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104-10127-10248 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/1/1978)

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            MEMORANDUM

            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 fragmenting 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 disaffectA  -r.TA aent in Mexico were passed
                                            o the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.
            ine aucuments made it appear that the Cuban Vice Minister of
            Defense, a highly placed and extreme Moscow-line Communist  (who
            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  (then
            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 1963, when-a delivery of documents was again



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