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TOP £ECRt!T and went into details concerning ~ttempts to rally anti-Castro support, not only in the other Latin Ameri- can nations, but in the Near and Far East and ~n Africa. Details were given on the preparations being made for resistance activities including the acquisition of training bases in third countries,' and both Ydigoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala, and President Luis Somoza of Nicaragua were noted as having made offers of support for this country's anti-Castro activities • ....1t, Plans for economic warfare against Castro were also outlined for the Vice President. Delaying de- liveries of necessary spare parts for the sugar indus- try, tightening credit by oil companies to restrict delivery of.the essential petroleum products, and possible restriction in sugar quotas were mentioned as under study. One other item which was mentioned in this briefing for Vice President Nixon was the fact that the Agency had "a drug, which if placed in Castro's food, would make him behave in such an irra- tional manner that a public appearance could have very damaging results to him." 6/ It should be emphasized that at the date of this briefing (2 March 1960), the United States did not yet have an official anti-Castro - 246 - I 01' ~ECRE~