S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM -~ 2- . CS-312/04298-G4 recruited by that department. Of three known agents in this cate- gory, one was a member of the Cuban internal security service, the Department of State Security (Pepartarento de Seguridad del Estado - DSE), Julio Damaso VaSquez. He was a@ trained parachutist at the time of his recruitment, Two other known agents, Rafael Guzman and “Chino” (name unknown), were recruited because they “were friends of one of: the llega} Department officers, Saul Gonzalez. One criterion for recruitment is that the agent sball not have a wide circle of acquaintance, Agents of other aationalities are usually recruited by agreement between a DGI officer and the local Communist or leftist organiza- tion to which the person belongs, but there are other possibie - Sources, ae Foreigners visiting Cuba. Most foreign visitors to Cuba are handled by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (Institute Cubano del Amistad con los Pueblos - ICAP), which arranges for their travel to Cuba; their itineraries, lodging, and cntertainzent while there; and their return travel to their homes or other destinations. The DGI has an arrangement with ICAP under which members of the DGI MO Department (Department of Illegal Centers - Departamento Centros Ilegales) meet and interview foreign visitors for the purpose of extract- -ing any information of valve to Cuba and of assessing them as potential agents, Contacts are so well camouflaged as normal ICAP courtesies that few of the visitors realize that they are im touch with an intelligence agency. The DGI does not deal with foreign diplomats, who are the responsibility of the DSE, but it has access to any other foreigners, If the MO Depart- ment considers any visitor a potential agent, especially if he Shows a Marxist or extreme leftist attitude, it reports his name and whatever it has learned about him to either the Illegal Department of the DGI, which handles intelligence agents not in contact with local Communist or leftist groups, er the LN Department, Which works with guerrilla agents in contact with such groups. Referral is made on the basis of membership in or attachment to an organized group. In no case does the MO Department recruit the agent; that privilege is reserved for the operational departments. b. Foreigners resicent in Cuba, The BC Section (Colonial Bureau ~ Suro Colonial) of the SI Department (Department of Information Services - Departamento Servicios de Informacion) of the DGI is responsible for Scretning foreigners residing in Cuba (except diplomats) for potential agents, Like the MO Depart~ ment, the BC Section makes no actual recruitments, but reports potential agents to the Tllegal or LN Department, according to whether they are or are not affiliated with an organized group. ec. Fersons voluateering infornation from abroad, The MO Depart- ment is also responsible for screening letters from persons abroad who volunteer information or support to the Cuban Government, Its principal aim is to extract any useful in- formation from Such letters, but it also notes any persons who appear to have agent potential aad refers them to the proper operational department for consideration, ad, Members of Communist Parties and organized leftist groups in Latin America, The group reconmends to a DGI contact--aa officer on a trip to the area, a local representative or agent, S-E-C-R-E-T SO FOREIGN DUSSEMV
Preliminary Trainirg Arrargenents D6 ~3- CS-321 '01298-64 evo a headquirters officer ar Cuba if a group official is wasitinge tlhars---dny of its members as cardidates tor guerrilla training tn Cuba or an their own country. The DGI and the group ages. or which ef tas candidates are most suitable, A DG! agent weckiog with tne group may also recomrend members for trainire, g-neraily as gucrrilla fighters but possibly. aleé as clard.ctins intelligence agents: in the first instance, the recormonaiion is krtewn to the group, but in tho second is kept svrorst from it. Recruit: agents sent to Cuba for guerrilla warfare training, DGI of fictr: chyarve guerrilla warfare and sabotage agents during their training in Cuba and select those cof special potentaas foc rtcruitment as unilateral intelligener agents, f. Agents af strer intelligence? services. Ths DG] sametimes re- ecruits a- deubiec agents empleyees of kestile intelligence - Servicis vith whem at comes inte contact. Fuch agents may also be ¢ reid ever to the BGI by the DSE if it has reccgnized and r.cruidt:2 chem, . 3 When an agert war‘lidate 16 preposed, the Illegal or LN Department reviews thy: avairtatit information about him, If ht 15 in Cuba, it may riqui:t the DSE te conduct an investigation; the DGI Inspection O partres* (Derartamento Inspeceion), which deals primarily with Doi start personnel, has forms fer submission to the DSE reque-tre. an ansvestagation. Since tho DG? dees not re- veal th: afcrtptacs «af its irtélligence (illegai! agents to the DSE, not ai] went ca: Jidates ave thus investigated, he opera-e tional departyo ont: 2¢iec*% their agents on tho basis cf atl the avaiiuble. infecnation o2 a personal recommendation from a DGT staif member or ttust+d agent, The candidate is then recruited. Cuban agents arr aware of Ure government agency fer which they are workirge, but agectys af other nationalities art net: guerrilla agentS are recruit - io te work for their own organization, osteasi- bly, and ante Liigt.ce agents ary usually aware oniy chat they are working for th: Cuban Gevernment., They may belicvr that they are under the juritclictien of the Cuban army becaus+: mibitary person- f thu.imetruction, and tha mere sophistierted may nel give sem oc! believe they a> creder the DSE, which is widely koow:n as aa ine telligence corean. When a Cuban agent is recruited, a schedule for his training is arranged 1:0 sah a way that hi can ccentinue his acrmi] minrnsr of living. fi be 58 empleyad in an office cr factory, h cantinues in his riyuiar jyeob, and the training is set up fer tis tres time, Tf he is ciun.splegaud, me goes ca living just as he has before and the training i+ schoduied fer hours when his absence frem,his usual haunts if net meoticeable, ; ; * Cuba for Agents from foreign cosptr.26 arz usually brought ce 2 Wotivitres, training in cLther tntelbigerce er guctrrilla-siabetag The DGL is netititd of the agent's selection threugh channels from the field, ard the Central Processing (Traimirss; Sectien of the LN Deparimen! Sandies arrangements for this tcavel to and from Cuba. Normilly the agent candidate uses his own travil docu- ments, bul sca. times tne group to which he belcengs provides a passport beicrezips to 4a fellow citizen who has alicady been to Cuba, He must ebtain bis Cuban visa through the near: st Cuban S-E-C-R-E-£ NU FOREIGN DISSEM
10, S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM -~4-) CS-311/04298-64 ° consulate.” Since there are no official Cuban missions in Central America, the agent nogmally makes his way to Mexico and obtains his Cuban visa there, In order to keep secret from the author- icies in his own country that he is going to Cuba, the agent candidate gives another destination, and the Cuban consular offices help by issuing his Cuban- visa on a separate sheet of paper instead of stamping it in his passport.@ The agent candi- date may pay his own passage, but usually he is supplied funds or an airline ticket through a local DGI agent or the leftist group to Which he belongs; the funds are issued by the Central Process- ing Section: Whether hé is issued.a ticket or given money to buy his own, the funds originate with the DGI and are forwarded to the candidate's area through the DGI representation in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico, _. DGI officers attached to Cuban consulates are alerted to assist agent candidates"in’ their travel. The agent is given a password, which varies from place to place; agents from El] Salvador, for example, are told to mention "Mauricio." When a DGI officer at a consulate interviews visa applicants, he expedites the visa for anyone uSing the proper password; if the password is not used, he Stalls the applicant for several days while he cables Havana for authority to issue a visa, If the visa is issued in Mexico, the agent trainee is given a plane ticket on Cubana, the Cuban Govern- ment airline, and is told when he is to leave, Accommodations and Subsistence are provided if the trainee has to wait for passage, Agent candidates from British Guiana sometimes travel to Cuba by small boats, not regular Shipping service, Agent trainees going to Cuba use a variety of cover stories, For the local authorities, their travel is to some other destination, often as tourists, students, or laborers, For their own group, no cover story is required; for their fomilies and friends, tour- ist or student travel is the usual explanation. For persons out- side the group, if Cuba is known as the destination, the cover story is a scholarship for study at a Cuban school or university. Groups of trainees from the same leftist organization often travel together fron their own country to Mexico and thence to Cuba, but intelligence agent trainees always travel alone, Upon arrival at the Havana airport, trainees are met by DGI officers appearing as ICAP officials, The DGI has an arrangement with the Cuban immigration authorities under which persons of DGI interest are cleared through entrance formalities without compli- cations, The trainces are placed in hotels while final training arrangements are made, then are transferred to the schools where their training will be given, or to private houses or apartments if they are intelligence trainees, The case officer.from the DGI department which will thenceforth control their activities is re~ sponsible for them during their stay in Cuba, Using the .funds allotted by the department, he provides them lodging, food, per-. sonal expenses, medical care, and anything else they ’neeti during the training period; shoes, clothing, and personal items are drawn for them from the DGI warehouse. As far as possible, DGI trainees live the normal life of students and use the cover story that they are studying on Cuban Government scholarships. Their movements in Havana are not restricted, except that arrangementS are made to keep them away from fellow- citizens visiting or: living in Cuba, Since most of their train- ing is given in Havana, and ‘the course is intensive, they do not S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM