MEMORANDUM FOR: SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS FROM JOHN A. MCCONE

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2006
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• Publication Date: March 28, 1963
• Content Type: MF

Z8 March 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR
for National Security Affairs
The attached Memorsndam, "Cuban Training of
Latin American Subversives" is the report which you
requested by 29 March few t1 President's information.
A preliminary version was fuiesisb.d to the President
before his visit to Costa Rica.
JOHN A. McCONE
Director
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 16 March 1963
liiEMO. ANDUM FOR: The Honorable 4.cGeorge Bunt
Special As&istant to t e f-'resident
for National Security A.ffa*rs
1. 1 attach preliminary comments responsive to
the President's questions forwarded by your memorandum
of 14 March.
. A detailed response will be submitted before
29 1MMIarch.
Marshall Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Acting Director
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SECRET March 14, 1963
THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
The President has asked me to send you this urgent memorandum.
Following up on his previous memorandum asking for definite
information about terrorists in Venezuela who are trained in Cuba,
he would appreciate it if the Agency could give him the following
information country by country on the broader field of undesirables
re-exported from Cuba throughout Latin America:
1. How many arrests have there been in Latin America of terrorists,
guerrillas, or other subversives who have been trained in Cuba?
Z. How many acts of sabotage or other illegal actions are estimated
to have been committed by individuals trained in Cuba, and how
solid are these estimates?
3. What is our hard information concerning positions of influence
in labor movements, student groups, Communist parties or other
important institutions of individuals known or believed to have been
trained in Cuba?
Turning the matter around, what do we know about the type and
character of the training and experience of young Latin Americans
who have been in and out of Cuba? What proportion of these
travellers are in fact going for serious revolutionary training, and
on what degree of firmness do we base our estimates of the numbers
of guerrillas or other subversives who have been trained on the
island? Who recruits the ones who go for serious revolutionary
purposes and what kind of people are they?
The President recognizes that these questions are difficult and that
a full answer may take some time. He would therefore like to have
your preliminary comment in time for his use in San Jose, and your
more detailed response not later than March 29th.
McGeorge Bundy