THE WASHINGTON POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-01022R000100230025-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: April 16, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Washington Post
Friday, April 16, 1965
Washington, D. C.
Assoc,a'.ed Press
A Central Intelligence
Agency report says t at the
as ro regime 1 ua has set
up a "highly professional
i
on
espionage and subvers
agency" and has spent well
over $1 million fomenting
trouble in Latin America. M
_.
lUCIeU ui ?~???,?. _
'agency as the,
Ve nes ay Yom o u torate of Intelligence (DGI}
in FRUan Affairs subcom one of whose main tasks is
rn"i~tee ?investigating omma the support of revolutionaries
nism in Latin America. in Latin America."
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t
om
s
The CIA said repor
' aadded:
confidential sources as well asl The CIA statement
public statements by Cuban ,_,-nt.,,? defector information on DGI
doubt that `export of the revo payments made during 1963,
lution' continues to be a keylthe year of his employment
policy of the Castro regime, with the DGI. About $250,000
despite important Communist was given to Guatemalan re-
reverses in the area such as in volutionary g r o u p s. Some
(Brazil, Chile and British Guia- $200,000 of this sum went to
na last year." Marc" ' ntn in ynn
T,,,l,tant ter-
Agency identified. grou-the styeratin, in =
rorist outfit ope
C
ban intelligence - and police) The document said Cuba in-
be inter-
d t
o
reporte
I"reliably
operative, lfaj, Abelardo Co
l to form a
a
1962 to direct operations and
was still there as of April
1964. -
"The DGI is advised by at bia, Peru, Bolivia and Guate-
five Soviet intelligence " inala. Uruguayan-hased Leonel
least specialists," the CIA said. Brizola, the extremist brother-
"' loreover, one of the pur-~in-law of former -Brazilian
-,,inrf is also re-
given to revolus-i,a..r b--r-
.,A- and $30.000 to
, C!
l
a
v
t
d
e
a pin -.aa iv r ._. _ meeting of Latin American por
Panama
"The DGI gave mire than Communist leaders held in rilla warfare coordinating
$1 million to V e n e z u e 1 a n1 Havana last November was to committee in Montevideo to the guerrilla cactivists Theeri Source militant Communi tsactivity inltrainees andflmoneyow of
period 19606 (from Cuba."
also says that.. ,a long time Cu the hemisphere.
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ested in a propos
"Latin American guerrilla
movement' to be coordinated
in Havana and to include.