we en onan we ee 10. SECRET AQ bOGN DUSSEM - 16 - CS-311/00115-64 Headquarters Comments The DGI was probably established in the general reorganization of Cuban intelligence services begun with the establishment of the Ministry of Interior in June L9Gl and continued for several months thervaiter. At that time all Cuban intelligence agencies were put under the new civilian ministry, and the former G=2 overall intelligence organization, which was under military cone trol,-also was civilianized as the Department of State Security (DSE). The internal and external intelligence services were ape parently separated at that time: previously they had both been handled by G-2. Other aspects of the DGI such as operations will be discussed in subsequent reports. Ramiro VALDES has been head. of Cuban intelligence since 1959; before June 1961 he was head of Ge2, but with the establishment of the Ministry of Interior he was appointed minister. He hag continued to devuete special attention to intelligence activitie dn that capacity. ’ PINEIRO is an experienced intellivence officer, assectated with Cuban forcignintelligence since 1959. This number is not Listed in the Habana 1962 telephone directory. DGI officers are normally known by pseudonyms rather than true names. As a result, source knew many of his colleagues only by pseudonym and never heard their true names. Rarion Cesar CUENCA Montoto, a section chiei in the Illegal Department, is known by true name and apparently docs not have a pseudonym, and PINEIRO is known by true name. ‘CHAIN is probably Army Captain Carlos Sixto CHAIN Soler. an intel~. ligence officer who served in Washington, D.C., as a member of the Cuban Mission to the Organization of American States in 1961 and carly 1962; the mission was withdrawn in varly 1962, Source had no information about Soviet operations in Latin America. The Soviet Bloc countries with which Cuba maintains relations are: Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany. Hungary, Poland, Rumania, the USSR, and Yusoslavia. . “Asia: Communist China, Mongolia, North Korea, and North Vietnam. The non~Bloc countries with which Cuba mzintains diplomatic rela- tions are: Europe: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, , Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg. the Netherlands, Norway. | Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United. Kingdom, There are alse Cuban missions to the Vatican and to the United Nations European Office in Geneva. Asia: Ceylon, India, Indonesia. Iraq, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, and Pakistan, Africa: Alpevia, Ghana, Guinea. Mali, the United Arab Republic. Morocco, Tanganyika. and SECRET NO FORN DISSEM
14-00000 og i. 12, 13. 14. a SECRET NO FORN DISSEM - 17 ~ . CS-331/00115-64 North America: Canada. There is also a Cuban Mission to the . United Nations in New York. Central Amcrica and Caribbean: Mexico and Jamatca. South America: Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, and British Guiana (a . trade mission). Brazil, which had maintained relations with Cuba until mid-May 1964, broke them following the ousting of GOULART and the change of government in April 1964, The only regular air, connect ion between Cuba and the Western Hemisphere. is the schedule maintained by the official Cuban air- line, Cubana (Empresa Consolidada Cubana de Aviacion ~« ECCA), two or three times a week to Mexico. There are also charter ‘flights to Canada, but they are principally for cargo. Agent activities in Latin America will be discussed in subse-_ quent reports. Source knew almust nothing about operations in Puerto Rico, Canada, and at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New York. Relations between Cuba and Peru were broken in 1960. SECRET NO FORN DISSEM