21, 22. 23. The Department of Illegal Centers (Departamento Centros: Ile RET NO FORN DISSEM ~ 10 - CS-311/00115-64 Operational Support Departments. The operational support’ departments of the DGI are Technical Operational Support (MT). Tllegal Centers (10), Special Schools (EE). and Infurmation Services (SI). They handle such functions as spotting prospective agents, providing operational information, training both intelligence agents and guerrillas, providing clan- destine communications between headquarters and agents in the field, procuring operational funds and supplies, etc. gales = epartment is not, as its name implies, concerned with operation: of illegal field stations. but is an information col- lection and agent candidate sputting department. It has three’ major responsibilities: collection of information from foreigners visiting Cuba; assessment of visiting foreigners for candidates for intelligence agents; and screening of letters from abroad volunteering information, both to extract"any Useful data and to assess the writers as possible candidates for intelligence use. Among visiting foreigners, the MO Department dves not concern it- self with diplomats, they are left to the DSE, nor with foreigners who are established residents of Cuba. who are the responsibility Pa of the Colonial Bureau (see below). In debriefing foreign visi- tors, the department often works through ICAP, which makes arrange-_ ments for many visits to Cuba; in many instances, the visitors supply information unwittingly and are never aware that they are in contact with Cuban intelligence. The MO Department does not itself recruit agents; it only watches for, screens, and evaluates foreign contacts as agent candidates. If the persons it sclects are members of a Communist Party o> leftist organization, they are referred to the LN Department: if they are not members of Such groups, they are referred to the Illegal Department; one of those two units does the actual recruiting. The Department of Special Schools (Departamento Escuelas Speciales - his department is responsi or training - in gucrrilla warfare and related subjects. It is headed by Luis PIREZ, pseudonym "Bruno Diaz,’ who is a DGI officer but also a captain in the Cuban Army. We has a deputy, pseudonym “Aristides”; un office assistant, pseudonym "Armando"; and a courier, pseudonym "Garcia." The department staff, numbering more than 50, is made up entirely of Cuban Army personnel on indefinite assignment to the DGI; they are directed by the DGI but contirue to be paid by the Army, which also provides all sup- port for the department. The main office of the EE Department. which is mainly administrative, is a residence at 178th Street and and 3lst Avenue, telephones 21-8126 and 21-8262 ,° in the Barandilla section of the Marianao suburb of Habana. Training is conducted. at permanent school sites in Habana (none outside), including guerrilla warfare schools at 310 Elst Avenue, in the ; Country Club district. and three in the Marianao suburb: one in the western part of the Arroyo Arenas section, one in the western part of the San Agustin section. and one in the area bounded by 2l4th and 226th Streets and 7th and 15th Avenues in the Biltmore section. In addition there are technical training schools (Escuelas Entrenamiento Tecnico) on East Street between Parque and 37th Streets in’ the Alturas del Vedado section of Habina, where Venezuelans and Salvadoranas have been trained, and on 26th Street between Ist and 3rd Avenues in the Miramar ra SECRET NO FORN DISSEM
14-00000 24. 25, SECRET NO FORN DISSEM -~ il - CS-371/00115-64 district. The schools give military courses of alll types. lasting three tea six months, depending on the subject matter: all instruce tors are Cuban Army persennel. No Cubans are trained in the schools. only foreigners: these are kept separate by nationality. During training, students are vbserved and assessed for possible — use as intelligence agents: those selected receive additional individual training from the MI Department. | The Department of Technical Operational Support (MI). (It has no Spanish ¢itle, only MTT) This department fs basically re- sponsible for training individual intelligence agents and proe viding them technical operational support such as clandestine communications systems, false documents, etc.; it also provides technical support to DGI staff members, The department chief is Guilletmo ARASTAGUIA, pseudonym "Rene," who was formerly the gece retary of Ramiro VALDES.’ There are about 80 employees, including a main office staff consisting of a secretary, pseudonym “Mayra”; — two assistants, pseudonyms “Carmen” and “Marin Antonia"; and an administrative officer. pseudunym "Victor." The MI. Department receives requests for training or support from the operational departments; wives the training or provides or arranges for the support, outside the operational department framework; and cone tinues to process technical communications for the departments after the agents have gone into the field. It has. however, nothing to do with the direction of agents; it is only a training and support mechanism. The MI Department also does not supply equipment, for example, for clandestine radio communication, but tells agents what to procure and lets them make their own purchases in their home countries with funds supplied by the operational department directing them. As the main technical department of the DGI, MI has most of the darectorate's tech- nical equipment. which it services and repairs in its own es- tablishment, the buildings within the M Building compound. ALL kinds of professional technicians and semieskilled laborers are avallable for such duties; they are all Cubans, The ME Department has five sections, with the following responsibilities: a. Chemical Laboratory (Laboratorio Quimico - LQ). LQ, which is headed by pseudonym “Contreras,” provides chemical secret writing systems and any other type of communications or operational support requiring chemical action or analysis. Although it supplies agents the systems or devices, it does not train agents, but forwards the material to the training section, which then instructs the agent... LQ also services messages in secret writing for the operational departments. b. Photographic Laboratory (Lavoratorio Fotorrafico - LF). LF is headed by pseudonym "Medina™ and his a photographer, pseudonym "Beltran." Tt takes photographs for operational documents such as false passports and identity cards add prepares both photographs and pages-of documents where. changes ars; needed, In addition. it provides microdot and microfilm systems for clandestine communications and processes in- coming and outgoing microdot and microfilm messages. c. Technical Training Section (Seccion Tecnica - ST). The chief, who is also an instructor. is pseudonym “Teobaido." The SECRET NO FORN DISSEM