14-00000 li, - tions of the same country are s«rarated, S-E-C-R-E-T NO FORFICN DISSEY - 3+ . CS-311/04208~-64 usually travel to other parts of Cuba during the instruction period, unless they are taken by the schoel te pirtictipate in national campaigns for which all students are dratted, such as canc-cutting and coffee-picking, After the training course is completed, if there is any delay in returning stud\nts to their own country, they may travel outsade Eavana; trips are arranged and financed by the DG] liaison officer in (CAP. During delay periods, however, they are at the disposal of tre school, which may use them in “voluntary” campaigns or other ways, Guerrilla agents of the same nationality are kept tegether if they belong to the same organization, but trainees from different organiza-= Trainves of two nation- alities are never put together, and for-igners are never grouped with Cubans, [n both livirg quarters and tratning, the illegal. intelligence agent is separated {rem guyrrriila agents, All trainees are encouraged to have as little contact as possible with persons cutside the school. Upon arrival in Cuba, each agent_is assigned a pseudonym, which he uses throughout his training. Actually, within the guerrilla schools, students in either large cr Small groups use their real names, Since their identitis ar- usalily krewn to their fellows from earlier asseciation or traveling together, The pscudonym is primarily a means of protecting ths student from identification by persons outSide the school, For a time, the O.1 used the pseudonym only during thy training period and assigned another pscudenyn when the agent returned horm~, but the ccnfuston of keep- ing separate files was so great that the ftritning pseudonym was adopted as permanent, Sometimes, neacvsr, pa-udenyms are still changed, for security reasons, when the student buates Cuba or attics he has returned to the field, Training of Guerrilla Agents 12, 13. ‘Department responsibility. The LN Department, and specifically the case officer in charge of ® group of agents to be trained as wusreailas, arranges for their instruction in the ER Department (Department cf Special Schools - Departamento Escuelas Especiales) of the Der, The case officer himself dceee not conduct the training, which is entirely an EB The student group is assigned toa one of the EE Department schcols in Havana, by nationality; training groups are aS large as 25 and as Small as thre- or four persons, Courses last three to Six months, depending on ths type of traine ing and the ultimate mission of the agents, but in special cases may laSt as long as a year (two Guatenalars ware trained that long). The instructors are all military, diawn from the Cuban army; there is one for each military Specialty, and a political instructor, Training covers a11 aspects ef guerralia warfar+, weapons hand- ling, explosives, Sabotage, demolition, military tactics, combat engineering, etc,, a8 well as means of countering anti-ghlerrilla activities, Weapons are of both American and Communist-Bloc provenance, Tome specialized training 1S given; for example, there is a school for frogmen at the neuth of the Jaimanitas River in Barlovento, west of Havana, and twe Guatemalans and a Dominican were trained as frogmen during 1963. Guerrilla agents do not normally, however, receive any communications training (secret writing, radio, etc.): when they return home, their channel of communication for sending information and recsiving instruction and support is through the organized g:oup to which they belong. S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN. DISSEV
id, \ 15. 16, Training of Intelligence agents iv. ‘ : S-E-C-R-E-T .NO POREIGN DISSEM - 6 ~ CS5-311/04298-64 Practice’ in guerrilla warfare and weapons and explosives handling is given on the schovl premises in Havana, In addition, both dur- ing the course and near its conclusion, groups of students aro taken to the Escanbray Mountains in Las Villas Province to put their training into practice and to learn to live off the country. They are integrated into regular Cuban army units for short ‘ periods and take part in any military activities then in progress, During 1963, for example, a group of Guatemalans and a group of Salvadorians were taken scparately to the Escambray: and partici- pated in the operations then being conducted by the Cuban army against anti-Castro guerrillas in the area, Guerrilla students are required to meet a standard of complete familiarity with all the information and. material forming part of their instruction, . Examinations are given regularly; students | cho fail them are required to repeat the instruction, A student may have to repeat the entire course if he cannot pass the neces- sary examinations. There are many failures, An agent candidate who proves completely incapable of mastering the course is removed from the school, and an effort is made to find him a special job elsowhere,. During the course, the instructors issue monthly reports to the school administration, both on the course 4 as a whole and on the performance of each student... A copy is sent to the case officer, Reporting on students covers personal attitude, discipline, capability in study, political level, etc, While guerrilla training is in progress, two special preparations for the future are made, The first is the arrangement of the agent's-.travel to his target area, cither his own country or another, Passports and other documents are prepared for his use on the return trip: funds are allocated for his futuro activity; and provisions are made for his carrying money or possibly special eguipment back with him if that is required, The second thing 18 the assessment of the trainee for other possibilities, . Through~- eut the course he is observed and evaluated; if he shows more than usual aptitude and ability, he comes under consideration as a potential intelligence agent for collection of information or penetration of his home government. If a trainee is assessed as Suitable for. intelligence-agent work, he is removed from the guerrilla course and receives special instruction for more clandestine and more complicated tasks, Intelligence (illegal) agents, from whatever source they are drawn (foreigners visiting or resident in Cuba, contacts of DGI agents or organizations abroad, or «wucrrilla trainees selected for superior abilities), come under the DGI Illegal Department, which is responsible for their recruitment, training, and subsequent handling, Since they are truly clandestine agents, their rela- tionship with the DGI requires special security from its incep- tion, They travel to Cuba alone rather than in a group, and in = Cubs they are kept apart from other persons of their own aation-" ality and from one another, Agents of Cuban nationality are also kept apart from other nationalities and during training lead normal lives as far as possible, Both Cubans and foreigners are kept from contact with the Cuban Government or official circles to avoid suspicion of any government connection, As with guer~ rilla trainees, agents are assigned pséudonyms for use with the general public in Cuba and for use in field operations later, AgentS are not allowed any. knowledge of any PGI installations S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEXM