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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R002300020012-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 25, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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CUBAN ACTIVITIES IN PERU
Relations with the Peruvian Government (GOP)
Cuban activities in Peru appear to center
around impressing
GOP officials as well as the local populace of the merits of the
Cuban regime.
Since the establishment of diplomatic relations
the two countries in July 1972, almost all Peruvian
ministers have made at least one official visit to Cuba.
Cuban Ambassador to Peru Antonio N u n e z Jimenez has
been very outgoing in
his attempts to influence top government
officials and, in general, to get to know the Peruvian people.
On the high echelon level, he deals closely with a number of
government ministers and
At the end of 1974, the Cuban Mission in Peru consisted
of some 70 persons. This number can be expected to
somewhat during 1975 because of the constant influx
and technicians who will be working with the GOP in
with the Peruvian-Cuban Agreement for Economic and
Technical Cooperation signed in August 1974. This
increase
of consultants
connection
Scientific-
agreement
agriculture,
Recent reporting indicates that Peru has become less
covers about 40 specific projects
fishing, industry and education.
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enthusiastic about its relations with Cuba. A number of key
government officials,
are concerned that Cuban Embassy officials
may be involved in fomenting labor and student unrest. There
is no informatilon to confirm direct Cuban involvement in such
activities, but the leftist groups responsible are often Cuban-
frequent travel, ostensibly connected with his geological
expertise, throughout Peru. During his trips, Nunez takes
every opportunity to talk with students, workers, university
leaders and provincial government functionaries.
Nunez is constantly making
propaganda for Cuba and putting his country in the news, much
to the dismay
"intervention in Peruvian affairs," and has ordered that Nunez
be told that such activities must stop.
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critical of Cuban Embassy personnel for their overzealous
courtship of senior government officials.
Some recent examples of what can be interpreted as GOP
disenchantment with Cuban activities in Peru are given below.
a. Three Cuban advisors working with the National
System of Support for Social Mobilization (SINAMOS) on an
agriculture project in the Concepcion Valley near Cuzco for
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the past year were told their services were no longer needed
and have left the country.
b. A recent Cuban request to purchase a large house
to be used as an educational complex has been refused.
c..' The December 1974 decree limiting the travel of
groups abroad was
instigated
learned of the visit of 91 Peruvian youths to Cuba for one
month of voluntary work. The travel of such groups has
consistently been of concern to the GOP. In March 1974 the
Ministry of Interior carried out an investigation of the Tupac
Amaru student brigade which was formed by Peruvian students
while visiting Cuba. The government feared that such brigades
could become future guerrilla centers and that Cuba was
indoctrinating these youths toward the path of armed struggle.
Cuban Relations with the Peruvian Military
Peruvian military delegations have visited Cuba on numerous
occasions and,
the Cubans hope to conver
the Peruvian Army from a traditional, orthodox corps into a new
Cuban-style Army. Ricardo G a d e a, a leader of the Peruvian
Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), said that Cuban Embassy
officials told him that they have been successful in gaining the
sympathy of a number of Peruvian generals and also have overcome
the resistence to Cuba of a large number of Peruvian Army officers.
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Comments of some of the Peruvian military visitors to Cuba
indicate that, although they are awed by the fine Soviet
weaponry they see, few are impressed by Cuban Socialism.
Relations with the PCP/Soviet and Other Leftist Groups
Relations between the Cubans and the Pro-Soviet Communist
Party of Peru (PCP/Soviet) appear somewhat strained at time and
little is done in the way of joint activities. Differences
between the two apparently stem from diverse views on how
Communist objectives and policies should be carried out with
regard to the GOP. For example, animosity has grown in recent
months because of active Cuban support for the government-sponsored
Confederation of Workers of the Peruvian Revolution (CTRP)
rather than for the PCP/Soviet-dominated General Confederation
of Peruvian Workers (CGTP).
In 1973 Ricardo Gadea, the MIR leader, said that he had not
received Cuban aid since 1972 and that Cuban Embassy personnel
in Lima had specific instructions from the Cuban Government to
avoid all contact with members of the Peruvian ultra-left because
Cuba did not want to jeopardize its good relations with the
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