Cuban Training of Latin American Subversives (CIA Memorandum)

CIA Memorandum, “Cuban Training of Latin American Subversives,” Secret, 45 pp. (includes annex on Colombia)

SUMMARY

1 We estimate that at least 1,500 to 2,000 Latin Americans have received guerrilla training or political indoctrination in Cuba.

2. We have recorded the travel of 5,059 Latin Americans to Cuba in 1962, and reporting to date in-dicates that at least another 417 went during the first two months of 1963.

3. Field replies to a survey estimate that there were about 11,000 arrests in Latin America during the· past 15 months for terrorism, sabotage, guerrilla ac-tivity, or other subversive activity. Only a smal!l. percentage of those arrested, however, were brought to trial; almost all were released after varying periods of detention.

4. Current efforts to improve and exploit re~ porting on travel to Cuba had not made themselves felt during the reporting period. The security serv-ices of Latin American countries accordingly were un-able, with isolated individual exceptions, to estab-lish Cuban direction, instigation or training of ar-. rested subversives.

5. Incidence of guerrilla, terrorist, and sab-otage activity at present is highest in Venezuela, Peru, and~-in the form of largely non-political ban-ditry–Cofombia. There is sporadic guerrilla activity in and around Nicaragua and Guatemala, and a guerrilla potential in Ecuador and Brazil.


Surinam and Trinidad report no subversive incidents no arrests and no evidence of Cuban subversive training for any of their nationals Trinidad listed two legal travelers in Cuba in 1962.

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March 27, 1963
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