(104-10183-10274 Sf Gy £ ateteramcunenced seca hetnatme Se Aaa finn OE ae eR om en feet ha ee me 9 GO bo OH can sae ec pretence wt aarti tte 165 Saat Stat ee 5 . ee CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETURN TO CIA , This x erst contains infonmete cing the National De ¢ the United States wtibin tb i f the Bspicnags Laas, Tu ckgroune Use Only fsa Sd eo Na Tense 0: e Unite ates wit the meaning Of 2 ACHE. 4. e a: 13, UBC. Sece 793 and 794, the eacaesteaton or revelation of which In any manner to sm uneuthertzed person 16 pronibited by Lats. Do Not Reproduce S-E-C-R-E-T ; NO FOREIGN DISSEM country Cuba REPORT NO. CS -311/00115-64 suMECT The Organization of the General DATE DISTR. 8 July 1964 Directorate of Intelligence (Direccion General de NO. PAGES 17 Inteligencia - DGI) REFERENCES DATE OF 1964 INFO. PLACE & FIELD REPORT NO. DATE ACG. June -1964 . TNIGEMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 1S TENTATIVE -FMiS 15 UNEVALUATED source: A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Inteilli- gence Service until April 1964. Headquarters Comment. The following information, as reported by Source during 4 debriefing, includes a description of the General Directorate of Intelligence (Direccion General de Inteligencia - DGI), a break-down of each of its depariments, the functions of each department, a diagram (Chart A) of the organization of the DGI, and a map (Chart B) of the DGI com- pound in Habana. , Introduction. 1. The General Directorate cf Intelligence (Direccion General de Inteligencia - DGI) is the Cuban external intelligence agency, charged with maintaining security, collecting information, and promoting Cuban Government intelligence policies abroad. It is part of the Ministry of Interior (Miniszer}o del Unte- rior), and was established sometime in mid-1961. it iS con- cerned oniy with operations abroad. The collection ef intelligence within Cuba, counterintelligence, and security are the responsibility of the Department of State Security (Departamento de Seguridad del Estado - DSE). The two agencies are independent but maintain Tiaison and coordination on cere tain matters. 9. The DGI, also known as “MM, or “M Department," is organized under a director gencral and his deputy; its components, are a main headquarters with administrative and personnel offices, eight departments, and the director's office (see organization chart of page 14).2 It is closely connected with Ramiro Valdes Menendez, the Minister of Interior, and is also of continuing interest tc Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and Ernesto "Che" Gugvara. S-E-C-R-E-T case Tt NO FOREIGN DISSEM [ eoongeasies ond mm BS OO oh aH ee [ srate 1 ota {ager i wavy Tate [ANS aa CINCSO # (Mote Field distr:betios indicated by ~ 5" * { toy Bee pers ee Ge Pe mt remo mrg we renner ee bet : rt i it NP ¢ i adem 4 AMMUG-1) “CS-311 Ou115-64 nO ee eee ot be ee ay ge boo “For Distribarion See Acacted Paget 1 ¢ : ‘ Pod a ___[ereerene 9 Che bygtiar ee bb ee pes whoa eee Co eee a wT ST ie - Lass 4 ns - eft A er eee Ste dee A hg ka ea AER 1 OR eB Ga
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‘dasmissal, social security, ete.), has about ld or athe EUS, 8 bt ade . . . 3 ; CS-511 OUL15-54 gates located near the centet of the block on 8Oth Street. and a back entrance with steel doors located directly through the block on 78th Street. The aain entranee is manned by wuards armed with PPSha machineguns;: the rear entrance is kept locked and is used only in cmergencies. No pass or identification is required to enter the grounds, The headquarters compound (see diagram on page 15) contasns all the DGI offices except PINEIRO's home office, the three: opera- tional departments, and the Special Schools Department, described below. The main building. called M Building, is situated near. the center of the compound but off the main axis between the gates. [It houses most of the offices in its two stories and also contains a canteen, public telephones, and a pulice radio for the city and the Ministry of Interior. There are no large assembly rooms; conferences are held in small rooms, Within the compound, separated from M Building by driveways and parking lots, are several other structures: a. A two-story building housing the Personnel] Department on the | first floor and the Inspection Department on the second. b. Three one-story service buildings: a guard office with sleeping quarters for 20 to 25 guards, a food-storage ware- house, and a clothing-storage warehouse. The guard office tnd the Personnel-~Inspection building flank the main entrance on 80th Strect, c. A two-story building, in the angle of the grounds formed by 78th Street and 49th Avenuc, housing the Technical Operational Support Department. Two of its sections, the Photographic Laboratory and the Concealment Device Section, occupy indi- vidual buildings in the compound. General administration of the DCI is handled from the M Building, where PINEIRO's deputy, (fau) CHAIN,? pseudonym “Agusto," has his office. Besides acting as director general when PINEIRO is away from Cuba. CHAIN is responsible specifically for management of large expenditures, South American affairs, and the approval of false passports for travelers. He Signs. in pseudonym, all netices and circulars issued to the directorate. His secretary has the pseudonym "Georgina. CHAIN's office, through "Vidalira," distributes cable traffic to the DGI departments. Incoming and outgoing cable traffic and diplomatic pouch traffic are received at this office from the Central Ciphering Service (Servicio Central de Cifradus ~ SCC), which is a communal coding and de- coding service operated by the DSE, CHAIN's office apparently also acts as a receiving and distributing center for clandestine radio traffic but does not itself send or receive radio messages the actual transmission is possibly controlled by the Communist Party. Directly under the deputy director are two administrative depart- ments for staft members, Personnel (Departamento de Personal) and Inspection (iepartamento de Inspeccitn Which occupy a separate building in tne headquarters compound, “The Personnel Department, headed by pseudonym “Pelayo,” which handles all maiters concerning staff member administration (selection, hiring. pay. promotion, 15 members SECRET XQ FORN DISSEM
10, ll. CS5-311/00115-64 a & we ow The Inspection Departrieat, headed by pseudonym "Dario," which is responsible for discipline in tho directorate and for investigae- tions of staff personnel, probably before hiring, has 10 to 12 members, Both cepartment chiefs are probably former members of the DSE, and some of the office staff are also former DSE members. Soviet Advisors. Attached to the DGI headquarteis is a group of Soviet advisors, who occupy officés in M Building. Their presence and identities are kept as secret as possible, even among the officers who work with them, and they are known only by pseudonyms. They have > especially close contacts with Manuel PINEIRO and CHAIN, and with the Illegal Department, whose officers can consult directly with thom at any time. Ordinary desk officers in other depart- ments can consult the Soviet advisors only at their offices in M Building;.where no special security precautions are observed, but they do not see much of them except when visiting the Illegal Department when the advisors are working there. The Soviets can visit any department whenever they wish. ‘Information obtained by DGI agents abroad can be passed to the Soviet advisors. The five known are the following: "El Frances" (The Frenchnan), PINEIRO's personal advisor, is apparently the chief Soviet advisor in Cuba. He has an office in M Building and frequently visits PINEIRO’s house. He was born between 1909 and 1914; is about five feet seven inches tall and of medium build; has very grey hair; has blue eyes with bags under them; and wears at all times gwold-framed glasses with small-to-medium round lenses. His Spanish is fairly good. Me has a car assigned by the Cuban government and drives it himself. a. b. A Soviet man, name unknown, accompanies "El Frances." He is five feet eight inches tall, is of medium to thin build, woighing about 145 pounds, and is clean shaven. An officer who saw him frequently at DGI headquarters hever heard him speak. "Juan," who shares an M Buiiding office with "Bi Frances" but works principally in the Illegal Department, is the consultant on illegal operations, directs the recruitment and handling of agents, arranges their entry and cover, and maintains files. At one time he spent about six months in France; the general. impression is that he was thers as an illegal resident rather than in the Soviet Embassy. He speaks excellent Spanish with very little accent and ap- parently has known the language a long time. He too has a car assigned by the Cuban government and drives it hinself. Ho was born between 1919 and 1924 and is an active, athletics man, about six feet tall and weighing a husky 200 pounds, with b.ce eyes, He looks young, although his hair is erey, as is the short-clipped mustache he wears low on his lip. dad. & Soviet woman,: name unknown, works in the Department of Technical Opsrational Suprort (Mi). She was horn bLotween 1929 and 1934, is five feat seven or sight inches tall, is stout but not fat, has hlue eyes ani aarost shoulder-length SECRET NO YORN DISSEM
14-00000 12. 13. te ie ote reddish brown hair. She rs ughy and dowdy. #carioe low heels and a Soviet-style dress. tike a peasant'’s. . e. A Seuviet man. name unknown. works on South American opera tions’ in the Illegal Department. Qperational Departments. Of the eight departments making up the headquarters. three are operational. four are concerned with operational support or training. and one is administrative. The three uperational de- partments are legal Centers (Centros Legales - NS). Illegal . (Llegal). and Sational Liberation (Liberacion Nacional - LN) ;.- the last two were formerly a single department, known as MA (Intelligence). All three departments handle operations abroad for the purpose of collecting information on the host country, promoting Cuban political aims, and conducting subversive ac- tivities. Their operations are distinguished by two factors, legal connections and Communist Party-leftist group liaison. The Departaent of Legal Centers is responsible for operations conducted through Cuban official missions in countries with which Cuba has diplomatic relations and has normally nothing to do with illegal agenis. The other two departments handle illegal agents, both in countrics with which Cuba has relations and in those with which she has none, The Illegal Department has no connection with Communist Parties or organized leftist groups abroad; the National Liberation Department deals mainly with such parties and groups; the Department of Legal Centers may work with them or unilaterally. ALL three departments are organized in geo~ graphical divisions with area desks for each country within their respective fields or responsibility; there .is thus some overlapping 1 desk coverage. The DGI.has two types of overseas intelligence operations (as fron guevrilla warfare operations covered below ia paragraphs 19 and 20): legal field stations andj illegal agents. The Legal bield station exists in every country with which Cuba has diplomatic relations; its personnel] are members of the local Cuban diplometre, consular, or trade mission. Officers are selected from all parts of the DGI organization, no distinction as made, for cxample, between officers from the Lllegal Depart- ment and the National Liberation Department, but each person assigned overseas performs whatever duties the local situation requires. Field station chiefs report directly to PENEIRO, but administration goes through other channels, a5 explained be low, Field stations vary in size. depending on Local objectives and the quality of diplomatic relat ioas. In Soviet Bloc countries, for example, tield stations are usually small, with only one or two Olticers, “who have no intelligence collection or similar responsability but are charged praneipally with aiding travelers to Cuba and saith liaison with the local intelligence service. tn countetes outside the Soviet Hloc. legal field stations have carious responsibilities. in Latin America, their principal ace- Lavaitaies are promotion and direction of subversion and sabotage and arrangements for puerrabla wartare, IY Tne largest field station ds in Wextoo, ahren ap amportant because at is a major transit point tor both persanne b wed materials. and because it isn ao centact point for any leftist organisation of any country Materjal for other Latin distinc? ehich has representatives ff Mexioco. SECEET NO FORS DESSEM
14-00000 ee 6 - CS-31i 001135-64 American countracs usually gous first ta Mexico and is forwarded from there.!! Wexico is also a meeting place for operations of- ficers from Cuba an¢ ascents from. Central and South America; Canada similarly serves as a meeting place for agents from the United States. Legal ficld stations do not normally deal with illegal agents except in a great emergency. 14. In all legal field stations. the DGI representative is charged. with keeping track of. checking. and reporting on the political activities:‘of the other members of the mission to which he is attached. DGI officers also assist with the political classes , and lectures held periodically for memhers of the mission. but ee this is a task shared by all mission members and is not assigned to any officer specifically. Physical security, such as techni- cal examination of Cuban premises for audio surveillance devices, is not a DGI responsibility; 1t 1s perfermed by the DSE. 15. In countries with whick Cuba does not have diplomatic relations, DGI 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, setetfion and training of guerrilla warfare candidates and other agents or groups in latin America primarily. The DGI regards Guatemala and Venezuela as the countries in which its operations have been most successful. Such field operations are run from. Cuba or from an adjacent country. : 16. The Department of Legal Centers (Departamento Centros Legales + 3). fhe NS department is heaged by Pedro FARINAS Diaz. pseu- donym “Otoniel."” and has a staff of 15 to 20 persons. Its offices are not in the M Building compound. but in a building at the corner of 3lst Avenue and Gtth Street ina the Marianao suburb of Habana. The department is in charge of the field stations, known as legal centers. in each country with which Cuba has diplomatic relations or where she maintains commercial missions. Tts 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 to PINEIRO; the MS Department takes eare 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 do the decoding itself. The department dees not have its own radio station, It does not run any agents abroad; it does. however. assign dead drops and explain their use to field agents. mostly those of the Illegal Department. 17. The Tlleval Department (Departamento Llegal). The department is headed by pseudonym “Lucio.” who directs operations rather than dealing directly with agents: his ceputy is Santiago PEREZ, pseu- denym “Rolo.” The staff of about 20 persons is responsible for handling “illegal” agents. that is. agents of all nationalities whese activities ana connections with Cuba are secret. The de- partment recruits the azent: arranges for his training. means vf clandestine communication. and travel to his assigned area; and thereatter airects. supports. ard maintains communication SFCRET SO FORN DISSEWV
. . , ‘, 7 . 7 - CS-3411.00118-64 with him throughout his active tenure. It does not deal with members of Communist Parties or leftist organizations. nor with persons in contact with official Cuban personrel abroad, who are the responsidilities of other departments: the mechanics of con- munication are also handled elsewhere. Agents are stationed in all countries where Cuba is intcrested in collecting information,- penetrating the government, or conducting Subversive operations, in Europe and Central and South America. The department has no agents in Asian or African countries, and no agents are known in the United States .13 Agents once trained usually remain perma- nently abroad, If they are in an|\ area where there is a legal - field station. they do not normally have any contact with its members. 18, The Illegal Department .is divided into three main geographical sections, each subdivided into country desks, as follows: a. Section A. Europe, chief unknown; under this section there are desks for all countries. b. Section B, Central America, chief Ramon Cesar CUENCA Montote (no pseudonym), who was formerly stationed in Mexico. His deputy is pseudonym "Mike." Country desks include Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua. Parama. and El Salvador. Section personnel in- cluded officers Fernando PASCUAL Perez, pseudonym "Alejandro"; Saul GONZALEZ, pseudonym “Denis"; Gustavo (inu).. pseudonym "Lino"; Paulino (Inu), pseudonym "Mauricio"; Rafael GUZMAN, pseudonym "Rolando"; (fnu) RELOBA, pseudonym "Wilfredo"; apprentices (aracticantes) Miguel Angel (inu), pseudonym "Miguel’; Omar Cine), pseudonym "Oscar"; Raul GONZALEZ, pseudonym “Olexis"; and Francisco (Inu), pseudonym “Tino." Their desk assignments were rot known, . e. Section C, South America, chief unknown. Country desks in- clude Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile. Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay. Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and British Guiana. Two officers in the section were pseudonym "Ulises." formerly perhaps in Chile, and pseudonym "Juan Carlos," possibly formerly in Peru. Both were returned to Cuba for discipli- nary reasons: they may have been assigned to the desks for the countries where they had served. l ‘ 19. The National Liberation Department (Departamento de Liberacion Nacional - L%). The department has no chief; officers wishing advice cunsult Major Guillermo JIMENEZ, pseudonym “Javier,” who is head of 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 6612 7th Avenue, between 66th and 70th Streets, in the Ampliacion de Alwendares section of the Miramar district. of Habana. Tho department. which is one of the larwest an the DGI, as responsible for promotion and direction of revolutionary ace tivity. ancluding guerrilla warfare. It acts mostly in coopera- tion with Communist Parties or organized leftist groups, but conducts some operations unilaterally without local coordination. Among tts activities are the recruitment, arrangement of travel to and from Cut and training in Cuba. and the direction and support of guerrilla fighters in its target countries. Since SECRET NO FORN DISSEM
20, NO FULN Gb TSSEM 1 ch ‘ Cuba is not concerned with revolutions African countries. 1t concentrates mostly CS-321°00115-64 in European. Asian, or on Latin Anerican governments. except those that maintain diplomatic relations with Cuba. Although the department has ro African interests, Zanzibaris were trained in Cuba: the arrangements were handled outside the DGI by Fidel CASTRO himself. of Manucl] PINEIRO, In addition to its guerrilla work, the with the varticipation department. without the knowledge of the Communist Parties or groups with which it cooperates. recruLts and arranges training of agents to collect information in the target countries. Can- didates for such intelligence agents are guerrilla warfare ° trainees. or persons proposed by the operational support depart- ments (MO Department and the BC Section of the SI Department <-- see below). The LS Department! is divided into three sections. one support. and administrative, the other two geographical with country desks. Central Processing Section (Tramites), a Rafael (lnu), pseudonym “Alberto, headed by Felix 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, issues Cuban passports in false names to agents, and obtains visas from the Czechoslovakian Embassy. In agent travel. it works closely with the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (Instituto Cubano del Amistad con les Pucblos - ICAP), which atranges scme aspects of trave for trainees. The section chief has his office | in the LN Department but works mainly from the DGI headquarters in M Building; his wife, Elva (linu). pseudonym “Elisa.” is a typist in the LN Department. The section staff consists of administration chief Eulogio PONS, pseudonym “Eloy”; his assistant, pseudonym “Henry”: an office clerk, Carmen CARRACEDO, pseudonym “Mercedes": two drivers. Juan PEREZ, pseudonym “Raul,” and pseudonym "Manuel"; and Felix Rafael's secretary, psceudunym “Norma,"and assistant, Draco or Draque ESCALANTE, poeudonym "Ciro Central American Section (Seccion Central) is supervised by Major Guillermo JIMENEZ, who is head of the Department of Infurmation 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. Its case officers trequentiy travel to their operational areas to direct activities and arrange for funds, arms supplies. and other support (0 agente: agent meetings are often held ania thard country, especially Vexico. ona case basis. each case beings a Operations are handled separate project starting with selection and training of agents and continuing through gucrrilla wartare action an the target areca, The section has the following area desks: (1) Costa Baca. headed by Oscar GARCIA “Orlando.” SECRET SO FORN DISSEM Manzane, pxeudenym
14-00000 (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) ‘ . - OL : (5-511, 00115-64 Dominican Republic, feaded by Ruberto Lazaro SANTIESTEBAN Casanova. pseudunym “Rafael." who was formerly at the Unitea Nations in New York and was arrested for attemptiicg sabotage, Guatemala, headed by Norberto HERNANDEZ. pseudonym “Noel,” assisted by ai apprentice. (fnu) PENA, pseudonym “Lorenzo.” As noted above. the Guatemalan operations are considered among the most successful in Central America. ; Haiti, headed by Andres ARNONA’ Ramos, pseudonym “Ernesto, * formerly commercial attaché ia Mexico but not likely to receive another field @Ssignment because of problems during his service theye, Honduras, headed by Fe] ix SUAREZ, pseudonym “Santiesteban." Nicaragua. Panama, headed by Fernando RAVELO, pseudonym “Fermin.” El Salvador. South America Section (Secciny 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: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) Argentina, headed by Oreste VALERA, British Guiana, headed by (fnu} GINES, pseudonym "Gil," assisted by two aPPrenl ices, pseudonyms “Jorge" and Rudy." Colombia, headed by Raut VIERA Linares, pseudonym "Gomez," formerly stationed in Bujivia. from which he returned at the end of 1963, but unlikely to receive another for- eign assignment becausu of difficulties in the field, Ecuador, headed by PSCutlonym “Julio.” Paraguay, headed by PStudonym “Salvano." Peru, headed by (fnu) Ja. pseudonyn "Jordan," assisted by an apprentice, pseuihen yr "Bernabe." Venezuela. headed by Alisedao \LMEIDA Garcia. pseudonym “Aranja." who was in \cievuela when it broke relations with Cuba and was lMtet gneolved in an attempted re- covery Of documents fru. Aa plane crash in Peru, which led to his expulsion fiom Chale. His assistants are Benttoe Cinu). preudony. “Saul.” and pseudonym “Gary: his secretary ts PRCUdGwim "Mireial’ The DGI considers tts Venezuelan operat ious the most successful in South Amertea. SEC his NO FORN byasiy
21. 22. 23. ee OS ee OE Os -~ 10 - : ’ CS-311/00115-64 Operational Support Departments. The operational support -departments of the DGI are Technical Operational Suppert (MI). Illegal Centers (MO). Special Schools (EE). and Information Services (SI). They handle-such functions 2S 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. The Department of Illegal Centers (Departamento Centros Tlegales = + he department is not, as its name implies, concerned with ‘ operation of illegal field stations, but is an information col- lection and agent candidate spotting department. It has three ma jor 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 forcigners, the MO Department does: 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 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 avents; it only watches for, screens, and evaluates foreign contacts as agent candidates. If the persons it selects are members of a Communist Party or leftist organization, they are referred to the LN Department: if they are not members of such groups. they are referred to the Illegai Department; one of those two units does the actual recruiting. The Department ef Special Schools (Departamento eseuclis Especiales EE). This department is responsible for training in in fuerrilla 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. He has a deputy. pseudonym "Aristides": an office assistant, pseudonym “Armando”; and a courier. pseudonym "Garcia." The department staff, numbering more than 30. is made up entirely of Cuban Army personnel on indefinite assignment to the DGI; they are directed by the DOGI but continue 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 Avenuc,. telephones 21-8426 and 21-8262, 5 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 S3lst 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 Apustin section. and one in the area bounded by 214th and 226th Streets and 7th and 15th Avenues in the Biltmore section. In addition there are technical training schools (Escuelas Entrenamiente Tecnico) on East Street between Parque and 37th Streets in the Alturas del Vedade section of Habana, where Venezuelans and Salvadorans have been trained. and on 26th Street between Ist and 3rd Avenues in the Miramar SECRET SO FORN DISSE
14-00000 24. 25, . schools. only forergners; no Spanish title, only “4. -~ fd - tS-Ui1/00715-64 ive military courses of all types. lasting three to six months. depending on the subject matter: all instruc- ters are Cuban army personnel, No Cubans are trained in the these are kept separate by. nationality. During training. students are observed and assessed for possible use as intelligence agents? thuse selected receive additional individual training from the MI Department. district. The schools £ The Department _of Technical Operational Support (MI). (it has This department is basically re- sponsible for training individual intelligence agents and pro- 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 Guillermo ARASTAGUIA, ‘pseudonym “Rene, who was formerly the sec- retary of Rumiro VALDES. There are about 80 employees, including a main office staff consisting of a secretary. pscudonym “Mayra”; two assistants. pseudonyms “Carmen” and "Maria Antonia"; and an administrative officer, pseudonym ‘victor. The MI Department receives requests for training or support from the operational departments; gives the training or provides or arranges for the support outside the operational department framework; and con- 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 directorate’s tech- nical equipment. which it services and repairs in its own es-~ tablishment, the buildings within the M Building compound. All kinds of protessional technicians and semi-skilled laborers are available for such duties; they are all Cubans. The MI Department has five sections, with the following responsibilities: , a. Chemical Laboratory (Laboratorio Quimico - LQ). LQ, which js headed by pscudonynm Wontpreras, provides chemical secret writing »yStems 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 messapes in secret writing for the operational departments. b. Photographic Laboratory (Laboratorio Fotografico - LF). LF is headed by pseudonym ‘Nodina” ang has a photographer, pseudonym “Beltran.” It takes photographs for operational documents such as false passports and identity cards and prepares both photographs and pages of documents where changes are needed. In addition. it provides microdot and microfilm systems for clandestine communications and processes in- coming and outioing micredot and microfilm mensages, e. Technateal Training Section Geeclon Tecnica - ST). The chief. who 1s alsu an instructor, is pseudonys “Toopaldo." The SECRET NO FORN'DISSEM
14-00000 26. oe git ULOORM - 12 - CS-311/00115-64 person in charge of radio training, also a radio instructor, is pseudonym "Aldo." The ST Section is responsible for training agents in any technical field, such as communica- tion by secret writing, microdot or microfilm, radio sending and receiving. codes, ete. The section has a training radio station but does not handle actual radio communications to and from agents in the field. d. Travel and Passport Section (Viaje y Pasaporte). The section has only one officer, pseudonym “Alfonso.” who provides \travel and other documents for all personnel of the directorate’, agents and staff, such as extra Cuban passports, forged pass- ports of other countries, other identification documents, and other necessary papers. He makes false entries in pass- ports, such as arrival and departure stamps for points out- \ side Cuba. ‘ Concealment Device Section (Seccion Embutido ~ EMB). The - chief is pseudonym “Maceo.” he &) ection is responsible for providing any sort of concealment device required for agent activities, especially those permitting the agent to carry with him on his travels instructions, information, or small objects so that they are not discovered in customs or other examination. It also provides concealment devices for the forwarding of microfilm or other clandestine materials. Department of Information Services (Departamento Servicios de Informacion —- SI). he epartment is headed by Major Guillermo MENEZ, pseudonym “Javier,” the third most important Person in the DGI (after PINEIRO and CHAIN), who also directs some of the LN Department operational activities. The department is responsi- ble for collecting information and maintaining up-to-date records of operational information in every field affecting the security of Cuba. It has three sections: a. Operational Information Section (Seccion Informacion Operativa - IQ). Tne sectién, which has about [2 members, collects all information necessary for placing and maintaining an agent in a foreign country, such as the travel and identity documents required and their dates of validity, data for legal and illegal travel of staff personnel and agents, maps of infiltration and exfiltration routes for operational areas, and up-to-date information on the general situation in each country where the DGI operates or plans to operate. The operational and other departments evaluate information they acquire ahd send to the [0-Section of the SI Department what- ever they think useful; the IO Section issues no formal re- quirements. Most of the information comes from the Illegal and LN Departments, but the MS Department may also supply information. The [0 Section sometimes debriefs staff members returning from foreign tours or short trips for operational information or data on foreign governments, but it does not debrief agent trainees arriving in Cuba. It has -one other function, the publication of false information on people and countries. One of its members is a translator, Antonio CARCEDO Ferrer, pseudonym “Andres." b. Colonial Bureau (Buro Colonial - BC), formerly called the MOI Section. The BC is responsible for assessing foreign SECRET NO FORN DISSEM
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iL, ig, 13. Vd, - 17 - . C3-311 ‘0G115-64 North America: Canada. There is also a Cuban Wission to the ; United Nations in New York. Central America and.Caribbean: Mexico and Jamaica. South America: Bolivia. Chile, Uruguay, and Sritish Guiana (a trade mission). Erazil, which had maintained relations with Cuba until mid-May 1964, broke. then following the ousting of GOULART and the change of government in April 1964. The only regular air connection between Cuba and the Westera Hemisphere is the schedule maintained by the official Cuban air- line, Cubana (Empresa Consolidada Cubana de Aviacion = ECCA), two or three times a week to Mexico. There are also charter flights to Canada, but they are principally for cargo. Agent activities in Latina America will be discussed in subse- quent reports. Source knew almost nothing about operations in Puerto Rico, Canada, and at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New York. Relations between Cuba and Peru were broken in 1960. SEC NO_UPORN DISSEM
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. . . Sift afb ; SSE 2a NQ FOREN 2 . CS-S11/00115-G4 The Director's Office The director yencral oj the DGI 1s Manuel PINELTRO Losada, known as “Red Beard” (Barba Roja).* He in closely associated with Ramiro VALDES, to whom he has direct access at any time; he is required to report regularly to Fidel CASTPO and to coordinate with him all expenditures ef large sums; and he also has direct contact with GUEVARA. Raul CASTRO often visits PINEIRO‘'s office; his principal interest appears to be the guerrilla schools (see below). but he may have others in the DGI. PINEIRO also handled the principal contacts with the Soviet advisors of the DGI, His direction ef the BGI is handled through a deputy. but he also has direct contact as desired with department chiefs and lower- level personnel: chiefs of field stations report directly to hin, although other field-station business is handled through the departments responsible for field work, PINEIRO himself has trained somé inportant agents in field work and has subsequently acted as -their handling officer. ‘ PINEIRO has his office in his residence at 41st Avenue and 18th Street in the Miramar district of Habana. There he keeps functional files of everything concerning the DGI; other files from individual sections are brought to him for review and then returned to the department or section that maintains them. There is a daily courier service between his house and the DGI headquarters. The house has at least two separate telephones, one personal and onc official. the latter providing direct com- munication with all_government awencies. One of the telephone numbers is 29-1257.°% The outside entrance of Lhe house always has two guards in olive-preen uniforms; they are probably from the DSE. In addition. PINEIRO has a bodyguard staff of six. also probably from the DSE. Three of them are always with him on 24- hour shifts: one acts as chauffeur when he goes out, while the other two follow in a second car. He keeps three cars, all 1961 Oldsmobiles..one blue, one beige. and one black. In his home office PINEIRO has an aide, pscudonyn "Castor," who handles the office work but does not attend private interviews. In Cuba he stays in the olfice and dues not accompany PINEIRO outside the office. When PINEIRO travels abroad, "Castor" ac- companies him, as for example on his visit to Moscow in April 1964, At the main DGI headquarters. PINEIRO also has a secre=- tary, pseudonym "Vida lina,“ and a clerk-typist, pseudonym “foraida™; they occupy desks in the executive office of the DGI deputy chief but work strictly for PINEIPO. “Vidalina” handles all incoming and outgoing correspondence and cable traffic and distributes it, both within DCI headquarters and abroad. DGI Main Headquarters. The main headquarters of the directorate is known as “Department Moor the Waniscry of Interior. but very few people know any thing about it or are even aware ef its existence.  [t ‘occupies a house and grounds whic were formerdy the property of tne GONEZ Mena family. It covers a whele city block bounded. by -b9th and 5int Avenues and 7ath and Soth Streets aon the Larrazgabal sections ot the Marianae suburb of Pabana. The block isa compound sure rounded by a concrete wall, wlth trean planted completely around rt imsade. There are to entrances’ a@ maaan vntrance with wooden JSECKES NO FORN BUSHEM