THE 8 FEBRUARY REPORT OF THE OAS SPECIAL CONSULTING COMMISSION ON SECURITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00429A000400020010-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 18, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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18 February 1963
UNMUZOUN FOR: Deputy Director (Intelligence)
SUBJECT The 8 February Report of the OAS
Special Consulting Commission on
Security
1. The report addresses itself to defining methods
by which Castro--Communist subversion in spread in the
hemisphere without citing specific examples of countries
affected. The report also includes certain general
recommendations for the control of subversive activities.
it is stated in the introduction to the report
that the official information placed at the Comsmiss ion ? s
disposal was very general in nature and was provided by
only five nations. Therefore, the Commission used "in-
formation from other sources."
2. The first main section of the report is devoted
to a discussion of Cuba as a base of subversion in Latin
America. It describes how training facilities in Cuba
as well as Cuban domestic organizations and sponsorship
of international meetings and congresses of all types are
used to subvert Latin Americans who travel to Cuba.
The report points out in this connection that
controls over travel to and from Cuba have become a major
problem. Recommendations to help meet this problem in-
clude: requiring each person crossing any international
frontier to have proper documentation; formally forbidding
all travel to Cuba except for valid reasons; providing
hemisphere travel authorities with master lists of sus--
pected and known Communist agents; and providing for close
inter-governmental cooperation to maintain stiff travel
controls.
3. The report thou indicates the importance and the
wide variety of forms taken by Castro-Communist propaganda
efforts in the hemisphere as a means of winning new con-
verts.
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The Jamming of propaganda broadcasts by Radio
Havana is discarded as a largely ineffective and too ex-
pensive means of combatting the problem.
Recommendations on how to control the influence
of Communist propaganda include: each Latina American
country should organize the entities necessary to issue
counterpropaganda or which could otherwise negate such
propaganda; each hemisphere country should place the same
limitations on Bloc and Cuban missions within its bor-
ders that are placed on its missions by the Communist
countries; reduce wherever possible all contacts with C`u--
ban and Bloc propaganda media and impose tight controls
on local propaganda outlets.
4. Financing of subversive activities from Cuba or
international Communism is obvious and necessary But dif-
ficult to prove.
In addition to local fund-raising activities,
Communists and other subversive agents in Latin America
rely heavily on transform of funds effected directly
from Cuban and Bloc representatives. The sale of
contraband--especially narcotics--is an increasingly
important source of funds for these elements.
Ruminating or reducing the funding of subver-
sive activities should be achieved by: inspecting the
financial affairs of local Communists and their front
organizations; controlling contraband; and controlling
internal Communist fund-raising activities.
5. General recommendations to curb the spread of
Castro-Gist subversion in the hemisphere are made.
The report agrees to "recommend to the American
governments that they pay special attention to their in--
telligence services," and that national security forces
be bolstered to meet the Communist throat.
A special hemisphere conference of security and
intelligence leaders should be hold.
The Special Connsultin Commission of Security
should be furnished with all information on such sub-
version which can be found by the OAS member countries.
A final, special recommendation states that in
view of the gravity of the current threat emanating from
Cuba, the threat "can only be adequately and efficiently
attended to through the adoption of the measures provided
for" in the Inter-American Treaty for Mutual Assistance
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