STAT I Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/19 : CIA-RDP90-00808R000201180052-2 NEW YORK TIMES 9 October 1977 Cubans Gave Limited ara To Weathermen, FBI Says By NicholabM. Horrock Mew Ye Teor Cuban espionage agents operatin inthe inited Si fe and Canada : r ozgaelation, ine late 18s and arly 1810s, according toa topsecret Feportol theF BI ‘was also provided by North Vietnam, the report says, but there was no evidence that the , Soviet Union, China or Eastern Euro- jean nations ever made active at- | ferpts ‘to: stir up American diss j dents. {The 400-page report, ‘a copy of which has been obtained by The New York Times, was prepared in August 1976 after the Department of Justice ‘opened a criminal investigation into charges that bureau agents had com- mitted burglaries and carried out gal mail openings and wiretaps in their attempts to apprehend fugitive Weathermen, The closely held report — only 10 copies were Sent to the bureau direc. tor, Clarence M. Kelley ~ was aimed at establishing that members of the Weather Underground were operat- ing as secret agents of a foreign ‘power and were thus legitimate ets of counterintelligence measures. ‘THE REPORT disclosed, however, that Communist bloc nations had given little tangible support to the American antiwar movement. The report was based on information from the CIA, several foreign intelli- ence, services, a ‘wide range of imerican and foreign police agen- cles, electronic eavesdropping and reports of several confidential in- formers. ‘The following were some of the key ", ints: Petree years before militant mem- bers of the Stadents fora Democratic Society spit off to form the Weather Underground organization. in 10, North Vietnamese and Cuban ot ls were ifn rade a fear strategy through foreign meet: ‘Bigs 'Many'of these meetings were Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/19 : CIA-RDP90-00806R000201180052-2 s. Vietnamese advice the year before to held in Communist countries, include Ing Hungary, ‘Ceechoslovakia' and North Vietnars, * The condult for contact within the borders af the United States. were agents assigned to the staff of the Ciba mission to the United Nations in New York. These agents arranged for American youths tobe inculesied With revolutionary fervor and, occa- sionally, to be trained in practical weaponty through the so-called Vere ceremos Brigades, nominally sugar cane harvesting un s After the Weathermen’ went “underground” in 1970 and many of them were being sought by the FBI on criminal charges, Cubsn intelli fence jolicers Were: touch wl em from bath the New York mi sion andthe ‘Cuban Embassy ia Canada. : : ‘Cuban officials’ helped” several Weather Underground atherents who feared arrest in the United Stat travel to. Prague, -Crechosiovak and then to re-enter the United States Surety ‘The report linked the growing mili tancy of certain members of the Stic dents “for a ‘Democratic. Society, which resulted in the so-called Days of Rage in Chicago in 198, to North ick a choose youngsters who would battle withpollce, Ss Would Bat “THE NORTH VIETNAMES! cording to SDS literature ofthe time, had suggested that. the antiwar movement needed not just intellee- tual protesters but also. physically ugged recruits. The Days of Rage, unlike previous antiwar demonstra: tions in which clashes seemed to be accidental, was a violent protest. ‘On the whole, however, the report appeared to be’ more significant for *the paucity of support by Communist bloc nations than for the extent of it. ‘There was no firm evidence that sen- 3 Communist intelligence services in the Soviet Union, China or Eastern Europe ever made any active at- tempt to incite American dissidents, thereportsaid. nfs nr!