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Bloque de Organizaciones Anti-Comunista BOAC
Bloc of Anti-Communist Organizations


[REF: Cuban Counter Revolutionary Handbook 10 October 1962 by the CIA.
FBI HQ  file number  109-584-3387; NARA RIF Number  124-10279-10032]

[NOTE: The copies  were very hard to transcribe because of  poor photo reproduction. At points where the words were unreadable, three dots (...) were inserted to indicate a missing word or words. Words in brackets are not contained in the original.  FURTHER NOTE: Please consider the date, 10 Oct. 1962, when evaluating the organizations.]

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COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY HANDBOOK
PART II:  SECONDARY ORGANIZATIONS

I. IDENTIFYING DATA:

Common Title:   B. O. A. C.

Title:    Bloque de Organizaciones Anti-Comunista
           Bloc of Anti-Communist Organizations
           Anti-Communist Organizations Bloc
           Anti-Communist Bloc of Organizations

former soldiers of the Batista regime.  Opposed to CRC.  Member of MRAC; member of one of the two factions of UR.  Claim to be primarily concerned with underground in Cuba.  Supposedly made up of five or six groups in Cuba.  Basic principle:  support of the 1940 Constitution.

Leading Personalities:  In U. S.:  Renaldo MIYARES Lopez, Coord. in Exile; Enrique SALUDES Alvarez, Boston Office of BOAC; Gustavo CUERVO, Jr.; Dr. Rafael GALIMENENDEZ; Fabio FREYRE; Rolando Villar; in Cuba; Dr. Raul HERNANDEZ, M. D., Chief BOAC, Matanzas.

II.  HISTORY   

Organized 1960, Cuba.  Claims to formerly have had some "push" in Cuba; by March 1962 BOAC limited to support type activities in Matanzas, providing logistical support, food, clothing, and arms as available to guerrilla forces.  Some arms are said to have been sent to the underground from U. S.  Communication inside Cuba of BOAC by personal contact only.  One S/W system existed for a while between one BOAC member and a contact in Mexico.

III.  CURRENT STATUS

Messages transmitted by clandestine radio from unknown country to BOAC insurgents in Cuba.  First noted 4 September 1962.


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