14-00000 14. 15. 17. SECHET NQ PGP @ESSEN - G6 - CS-1L OOL1LS-64 American countries usualliv goes first te Mexico and is ferwarded from there. Mexico is also a meeting place for operations of~ ficors from Cuba and agents from Central and South America; Canada similarly serves as a meeting place for agents from the United States. Leyal field stations ‘do not normally deat with illosal agents except in a preat emergency. , In all legal ficld stations. the DGK representative is charged with keeping track of. checking. and reporting on the pelitical activities of the other members of the minston to which he is attached. DGi officers also assist with the political classes and Bectures held periodically for members of the mission, but this is a task shared by all misston members and is not assigned to any officer specifically. Physical security, such as techni- cal examination of Cuban premises for audio surveillance devices, is net a DGI responsibility: it is perforsed by the DSE, In countries with which Cuba ducs not have diplomatic relations, DGY activities are handled by agents stationed permanently in the country as illegal agents or as members of Communist Parties and leftist groups. Their assignments are sabotage. subversion, selection and training of guerriila warfare candidates and other ’ agents or groups in Latin America primarily. The DGI regards r Guatemala and Venezuela as the countrics in which its operations have been most successful. Such field operations are run from Cuba or from an adjacent country. The Department of Legal Centers (epartamento Centros Legales - NS). The MS dc patient is headed by Pedro FAWINAS Wiag. pseu- donym “Otoniel.” and has a staff of 15 to 20 persons. Its offiees are not in the M Building compound, but in a building at the corner of Jist Avenue and Gith Street in the Marianao suburb of Habana. The department is in charge of the field stations. known as legal centers, in cach country with which Cuba has diplomatic relations or where she maintains commercial misstons. Its personnel are not assigned abroad as a rule: they act as the service group at headquarters for field person- nel drawn from any part of the DGI. Field station chiefs, as noted above, report directly tuo PINEIRO; the MS Department takes care of all paper work for the field stations, including photo- graphing incoming and outgoing documents; maintaining files of field correspondence; and handling coded radio communications. Coded radio messages prepared by desk officers are photographed and sent to the field on microfilm and messages on microfilm received from the field are decoded and passed to the proper department: MS does not doe the decoding itself. The department does not have its own radio station. [t dues not run any agents abroad; it does, however, assign dead drops and explain their use to field agents. mostly those of the Illegal Department, The [hlepal Department (Departamento [legal). The department is headed by pseudonym “Lucio.” who directs operations rather than dealing directly with agents: his deputy is Santiago PEREZ. pseu- donym “Rolo.” The staff of about 20 persons is responsible for handling "illegal" ayents. that as. agents of all nationalities whose activities and connections with Cuba are sceret. The de- partment recruits the agent: arranges for his training. means of clandestine communication. and travel to his assipned area: and thereafter airects. surports, and maintains communication SECRET NO FORN DISSEM
14-00000 is. 19. SEOPEE - SU FORN DISSEM - 7» US-314-00515-64 with him threuchout his aetive Cenure. ¢ does not deal with members ot Cornmunist Parties or leftist organrtzatiens, nor with persons in contact with of fietal Cuban persenrel abroad. who are the responsibilities of other departments: the mechanics of come munication are also handled clsewhere. Agents are stationed in all countries where Cuba is interested in collecting information, penctrating the povernrent., or conducting subversive operations, in Europe and. Central and South America, .The department has no agents incAsian or African countries, and no agents are known in the Untted States, 43 Agents once trained usually remain perma- nentiy abroad. If they are in an area where there is a legal field station, they do not normally have any. contact with its -mombers., - “The Iltegal Department is divided into three maih geographical gections, each subdivided into country desks, as follows: a. Section A, Europe, chief unknown; under this section there ave desks fur all countries. . : b, Section B, Central America, chief Ramon Cesar CUENCA Montoto (no pseudonym), who was formerly stationed in Mexico. His deputy is pseudonym "Mike." Country desks include Costa Rica. Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti. Honduras, Mexico, rd Nicaragua, Panama, and El Salvador. Section personnel in- cluded officers Fernando PASCUAL Perez, pseudorym “Alejandro”; Saul GONZALEZ, pseudonym “Denis”; Gustavo (Inu). pseudonym "Lino"; Paulino (inu), pseudonym "Mauricio"; Rafael GUZMAN, pseudonym "Rolando"; (fnu) RELOBA, pseudonym “Wilfredo”; apprentices (practicantes) Miguel Angel (inu),. pseudoayn "Miguel; Omar (Inu), pseudonym "Oscar"; Raul GONZALEZ, pseudonym “Olexis"; and Francisco (lnu), pseudonym "Tino." Their desk assignments were net known, ¢c. Section C, South America, chief unknown, Country desks ine clude Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay. Venezuela, and Sritish Guiana. Two officers in the section were pseudonym “Ulises,” formerly perhaps in Chile, and pseudonym “Juan Carlos." possibly formorly in Peru. Both were returned ta Cuba for discipli- nary reasons; they may have been assigned to the desks for the countries where they had served. The National Liberation Department (Departamento de Liberacion Nacional = Ck; > The department has no chief; officers wishing advice consult Major Guillermo JIMENEZ, pseudonym “Javier, who is head ot the Central American Section of the department. or, in his absence, go directly to Manuel PINEIRO or his deputy, CHAIN, The department offices occupy two two-story buildings at 6610 and Gbl1Z 7th Avenue, between 66th and 70th Streets, in the Ampliacion de Almendares section of the Miramar district of Habana, The department, which is one of the largest in the DGI, is responsible for promotion and direction of revolutionary ac- tivity, including guerrilla warfare. It acts mostly in coopéera- tion with Communist Parties or organized leftist groups, but conducts some operations unilaterally without local coordination, Among its activities are the recruitment, arrdnugement of travel to and from Cub and training in Cuba, and the direction and support of yuerrilla fighters in its target countries. Since a SECRET NO FORN DISSEM
20. -of Manuel PINEFRO, In addition to its guerrilla work, ‘department. without the knowledge of the Communiat Parties or ‘The LN Department is divided into three sections, one support SECREE SQ FORN DISGEM ~ § « . -€3-313/00115-64 Cuba is not, concerned will revolutions in European, Astan. or African countries, it concentrates mostly on Latin American governments. except those that maintain diplomatic relations with Cuba. Although the department has no African interests. Zanzibaris were’ trained in Cuba; Che arrangements were handled outside the DGL ‘by Fidel CASTRO himself, with the participation. the groups with which it cooperates, recruits and arranges training of agents to collect information in the target countries. Can- didates for such intelligence agents are guerrilla warfare trainces, or persons proposed by the operational suppert depart- ments (MO Department and the BC Section of the SI Department oe see below). : and administrative, the other two geographical with country. desks. , a. Central Processing Section (Tramites), headed by Felix ‘ Rafacl (inu), pseudonym “Alberto,” Ls the administrative office for the LN Department and the only office in the DGI ; handling travel arrangements. It plans and arranges travel # for DGI staff officers of all departments, agents, and trainees, furnishes operational funds for travel, and makes the actual travel reservations and provides plane tickets for travelers, It also obtains passports in false names for Cuban staff members, tssues Cuban passports in false names to agents, and obtains visas from the Ceechosluvakian Embassy, In agent travel, it works closely with the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (Instituto Cubano del Amistad con los Pueblos - ICAP), which arranges 5 some aspects Of travel for trainees. The section chief has his office in the LN Department but works mainly from the DGI headquarters in N Building; his wife, Elva (inu), pseudunym "Elisa," is a typist in the LN Department. The section staff consists of administration chief Eulogio PONS, pseudonym "Eloy"; his assistant, pseudonym “Nenry"; an office clerk, Carmen CARRACEDO, pseudonym "Mercedes"; two drivers, Juan PEREZ, pseudonym “Raul,” and pseudouym “Manuel”; and Felix Rafael's secretary, pseudonym “Norma,"and assistant, Drace or Draque ESCALANTE, pseudonym "Ciro," ; b, Central American Section (Seecton Central) is supervised by Ma jor Guillermo JIMENEZ, who is head of the Department of Information Services (SI) and acts as advisor to the entire LN Department. The section organizes and directs guerrilla activities in the Central American and Caribbean countries. ats case officers frequently travel to taeir operational aveas to direct activities and arrange for funds, arms supplies, and other support to agents; agent meetings are often held ana third country, especaally Mexico. Operations are handled on a case basis, each case being a separate project starting with selection and training of agents and continuing through guerrilla warfare action in the target area. The section has the teollowing area desks: (1) Costa Rica, headed by Oscar GARCIA Manzano, pseudonyn “Orlando.” SECRET NO FORN DISSEM
14-00000 (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) -~ Be US-311/00115-64 Dominican Republic. headed by Roberto Lazaro SANTIESTISAN Casanova. pseudonym "Rafael," who was formerly at the United Nations in New York and was arrested for attempting sabotage. Guatemala. headed by Norberto HERNANDEZ. pseudonym “Noel.” assisted by an apprentice, (fnu) PENA. pseudonym “Lorenza,” As noted above, the Guatemalan operations are considered among the gust successful in Central America. Haiti. headed by Andres ARMONA Ramos, pseudonym “Ernesto, * formerly commercial attaché in Mexico but not Likely to — receive ancther field assignment because of problems during his service there. Honduras, headed by Felix SUAREZ, pseudonym "Santiesteban." Nicaragua. Panama, headed by Fernando RAVELO, pseudonym "Fermin." El Salvador, 7 . South America Section (Seccion Sur) has no regular chief, but the DGI deputy. CHAIN. directs its activities. It deals with guerrilla activities in South American countries. There are desks for: Q) (4) (3) (6) (7) Argentina. headed by Oreste VALERA. British Guiana, headed by (fnu) GINES, pseudonym “Gil,” assisted by two apprentices, pseudonyms “Jorge” and “Rudy.” Colombia. headed by Raul VIERA Linares, pseudonym "Gomez," formerly stationed in Bolivia, from which he returned at the end of 1963, but unlikely to receive another for- elgn assignzent because of difficulties in the field. Ecuador, headed by pseudoaym "Julio." Paraguay. headed by pseudonym "Salvano." Peru, headed by “(fnu) JOA, pseudonym "Jordan," assisted by an apprentice, pseudonym "Bernabe." Venezuela. headed by Alfredo ALMEIDA Garcia, pseudonym “Aranja.” eno was in Venezuela when it broke relations with Cuba and was later involved in an attempted re- covery of cocuments from a Plane crash in Peru. which led to his expulsion from Chile. His assistants are Benito (ine). pseudonym "Saul." and pseudonym “Gary"; his secretary is pseudonym “Marcia.” The DGI considers its Venezuelan operations the most successful in South America. SECRET NO FORN DISSEM a.