On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM National Security Archive <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1968 CIA Op Netted Intel on “Entire Clandestine Leadership” of Communist > Party and FARC. CIA “Prop Play” Planted Info on Soviet Agent in Colombian > Press. High-Level Cuban Defector, Bay of Pigs Veteran, Operated CIA > Listening Post in BogotáCIA Secretly Funded Civilian Anti-Communist Group > in Colombia. New Revelations from the JFK Assassination > Records. > > > > > > > > Spy vs. Spy: > Scenes from the Cold War in Colombia, 1963-72 > > <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tdcb1b405-8821-43fe-b65b-33dab26ee024/12238b38-d371-4bc9-b2b2-ab5a3bdb144f> > 1968 CIA Op Netted Intel on “Entire Clandestine Leadership” of Communist > Party and FARC CIA “Prop Play” Planted Info on Soviet Agent in Colombian > Press High-Level Cuban Defector, Bay of Pigs Veteran, Operated CIA > Listening Post in Bogotá CIA Secretly Funded Civilian Anti-Communist > Group in Colombia New Revelations from the JFK Assassination Records > > *Washington, D.C., September 3, 2025 *- Covert CIA surveillance of a > Soviet agent under diplomatic cover in Mexico City in 1968 led to the > acquisition of intelligence on the “entire clandestine leadership” of the > Colombian Communist Party and the nascent FARC insurgent group, according > to declassified records from the John F. Kennedy assassination papers > released earlier this year. Colombian government operations based on that > intelligence led to the “roll up” of the Communist Party’s “clandestine > printing press,” which was used to forge passports and other documents, > according to a selection of CIA cables from the JFK documents published > today by the National Security Archive. > > While the release of the final tranche of JFK records has not produced any > bombshell revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy, it did > produce thousands of fascinating new documents about CIA intelligence > activities around the world, including some intriguing new revelations > about Agency efforts to monitor and counter Soviet and Cuban intelligence > operations and support for communist groups in Colombia. > > One group of records tells the story of a high-level defector from > Castro’s Cuba who for several years ran a covert CIA listening post in > Bogotá targeting the office of Novosti, the Soviet news agency that was > closely associated with the KGB. The eavesdropping operation was led by > former Cuban military official Manuel Villafana Martínez, who years earlier > had been among the Cuban exiles involved in the failed April 1961 Bay of > Pigs invasion. Villafana worked with another Cuban expatriate, Manuel > Machado Llosa, the former treasurer of Castro’s revolutionary 26th of July > Movement who ran a print shop in Colombia that provided cover for > Villafana’s intelligence operation against Novosti. > > Other records found in the JFK collection show that the CIA also fought > the Cold War in the Colombian media through covert propaganda operations to > plant information in the press. One CIA “prop play” revealed in today’s > posting was aimed at the “insertion” of information in Colombian news > reports that would expose the efforts of legendary KGB Latin America hand > Nikolay Leonov to secretly support communist and revolutionary groups in > Colombia. > > Check out the new Electronic Briefing Book for more scenes from the Cold > War in Colombia. > READ THE DOCUMENTS > <https://default.salsalabs.org/T413a0e00-4358-4c47-ad20-e76a995f91a0/12238b38-d371-4bc9-b2b2-ab5a3bdb144f> > https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/colombia/2025-09-03/spy-vs-spy-scenes-cold-war-colombia-1963-72 > \ > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#38412): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/38412 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/115046175/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
