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104-10120-10273.txt
14-00000 104-10120-10273 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 MEMORANDUX FOR: Chief, WH Division ATTENTION Mr. Calvin W. Hicks, WR/4 18 MAY 1961 DDS &S ADD5Д&S ChicSSD Cop Chie! A to Gat FROM “SUBJECT" Room 2828 B Quarters Eye.. Deputy Director of Security (Investigations and Operational Support) : HITCH, Cal Hilliam (A). 843133. This memorandum confirms receipt of Mr. Hicks' verbal request on 17 May 1961 for security approval for the issuance. of documentation in the captioned alies. 2. This memorandux also confirms the verbal security approval furnished to Richard Major, /, on 17 May 1961 for the issuance of the requested documentation. 3. It is understood that the documentation to be issued will include a D. C. driver's license, a Social Security Card 31 - and a AAA Insurance Card. It is also understood that the requested documentation will not be backstopped and will be -used only for flash purposes in connection with an operational assignment in Florida. According to Mr. Hicks the alias has been registered with RID/OR h. Epon termination of Mr. Hicks assignment the documentation. should be returned to TSN/IBA FOR THE DIRECTOR OF SECURITY: SG Stick PSD GIKAS/CST (5-16-61) CLOSED The top Victor. White SPORCE
198-10007-10021.txt
198-10007-10021 v9.1 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 JFK Assassination System Date: 6/24/201 AGENCY: ARMY RECORD NUMBER: 198-10007-10021 RECORD SERIES: CALIFANO PAPERS AGENCY FILE NUMBER: Identification Form Agency Information Document Information ORIGINATOR: FROM: TO: TITLE: ICCCA CHMN, SUBCMMT ON CUBAN SUBVERSION MEMBER OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT FOR JULY-AUGUST ON ACTIONS TAKEN TO COMBAT CASTRO-COMMUNIST SUBVERSION DATE: PAGES: 09/30/1963 23 SUBJECTS: DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION: RESTRICTIONS: CURRENT STATUS: DATE OF LAST REVIEW: OPENING CRITERIA: . COMMENTS: ENHANCEMENT OF INTELLIGENCE ON CUBAN SUBVERSION STRENGTHENING OF COUNTER-INSURGENCY CAPABILITIES CONTROL OF TRAVEL TO AND FROM CUBA CONTROL OF TRANSFER OF FUNDS SURVEILLANCE OF CUBAN DIPLOMATIC, COMMERCIAL AND CULTURAL MISSIONS CONTROL OF CLANDESTINE MOVEMENT OF GUERILLAS AND ARMS CONTROL OF MOVEMENT OF CUBAN PROPAGANDA PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 1B; 4 Redact 04/08/1998 Califano Papers, Box 2, Folder 26. Memo from Chairman, Subcommittee on Cuban Subversion to the members of the Committee re: Report for July-August on Actions Taken to Combat Castro-Communist Subversion. JFK Revied Department of the Army EO 13526 ✗Q Declassify ☐ Exclude □ Exempt Authority Refer To Review Date 8/12/2015 By KES NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 30 Page 1 SECRET #6 File September 30, 1963 TO: FROM: Members of Subcommittee on Castro-Communist Subversion. Chainman, Subcommittee on Cuban Subversion SUBJECT: Report for July August on Actions Taken to Combat Castro-Communist Subversion. Attached is a draft of the Subcommittee's report for July and August on actions taken to counteract Castro- communist subversion in the hemisphere. The draft has been prepared on the basis of the material which you furnished with certain modification. The CIA member: will note that I have extracted from his submission the items of action taken and placed these in the body of the report. The intelligence information contained in the submission I have made into an annex. I think it is very useful to have the intelligence data form part of the report, and request that in the future the CIA member prepare his submission in two parts. May I have your comments on the draft by close of business October 1, 1963. Copies to: CIA Mr. Wheeler (2) DOD - Col. Haig (2)___ #6, #7 USIA - Mr. Wagley (1) RAR Mr. Hart (1) Justice - Mr. Geogheghan (1) 20c763 M/R called Bot Falstead advised de- stapped of V-3 -Chi Staffsang - S ARA: WGBowdler:jg 9/30/63 sary GROUP Excluded from automatio downgrading and declassification NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 2 SECRET DRAFT SECRET 1. Control of Travel to and from Cuba Central Intelligence Agency of 9 copies GROUP I Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification Developed highly useful information on frequency of Cuban "chartered" flights to Brasil, names and nationalities of passengers and crew, and lax measures of control followed by Brazilian authorities. Transmitted this information to sation chiefs in the Latin American countries of the non- Brazilians travelling on these 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 by him by the CIA Station in Buenos Aires and with the Station's urging, the Argentine Minister of Interior indicated that he would make every effort to prevent Argentine delegates from attending the International Union of Architects Congress in Havana. At the urging of the CIA Station and the Embassy the Bolivian Minister of Interior issued in aid-July an order prohibiting the granting of travel permits to Cubs on other bloc countries to Bolivian nationals. NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 3 SECRET h SECRET .. Partly as a result of the efforts of the CIA station in Santiago, the Government of Chile prohibited the entry into Chile of organizers of the Cuban sponsored Second Latin American Youth Congress, which had been scheduled to take place in Santiago in August. This was one of the factors which led to postponement of theCongress. f. After considerable 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 all persons intending to travel to Communist countries to have their travel approved by a newly created Costa Rican security agency. CIA Station in Mexico City developed Information concerning the clandestine arrival of passengers in Vera Crus on Cuban merchant ships. Efforts are being made to obtain more information and to encourage stricter controla by the Mexican authorities. Department of State Instructed Embassy Conakry to try to persuade Guinean authorities to deny use of airport facilities by flights on Habana-Moscou route. These efforts achieved a temporary withholding of permission for future regular flights, at least NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 4 until such time as at Conakry. SECRET Soviets develop their own refueling facilities 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 them. Also instructed our Embassies In several Latin American countries to work with CIA station chiefs in furnishing the names of nationale of those countries travelling on these flights to local authorities and urging tham: (1) to institute tighter controls on their own citizens travelling to Cuba, and (2) to express their concern to the "AN GOVERNMent Brazil/over Cuban use of Brazil as a way station for transporting subversives. As a result of representations made to the British goverment about Cuban flights to the Cayman Islands carrying Latin American subversives, the British developed an administrativa scheme which will effectively prohibit the use of British Caribbean dependencies by Cubana as 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 cases. Persons not possessing visas would be prevented from leaving their aircraft, or would be NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 5 ہے सम्पदा क SECRET returned to their point of origin. Instructed Embassy Mexico City on August 29 to inform the Mexican airline QA that the United States is opposed to a proposal that QA operate charter flights to carry refugees from Havana to Central America. as a result, stated that they had no intention of proceeding further with this project. Instructed U.S. Missions in Curacao and the Ela gue to investigate a report that KLM was planning to renew sk scheduled Curacao-Habana flights and to reiterate US opposition to resumption of air service to Cuba. KIM assured our Embassy that there is no plan to initiate service, scheduled or non- scheduled, to Habana. Instructed Embassy Ottawa to express our strong objections to a proposal that a Cubana charter flight pick up e second group of U.S. students in Montreal to fly them to Cuba. The flight was not authorized. Instructed Consulate Georgetown to investigate Cubana approaches to secure flight facilities. Mission reported on August 1 that the Governor had no knowledge of any talks between the B.G. Ministry of Communications and the Cuban Govern- ment regarding landing rights for Cubana planes. The Governor NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 6 SECT indicated his intention to inquire further and to keep us advised. London reported that neither the Cuben nor the British Guiana Governmente had raised the issue of landing rights with H.M.C. b. 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 informed Pan American Airways that we wore opposed to a Cuban request for # PAA charter flight to fly the students from Habana to New York. 1. Instructed our missions et Port of Spain end Barbados on adveral occasions to approach these governments to express the concern of the U.S. at indications of Cuban interest in the use of their aviation facilities. Embassy Fort of Spain discussed with the Foreign Secretary of Trinidad various legal moves available that would enable GOIT to control movements of aircraft within their territory, citing examples of such controle 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 NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 7 SECRET urged the goverment of Chile to refuse visas to Cuban delegatõe to a proparatory meeting plaming for the II Latin American Youth Congress scheduled for August in the Chilean capital. Inability of Cuban delegates to obtain Chilean vises for this meeting is one of the contributing factors to the Cuban sponsors announcing during August that the meeting had been postponed. Sent general instructions to our missions in countries which participate in the International Union of Architects asking them to urge the cooperation of govermental authorities in preventing or discouraging the attendance of their citizens to the VII UIA Congrass 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 Bay of Pige moniment. 1. Urged Canadian Goverment to block a plan to commence food parcel shipments to Cuba, on a fommercial basis, that would have required the establishment of scheduled weekly charter flights by Canadian planes. NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 8 SECRET SECRET 2. Control of Movement of Cuban Prozessada Central Intellizance Agency Responding to the urging of the CIA Station police of the State of Guanabara seized large quantities of propa- ganda brought into Brazil by passengers on the special Cubane flights. For example, some 50 pounds of printed propagando was taken from the various passengers who arrived on the 16 August Cubana flight. # Control of Clandestine Movement of Guerrilles and Arms Department of Defense Continued surveillance of the area surrounding Cuba during the month of July at the same rate and with the come emphasis as prior to 1 July 1963. b. Continued to maintain U.S. Forces, primarily from within the Atlantic Command, available to assist other Caribbean governments in the interception of suspicious craft in territorial waters, as might be requested. No such requeste were received from any other government during the period covered by this report. However, U.S. Forces did keep track of the location of the Soviet merchant freighter MITCHURINSK, which NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 9 SEGUIT SECRET was suspected of carrying subversives and arms from Cuba to British Guima in mid-July. MITCHURINSK was under U.S. surveillance from its departure from Kavana until United Kingdom forces assumed the task of keeping this ship under surveillance upon its approach to Georgetown, British Guiana. Subsequently, British police search of MITCHURINSK in British Guiame vaters 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 published a new enti- terrorists law providing a penalty of no less than five years imprisonment for persons who particiate in guerrilla activities or in the illegal manufacture of weapone or explosives. The Peruvian National Intelligence Service is working on a lead furnished by the CIA Station in Lirs concerning a 200 ton vessel reportedly involved in arms traffic. Department of State Instructed our Consulate General in Georgetowa to investigate reports that commercial cargoes (which could conceal illicit ams traffic out of Cuba) had developed between British Quiane and Cuba. Investigations to date have been negative. SECRET NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 10 2) SECRET 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 which went into effect on July 9, 1963. 3. Streasthening of Counter-Insurgency Capabilities Department of Defence a. Continued the installation of military communica tions facilities in Letin America. Operational dates for the multi-channel radio stations to be installed in Managua, Nicaragua and Tegucigalpa, Honduras have been delayed to 15 October 1963 and 15 December 1963, respectively because of new engineering and contractual requirements. Negotiations are continuing with Colombia and Ecuador for installation of U.S. military radio facilities. Completion of a 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 curveillance of Cuba by 0.8. Forces, reporting as before to U.S. commanders, organisations and agenetes. C NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 11 SECRET Reports of surveillence have been disseminated to all who have à requirement to know. Established à 24 hour per day, 7 days 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 the U.S. Southern Command 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 Nicarague and determined that no significant problems existed which would interfere with effective operations in those countries. d. Action previously initiated by the Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Southern Command (COMUSNAVSO) to establish a Small Craft Inspection and Training Team (SCIATT) as a contribution to the Caribbean Surveillance System is progressing satisfactorily. NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 12 SECRET SECRET 11 Permanent assignment of U.S. Coast Guard personnel to SCIATT in the Canal Zone has been approved and the U.S Coast Guard has taken appropriate implementing actions. During the period of this report, the SCIAIT con ducted an on-the-job training course at Puntarenas, Cosca Rice. Training was given to 13 members of the Guardia Civil of Costa Rica who were aither newly assigned to the 40 foot Goast Guard utility boate (CGUBs) or were to be assigned as replacement crew members. C. A quarterly inspection and evaluation of the COUBS provided other Central Amorican countries was conducted during the period 17 to 31 August by a mobile training team (MTT) made up of SCIATT personnel. Continued efforts to improve the internal security of Latin American amies through the provision of Intelligence Advisors. Presently there are such advisors assigned to 14 Latin countries, emphasising counterintelligence and counter- subversion. b. During the reporting period MTTs conducted training in counterinsurgency for the armed forces of Colombia, Bolivie, Venezuela, Peru and El Salvador. SECRET NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 13 SECRET -12- 1. Civic Action MITs were sent to Guatemala, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Jamaica and Ecuador. Exchange of Intelligence on Cuban Subversion Central Intelligence Agency CIA Stations throughout Latin America continued in a great majority of countries to furnish to the local internal security orgenizations with whom they are in liaison Informa- tion concerning travelers to and from Cuba, as well as such information as came to CIA's attention concerning the movement of funds, ams and propaganda material. In many instances, the furnishing of information to the internal security service by the CIA Station was parallelad by the furnishing of similer 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 attention to the information and take action on it. At the during the reporting period other extreme, the Bresilian Government/showed little inclination to follow up on the information. Department of State Reiterated to the Foreign Minister of Peru our interest in having the facts of the Puerto Maldonado incident NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 14 SECRET SECRET brought to the attention of the 045, and urged that thie action be taken as soon as possible. b. Urged the Government of Guatemala to submit evidence of communist activity to the OAS. 7. Surveillance of Cuben Diplomatic, Commerical and Cultural Missions. Central Intelligency Agency (To be filled in by Mr.Wheeler) NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 15 Department of State SECRET -14- Instructed Embassy La Paz to follow up closely on charges of involvement of Cuban mission in internal politics, of Bolivia, and, at the Embassy's discretion, to point out to Bolivian officials the opportunity for a possible break in relations with Cuba. Embassy La Paz was not able to press for a break when the evidence of Cuban intervention did not prove to be es conclusive as originally reported.) Other Special Actions Department of State Obtained action by the COAS on July 3 on the Lavalle Committee Report transmitting the document to the governments and urging them to implement the specific and general recom- mendations contained therein as soon as possible. b. Through Embassy Managua informed the Nicaraguan Government of the matters which we wanted to have considered during the informal weeting of the Ministers of Security and Interior of the Isthmian countries held in Managua, August 26-23 in preparation for the second formal meeting of the Managua Security Conference countries later this year. SECRET NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 16 Reassured President Schick of Nicaragua in the most emphatic terms that the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty did not mean that our attitude toward Castro has altered in the slightest, and stressed our interest in beeing steady progress by all the Isthmian countries in implementing the recommenda- tions of the Managua Security Conference to block Cuban subversive efforts. Explained in detail the nature of the Cuban threat and the related policy objectives of the U.S., during converss- tion in London and in Washington wich Mr. Adam Watson, newly appointed British Ambassador to Cube. United States Information Agency The Agency's press service during the reporting period transmitted 12 articles, commentaries, and backgrounders on its wireless file service to USIA poets throughout Latin Americe for placement in the local newspapers and the Voice of America Spanish broadcasts to Latin America cerried a total of 28 commentaries and features on the subject of Cuban-based subversion in addition to the regular reporting of developments in the hourly newscasts. NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 17 SECRET SECRET In response to standing Agency instructions to give special attention to developments related to Cuba-based subversion, USIS posts in Latin Amarica were prompt in reporting incidents and in providing editorial comments from the Latin American press, all of which was used in the Agency's radio and press output. The main developments treated in the Agency's radio and press coverage included Castro's July 26 speech urging revola- tions in Latin America, the discovery of terrorist weapons factories in Guayaquil, the Ecuadoréen Vice President's accusion of Cuban responsibility for terrorism, the statement by State Department Press Officer Richard Phillips that "potential subversive agents آن from Cuba to the Caribbean area were passing through Gren Cayman, the expulsion of a Bolivian youth leader for receiving funds from Cuba, Castro-trained terrorists in end Honduras,/Bolivian protests against meddling by the Cuban Embassy in the miner strike. A Voice of America roving reporter in Latin America provided several reports Ausstes on the subversion pleture in countries he visited. In support of the Agency's effort en Cuban-based subversion, the publications center in Mexico began work on SECRET NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 18 ہے SECRET -17 three pamphlets during the period based on Castro's report of his visit to the Soviet Union (showing that he contradicted himself in some of hie extravagant claims of Soviet progress). the losses suffered by Cuban labor under Castro, and the of political prisoners in Cuba. When completed, these pamphlets will be reproduced and distributed in quantity throughout the NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 19 ہے _SECRET _ GROUP 1 Excluded from automati downgrading and declassification. SECRET CIA Intelligence Annex Travel to and from Cuba Brazil ANNE A Chartered Cubana Airlines flights between Cuba and Brazil have become a major means of transporting non-Cuban Latin Americans to and from Cuba. The five such flights since late July have carried nearly 400 non-Cubans. The first of the recent series -- on 25 July -n brought 71 Latin American passengers to Havana for the 26 July celebra- tions. The other four flights -- on 15, 22, 28 and 29 August transported over 200 Latin Americans to Brazil from Havana. Some of the aircraft involved returned to Cuba with smaller numbers of passengers. Many of the 200 Latin American passengers had been delegates to the 26 July ceremonies, but others had apparently been in Cuba for longer perioda 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 was evidently designed to help conceal the fact that they had been in Cube. Costa Rica Two Costa Ricans were among the passengers on a chartered Cubana plane which was turned back to Havana at Grand Cayman on 11 July 1963. One was Luz Marina Hernandez Salazar, the only Costa Rican woman known to have been sent to Cuba for training as a guerrilla warfere instructor. She had been in Cuba since September 1962. The other Costa Rican passenger was Carlos Guillen, former head of the Costa Rican Society of Friends of the Cuban Revolution, who had been in Cuba since November 1962. Ecuador The CIA Station in Quito reports that the military Junta, which assumed power in Ecuador on 11 July, can be expected NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 20 SECRET SECRE to follow the guidance of the Embassy and the Station in controlling travel to and from Cube and the Soviet bloc. The activities of Cuban subversives in Ecuador, at least for the present, have been greatly inhibited by the mass arrests of Comunists and pro-Cubans and by the outlawing of the Communist Party by the junta. Honduras It is reported that the Honduren Communist Party has issued orders to its members not to attempt to travel to Cuba at the present time. This action is apparently the result of the increasing vigilance of the Honduran government and the greater implementation of stricter travel controls. Movement of Cuban Pzord canda Guatemala According to an unconfirmed report received in July, Bureau of Information of the Communist Party of Guatemala is 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 a pattern by which Prensa Latina will attempt to distribute on a more clandestine basis in other areas in Latin Ameriece. Honduras It was reliably reported that in mid-July 1963, a Small coastal freighter landed 14 large boxes of Communist propaganda on the northern coast of Honduras, the boxes having been transferred at sea from a larger vessel. Movement of Guerrillas and Asus Argentina Extremist members of the Peronist Party, apparently under the Leadership of such figures as Rector Villalon and John William Cooke, are apparently receiving encouragement and promises of large sums of money from Cuba in support of their efforts to train and organize subversive groups in Argentina. NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 21 SECRET Villalon has stated that his plan calls for expanding and accellerating subversive activities in Argentine culminating in a complete take over within two years. There is no indica- tion that Peron himself bas agreed to this plan. It has been reported that leaders of the Communist Party of Argentina have been greatly amoyed by the tendency of the Castro regime to support the revolutionary Peronists without having consulted the Communist Party of Argentina. It is reported that the co-called Army of National Liberation (ANL) of Argentina, which is a relatively small Castrolat organization directed from Cuba by John William Cooke, bas in recent weeks been negotiating for the purchase of arme and has been offered submachine guns, bazookas and other weapons by two or three private suppliere. It was reported, 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 Chargé d'Affaires in La Paz against the Cuban Dabassy support to the miners during the recent crisis. Subsequently, Subsequently, however, Foreign Minister Fellman informed the Cuban Charge that he need not fear that the Goverment of Bolivia would break diplomatic relations with Cuba. There has, in fact, boom no hard information linking the Cuban Embassy with the present mining crisis in spite of some unconfixmad reports of Cuban support. Brazil Cuban Ambassador to Brazil, Raul Roa Kouri, is reported to have attempted to encourage peasant league leader Francisco Julleo 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, although the Cuban Embassy is providing guidance and possibly financial support to the movement, it had not yet resolved the internal dissension in the leagues. Colorbia NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 22 SECRET SECRET Colombia From Colombia reports have been received of increasing Cuban assistance, primarily in the form of training courses by instructors who have been trained in Cuba, to the Worker-Student- Peasant Movement (MOEC). A small guerrilla band encountered by the Colombian army in July 1963 was broken up when five members of the band ware killed and two others captured. small quantity of arms and a considerable amount of books and pamphlets on revolutionary warfare, photographs of Bidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos and Mao Tse-tung, and bulletine of the MOBC were found at the camp site. Recent reports have indicated an increase in the terrorist efforts of the MOKC and increased promises of assistance from Che Guevara with regard to the training of additional MOEC members. Costa Rica 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, anti-Nicaragua revolutionary group). In early August, Alberto Serrato, leader of the FLN in Costa Rica, left with a group of Nicaraguans for the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border. The purchase of arms and supplies and the recruitment of Nicaraguans for a movement against Nicaragua are also reportedly underway in Costa Rica, Hectoz Bogantes Zamora, Costa Rican agitator, left San Jose in mid-August for the Nicaraguan border to supervise the passage of Nicaraguan guerrillas from Costa Rica into Nicaragua. Bogantes, who recently returned from attending the May Day celebratione in Cuba, was assigned this responsibility by the Costa Rican Communist Party. Honduras The Honduran azmed forces began to move against a group of pro-Castro guerrillas operating against the Nicaraguan Govern- ment and active in the vicinity of the Nicaraguan-Honduran border. The Nicaraguan National Guard has been conducting operations on its side of the border against the insurgents since July. The dease jungle and difficult terrain, however, will impede the efforce of both forces to eliminate the guerrillas. C NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 23 SECRET Information on the guerrilla force is scanty and conflicting. It is apparently composed of members of the National Liberation Front (FL), a 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 knowm. Nicaragua A captured guerrilla of the FLN (National Liberation Front - a Communist-dominated, Cuban-supported, anti-Nicaraguan group) confessed that he was a member of a group of 46 who entered Nicaragua from Honduras on 22 July. He said that their mission was to establish a base camp in the Isabella mountaino, Department of Jinotege, in order to indoctrainate the peasante and to train them in guerrilla tactics. He admitted that be had received six months' guerrilla warfare training in Cuba and that other FLN leaders had received siallar training. He also said that the FLN training camp in Honduras was near El Lagarto, on the Patuce River. British Cuiam In British Guiana, Guiana Import-Export Corporation (Gimpex) received a one million dollar advance payment deposited by the Cuban Alimpex Corporation for goods to be delivered to Cuba in the future. Glumpex has, in turn, loaned this money to the Government of British Guiana. Cheddi Jagan's People's Progressive Party is the major stockholder in Gimpex. Mohammed Kassim, Manager of Gimpex, has indicated that Cimpex will be able to secure additional loans from Cuba in amounts sufficient to tide the Jagen government over any foreseeable crisis. 玉蓉 we also reported that Gimpex plans to buy aircraft, spare parts and other machinary in the United States for reshipment to Cuba. General Reposts continue to be received from many places indicating that the suitcase full of currency is still one of the moat common methods used by the Cubans for transmitting funds for use in supporting subversive activities throughout the hemisphere. Instances where such funds have been confiscated by the police have occurred recently in El Salvador, Panama and Ecuador. NW 50955 DocId: 32424014 Page 24
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Dataset Summary

This dataset is built from a large-scale digitization effort using documents sourced from the National Archives. Over 2,500 PDF files were collected, containing approximately 65,000 pages in total. Since the original documents were scanned and varied in quality, the text extraction required a robust OCR pipeline.

Google Cloud Document AI was used to process every page. Each PDF was converted into page-level text using Document AI’s high-accuracy OCR models, preserving layout structure where possible. The resulting dataset consists of text files paired with their original filenames, providing a clean and uniform representation of the archival materials.

Data Structure

Each entry contains:

  • file_name: The original PDF or derived text file name.
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Intended Use

This dataset can support research in historical document analysis, language modeling on archival material, OCR benchmarking, information retrieval, and downstream NLP tasks involving long-form or noisy text.

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All OCR output is provided as-is from Google Cloud Document AI, and the dataset reflects the quality and structure of the original scanned documents.

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