(roa-t0186-0144] > .# oe . ay mw 4 ciny om OS GS ah oR CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY € ! Thie material contains information agecting the National Defenses of the United Gales within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Tide 1% USC Bece 703 and 74, the trenamision of reveleition of which ian any manner ty an uneuthorized perso ts piehibited by law. S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM country Cuba ro REPORT NO.  CSCI-316/02303-65 suuecr Recruitment and Hiring Procedures oate o1sTR, 2 June 1965 of the Direccion General de Intelligencia (DGI1) NO. PAGES . 2 REFERENCES CS-311//00115-64 NTO GIA ' 4 8 July 1964 4 aN ' DATE OF 1964 a0 und Use Only INFO. Ba ot reproduce PLACE & Washington, Dd. Cc. oN DATE ACQ. 65 FIELD REPORT NO. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 19 TENTATIVE, THIS 18 UNEVALUATED infoemation. sourct GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. A former Cuban 15 officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence ' SOURCE, « Service until April 1964. « 1, One day in 1963, Source met in Havana “Moro” MANIFF, an old friend since 1955, and complained that he was t{red of his job with the Ministry of Exterior Commerce and wanted to make a change, MANIFF said he would do semethting about it. Two or three days later, ancthes rrierd, Ramom VASQUEZ Montenegro, whom Scurce had Known at the Ministry of (ndustry, came to see Source, saying that WANIFF had wenttened that Source was having trouble with the militia and wanted {o change jobs. VASQUEZ promised to telephone. the following dwy and did so, arranging to pick up Source in wn cur. They drove around through Vedado together while VASQUEZ offered Source a job in espicnags and counter-intelligerce, Sources asked tor a Little time to think over the situation, Tas following day VASQUEZ telephoned Source and the day after that VASQUEZ called on Source personally to urge him to accept; Sources decided he had better do so and agreed. Thereupon Saul GONZALES brought Source a personal~histoary state- ment form of three or four sheets, which Source filled cut. The form included full name, date and pluce of Birth, physical description, data on relatives (parents, brothers, and sisters), and addresses at which h@ had lived fur the preceding ten years, GONZALEZ told Source to have no more worries about his troubles with the militia. Thres or four days Tater Source went to the Ministry of Interior for firgerprinting. Ue was told to gs to a doctor for uw physical exarication but never did so, and ap- parently no one checked up cn him. Three cr four days later, GONZALEZ picked Source up and drove him directly to the Bead- quarters of the Direecien General do Inteligencia (Gzarral Directorate of Intelligence - DOI). At the DGI Headquarters ineduding Fernandy PASCUAL Source Saw Several old acqvaintincen, Perez, Ramon Cesar CUENCA Montoto,-and others. 5-E-C-R-E-T nO FORE TGN DISSEM Sale TP oa dae AGMY wavy Pat aa [sa Pe , "REPCINCEAST ——CINC CINCSO 2 Tans iNote- fratd die distribution indicated by “#".} wW- 2420, 277 eS LHL: ne ae WHC “MG wEAMADR) ci "RTT uP (AMMUG- 1) SSC 1-316 / 502303 WHC/RE [ee oe ia Las Les WiC OS : po ae AP — ed rsa t jOoomminaring roe Aen wic’wave [x ELE
-2- CSCI-316/02303-65 as scon as Source was taken to the DGI Headquarters, Source was evld to choose a pseudonym. After Source chose the pseudonym “Waetor FERNANDEZ", Norberto HERNANDEZ Curbelo, who was then ia eharge of the Departamento de Liberacion Nacional (National - Liberation Department - LN) operations for ‘Central America under the MA Sectién, sent a memorandum to the DGI Personne] Depart- meat giving the pseudonym as belonging to Source. The actual ferwarding memorandum was sent by the Secret Office. This was an essential step because payrolls were always made out in pseudonya. The normal pseudonym consists of a given name and a surname, and ean be used by the given name, surname, or both together. Since each officer chooses his own pseudonym, there is sometimes dupli- cation, with two persons choosing the same name, When this happens nothing is done if the two persons are working in different departments of the DGI, If. for any reason there is a shift in personnel which brings the two persons with the same pseudonyms, first or last names, into the same department, one or the other wall have to change his pseudonym in order to avoid confusion. Innediately upon joining the DGI, Source was assigned to the Salwador Desk in the Seccion Central (Central American Section) of the LN Department, where he continued to work. He was started at once on reading the desk opcrational files and very soon was gaven operational files from other desks to-also read. He re- eecived only minimal security briefings and was told to invent for hinself some sort of reasonable cover job. Source kept his old Ministry of Internal Trade identification card to use as cover. As soon as employment was mentioned to him he was told that he was being recruited by "M" and that it was for espionage. S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM