SOVIET UNION HAS ATTEMPTED FOR YEARS TO ESTABLISH BASE FOR LATIN AMERICAN EFFORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
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Soviet Union;:
or Years
LARGE AMOUNTS of Russian
arms were subsequently supplied
to Cuba. The number of light
weapons, suitable for guerrilla
Operations, was far more than
was needed for the Cuban army
and militia.
After the shipment of medium.
range rockets and jot bombers,
United States officials described
Cuba as an offensive military
base. This was not true. The
armament, even though it could
strike deeply into the United
States, v:as de!ensis'e. The means
20001 121DY8 e ?na or s
,u
ttem1 ted"k~ ~crsive end sabotage ,I forts
declared, "isV to prnvnr y;1 '
citement to mass?'ag1tattosi. aiid
Papers seized In
a raid'cii tbli
in November 1960,' bowed t ffia
entvian Revolution," bend
ion" and the destruction -of>`fm
Ct tetr for Communist efforts to promote subversion and revolution.
"'Instructions to Communist parties in Latin America, This
port them-were lacking,
Cuba i is now a' heavily pro.
suitable for the cepoit of reyoitl
olutionaries, saboteurs;' en
agents. It Is the Site of a t'rcl
to which Latin CornmiuA
From this 'school they are re-;;
turned to theirtbwn countries'
promote Commtiriist revolutiortt
There Is ample :40curnentatj(nj~
of Defense Robes S. McNamar f
dodared tit hi i fess confere3t
successful . counteroperation by
the Capital Intelligence Agency.
Cuba, under Fidel Castro, final-
ly presented an Ideal opportunity.
United States agents who had in-
filtrated Latin American Cotnmu-
nist parties said that the pro-
gram to take over Cuba and use
it as a base for subversion was
explained to the Latin American
Communist parties at the Rus-
sien party congress in January
1960.
It,Was after this, in July 1960,
that `P - mie`r Khrushchev prom-
W,#4-protect the Cuban revolu-
`.'The `United States now obvi-
6usly plans perfidious criminal
steps against the Cuban people,"
he declared., "The peoples of the
Socialist countries will help their
Cuban, brothers to 'uphold, that. r
artillery (the rocket force) can revolution shortly,after he seite4
support th A
e Cuban people s:ruh( iXwcr. repori by the -,late
their rocket fire, should the ag- T)toartment A;pr.1.3, 1961, said,
gressive forces in the Pentagon f "Under Castro, Ciiba has already
dare to start interventioit become a bass prti "a}
n agans.sagngre Cuba." for revols tlovnry activity
taro ghout the,c rtinent. In pros-
ec,,tinFg the war against the
licmisphere, Cuban embassies In
Latin America work in close col
laboration with iron curtain
diplomatic missions and with
Soviet intelligence services.
In 1959, the Castro government
vasions of Panama, Nicaragua,
the Dominican Republic and
Haiti. These projects, small-scale
amateurish Imitations of Crstro's
lnvasio , of Cuba, all failed
n Ei Salvador March 12 ,;"1961 i
lane that crashed near Lima
I Brazil purportedly attending a
nited Nations regloiial.,confer.
Bonflia carried a document
eating with the poasants. a
t5, , the Brnzllian Corimucist
egan for use in Ccrosnunist jun.
mmunLsts.
r I9ti riots In Venezuela,,the
Avery of high-powered, radio
f, 1962, The Venezuelap repre-
rserted a report to the OAS
lining t've record of cables
t radio messages writ from
5 -rna to order the roai'ozge.
7~:,sive rslatace =,s ordered
rs' in tktba .
E .epr~mtatfve ,William C. B ray
InCuba,-He said there were]
,Rnsslangenerals riartic1Aaf-
command of a Russian gen--
an excellent book on guerriila'f;,
cat: is that the lower :tltlss,
succession of Communist:up-
nded from Cuba by the Rua-
a experts established there.
ins danger, it is felt in tho
n!a ,n, is far neore reriats]