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Cold open. This is a declassified FBI memorandum titled “Counterintelligence Program – Cuba,” part of the COINTELPRO series. The document originates from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is dated September twenty‑fourth, nineteen‑seventy, with supplemental memoranda from August nineteenth, nineteen‑seventy. It is notable because it reveals the bureau’s plan to fabricate and disseminate letters to the editor in Tampa, Florida, as part of a covert effort to influence public opinion about Cuban exile activist Cris Amor. Provenance. The memorandum was released to the public through The Black Vault website, a repository for government records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The file appears in the Black Vault’s archive under the title “COINTELPRO: Cuba Part One of One,” and the full text is available at archive dot org slash download slash cuba‑part‑1‑of‑1 slash Cuba Part 1 of 1 djvu.txt. The document. The opening cover sheet notes that the best copies obtainable are included, and that any blurred or difficult‑to‑read pages are the result of the condition of the originals. It is marked as a Freedom of Information and Privacy Act request. The first memorandum, addressed to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is dated September twenty‑fourth, nineteen‑seventy. The subject line reads: “Counterintelligence Program – Cuba – Nationalistic Tendency.” The memo states that a copy of a letter to the “Letters to the Editor” section of the Tampa Tribune, fictitiously signed by Mrs. Maria Davignon, is enclosed. The letter has been rewritten in accordance with bureau instructions dated September first, nineteen‑seventy, and is being resubmitted for bureau authority to mail in connection with the captioned program. The memo requests that, if authorized, the Tampa office will follow the same writing and mailing procedures as set out in the referenced Tampa letter to the bureau dated August nineteenth, nineteen‑seventy. It notes that the subject, Mrs. Davignon, has not had any of her letters published since July eighteenth, nineteen‑seventy, and therefore the bureau should await the mailing of this edited letter until the subject has another letter published. A second memorandum, dated August nineteenth, nineteen‑seventy, repeats the request. It specifies that the letter will bear a return address of Gallardo Apartment Hotel, Apartment six hundred four, Magdalena one one zero two, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and that the envelope should bear a San Juan postmark. The memo asks for bureau authority to send an identical letter, prepared on plain white, unwatermarked bond paper and handwritten, to be forwarded to the San Juan office for mailing. The memorandum includes a narrative from an unnamed Tampa correspondent, dated September twenty‑fourth, nineteen‑seventy, describing the correspondent’s observations of Cris Amor’s letters to the editor praising the Cuban government and criticizing United States policy. The writer explains that…

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This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. The originating source document is linked on this page so the citation chain is auditable.

Cointelpro: Cuba Part 1 Of 1

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Cold open. This is a declassified FBI memorandum titled “Counterintelligence Program – Cuba,” part of the COINTELPRO series. The document originates from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is dated September twenty‑fourth, nineteen‑seventy, with supplemental memoranda from August nineteenth, nineteen‑seventy.

Date: JUL 31 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was Cointelpro: Cuba Part 1 Of 1 about?: Cold open. This is a declassified FBI memorandum titled “Counterintelligence Program – Cuba,” part of the COINTELPRO series. The document originates from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is dated September twenty‑fourth, nineteen‑seventy, with supplemental memoranda from August nineteenth, nineteen‑seventy.
Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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