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ACTION: 5438

INFO: DOP, OOP, SOD 6, CA 2, CA/PEG, CA/PROP, CI/OPS, FI, FI/D, FI/INTI, SR 7, WH 7, DD/1, AD/CI 2, AD/NE, AD/RR 36/NR/

ORET 1200282 TDCS

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12 DEC 63 IN 78723 DIP INFO LANT PACY BARR CITE WAVE 8923 RETURN TO CIA Background Use Only Do Not Reproduce

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66 SUPDATA: AMLISP-1 IN SW MSG 317 DTD 10 NOV RECD FROM TRANSLATION

30 NOV 63. INFORMANTS ARE AUDIL 10 CHERRERA) SURGIDERO DE BATABANO RESIDENT AND FORMER WHOLESALE FRUIT VENDOR, AND EDILIO (GOMEZ) RESIDENT OF FINCA ALGOBIN, BATABANO. BOTH WERE RECRUITED BY (FNU) DE LA TORRE FULL IDEN NOT ESTABLISHED. FIELD COMMENTS ARE FROM AMSUM-4 MONITORING OF CLT RID NO INDEX, FILED 12/282

PEPORT CLASS SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM CONTROLLED DISSEM

COUNTRY CUBA SUBJ TRAVEL OF SOVIETS FROM BATABANO TO ISLA DE PINOS CARGO TRAFFIC BETWEEN ISLA DE PINOS AND BATABANAO

COMMENT BO DIESEMINATION OF THE ATTACHE ED PORTION OF THIS CABLE HAS SPEN MADE OUTSIDE THE AGENCY GIDIONG BELZAGE OF THE ACTION UNIT.

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. ON 6 NOVEMBER 1963, AT ABOUT 6:00P.M., TWO TRUCKS, NOT OF U.S. MANUFACTURE, TRANSPORTING A TOTAL OF 24 MEN, WHO APPEARED TO BE SOVIETS, ARRIVED IN BATABANO, HABANA PROVINCE. THE MEN WERE WELL-GROOMED, WORE CLEAN CLOTHES AND WERE CARRYING SUITCASES AND BUNDLES, AT MIDNIGHT THESE INDIVIDUALS BOARDED THE FERRY SAILING FOR ISLA DE PINOS, (FIELD COMMENT: A USALLY RELIABLE SOURCE REPORTED THAT THE ISLA DE TESORO, THE REGULAR FERRY TO ISLA DE PINOS, DEPARTED FROM BATABANO FOR GERONA, ISLA DE PINOS, ON THE NIGHT OF 6 NOVEMBER.) 2. ON 31 OCTOBER AT ABOUT 10:Ø P.M., TWO OLIVE GREEN TRAILER SECRET LASSIFICATIO DISSEMINATION CONTROL

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78723 SECRET HON LA DISSEMINATION CONTROL TDCS TRUCKS HAUL ING BOXES ARRIVED AT THE PORT OF BATABANO PROM ISLA DE PINOS. 3. ON 28 OCTOBER AT ABOUT 3: P.M., TWO OLIVE GREEN TEN- WHEELED TRUCKS DRIVEN BY MILITIAMEN ARRIVED IN BATABANO AND WERE SHIPPED ABOARD THE ISLA DE PINOS FERRY WHICH LEFT THE SLIP AT 4:ØØ P.M. THE TRUCKS HAD AN ENCLOSED METAL BODY WITH SMALL SIDE WINDOWS AND EACH TRUCK PULLED A FOUR-WHEELED TRAILER (FIELD COMMENT A USUALLY RELIABLE SOURCE REPORTED THAT ON 28 OCTOBER ZIL TRUCKS WERE ON BOARD THE ISLA DE TESORO FERRY WHICH SAILED FOR GERONA.) 4. FIELD DISSEM: CINCSO, CINCLANT, COMNAVKEYWEST. END OF MESSAGE SECRET PLAS SCADON - KATOR CONTROLS