(foat07e6-t0125 ra yore, » .?° 7 Bok f XN | CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This material coataing information affecting the Muticne! Oetuner of che Calted States within the meaning ef the Enpionage Lave, Tie 18 USC. Goce, TH and Te, the trenamisiom oF Tevetntion @f Oak te tay manhe? to 68 UREUtbortaed pareom te prohibited by iaw. . SECRET x NO FOREIGN DISSEM - countay Cuba . : REPORT NO. CSCT-316/01218-64 en tO OT a Silivie CASTILLOS Hurtado DATE DISTR. 23 September 1964 Backgroun+ tp NO. PAGES 2 Do Not : ‘sproduag i DO REFERENCES pate ag 1964 INFO. : mace g Washington, D. C. ’ DATE ACQSeptember 1964 FIELD REPORT NO. THIS 1S UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOUBDE GRADeNGS ART DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT ES TENTATIVE. $OurRcE A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964. Pa Headquarters Comments The following report is one of a series containing personality information provided by the source and includes supplemental information from the records of this Agency. 1 we epee Pa oe Oe It is requested that the addressees take no action on any of the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without first checking with this Agency. 1. Silvio CASTILLOS Hurtado was born between 1924 and 1929 in Las Villas Province. He is five feet nine inches tall, about 150 pounds, is a mulatto, and wears glasses. CASTILLOS resides at Linea and Gth Streets, Vedado, Habana. re Teqtmegy es eee a . 2. Source first met CASTILLOS in 1956. CASTILLOS was affiliated with the 26th of July Movement. After BATISTA‘s overthrow, CASTILLOS became a captain in the Cuban Rebel Army. He was assigned to the San Ambrosio Fort (Cuartel de San Ambrosio) as Chief of the Military Tailoring. He was later transferred to the General Staff and the last that source heard of CASTILLOS, he was working for the Departamento de Seguridad del Estado (Department of State Security - DSE), but source did not know his duties. 3. Source insists that Silvio CASTILLOS Hurtado is identical with Silvio GARCIA Hurtado.1,2,3,4 Headquarters Comments 1. In al March 1961 report, from an untested source, there .. Was included a copy of an official roster listing on Racheded hece pucomnmtie SECRET. Goongre hog ond NO FOREIGN DISSEM seinen: we p.to dh A : b= 8d bo hm tn REP CINCLANT _ CINCSO # (Mate: Field dutribwion bdaared by -)  WH/SA 7 (1), WE 1 (2), CI 4, RID 1
14-00000 " ade- 4. . SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM CSCI-316/01 218-64 ~Qe sidlitary staff personnel comprising the Intelligence Department, ° G-2, of the Cuban Ministry: of the Armed Forces (MINFAR). One Silvio GARCIA Hurtado was on the list with the rank of private. An untested source in a report dated 20 August 1962, stated that ove Captain Silvio CASTILLO was, at the time of the report, training seventy Venezuelans in guerrilla warfare at an unidentified camp .in Cuba. (Note: Although the source of this information was considered “untested" at the time of the report, he has since been re-evaluated as “fairly reliable.*) In a report dated 7. April 1964, a Cuban national, untested, who worked as an accountant auditor at the Hilados y Tejidos Planos textile factory in Habana until December 1963, when ho resigned, a-' fled Cuba in March 1964, gave the following information on Salvio CASTILLO: Rebel Army Captain Silvio CASTILLO was a Departamento de Seguridad del Estado (Department of State Security ~ DSE) agent and investigator who worked at the DSE Headquarters at old Colegio Marista, Reparto Sevillamo, Habana. He was a native of source's hometown, Calabazar de Sagua, Las Villas. F He was an active supporter of the 26th of July Movement before ‘F the present government. Source knew that CASTILLO had arrested many people who were later executed. He was single, born about 1924, was five feet eight inches tall, 160 pounds, had black eyes and black wavy hair. CASTILLO lived at Calle Linia and Calle C, Vedado, Habana. In June 1964, an untested source reported the following information on Captain Silvio CASTILLO Hurtado: CASTILLO, a mulatto, was born in Calabazar de Sagua about 1919. He was a member of the Autentico Party and a former bodyguard for Senator AGUILERA of Las Villas. CASTILLO fought against BATISTA, was imprisoned at the Principe Prison, and released in 1959 when CASTRO assumed pewer, He was then stationed at Camp San Ambrosio and was commissioned a licutcnant, in 1960 he was promoted to captain. He has a sister, "Bella," who is a nurse at the Hospital de Mazorra in Habana. His father's name is Felix CASTILLO. He has two brothers, Felix CASTILLO Hurtado, an ex-soldier of the Constitutional Army. and Pablo CASTILLO Hurtado, a former policeman and ex-soldier of the Constitutional Army. Source did not consider CASTILLO to be a Communist or pro-Castro. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM