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104-10118-10001 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

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      MEMORANDU

      SUBJECT       Political Action Operations  in Cuba - The PROENZA
                    Case



            1.  Introduction

                This memorandum sets forth information  concerning the
       conduct of a series of interlocking non-violent political  action
       operations against the Cuban government,  its internal coalition
       and its alliance with the Soviet Union mounted  in.1963.

            2.  Objectives

                Pursuant to instructions from the  303 Committee,
       during the Kennedy Administration, the CIA  established among its
       objectives against Cuba the fragmen ting of its governing
       coalition and exacerbation of its relations with  the USSR.
       This decision was taken prior to the October  1962 Missile Crisis.
       As a result of the decision a number of non-violent  operations
       were carried out.  Those pertaining to  the Teresa Proenza Proenza
       case are set out below.

            3.  The Operations

                a.  On 3 April 1963 a set of spurious documents  falsely
       ascribed to a disaffected CIA agent  in Mexico were passed
                                      to the Cuban  Embassy in Mexico City
       The documents made it appear that the Cuban Vice Minister  of
       Defense, a highly placed and extreme Moscow-line  Communist Cwho
       had been in Moscow when the missile build-up was planned  in
       early 1962), was actually a CIA agent who had  betrayed the build-
       up.  The purpose of this disinformation was  to cause a great
       strain in the relations between  the Cuban Communist. Party Cthen
       known as the PSP) and the other partners  in the coalition.  It
       was also hoped that the operation would  redound against the USSR
       because the Vice Minister of Defense was  a senior Moscow-line
       member of the PSP.  It was calculated  that the USSR would
       move to defend the Vice Minister, who was probably  their chief
       agent in the Cuban government, and  that a collision between the
       Soviets and Cubans could result.  The  Cubans accepted the
       spurious papers and paid for them per  our demand.

                b.  Through the summer  of 1963 several further deliveries
       of spurious documents were made  to the Cubans and several
       thousand dollars were received  in payment.  But results of the
       operation from inside Cuba were not yet  observed.  Therefore
       on 13 November 19.63, when a delivery of documents was again


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