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176-10011-10101] 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
JFK Assassination System Date: 5/5po16
Identification Form
Agency Infonation
AGENCY : NARA
RECORD NUMER : 176-10011-10101
RECORD SERUES NSF
AGENCY FILE NUMER : 14
Document [nforation
ORIGNNATOR : CIA
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TTLE : EXTRACT FROM PAPER SENT GEN. LANSDALE 29 AUGUST '62
DATE : 08/29/1962
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SUBJECTS
ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES
DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
CLASSIFICATION Secret
RESTRICTIONS IC
CURRENT STATUS Redact
DATE OF LAST REVIEW 05/08/1998
OPENING CRITERIA UPON AGENCY REVIEW
COMMNTS : NSF:MeM:SPECIAL GROUP(AUGMENTED):8/62:BOX 319:PENDING NLK-90-SO
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Extract from paper-gent Gen: Langdale 29 August_62
27 Through-clandestine:agent sources,: welearned recently
that a
Western European merchant en route from: Havana, Cuba,
to Odessa, USSR, would' be: forced.to dock at a_
Caribbean and
off-load temporarily part of its cargo:in order:to repair minor hull_
damage' which resulted from: an accidental grounding: It wag agcef
tained_that thig vesgel carried .28. cargo 80, 000 two-hundred pound
bag8 0f 'Cuban Faw gugaf Bhipped to Odesga,, USSR," for Fefining in
the Soviet Union: In.order:to lighten the: Bhip sufficiently to permit
repais, it wag necessary to: off-load and temporarily warehouse
14 000.of the two hundred pound bage of gugar.
3. Through; & clandestine: operation which; wa not detected
and,is: not traceable, we;were;able: to contaminate:800 of these:bage
Of gugaf with a chemical uged in:the proce8s 0f denaturing alcohoi
Whiie the bage were in_the-Warehouse and before;they: were reloaded_
Fonthe yegeel_
4. When:this cargo of sugar i8 refined in:the Soviet;Union
the_contaminated bags Will completely contaminateithe entize sbip
ment- makikg the Bugar: unfit forchuman Or,animal' Gongumption in_
any:orm: The; contaminate; We uged will give:the gugat: an jneradicable;
gickly bitter;taste Which ne PFoce8; will remove:_ The: contaminate
Cannot be detected in_the refining and although the contaminate Ze; not
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enJe'-dangeroug:to bealth; it i8.89. 8trong to the?taste that it
ruing tbe tagte %f the congumef for any iood: or drink a considerable:
time;
5.
Thig -8uccesaful; contamination: will the:entire; catge-
the value of which:to the USSR is estirated at $350,,000,to $400 0o0
Additional: Information
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For your: further information-in connection;with-this ?peration;_
it was conpleted;on.24 August 1 962 in San Juan; 'Puerto Rico_ The
vesBel involved was,the British merchant Ghip STREATHAM HILL:
Tbe Qperation:wa8; succesefully Conducted without: corpromige and
none ef the:Pergonnel connected With the Keggel are axaje:of the
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