CUBA ARMS, MONEY ARE BEHIND INCREASED RED GUERRILLA THREAT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700380038-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: February 18, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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1ba Arms, Money Are Behind
and PAUL SCOT 'techniques, he reported, the lo- :jn for robbinj banks - In thetre'
B ROBERT IL ALLEN To learn the latest sabotage Castro - trained agents are
Increased Red Guerrilla Threat
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build-up in Cuba have gathered and armed at two major guerrilla priatktns" of Tsarist banks - to
convincing evidence that there is camps in Cuba. One is at? Minas obtain funds for guerrilla opera,'
a rising Cirnmunist guerrilla Del Frio in Oriente Province and ttons."
threat in Latin America, actively another at La Campana In Las "British Guiana: Youthful fot-
aided with money and arms from Villas. lowers of Communist Premier
Cuba. The former is headed by Guat- Cheddi Jagan are returning from
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Detailed proof eniala's ex-President Arbenz, and Cuba trained for an expec
of this Cuban the latter by Spanish General Al- guerrilla struggle."
link was turned berto Mayo, both members of the "13razilt On December 27, 1962,
over to the Sen-' Revolutionary Ccnnniatrd for Lat- Brazilian police dug up an arms
ate Armed Serv- in America that the Kremlin set cache outside of Sao Paulo. In-
ices Prepared- 'up in Havana. 'f'ills command di- spector Alcides Bueno has evl-
neQS subcommit-' reds all subversive and guerrilla dence linking Castro - agents with.
tee by Director activities front Glib"i. these arms, of Czech manufac
John McCone, lure. The arms arrived aboard a
of the Central Tilt, INTEL) l6ENCE intorm:t- Cuban ship and were transported
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Intell i g e nee, , tiun given Sen. John Stennis, D- to the Com Agency, " and a Miss., by a Cuban refugee group League headquarters."
reliable Cuban clearly demonstrates that the "Costa Rica: Francisco J. Or-
subversive activities of the Castro Itch, President of Costa Rica. has
refugee group. Both of their reports contend regime have increasd since the 'evidence linking Castro - COMM'
that the subversive activities of October Cuban crisis. "1,4:t agents with the recent vid-
ihe Castro regime have greatly Here is this group's country-by- - ewe In Cartago. He forecasts in-
increased in Latin America since country report: creased subversive action in all
the apparent withdrawal of SO- "Venezuela: On Oct. 27, 1962, ;Central America."
viet medium-range missiles from four electric poivter stations were "Ecuador: There have been
Cuba. dynamited by native Communists, .,several Indian uprisings in var-
wito were following orders from JXn pans of Ecuador in event
CIA DIRECTOR 93oCone went the Castro rcgintr. As a ton c- months which. though stemming
the furtherest in his warning. He queiu'P of this sabotage one-sixth from honest grievances, are being
startled the senators by reporting of Venezuelan oil production rolls exploited by the Communists.
that these Cuban-supported suer- temporarily knocked out. The Miguel I.rclton. who heads the
rilia activities could develop Into first radio signal ordering; the &-it]- Ecuadorian Federation of Indi-
a serious danger for the U. S., otage was transmitted Oct. 2lih ans. has just returned from Cuba
as well as a number of Ameri- from Havana via it ship off the and threatened: 'One day, more
can republics, unless preventative isles of Curacao on the Venezue- than 200,000 Indian,; will descend
measures are taken soon." Ian coast. On January 7, 1963, Ven- from the. mountains to take over
In his blunt testimony, 'McCone ezuelan police discovered a secret their land.'
revealed. that 1,500 saboteurs and Castro - Communist arms cache, t1l"VOI s - the State DepEirt-
Communist guerrillas were train-.. 20 miles south of Caracas, and merit is setting up a "psychologi-
ed in Cuba during the Past 12 confiscated several tons of ex? cal warfare" office for Cuba. Itic
months and are now at work in . ploalves and other weapons." purpose is to flat methods, short
Latin countries carrying out. file "Peru: There have been serious of Military action, to keep Cas-
Kremlin's orders for "protracted guerrilla outbreaks in several tro from spreading Communist
revolutionary action." places, notably in the ancient In- rrvolurien to other Latin Anicrl-
ca capital off Cuzco, in Cajamar- cal