(404-10196-10318 ee 4e a a a cee seem eee _ nn — . teep 0 ter ree % anor - “4 ie. Sc he rata NT: ve eo. yet te Mirtial . $ oy ye co 4 +, 78 we oR A Cie y an eH NG} ae, @ SOM s = ‘ a ‘ Sad 8 eetaninertctiomttindeeas the endtacitemeritine a ees oR cctetenlt BA Brae avo ca ty atone Lé& ke naw ste CENTRAL INTl ENCE AGink ¥ This metesial ge - formation afarusg ihe Metiaaal De.cise of 158 United States wae 4 the meaning t abs. ene iaw ie 1a, OSG. tesa, aa 14 (be Grasem.ccie. oy pevelatoos af whan in ang menner ite unauthorised sore ue gubitited & ae 8-8 -C~R-E-T y NU POREFIGN DiSSEM ; COUNTAY Cuba Atroat NO. «CS. -3.11/00866-~64 | SUMECT «Report on Cuban Docucentation and BATE DISTR 22 July 1964 RETURN TO Cia Procedures of the Genuis. Directorate ‘Ba ‘of Inteliagence (Direecsoa.. Gonoral NO. PAGES | 6 Do Nat Reprod Only DATE OF INFO. ‘ACE & DATE ACQ. SOURCE: de_Intel:vencia «- DGi} REFERENCES CS-311,/90115-94 | CS5-311/00345-64 To March 1964 CS-311,". 9716-64 t i O68: FIELD REPORT NO. : | THIS 13 UNEVALUATED inrOas. ~~. SOURCE QRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 18 TENTATIVE ! ea A former Cuban [3 otficer who served with the Cuban Intelli- t gence Service until April 1964, { . | Headquarters Comment. The following information, as ‘reported by scarce during a debricfing, reveals the misuse of official documentation and procedures by the General Directorate of Intelligence. (Direccion General do Inteligencia - DGI). Use of Altered and Fraudulent Documents by Cuban Intelligence 1. Cubans and other Latin American nationals operating for the General Directorate of Intelligence (Direccion General de Inteligencia ~ DGI) of the Cuban Ministry of Interior are tssued Cuban passports in alias by the Cuban Forcign Ministry. These passports are. considered legal in all respects by Cuban authorities, Cuban agents also use valid passports of a number of Latin American countries in which false entries are provided by Cuban intelligence © authorities; The documents used by non-Cubans operating under IS auspices are intended to hide all traces of their travel into and out of Cuba. : Cuban Diplomatic Passports 2. Cuban diplomatic passports are issued in alias to IS staff per- Bonnel, consisting exclusively of Cuban nationals, They are never issued tn aliens operating as agents of IS. There are over 300 staff employees, according to Source, all of whom are ° @ligible to receive Cuban diplomatic passports in alias, A Lattle over 100 staff employees are estimated by Source to have been doaumented in this way. : 5 ’ a 4 S-B-C-R-E-T > . aRET 3. NO FOREIGN DISSEM Ge r iMete: Flee diet lbvtlen indicated by wet A} state DIA [| army ] SAVY Ta: [esa T xx Toc. FBI REPCINCLANT CINCSO # LENS TENS ZLS___12' (for AF/OS8Y, ACSI, ONL] SY, FBL, DIA_-_2_ cach yeoommarnelag reraur TE 3, CI 21, RID/AN 1, TSD 1, WH/SA 46 (S)A"e%  # GF WH 1} (37), AFB (8 rE_B (10), FS 12 NEEL’ (ia) 3 SH 1} (37), Agr (8), Er 8 NP (AMMUG~-1) CS-311/00866-64
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-~ 2 CS-311/60866-64 Issuance of diplomatic passports in alias is an automatic process whenever an IS staff employee travels on assignmont abroad, The employee involved provides the following items, which he selects personally, to one "Felix Rafael." in the DGI, who forwards the material to the Foreign Ministry: A a. Alias’, b. Dipionatic title, ce. Onec/photograph.. 4, The d crepancies with real assignments, For instance, Source chose omatic passport and the Foreign Ministry determined that ‘nofother Consular Inspector was scheduled to travel through te same area about that time. The Foreign Ministry official él is one Otéro, Chief of the Diplomatic Passport Section. tero does the work on short order, even completing a job on the same date the requést is received, if necessary. . Frequently IS personnel using diplomatic passports travel in small groups. For instance, Source traveled to Mexico in rly 19G4 with a group of Six or seven Staff employees, ali ‘ of cing. diplomatic passports, f . £6, Thore “fu no distinguishing features, @ither in tho passport ie tS Se ole at a or en ae a ee Serial number, the diplomatic title, or any other entry in a / diplomatic c passport issued in- ‘alias to distinguish it from a bona- Fide document. Cuban Ordinar Passports 7. Cuban ordinary passports are issued in-alias to IS agents, cludia by the’ Cuban Foreign Ministry in much the same way as in the casel of diplomatic passports. In addition to the bearer's photdgraph, Qn agent provides cover information on himself for §jse in the”passport which conforms as closely as possible. to has real life. As an example, Source cited his own case, sayidg that he furnished a cover story containing his true data of birth, but listing him as single, even though he is maryied, Typical occupations shown on ordinary passports used by IS agents are “student'' (estudiante) and “laborer" (ohrero). Oavere f 8. The only distinguishing feature for differentiating between a fuban ordinary passport issued in‘alias to an IS agent and a bona-fide document is a special code for the serial number. Soirce thinks that alias passports for IS agents bear five divit serial numbers while bona-fide passports bear six- digit serial numbers. Source's theory was based on the fact Fd oe that his ordinary passport issued in alias bore a five-digit number while the bona-fide passport issued to his wife bore a" six- -digit number. This premise is in direct contradiction with a study of the numbering system found to be in use on Cuban ordinary passports, A pattern in numbering is found, * with occasional discrepancies, in which a new set of acces- Sion numbers is ysed each year, Thus, serial numbers will bo lower on passports issued at the beginning of the year than on | those issued later in the same year, Tho serial | ef . §-E-C-R-E-T NO FORKIGN DISSEM — itle of “Consular. Inspector" (Inspector Consular) for his arged with issuing alias diplomatic passports for IS porsen- in- ° Cubans and nationals of other Latin American countries, — a - | ed cm ET cre ey ae a mee we i rs
10. S~E-C-R-E-1 NQ PUREIGN DISSEM ~ 3 - CS-311/00866-64 numbers are generally ina five-digit pattern, although t¢ was noted that from June to December 1962 they ascended to Six-digit: numbers, Source's ordinary passport issued in a11as was allegedly ob- tained in January 1964, but was given an issuance date of 28 August 1963 and bears a scrial number consistent with the accession pattern for the latter issuance date, Likewise, five other Cuban ordinary passports issucd in 1963 in alias for use by agents under Source's Supervision Lear serial numbers adhering to the accesston pattern corresponding to their particular dates of issue. Grommets recently ceased to he used on photographs in Cuban ordinary passports, Bona-fide Visas, Vaccination Certificates, and passages il. 12. 13. 14. Diplomatic visas for use in Cuban diplomatic passports in alias are applied tor directly by the Cuban Forcign Ministry to the foreign mission concerned in Havana. In Source’s case appli- ; cation was first made {n March 1964 fcr a Chilean visa and y later for a Mexican visa, cven though no travel to Chilo was contemplated, The reason for this was awareness by Cuban authorities of Mexican suspicion of Cuban diplomatic personnel, The Cubun authorities believed the Wexican Embassy in Havana’ would be less suspicious of a passport containing a visa from another Latin American country, Passage bookings and international vaccination certificates for use by staff employees and agents using Cuban alias pass- ports are also obtained through the Cuban Forcign Ministry. Vaccination certificates are obtained from the Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP). IS personnel's passages are always booked on Cubana Airlines because such fares are payable in Cuban pesos, No passayes are booked on Soviet or Czech airlines because these require payment in U.S. dollars, which are scarce for the Cuban Government. After a Cuban diplomatic passport has been used for one round trip, an exit permit from the Cuban Foreign Ministry, known as "Visto Bueno,” is required for each subsequent departure from Cuba. The Foreign Ministry issues these to personnel using alias passports in the same way as they would for bona- fide documents. Forcign visas in ordinary passports issued in alias to 15 agents are applied for directly by the agents to the foreign misSions concerned in Havana, Types of Foreign Passports Used by IS Agents os 15. The Cuban IS makes use of valid passports from a nunber of countries, including Mexico, al] Central American countries, Argentina, British Guiana, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela, for document- ing its agents. The IS had no access to, nor need for, pass- ports from Spain and the United States. Source specified that the [S does not use Uruguayan passports because the Cuban Government does not wish to endanger its good relations with that country, Valid filled-in and blank passports from S-E-C-R-E-T . NO FOREIGN DISSEM