14-00000 S-P-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM ‘ - 7 + CS-311/041298-64 except the ones to which they aro specifically assigned for traine ing, and never, enter any DGI official establishment or the case officer's $s home, 18. A foreign agent candidate arriving in Cuba is first debriefed by the case officer on his background and qualifications, sihce up to that time the BGI has only advance notice of his selection and knows little | about him. The interview is recorded, but without the trainee's knowledge, Qn one occasion in early 1964 a case officer arranged to meet a new trainee in a Havana restaurant for . the preliminary interview, The case officer provided himself with. - a pocket tape recorder, which he tested ain advance and found was in good order, When he started to record the interview, however, he discovered that he had cither forgotten to adjust the mechan- ism after he had tested it, cr he pushed the playback instead of the record buttdn: the restaurant was suddenly electrified by a vaice saying: “Testing, on®, two, three; testing, one, two, three,” The interview was hastily concluded and was rescheduled the next day in the safchouse where the agent, a Guatemalan, was lodged; in this case, of course, the agent as aware that it was poo being recorded. The results of the interview are centered in a biographical questionnaire covering all aspects of the agent's family situation, political vicws, background and education, employment experience, connections, and intelligence potential; the document forms the basis of the agent's DGI personal file, In addition, the agent is required to write a complete report on the operational Situation in his country, including types and Styles of dress, eating habits, working heurs and holidays, location of public bualdings and places of entertainment, the press and its type and circulation, urban and rural transporta- tion, sducational facriities, airlines, personal documents for idestification, and leeal linguistic idioms, 19, In cases where an intelligence agent is selected from among guerrilla trainees, he may romain under the jurisdiction of the LN Department, which retains him as a puerrilla agent but arranges for his training a8 an illegal agent alse, Training for intel- ligence work, however, is always separate from guerrilla training and is not revealed to the Communist Party or leftist group Sponsoring the agent, who becomes, in effect, a semi-overt Cuban agent in guerrilla activities and a clandestine agent in intel- ligence reporting or other functions, One such agent, trained in Cuba in 1963, was returned to the Dominican Republic about mid- . 1963; he carries on revolutionary activities with Ehe Dominican Popula r Movement ‘(fovimiento Popular Deminicano - MPD) as a known Cuban-trained guerrilla and at ; the same tire works aS an illegal agent (under the LN Depariment), without the Knowledge of his MPD colleagues, as a penetration of the MPD, 20. The case officer from the Illegal Department arranges for the, com- plete support of the agent during training, providing him, lodging in a private house or apartment, supplying his food and clothing and personal equipment from the DGI warekeuse as is done for guerrilla agents, and keeping. him in pocket seney., If the agent is married, the expenses of his dependent fanily are aiso covered by the DGE. The case officer does not give any instruction, but arranges with the MI Department (Department of Technical Opera- tional Supnort) of .the DGI for training the agent in the skills he will require for his future mission, The NI Department has no schools or regular training sites but uses private houses or apartments, which are precured and maintained dy the DGf General S~E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM