14-00000 SECRET NO FORN DISSE -3- CS-311/06! 15-64 Rates located near the center of the block on 80th Street and a back entrance with steel doors located directly through the bleck on 78th Street. The main entrance is manned by guards armed with PPShA machineguns: the rear entrance is kept locked and is used only in emergencies. No pass or ideaééfication is required to enter the grounds. - The headquarters compound (sce diagram on page 15) contains all the DGI offices except PINEIRO’s home office, the three opera- tional departrents. and the Special Schools Department. described below... The main building. called M Building, is situated near the ‘ednter 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 police radio for the city and the Ministry.of Interior. There are no large assenbly 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. tugestory building housing the Personnel Department on the . first tloor 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 and the Personnel-Inspection building flank the main entrance on 80th Street. A twoestory building, in the angle of the grounds formed by G 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 DGI is handled from the M Building. where PINEIRO'’s deputy, (fnu) CHAIN, 7 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. Ne signs, in pseudonym, all notices and circulars issued to the directorate. His secretary has the pseudonym. "Georgina." CHAIN's office, through "Vidalina, distributes enable 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 Citrados -—- 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 staff members, Personnel (Departamento de Personal) and | ate ae inspection (Departamento de InspecciGn)> which occupy a separate building in the headquarters compound. The Perscnnel Department, headed by pseudonym "Pelayo." which handles all maiters concerning. staff member administration (selection, hiring, pay, promotion. dismissal, social security, ete.}, has about 14 or 15 members. SECRET NO FORN DISSEM 7th Street and 49th Avenuc, housing the Technical Operational at
14-00000 16, ‘who occupy offices ia M-Ruilding. ‘with them at any tine. SFCRET NO FORN DISSEM ~ 4 = CS-311/00115-64- The Inspection Sefartaent, headed by pseudoanyr “Dario,” which is responsible for discipline in the disecterate and for investiga- tions of stafg personnel, probably before hiring, has 10 to 12 members. Both cepsstnent chiefs are probably former members of the DSE, and sose of the offico staff are also former DSE members. Soviet Advisors. Attached to the Boi headquarters is a group of Soviet advisors, Their presence and identities are kept as secret as possible, even amorg the officers who work with them, and they are known only by pacudonyms. They have especially close coatacts with Manuel] PINEIRO and CHAIN, and with the Illegal Department, whoso officers can consult directly ‘Ordinary desk officers in other doparte ments. can consult the Saviet advisors only at their offices ia --——-—M-Building, where no special security precautions are observed, 11. but they do not see much of them except when visiting the Ihblegai Department when tho advisors are working thera, The Soviets can visit any department whenever they wish. Information obtained by. NGI agenta abroad can be passed to the Soviet advisors.S The five known are the following: “Bl Frances" (The Frenchman), PINFIRO's personal advisor, is apparently the chief Soviet advisor in Cuba. He has an offices in MN Ruilding and froquently visits PINEIRO's - house, Hs was born between 1909 and 1914; is about five feet seven inches tall and of madium build; has very grey . hair; has blue eyes with bags under them; and wears at all “ tames gold-frazed glasses with emall-~to-medium round lenses, His Spanish is ¢airly good. He has a car assigned by tho Cuban government and drives it -himself. b. A Soviet can, name-unknown, accompanies “El Frances." He is five feet eight inches tall, is of mediun to thin build, weighing 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 Building office with “El Frances" but works principally in the Illegal Department, is the consultant on lllegal 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 there as an illegal resident-rather than in the Soviet Emhassy. He spoaks excellant 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 hiaself. Ha was born between 1919 and 1924 and is an active, athletic man, about six feet tali and weighing a husky 200 pounds, with bive eyes. io looks young, althnugh his hair is grey, as is tha shorteclipped mustache Le wearsn lew on his Lip. Ce dad. 4A Soviet woman, sane unknowa, works in the Department of Technical Cperational Supsesrt (42). The cas horn Dotween 1929 and 1934, is fiva feet seven ov cizht inches tall, is stout but aot fat, has blue eves ara rireost shoulder-length SECRET NO FORN DISSEM
2, SECRET NO FORN PUSSEM $ : CS-3'p-ad bia-e4 “ -~ & am reddish broun hair . She is urly and dowdy. wearing low heels and a Sovietestyle dress. like a peasant 's, , @. A Seviet man. nance unxnown, works on South American operas tions in the tllexgal Department. \ Operal tonal Departacnts. a ; . 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 operational de» partments are Legal Centers (Centros Legales = MS), lllegal (Ticgal). and National Liberation (Liberacton Nacional = LN);_ the Tast two were turmerly a single department. hnown 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 ace tivities. Their operations are distinguished by tuo factors, legal connections and Communist Party-leftist group Liaisen. The Departmeat of Legal Centers is responsible for operatious conducted through Cuban official missions in countries with which | Cuba has diplomatic relations and has normally nothing to do with ¢ illegal agents.” The other two departments handle illegal agents, both in countries with which Cuba has relations and in those with whieh she has none. The Illegal Department has no cenneetion with Communist Parcies or organized leftis! kroups abroad: the — National Liberation Department deals mainly with such parties and groups: the Department of Legal Centers may work with them ov-unilaterally, ALL three departments are organized in gveo~ fraphical divisions with area desks for each country within their respective fields or responsibility; there is thus some overlapping in desk coverage, The DGI has two types of overseas intelligence operations (as distines from zuerrilla warfare operations covered below in Paragraphs UD and 20): legal field stations and illegal agents, The leopal fleld starion exists in every country with which Cuba han diplomatic relations: its personnel are members of the lecal Cuban diplometic., consular, or trade mission. Officers are Belceted from all Bivts of the DG organization: ne distinetion is made, for example. between of ficers from the [llegal 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 PINEIRO. but adminisirataon gous through other channels. as explained below, Field stations vary in stze, depending on local objectives and the quality of diplomatic relations. In Soviet Bloc countries, for cxample, field stations are usually small, with only one or two officers, who have no intelligence collection or similar responsibility but are chirped Principally with aiding travelers to Cuba and with liaison with the local intelligence service. § In countrics outside the Soviet Bloc. legal field stations have various responsibilities: in Latin America. their Principal ac- tivithes: are promotion and direction of subversion and sabotave and arrangements for guercvilla warfare. The largest field station is in Mexica. which is important. becuuse it is a major transit pornt for beth personnel and materials. and because it is a contact point for any leftist organization ot any country which has representatives in Mexico. Material for other Latin SECRET NO FORN DISSEM