage bas occurred2un both @inar del Rio /0
and Oriente)provinces Give unidentifled)military units in
(0 Pinar del Rio reported tbe extent of damage to tbeir defensIve
fortifications and vin pessages to the operations
officer apparently
factlotzed
at 'army headquarters)in( Pinar del i0
Rio More than ha lf the @renches had been destroyed tbe
Sbelters and command pos S at most of the units report
had suffered serious damage, and @division
ES:ZG3EE6i3;.ea
that wblle Its facilities were St1ll in good condit tbe
roads leading to will bave to be repa ired Meanwhile Ln 24
(0 @Orlente)Province;
Uintezcepts
indicate that torrential ra
infall)
bad caused the fivers to flood J aking travel difficult apd
had forced the elosing of the a irport (USN-856
2/SLACUMYR302-63 _ 8 December SECRET KIMBO) 99
TEE_PRESIDENT'S ASSASS INATION:
The Reuters correspondent in Madrid bas advised the US
Embassy that be bas been queried by a New York client about
an: 8 December El Tiempo report that Spanish police ha ve de-
tained a Cuban natIonaT_-45-year-old Enrique Pascua 1 Ruedolo
Gongora alleged to ha ve arrived In Spa 1n via an IBERIA fligbt
from New York on 23 Novenber--Ln connection with a plot aga Lnst
the late President Kennedy _ Loca 1 police ba ve confirmed deten-
tion of Ruedolo However they cla Im that he arrived in Spa Ln
on 29 November and to the best of thetr knowledge bas abso-
lutely no connection with the assassination _ They ma Lntain
that he was expelled from the United States for undetermined
reasons and is belng held because he bas been unable to
arrange onward travel to Cuba CAS 1s pursuing the matter
1n Madrid . (Am Bwb Madrid , 1155,7 December CONFIDENTIAL)
INSURGENCY AN CIVIL_WNREST:
fire on 6 December on a farm near(Cardenas Ma tanzas
Province des royecqapgroxinately
one acre of Qenequen)24 The
chief of tbe (atanzas Bureau of Public Order (BOP) Inforted
0 Havana 1n an 8 December Intercepted message tbat_ the fire
"supposed to be was put out by the (Cardenas fire
department (usu
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1o On 6 December the Department Of State Security (DSE)) unit
in Moron informed (provinc 1a l in Camaguey on
5 December 11 'tbey tried to'
ahooeadovattees_
the chief of the-
'Cbas
(0 (Velasco) he escaped unharmed _ Full details will be sent by
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Tetter The message did not indicate to whom "they" referred .
(OSM 2/YJ KCUPYT922-63 _
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The militiaman wbo was arrested In Guantanamo on 3
December for suspected counterrevolutionary activities (see 2 4
Daily Summary December) has beedy zeadc (ector E headquarters
in uayarT Arriba informed (First headquarter3) in (an-
{otiago on 5 December tbat ESteban Mendez Almaguer and Jose
Joiret Aria both identified as natives of Quljada were re-
leased by the DSE The reason for their release was not given _
USN 74435,) 2/1R17444YR1979,63 6 December SECRET KIMBO)
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The DSE unit at Ciego de Av1la bas captured one ingur
geat and reports the surrender of another.0 On 6 December
tket OSE provincial beadquarters in Camaguey) was Informed that
the Insurgent Demetrio Armas Izqulerdo was 'captured near
Jatibon_co The message stated that Armas "was reportedly
active In the Havana Ma tanzas and Santa Clara areas and
most recently In Camaguey _ He belonged to an Insurgent band
led by one Carlo "1 The same message reported the surrender
of Edmundo Almeida (see Da:ly Summary' 5 December) "prevlously
asb0c iated Withb the bands or Juan Ziberto, to the DSE unit
at Jatibonfco (4
In addition, on 7 December (C1ego de Avila Jreported the
arrest of Jesus Marquez , a 39-year-old resident of Jucaro
Marquez Is sa1d to have cashed an "out-of-circulation 50-dollar
hill which he receLved from the US on 4 December 1963
(usv 603 2/YJVCUR/R138-63 ,
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6 December and 2/YJ (CUPYR140-63 ,
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An undeterm:ned number of residents of Vegas de Pa Imas,
San Antonio de las Veultas and Agiada de Moya Las Villas
Province ly fled the country from an unknown point of
tion .
TeceneantfledAtn; Geudquartess
in Santa Clara In- @omeGatiozna) tEar
the persons from Vegas de Pa lmag bad been
identified a5: Luc ina Manso , Rodobaldo Honteagua and
Molses Mongon Garit an ex-private In the
revoiutionary
armed
forces_ Also mentloned a8 escapees were Fellz Perez Inoes
Lima USN 856 2/SLKCuYR301-63 _
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INSURGENCY AND CIVIL UNREST cont 'd
In possible connection with the preceding_ item, 32
people attempting to flee Cuba were
captured by Cuban 2 4
Security forces on 8 December _ Fifth Army Headquarters )ln
Camaguey informed (Havana that a_ maritime patrol of the
coastal-vigilance Observatiion post captured a boat carrying
32 individuals in the area of Cayo Mariquibay, north of La
Bahia de Punta Alegre _ On the boa t_ which bad left Caibarien
three days earlier_ government agents found Cuban and DS
monies as well as personal belongings _ (USN 56 ,
27s_/euq
R303-63 , 9 December
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A trained clandestine source who is a civil aviation
expert with the Cuban Ministry of Transportation reports that
several minor incidents of sabotage bave been d1scovered on
CUBANA aircraft_ On 15 November a CUBANA IL-14 made a
round-trip flight from Rancho Boyeros Airport to Nueva Gerona
without a storage battery _ The source comments that serious
trouble would have resulted if one engine had stopped or had
been fea thered while en route _ This incident may be related
to various acts of subtle sabotage against CUBANA aircraft,
such as stuffing exhaust tubes with rags or obstructing car-
buretor intakes
In addition; the source reports that a CUBANA Britannia
aircraft was sabotaged by Algerian personnel during a recent
flight to Algiers _ The bydraulic line was fractured forcing
the crew to use manual controls to lower the landing gear for
a stop in Madrid . (CIA IN 75941, 8 December , SECRET NO FOREIGN
DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM)
Press dispa tches from Mexico City reprt that a leader
of the Revolutionary Students Directorate (DRE) announced
that 126 Cuban militiamen bad been killed 1n a clash witb
guerrillas 12 miles south of Sancti Spiritus Las Villas
Province Angel Gonza Les said that "bela ted underground
reports just received" indicated that the clash took Place
in mid-September when a guerrilla force ambushed a militia
unit and killed 11 militiamen _ The guerrilla forces lost 18
men, including Negro . guerrilla leader Andre Startabull and
three captains identified as Carlos Roca Julio Garcia, and
Sergio Perez _ The Castro regime then sent 5, 000 men sup-
ported by' tanks mortars, and helicopters to destroy the
guerrillas After two weeks of fighting , the entire guerrilla
unit was destroyed but not until 115 other militiamen bad been
killed. There is no confirmation from COMINT or other sources
of any action of the: magnitude reported by the DRE _ (AP-131,
Mexico 7 December , UNCLASSIFIED)
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CUBAN AIR FLIGHT CONNECTIONS :
Spain) has approved regularly scheduled Havana Madrid flights
by CUBANA airlines = according to an Int ed mesgage of 7 De_
cember It was previously reported that
erce8 Gpaneat)
Government
was unwilling to reduce these flights because it believes the
connections are vital
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bowever the
Ministry Jzq
said it would limit CUBANA flights to Havana_
Godeig"Ha
vana with-
out stops in Algiers) 8cGzgue or and would refuseldlanding to
Soviet_built CUBANA (See Da 4 ly Summary of 18 November . )
It has also been reported thato CUBANA is assured 0f capacity
passenger loads for the Havana MMadrid) service and plans _ to pool 24
air frelght from a11 of Western Europe for delivery to Favana
via MMadrid thus assuring full_Payloads both ways (See Da4ly
Summa ryaof 4 December . ) (NSA 2x/0 QON /T211-63 8 December
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SHIPPING SUPPORT FOR CUBA
Argentina 1s reportedly attempting to stop one of Its ships__
tbe SS ANAMAR--from delivering a cargo of coffee to Cuba despite
the fact that there are currntly no lega1_ restrictions aga Inst
Argentine ships ca lling anywbere 1n the world _ The ANAMAR left
Brazil on l November with a cargo of Brazillan coffee, purchased
by the USSR and destined for Cuba (See Da Summary of 8 No-
vember . ) The Argentine Foreign Ministry Informed US Embassy Of-
ficials that it was determined to prevent the ANAMAR from going
to Cuba beca use of potential unfavorable press reaction Argen-
tina wants to avoid lega 1 and financia 1 entanglements In the mat-
ter ; bowever it is determined to stop the shlp and 1s reportedly
even considering some type of provocation which would force the
ship to put into Puerto Rico _ The owners of the ANAMAR are
equa Ily adamant that the ship will not go to Cuba reportedly
they bad agreed to Ship coffee from Brazil to some Central Amer-
ican country to pay sone back bills and were only. informed later
that tbe shipment would g0 to Cuba According to the owners the
Sbip is now lylng off tbe coast 0f Brazil awa Iting resolution
of the problem _ The owners reportedly stated they will sink the
Ship rather than g0 to Cuba (Am Emb Buenos Aires 1017 , 4 Decem -
ber CONFIDENTIAL)
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2 Brazilian OAS delegate Penna Marinho) reported to his gov -
ernmeat from (Washington on 5 December that several (OAS delegates
bave been Impressed bythe Cuban claim that the weapons found in
Venezuela last month bad actua been planted there by tbe
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These 6elegates_ Penna Marinbojstated, "are wondering
wbether the Euban Government would be So stupid as to send
to Venezuela arms wi th the Inscription 'Cuban Army and tbe
insignia of Cuba engraved on them" as indicated the Vene_
zuelan photographbs shown at the OA8}29 These delegates) believe ,
Ol Penna Marinho went that 1f Cuba bad actuaIly sent the arms
to Venezuela t would flrst have removed any indication of
their origin- This account indicates that
the GBrazilian dele-8
gate and the others of wbom he speaks are apparently unaware
tha considerable effort had, In fact, been made to erase 411
evidence of the Cuban orlgin of these arms _ The 31 submachine
guns found 1n tbe cache had thelr serial numbers and other
identifying marks recently ground off_ Venezuelan technicians
using a highly technical process were able to raise the
Seriai
numbers and the Cuban shfeld on some of tho weapons _ In Inde_
pendent tests, US technicians were able to ralse the numbers
and Shields on tbree Of these weapons The numbers correspond
to those Of weapons known to bave been dellvered to Cuba from
Belgium in 1959 and 1960 _ S1milarly , in the case Of the 81
lght automatic rifles of BelgLan manufacture found in tbe
cache
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all identifying marks had been obliterated. In this
Case one-fourth inch of molten brazing alloy bad been used
to, Cover the places where the numbers bad been ground off and
1t was not possible to restore the numbers _ However Venezuelan
military authorities bave noted that these weapons are unque
to those manufactured expressly for the Cuban Government by
Belgium s Fabrique Nationale in 1959 _ wben Cuba ordered 500
such weapons _ (NSA 3/OABLDYT2041-63 6 December TOP: SECRET
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The Venezuelan OAS delegate) d1spatched a "persona 1 urgent _
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and confidential" message to his (oreign minister 6 Decenber
expressing certaln mlsgivlngs as to the att1
gF
pembers
of the Special' @As} committee with respect to the
Venezuelan charges
fgcinstndbag
nst Castro regime whlch the committee
was naned to Investigate_
thecGnbasgadog)reported
that be bad
just received "strictly confidebttal information" that the pre-
vafling Op1nion wi thin the committee 1s that It must Investlgate
the entire subject of Cuban subversive activitles 1n Venezuela ,
not limiting Itself to the evidence on the Cuban origin of the
arms cache found In Venezuela last month.
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cont 'd
The committee members the ambassador)stated insist
that It essential for the Venezuelan Government to "pre-
sent proof of the genera 1 Cuban conspiracy" aga Inst the Vene _
zue lan Governmentjsif the case aga inst Cuba is to be proven _
The Venezue lan ambassador added that "one of the most Important
members of the commlttee bad .stated that the (Venezuelan Jevidence
on the Cuban origin of the arws cache is not a irtight andllthat
tbe arms: could actually have been resold by Cuba to someone
else some_ years stolen from Cuban arsena ls
The (enezue
1GG68As
ambassador then stated that the editor
of a "very important US magazine" Kad asked him in a11 serious_
ness on 6 December whether the arms could not ba ve been planted
in Venezue la by the CIA as Castro bas charged_ The editor
added that this question had been asked of him by "1
persons 0 with whom he had discussed the problem The
"Lepietent
zue lan ambassador) used this tto emphasize to his foreign min-08
ister) that be believes the Venezue lan JGovernment must not
dismiss this suspicion lightly_ He pointed out that important
persons in the United States both in government and the press
bave : pointed' out( Venezuela s
"lvodence
on the a*ms cache may
provide nthe first opportunity" to confront the threat of
Cuban subversion In the hemisphere Theseos ndividuals may be
critical of the Venezue lan Government the ambassador Iwarned
if Its sticks to itb dema nd that the investigation be '1imited
to the a*7S cache evidence (NSA 7 December _
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The Brazilian delegateJto the(OAS) was informed of his
country position on the investigation of the Venezuelan
armg cache, according to a 2 December intercepted- message
The (Foreign Ministry bim tbat he was to "avoid any
attttude which mght
georted
to leave Brazil)isolated In a posi-
tion which could be interpreted as one: of sympa thy or exces-
sive understanding In relation to Cuba On the other hand
he was instructed not to "openly state tbe opinion tbat the
matter falls exc lusively under competence of the Venezuelan
security authorities The (de
{febeteoupe
advised to delay his
departure "until the situation is clarified (NSA
3/04Q7
T206-63._ 6 December TOP SECRET DINAR)
SOVIET-CUBAN RELATIONS
Fidel Castro may bave been in Moscow about 15 November
for talks witb Premier Khrushchev _ according to a civil
aviation expert who 18 apparent ly passing on a rumor he
heard in Cuba The source_reported as background that Castro
has not appeared on Cuban TV and did not meet people he ap-
parent ly would have met if he had been in Cuba
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SOVIET BLOC RELATIONS cont 'd
There have been no reported Castro appearances around 15
November On 7 November he talked with 2 group of students
at Havana University and on 19 November he reportedly visited
a PURS meeting In Matanzas _ However be tween these two
dates there is no current evidence that he appeared on Cuban
radio or TV and carried no reports of his personal appear_
ances 1n Cuba TFTS does not however rule out the possibility
that he was indeed In Cuba in mid-November (CIA IN 75946 8
December SECRET)
BLOC ECONOMIC_RELATIONS :
Warsaw has ass1gned five merchantmen with a capacity of
44 ,000 tons to the Cuban Central American trade according to
an announcement by Havana television The ships one of which
is refrigerated _ will be operated by CUBALCO-the Rostock-head_
quartered joint company chartered by Poland the GDR Czecho-
slovakia and Cuba to carry goods between Cuba and the northern
satellites _ In the words of Havana television "the enterprise
will be responsible for
guaranteeing supplies to
the first
socialist country of America thereby contributing to the
defeat of the US economic blockade against 'Cuba (CIA/FBIS
December UNCLASSIFIED)
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24
Soviet_ a1r defense )and Cuban (C1vil ar ,voice)communica -
tions on 7 becember reflected the arrlval In Cuba of a Sovlet-
made AN-12 (See Datly Summary 6 December) The following
Prensa Latina
announced Tat
"the 'Cuban air force " had
acquired
a four-engine turboprop craft with a 14,O0-ton
freight capacity for use in a service between Moscow and Havana
Prensa Latina said that the plane would be used to carry
freight be tween the two capltals and "three or four stops at
cities not yet announced by the Cuban consolIdated aviation
enterprise
The references to the AN-12 being acquired by the "Cuban
Air Force 1i followed by statements attributed to CUBANA offi-
cials as
to
Its future employent ralse confusion as to
whether it is to be used primarily for military Or civil air
purposes As pointed out previously_ however (see Daily
Summary of 3 December ), the AN-12 can be used interchangeably
1o Both types of service Its employent in bringing mili-
tary cargoes to Cuba from the Soviet Unlon would be hampered ,
however by range factors whLch would require it to refuel
at two or more nonbloc' alrports between Cuba and the USSR _
At these aIrports the aIrcraft could be subject to cargo In-
spections (USA-71 2/DG(CURUAYR-853-63 7 December SE-
CRET KIMBO; CIA/FBIS Havana 8 December
UNCLASSIFIED)
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NON-BLOC_RELATIONS:
The Moroccan forelgn minister has recelved a three-man
Cuban good-wil1" misslon for the second time and tbe Istiqlal's
Natfon claimg tbat a resumption of formal diplonatic relations
Ts imminent , according to the US Embassy 1n Rabat (see Daily
Summary for 29 November and 6 December) According to a seni-
offTcTa1 account of the meeting _ which took place on 4 December
tbe Cubans reasserted their desire to normal1z0 relatlons and
professed a lack of hostile intentions agalnst the Moroccan
Government--which severed formal relations: after Cuban technl-
clans" arrived in Algeria on 22 October M Informed sources"
in, Rabat claim that the government is considering the Cuban
demarche with "attention. "1 The Natfon explalns tbat the Cubans
now recognize that Morocco hag not been the ageressor 10 tbe
Algerian conflict and that they are "repentant" over their pre-
cipitous action 1o aiding Ben Bella _ (Am Emb Rabat , 866
9
6 De-
cember, LIMITED OFFICIAL USE)
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The President of (Dahoney )declined an invitation to attend
the 1 January anniversary tion in Cuba according to an
GZZS3FE
of 3 December The
ambassador )in @aris recelved the Invitation from his
Cuban counterpart; however (othe president declined because he
sa1d It was "hardly possible" for bim to be in Cuba in January
It 1s not clear if @ahoney) 71li designate an official representa -
tive to the celebratfonlo '(GCHQ , 4q47Y6/1271963 ,
6 December
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CUBAN SUPPORT OF EXTERNAL SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY :
The Chf lean cebied doJecezfer in
(enezuela)inforned
his govern-
ment 1n 4an intercepted 2 message that be 1s con-
vinced of tbe accuracy of the Venezuelan Government 8 charges
of Cuban subversion 1n Venezuela _ He pointed out tbat tbe
beavy voting In Venezuela 's 1 December national electlon den-
onstrates that tbe legal opposition in Venezuela 1s not Impli-
cated in the violence and terrorism. He al8o stated that the
Castro regime 1s So thoroughly repudiated by Venezuelan pub-
lic opinion tbat the Venezuelan Government bas no need to ube
artificlal means to stimulate anti-Castro feeling there _ The
Chilean ambassador) poloted out that many Venezuelan Communists
are in Cuba and from there "they permanently incite rebellion"
1n Venezuela and Cuban propaganda supports their efforts _ (NSA
3/0/2-(CLDXT104-63 , 7 December
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There is additiona 1 information on Cuban use of a DC-4
aircraft allegedly to supply Venezuelan guerrillas with wea pons
through BrItish Guiana A clandestine source who is a civil
aviation expert and affiliated with the Cuban Ministry of Trans _
portation reports hearing rumors to the effect that the recently
refurbished CUBANA DC-4 with CUBANA regIstry number CUT-785 bas
been Issued a "Guiana license Ii presumably a license for operation
1n British Guiana and has been operated by military personnel
He adds that "it is said that clandestine flights have been ma de
to Venezuela The same source had previously reported the re-
furbisbing of this plane and some others and indicated that extra
fuel tanks bad been installed on them (CIA DD/P In 75942 , 8 De-
{cember SECRET / CONTROLLED DISSEM NO FOREIGN DI SSEM)
The Cuba ns are reportedly involved in the serious political
crisis now under way in Bolivia where a split between President
Paz section of the governing party and the leftist sector led
by Vice President Lechin threa tens serious civil disorder Cuban
ICharge Lasalle has given two boxes of arms to leaders of the left
section of the party for use in the Catavi-Siglo mining area aC-
cording to informa tion received by a clandestine source _ The
Isource, a medlum-Jevel member of the left section of the govern-
ling party who bas excellent contact with nationa 1 leaders of
that section and who is apparently trusted by Lasa lle_
) was given
tbis information by a Bolivlan labor leader who added that he
hbad persona lly received the armg from Lasa lle The source re-
ports that the arms are of German origin and had been stored 1n
Lasa lle s house in La Paz (CIA DD/ P La Paz , IN 76093 , 8 December
ISECRET)
Two unnamed Cubans are reportedly with a group of 18 members
of the Peruvian Army of Na tiona 1 Liberation (ELN) who are cur-
rently hiding in Bolivia according to_ a usua lly reliable medium-
level member of the Peruvian Movement of the Revolutionary Left
(MIR) who 1s In regular contact with MIR leaders The members
of the ELN may bave been returning from traIning in Cuba since
Bevera 1 sucb groups from tbat movement have gone there in the
past According to Gonza lo Fernandez Gasco _ leader of the MIR,
his group w1ll help them return to Peru by providing them with
tbe necessary. documentation _ In return, the wea pons owned by
the ELN--automatic weapons and "San Cristoba 1" carbines--will
be turned over to the MIR , reportedly in accordance with an order
from Fidel Castro Once tbe ELN youths are back in Peru , the MIR
will iook after them and try to convert them to the ca use_ The
object is to eliminate the ELN as a rival force _
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Possibly related to tbis reported plan to upgrade the MIR
is a report from the same source tbat Fernandez said on 6 December
that Castro recently sent money to the MIR leaders and offered
to train more of its members in Cuba Fernandez said that in the
future, groups of MIR members, will g0 alternatively to North Korea
and to Cuba for guerrilla warfare training _ (CIA Llma TDCS-3/566 _
662 6 December
1
and TDCS-3/566 , 947 , 8 December
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