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================================================== Page 1 ================================================== 198-10008-10119] 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F_ KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 JFK Assassination System Date: 6/24/20 1 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY : ARMY RECORD NUMBER 198-10008-10119 RECORD SERIES CALIFANO PAPERS AGENCY FILE NUMBER Document Information ORIGINATOR ARMY FROM: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR TO CAPT. ZUMWALT ET AL TITLE : ICCCA: ACTIONS TAKEN DURING JULY-AUGUST 1963 IN CURBING CUBAN SUBVERSION DATE : 10/14/1963 PAGES 20 SUBJECTS COUNTERSUBVERSION PROGRAM TRAVEL OF LATIN AMERICANS TO CUBA CUBAN SUBVERSION DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSHFICATION Secret RESTRICTIONS 1A; 4 CURRENT STATUS Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW 06/01/1998 OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS Califano Papers, Box 2, Folder 25. Memo No. 71 from Joseph Califano with attached report of Subcommittee on Subversion JKRaviav Doparment e/ Ia Arv EB 13528 7Declasslly 3 Exelude Exempt Authority_ Daefer To_ Raview Dalo [TVGZS Byzeh4 NO STATE OBJECTION TO BY D5 OAT Ez/ DATE_ v9.1 H# 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 1 ================================================== Page 2 ================================================== SECRET W@ OcT 163 MLMORANDUM No. %} For CaPIAIN @: 2 Zunnwalt, JR- # USk {992) IAJoR GENERAL ;: D AlGRB, #44 REAR ADaal # + FINDT_ 0 WaN MAJOR GINIRAL & # CARPENTER, I, +47 BrigaDizE GrnraL # E JONES, USNC SubeCt Interdenartrreatel Coordinatiag Cormitted & Cabou AMfaize:: Actiona Tatan During Julg-August 1963 dn Curbing Cubaa Subvarelea #0 Latp Antrica attacaed t0 #0 idal geport 0f the Subcornnittoe Qn Suaverelon On Actions Tekea Duriag July-Atguot 1960 in Curbing Cubaa #ubveroioa In reda A.a2d8. Signed Joseph A. Califano,Jr. Jegeph &. Califco; Je. Gaaaral Couneol taentaen 4a St9d2d 'Itxs . (ai Nigla)~hr (os) Cc: DIA Nigra) Mr _ Califano M Col Haig ASG ): Jtr= 0 33366 REGRADED UNCLASSIFIED WHEN SEPARA TED FROM CLASSIZIED INCLOSURES H# 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 2 SECRET ================================================== Page 3 ================================================== This doci JL No_ nt consists of SECRET _13_ of 4$ pages Copies , Series REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE ON CUBAN SUBVERSION: ACTIONS TAKEN DURING JULY-AUGUST 1963 IN CURBING CUBAN SUBVERSION IN LATIN AMERICA SECRET 084, ASG Control No: 2&x66. 41 1 Excluded automatic and H# 50955 Docld:32424608 Page 3 1X ""Wjv"" GROUP from downgrading declassification ================================================== Page 4 ================================================== SECRET 1 Control of Travel to and from_Cuba Central Intelligence_Agency 8. Developed highly useful information On frequency of Cuban "chartered" flights to Brazil, names and nationali 4 ties of passengers and crew, and lax measures of control followed by Brazilian authorities_ Transmitted this inforna- tion to station chiefs in the Latin American countries of tke non-Brazilians trave lling On those flights b Maintained close watch over travel to and from Cuba. See Annex B for table of known travel of Latin Americans during July and August _ As a result of information furnished to him by the CIA Station in Buenos Aires and with the Station 8 urging, the Argentine Minister of Interior indicated that he would make every effort to prevent Argentine delegates from attend- ing the International Union of Architects Congress in Havana . d_ At the urging of the CIA Station and the Embassy , the Bolivian Minister of Interior issued in mid-July an order prohibiting the granting of travel permits to Cuba or other bloc countries to Bolivian nationals e Partly 83 8 result of the efforts of the CIA station in Santiago, the Governnent of Chile prohibited the entry into Chile of organizers of the Cuban-sponsored Second Latin American Youth Congress 9 which had been scheduled to take place in Santiago in August This wa8 One of the factors which led to postponement of the Congress f After congiderab le prodding by the CIA Station and the Embassy the Minister of Public Security of Costa Rica presented legislative proposals to the Costa Rican Assembly which will require al1 persons intending to travel to Communist countries to have their travel approved by 8 newly created Costa Rican security agency. . CIA Station in Mexico City developed information concerning the clandestine arrival of passengers in Vera Cruz SECRET GROUP 1 H# 50955 DocId:32424608 Page ================================================== Page 5 ================================================== SECRET 0 2 = On Cuban merchant ships _ Efforts are being made to obtain more information and to encourage stricter controls by the Mexican authorities Department of State 2 _ Instructed Embassy Conakry to try to persuade Guinean authorities to deny ube of airport facilicies by flights on Habana-Moscow route These efforts achieved a temporary withholding of permission for future regular flights , at least until such time a8 the Soviets deve cheir Own refue facilities at Conakry _ b Instructed Embassy Rio to approach Brazilian authorities to express our deep concern at the growing frequency of Cuban non-scheduled flights to Brazil and request their cooperation in curbing then_ Also instructed our Embassies in several Latin American countries to work with CIA station chiefs in furnishing the names of nationals of those countries trave lling On these flights to local euthorities and urging them: (1) to institute tighter controls on thefr Own citizens travelling to Cuba, and (2) to express their concern to the Brazilian Government over Cuban u8e of Brazil 28 a way station for transpor Subversives As a result of representations made to the British Government about Cuban flights to the Cayman Islands carrying Latin Anerican bubversives , the British developed an administrative scheme which will effectively prohibit the use of British Caribbean dependencies by Cubana a3 transit points for passengers The British intend to require transit visas of passengers passing through their areas , and to reject applications for such visas except in certain special case8 Persons not possessing visas would be prevented from leaving their aircraft, or would be returned to their point of origin d Instructed Embassy Mexico On August 29 to inform the Mexican airline CMA that the United States 18 opposed to a proposal that CMA operate charter flights to SECRET HW 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 5 lop ling ting City ================================================== Page 6 ================================================== SECRET ~3- carry refugees from Habana to Central America CMA 9 28 a result, staced that they had no intention of proceeding further with this project 0 Instructed our missions in Curacao. and the Hague to investigate a report that KLM was planning to renew scheduled Curacao-Habana flights and to reiterate US opposition to resumption of air service to Cuba_ KLM assured our Embassy that there is no to initiate service , scheduled or non-scheduled, to Habana E Instructed Embassy Ottawa to express Our strong objections to a proposal that a Cubana charter flight uP a second group of U.S students in Montreal to them to Cuba _ The flight was not authorized. g . Instructed Consulate Georgetown to investigate Cubana approaches to secure flight facilities_ Mission reported on August 1 that the Covernor had no knowvledge of any talks between the B.G . Ministry of Ccmmunications and the Cuban Government regarding landing rights for Cubana planes _ The Governor indicated his intention to inquire further and to keep u8 advised. London reported that neither the Cuban nor the British Guiana Governments had raised the issue of landing rights with A.M.C. h. Urged the governments of Mexico, Canada , Jamaica and the Netherlands to refuse to assist the Cuban Government in its efforts to find a short route for return of the 58 American students who illegally travelled to Cuba_ Also inforned Pan American Airway8 that we were opposed to a Cuban request for a PAA charter flight to the students from Habana to New York 1 Instructed our missions at Port of Spain and Barbados On several occasionb to approach these governments to express the concern of the U.S at indications of Cuban interest in the u8e of their aviation facilities Embassy Port of Spain discussed with the Foreign Secretary of Trinidad various legal moves available that would enable SECRET H# 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 6 plan pick fly fly ================================================== Page 7 ================================================== SECRET #4 - GOTT to control movenents of aircraft within their territory, citing examples of such controls instituted by Mexico, Canada and Ireland He indicated receptiveness to the proposal that the list of suggestions be made available to the aviation officials concerned. j During a previous reporting period Embassy Santiago urged the government of Chile to refuse visas to Cuban delegated to a preparatory mee for the II Latin Anerican Youth Congress scheduled for August in the Chilean capital Inability of Cuban delegates to obtain Chilean visas for this mee is one of the contributing factors to the Cuban sponsors announcing during August that the meeting had been postponed . k Sent general instructions to our missions in countries which participate in the International Union of Architects asking them to urge the coop:ration of governmental authorities in preventing or discouragirg the attendance of their nationals to the VII UIA Congress in Habana, September 29 October 4, 1963 _ Followed this up with instructions to individual posts to try where feasible to dissuade architects from free world countries from serving on the jury for the selection of a of monument Urged Canadian Government to block 8 plan to comence food parcel shipments to Cuba on a commercial basis that would have required the establishment of scheduled weekly charter flights by Canadian planes 2 = Control of Movement_of_Cuban_Propagende Central Intelligence_Agency Responding to the urging of the CIA Station 9 police of the State of Guanabara seized large quantities of Propaganda brought into Brazil by passengers on the special Cubana flights For example 9 SOme 50 pounds of printed propaganda was taken from the various passengers who arrived On the 16 August Cubane flight. SECRET H# 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 7 ting ting Bay Pigs ================================================== Page 8 ================================================== SECRET "5 - 3_ Control 0f Clandestine Movement of GuerrilLas and Arms Departnent Of Defense 8 . Continued surveillance of the area surrounding Cuba during the months of July and August at the 8ane rate and with the same emphasis as prior to 1 1963 _ b Continued to maintain U.S_ Forces 9 primarily from within the Atlantic Command , available to assist other Caribbean governments in the interception of suspicious craft in territorial waters , a8 might be requested. No such requests were received from any other government during the period covered by this report Rowever , U.S . Forces did keep track of the location of the Soviet merchant freighter MITCHURINSK_ 9 which wa8 suspected of carrying subversives and armg from Cuba to British Guiana in mid-July _ MITCHURINSK was under U.S surveillance from its departure from Habana until United Kingdom forces assumed the task of keeping this ship under surveillance upon its approach to Georgetown 9 Britieh Guiana_ Subsequently , British police search of MITCHURINSK in British Guiana waters revealed nothing of a suspicious nature Central Intelligence_Agency At the repeated urging of the CIA Station in Lima , the Peruvian Government late in August lished 4 new anti- terrorists law providing 4 penalty of no less than five years imprisonment for persons who participate in guerrilla activities or in the illegal manufacture of weapons Or explosives . The Peruvian National Intelligence Service is working On a lead furnished by the CIA Station in Lima concerning a 200 ton vessel reportedly involved in arm8 traffic Departuent of_State Instructed our Consulate General in Georgetown to investigate reports that commercial cargoes (which could SECRET HW 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 8 July pub_ ================================================== Page 9 ================================================== SECRET "6 - conceal illicit arms traffic out of Cuba) had developed between British Guiana and Cuba_ Investigations to date have been negative _ 4 Control of Transfer of Funds Department of State Cooperated with the Foreign Assets Control Office of the Treasury Department in developing blocking controls with respect to Cuba wich went into effect on July 9 , 1963_ 5 Strengthening_of Counter-InsurgencyCapabilities Department of Defense 8_ Continued the installation of military communica- tions facilities in Latin America_ Operational dates for the multi-channel radio stations to be installed in Managua, Nicaragua and Tegucigalpa, Honduras have been delaved to 15 October 1963 and 15 December 1963 , respectively because of new engineering and contractual requirements Negotiations are con tinuing with Colombia ad Ecuador for installation of U.S_ military radio facilities Completion of 2 new commercial trans-isthmian cable in the Panama Canal Zone within the coming month is expected to improve military communications within the United States and the Commander- in-Chief , U.S_ Southern Command b Continued the surveillance of Cuba U.S , Forces , reporting a8 before to U.S = commanders 9 organiza- tions and agencies Reports of surveillance have been disseminated to all who have a requirement to know_ C Established a 24 hour per 7 per week duty watch at the U.S Military Groups in the Caribbean countries in conjunction with implementation of the military alerting system_ Continued efforts to staff the U.S . Southern Command Intelligence Center with properly cleared, trained personnel (this center is the military focal point for relaying information concerning the movement of subversives) Filled, partially, the authorized billets in SECRET H# 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 9 by day , day ================================================== Page 10 ================================================== SECRET ~7- the U.S. Southern Comand Intelligence Center and took under consideration the problem of an increase in the billet structure in the Center_ The Commander-in-Chief , U.S . Southern Command together with his intelligence officer visited Honduras and Nicaragua and determined that no significant problems existed which would interfere with effective operations in those countries d Action previously initiated by the Comander 0 U.S. Naval Forces , Southern Command (COMUSNAVSO) to establish 2 Small Craft Inspection and Training Team (SCIATT) 28 2 contribution to the 'Caribbean Surveillance System 18 progress" ing satisfac torily. Permanent assignment of U.S Coast Guard personnel to SCIATT in the Canal Zone has been approved and the US _ Coast Guard has taken appropriate implementing actions _ e During the period of this report, the SCIATT con " ducted an On - the-job training courge at Puntarenas 0 Costa Rica. Training was given to 13 members of the Guardia Civil of Costa Rica who were either newly as8igned to the b0 foot Coast Guard utility boats (CGUBs) or Were to be assigned 88 replacement crew members f A quarterly inspection and evaluation of the CGUBs provided other Central American countries wa8 conducted during the period 17 to 31 August a mobile training team (MTT) made up of SCIATT personnel_ 8 Continued efforts to improve the internal security of Latin American arnies through the provision of Intelligence Advisors Presently there are such advisors assigned to 14 Latin countries 9 emphasizing counterinte lligence and counter- subversion. h. During the reporting period MTTs conducted trains in counterinsurgency for the armed forces of Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela , Peru and El Salvador i. Civic Action MTTs were sent to .Guatemala, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador 9 Jamaica and Ecuador SECRET HW 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 10 by ing ================================================== Page 11 ================================================== SECRET ~8 - 6 Exchange of_Intelligence_ on CubanSubversion Central Intelligence_Agency CIA Stations throughout Latin America continued in 4 great majority of countries to furnish to the local internal 8ecurity organizations with whom they are in liaison informa- tion concerning travelers to and from Cuba, 38 well 48 such information 48 came to CIA 0 8 attention' concerning the movement of funds } arms and propaganda material In many instances , the furnishing of information to the internal security service by the CIA Station was paralleled by the furnishing of similar information to the Foreign Office by the Ambassador or his representative The response to this information has varied greatly . The Central American countries , in general, began to pay greater attention to the information and act on it. At the other extreme , the Brazilian Government during the reporting period showed little inclination to follow up on the information_ Department of_State 3. Reiterated to the Foreign Minister of Peru Qur interest in having the facts of the Puerto Maldonado incident brought to the attention of the OAS 9 and urged that this action be taken 28 soon 88 possible_ b Urged the Government of Guatemala to submit evidence of communist activity to the OAS 7 SurvellLance Qf Cuban Diplomatic Cowercial and Cultural Migsions Department 0f State Instructed Embassy La Paz to follow up closely On charges of involvement by the Cuban mission in internal policies of Bolivia, and, at the Embassy 8 discretion 9 to point out to Bolivian officials the opportunity for 4 possible break in relations with Cuba. Embassy La Paz was not able to SECRET H# 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 11 ================================================== Page 12 ================================================== SECRET 1 press for a break when the evidence of Cuban intervention did not prove to be 48 conclusive a8 originally reported. 8 Other Special Actions Department of State a. Obtained action by the COAS on July 3 on the Lavalle Comittee Report transmitting the document to the governments and urging them to implement the specific and general recomendations contained therein 48 8o0n a8 Possible b . Through Embassy Managua informed the Nicaraguan Government of the matters which we wanted to have considered during the informal meeting of the Ministers of Security and Intericr Of the Isthian countries held in Managua, August 26-28 in preparation for the second formal meeting of the Managua Security Conference countries later this year C Explained in detail the nature of the Cuban threat and the related policy objectives of the U.5. , during conversation in London and in Washington with Mr Adam Watson , newly appointed British Ambassador to Cuba . United States Inforation_Agency 2. The Agency 8 press service during the reporting period transmitted 12 articles , comentaries , and back- grounders On its wireless file service to USIA posts through- out Latin America for placement in the local newspapers and the Voice Of America Spanish broadcasts to Latin America carried a total of 28 commentaries and features On the subject of Cuban-based subversion_ These stories were designed to alert people in Latin America to the dangers Of this subversion b In response to standing Agency instructions to give special attention to developments related to Cuba-based subversion, USIA posts in Latin America were prompt in reporting incidents and in providing editorial comments from SECRET H# 50955 Docld:32424608 Page 12 ================================================== Page 13 ================================================== SECRET 0a 10- the Latin Anerican press , al1 of which was used in the Agency 0 8 radio and press oucput The main developments treated in the Agency 8 radio and press coverage included Castro 8 July 26 speech urging revolutions in Latin America, the discovery of terrorist weapons factories in Guayaquil, the Ecuadorean Vice President 8 accusation of Cuban responsibility for terrorism, the Cuban use of Grand Cayman 48 a way station for subversive elements from Cuba, the expulsion fron the University of a Bolivian youth leader for receiving funds from Cuba, Castro-trained guerrillas in Honduras , and Bolivian protests against meddling by the Cuban Embassy in the miner 8 strike . A Voice of American roving reporter in Latin Anmerica provided several reports on the subversion ture in coun - tries he visited. In support of the Agency 5 effort Or: Cuban-based subversion , the licaticns center in Mexico began work On three pamphlets during the period based on Castro 3 report of his visit to the Soviet Union (showing that he contradicted himself in Some of his extravagant clains of Soviet progress) , the losses suffered by Cuban labor under Castro, and the fate of political prisoners in Cuba _ When completed, these pamphlets will be reproduced &nd distributed in quantity throughout the area SECRET H# 50955 Docld:32424608 Page 13 pic= pub ================================================== Page 14 ================================================== SECRET ANNEX A CIA Intelligence_Annex 1 Travel to and from Cuba Frazil Chartered Cubana airlines flights between Cuba and Brczil have become a major means of transporting non-Cuban Iatin Americans to and from Cuba The five such flights since late July have carried nearly 400 non-Gbans The firot of the recent series 0 0 on 25 July brought 71 Latin Anerican passengers to Havana for the 26 July celebrations The other four flights on 22 , 28 and 29 August cransported over 200 Latin Americans to Brazil from Hevana Some of the aircraft involved returned to Cuba with sma ller numbers cf passen" gers Many of the 200 Latin American passengers ad been delegates to the 26 July ceremonies but othars had apparently been in Cuba for longer periods and some had probably received training there Of the passengers on these four flights to Brazil, 75 were natives of Caribbean area countries Their circuitous travel through Brazil wa8 evident ly designed to help concea l the fact that had been in Cuba Costa Rica Two Costa Ricans were among the passengers On a chartered Cubana plane which Wa8 turned back to Havana at Grand Cayman on 11 July 1963 . One wa9 Luz Marina Hernandez Sa lazar , the only Costa Rican woman known to have been 8ent to Cuba for training 28 a guerrilla warfare instructor She had been in Cuba since September 1962 The other Costa Rican passenger Wa 8 Carlos Guillen, former head of the Costa Rican Society of Friends of the Cuban Revolut who had been in Cuba since November 1962 _ SECRET H# 50955 Docld:32424608 Page 14 15 , they ion , ================================================== Page 15 ================================================== SECRET 2 Ecuador The CIA Station in Quito reports that the military junta , which assumed power in Ecuador on 11 July , can be expected to follow the guidance of the Embassy and the Station in contro lling travel to and from Cuba and the Soviet bloc The activities of Cuban subversives in Ecuador 9 at least for the present 9 have been greatly inhibited by the ma83 arrests of Communists and pro- Cubans and by the out lawing of the Corruniat by the junta Honduras It 1s reported that the Ponduran Communist Party has issued orders to its members not to attenpt to travel to Cuba at the present tine This action is apparently the result of the increasing vigilarce of the Ronduran goverrmert and the greater implenertation of stricter travel controls 2 Movement of Cuban_Propaganda Guatemala According to an unconfirmed report received in a Bureau of Information of the Communist Party of Guatema la 1s being formed in collaboration with Prensa Latina and is to be managed clandestinely It expects to receive news by shortwave radio from Cuba and print bulletins for distribution by radio stations This may indicate 2 pattern by which Prenga Latina will attempt to distribute On 8 more clandestine basi8 in other area8 in Latin America Honduras It wa8 re liably reported that in mid-July 1963 , a smal1 coastal freighter landed 14 Zarge boxes of Communist propaganda On the northern coast of Honduras , the boxes having been transferred at sea from 4 larger vessel= The report has not been confirmed_ SECRET HW 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 15 Party July, ================================================== Page 16 ================================================== SECRET 3 3 Movement of Guerrtllas ndArs Argentin Extremist members of the Peronist Party, apparently under the leadership of such figures 48 Hector Villalon and John William Cooke 9 were reported to be receiving encouragement and promises of large Sus of money from Cuba in support of their efforts to train and crganize subversive groups in Argentina Villelon has stated that his plan calls for expanding and #cce llerating subversive activities in Argentina culminating in a complete take over within two years There is DO indica - tion that Peron himgelf has agreed to thic Plan. It has been rerorted that leaders of the Communist Party of Argentira nave been greatly annoyed by the tendency of the Castro regime to support_ the revolutionary Peronists without having consulted the Coinmunist Party of Argentina It 18 reported that the so-ca lled of Vational Liberation (ANL) of Argentina $ which is a relatively sma 11 Castroist organization directed from Cuba by John William Cooke has in recent weeks been negotiating for the purchase of arms and has been offered submachine guns 0 bazookas and other weapons by two or three private suppliers It Was reported_ 9 however , that the ANL was having difficulty getting enough dollars from Cuba to make Significant purchases POSSible _ Bolivia The Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Relations on 23 August protested formally to the Cuban Charge d'Affaires in La Paz against the Cuban Embassy support to the miners during the recent crisis Subsequent ly 2 however 9 Foreign Minister Fellman informed the Cuban Charge that he need not fear that the Government of Bolivia would break diplomatic relations with Cuba There has 9 in fact 9 been no hard information linking the Cuban Embassy with the present mining crisis in of some unconfirmed reports of Cuban support SECRET H# 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 16 Army spite ================================================== Page 17 ================================================== SECRET Brazil Cuban Ambassador to Brazil, Raul Roa Kouri, is reported to have att empted to encourage peasant league leader Francisco Julio to revitalize the leagues in northern Brazil According to some reports efforts are being made to unify the leadership and bring dissident elements under the general direction of Juliao Other reports indicate that 9 although the Cuban Embassy is prcvidlng guidance and possibly financial support to the movement it had not resolved the internal disgension in the leagues _ Colonbia Fron Cclcbia reports have been received of incre- asing Cubai assistance, primarily in the forin of training courses by inatructors Iho have been trained in Cuba 9 to the Worker-Student-Feasant Movenent (MOEC) A smal1 guerrilla band encountered by the Colonbian arzty in July 1963 wa; broken up when five members of the pand were killed and two others captured A sma l1 quantity of arms and 8 considerable amount of books end pamphlets on revolutionary warfare, photographs of Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos and Mao Tse-tung 9 and bulleting of the MOEC were found at the camp site Recent reports have indicated an increase in the terrorist efforts of the MOEC and increased promises of assistance from Che Guevara with regard to the tralning of additional MOEC members Costa Rica There have been a number of unconfirmed reports alleging small-scale training of revolutionaries on Costa Rican territory for guerrilla activicy in Nicaragua For example, in mid-July an Increased number of guerrillas were reportedly being trained in Costa Rica by Adolfo Garcia Barberena , well-known Nicaraguan revolutionary leader and member of the FLN (National Liberation Front a Communist-dominated, Cuban-supported; SECRET H# 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 17 yet ================================================== Page 18 ================================================== SECRET 5 anti-Nicaragua revolutionary group)_ In early August , Alberto Serrato, leader of the FLN in Cdsta Rida 9 (reportedly left with 2 group of Nicaraguans} for the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border _ Another report indicated that Hector Bogantes Zamora 9 Costa Rican agitator was supposed to have left San Jose in mid-August for the Nicaraguan border to supervise the passage of Nicaraguan guerrillas from Costa Rica into Nicaragua Bogantes 9 who recently returred from attending the May celebra - tions in Cuba 9 13 said to have been assigned this respongibility by the Costa Rican Communist Party. So far 43 We know 9 the GON 9 which 18 normally well- informed and highly sensitive to such activities on its borders 9 has not made any complaincs or otherwise 8ignified concern or Ewereness of these reported activities _ Ronguris The Honduran ared forces began to move agsinst 2 group of pro-Castro guerrillag operating egainst the Nicaraguan Government and active in the vicinity 0f the Nicaraguan-Honduran border _ The Micaraguan National Guard has been conducting operations on its side of the border against the insurgents since July The dense jungle and difficult terrain 9 however_ 9 will impede the efforts of both forces to eliminate the guerrillas Inforation on the guerrille force is scanty and conflicting. It is apparently composed of members of the Nationa 1 Liberation Front (FLN) 9 8 Communist-dominated and Cuban-supported revolutionary organization active primarily in Honduras and Nicaragua since the fall of 1962 The strength of the force is not known Nicaragua captured guerrilla of the FLN (Nationa 1 Liberation Front a Communist-dominated_ 9 Cuban-supported _ 3 anti- Nicaraguan group) confessed that he Wa3 a member of a group of 66 who entered Nicaragua from Honduras On 22 July. SECRET H# 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 18 Day ================================================== Page 19 ================================================== SECRET He said that their mission Wa$ to establish 8 base camp in the Isabella mountains , Department of Jinotega 9 in order to indoctrinate the peasants : and to train them In guerrilla tactics He aditted that he had received six months guerrilla warfare training in Cuba and that other FLN leaders had received similar training He al8o said that the FLN tra ining camp in Honduras was near El Lagarto, On the Patuca River 4 Irangfer of _Runds British Guiana In British Guiana 9 Guiana Import 0 Export Corporation (Gimpex) received 2 one million dollar advance payment deposited by the Cuban Alimpex Corporation fcr goods to be delivezed to Cuba in the fucure Gimpex has in turn, loaned this money to the Goverment of British Guiana Cheddi Jagan 8 People S Progressive Party is the major stockholder in Gimpex Mohammed Kassim 9 Manager of Gimpex 9 has indicated that Gimpex will be able to secure additiona] loans from Cuba in amounts sufficient to tide tha Jagan government over any foreseeable crisis It Wa $ also reported that Cimpex plans to aircraft 9 spare parts and other machinery in the United States for reshipment to Cuba General Reports continue to be received from many pleces indicating that the suitcase full of currency 1s still one of the most common methods used by the Cubans for trang - mitting funds for use in support subversive activities throughout the hemisphere Instances where such funds have been confiscated by the police have occurred recent ly In El Sa lvador , Panama and Ecuador _ SECRET H# 50955 Docld:32424608 Page 19 buy ing ================================================== Page 20 ================================================== Ann FEX B SECRET 5 C WVFVFATFT 72 [ 2 1 3 E 5 FH I 1 1 P 1 1 2 3H @ 5 0 8 6 8/e 8 ] g 6 8 2 6 e elelk Ell 1 /ele 8 E# 1 p 2 8 1 2 2 le |g 2 2 2 le 3 1 KE] k} 2 K}h I 3 H H E Hh 4 IU B 2 : : 1 { L p { 8 7 K I 1 3 8 1 1 7 1 F SECRET HW 50955 DocId:32424608 Page 20 2 9 8 ; J ================================================== Page 21 ================================================== KNOWN TRAVEL OF LATIN AMERICANS TO' AND FROM CUBA AUGUST 1963 NATIONALITY AUGUST PURPOSE OF TR IP TO . CUBA TO FROM ARGENTINA 26th July Celebrations TOLIVIA 5 3 BRAZIL 0 24 22-Returning fron 26th .July Celebrations BR GUIANA 10 Herder Institute in Leipzig_ CHILE 22 47 8-Physical Ed Seminar 1-Seeking: funds 10_Returning from 26 July Celebrations COLOMBIA 14 IcOsTA RICA 8 26th July Celebrations. DOM REP 1 8 ECUADOR 2 EL SALVADOR 1 I GUATEMALA 3 1-Study at University of Sofia I HAITI 0' HONDURAS 0 8 JAMAICA 2 JMEXICO 34 63 26th July Celebrations NICARAGUA 0 0 8 PANAMA 6 26th July Celebrations 1 PARAGUAY PERU 2 9_Returning were menbers of (MIR) who received guerrilla training TRINIDAD UURUGUAY 10 16 26th July Celebrations 1 VENEZUELA 3 0 26th July Celebrations T 0 T 4 L 8 1101 211 3 6

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