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177-10002-10016] 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F_ KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
JFK Assassination System Date: 8726/20 ]
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AGENCY LBJ
RECORD NUMBER 177-10002-10016
RECORD SERIES NSF, UNARRANGED FILES, LA/CUBAN SUBVERSION, BOX 5
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DATE : 02/18/1963
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DOCUMENT TYPE DRAFT BRIEFING NOTES
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DATE OF LASTREVIEW 04/21/1998
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DRAFT BRIEFING NOTES 18 February 1963
FUNDING
I Cuban financing of subversive opera tions in Latin
America is easy to ascertain and hard to document
Our evidence shows that it is generally effected
by couriers carrying cash_
A _ A Venezuelan politician, Fabricio Ojeda re-
turned from Cuba in March of 1962 and was seen
by several witnesses to have large quantities
of US currency stuffed in 2 false-bottomed con-
partment of his suitcase: There is no law
aga inst bringing currency into Venezuela , S0
tha t authorities could not even determine how
much he had brought in_ Ojeda later was cap-
tured tried and sentenced for guerrilla aC-
tivity.
B_ A Nicaraguan exile , Julio Cesar Mayorga Portoz
carrera , was flying from Mexico to Honduras in
September
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1961 , when wea ther forced the plane
to overfly Honduras and land in Nicaragua He
was found to be carrying $3,600 in cash from
Cuba for Nicaraguan rebels in Honduras
Last March Ecuadorean troops raided a guerrilla
training camp in the mountains wes t of Quito and
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arrested some 48 members of the URJE (Union of
Revolutionary Ecuadorean Youth) The leaders of
the group admitted having received guerrilla
training in Cuba , but there was no other evidence
at the time of any Cuban involvement _ The URJE ,
however , was a Communist-front group whose leaders
had thrown off the discipline of the regular Com-
munist. party , and this January the Communists man-
aged to ha ve a URJE convention , run by Young Com-
munists , expel the leaders They were accused
according to published accounts , of having wasted
844 000 supplied by Cuba for guerrilla activities _
One of our reliable sources in the Communist Party
((a regional Communist leader in contact with the
Cuban charge in Chile and a member of the PCE
inquiry commission) ) has informed uS that the
next-to-last Cuban charge in Quito blamed the
fiasco on the fact that his successor had passed
the money to the URJE without coordina ting with
the regular Communist party_
D. A highly placed Gua tema lan Communist who defected
last November has given uS a specific account of
procedures by which Cuba sent cash to Mexico to
buy weapons which were then smuggled into Gua te-
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E_ We also have cons iderable evidence of involved
bank transfers by which Cuban money eventually
reaches Latin American front groups to pay for
political and propaganda activity. In sone
countries where the Cubans still have diploma tic
missions we have obtained photostats showing
that Cuban diplomats paid for printing of front-
group propaganda
F Just last month , one of the first Brazilians to
receive guerrilla warfare training in 1961 was
picked
up with a suitcase full of ammunition he
was carrying to some of those same guerrilla
training camps exposed when the Varig plane
crashed in Peru _ Interestingly enough , the
Brazilians believe that the money Cuba had been
providing for the camps actua came from Com-
munist China Since the exposure of the Varig
documents--and probably since the guerrillas
first reached the Cuban embassy in Rio with
their complaints about mismanagement
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confusion,
and corruption--the Cubans have apparently
stopped financing this operation, but the evidence
shows it is still limping along _ The man with
the suitcase full of ammunition said that 8 woma n
attorney in Rio bad given him the money to buy a
large hacienda as a new guerrilla camp . We know
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that this woman is 2 cut-out in the communica-
tions between the pro-Communist Peasant Leagues
which have run the camps and the Cuban embassy _
II The principle that guerrillas must be self-sustain-
ing has obviously been applied to finances a8 well
Communists have staged wa Ves of bank robberies in
Venezuela , Peru, and Argentina
A The mos t spectacular hold-up was that of a bank
in a Lima suburb last year which netted a lmos t
8100,000 _ Some of the participants have been
caught and are being tried in the mass trials
of more than 200 Communists just starting in
Peru. We know that the hold-up was carried out
by a combination of guerrillas and ordinary
criminals , who divided the loot fifty-fifty.
Some of the share of the common crimina ls has
been recovered but the Conmunist half is be_
lieved to have reached the sizeable guerrilla
forces of Hugo Blanco in the Cuzco Valley _
B Just last week 2 bank in an outlying Venezuelan
town was robbed of 825 ,000 by men wearing FALN
armbands
C Argentine police last July raided 2 Buenos Aires
warehouse and found evidence that it had been
the headquarters for a gang of terrorists--ap-
parently working with both the Peronists and the
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Communists--respons ible for a wave of hold-ups
burglaries and attacks on police posts designed
to obtain funds weapons and explosives
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