12. 13. : , SECRET RO FORN DISSEM ~5- CS-341/ 00115-64 reddish brown hair. She is ugly and dowdy. wearing low heels and a Soviet-style dress, like a peasant‘s. : e. A Soviet man, name unknown, works on South American opera- tions in the Illegal Department. Operational Departments. Of the eight departments making up the headquarters, three are ‘ operational, four are concerned with operational suppurt or training, and one is administrative. The three operational de- partments are Legal Centers (Centrus Legales - MS). Lllegal -(Llegal), and National Liberation iberacion 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- tivitfes. Their operations are distinguished by two factors, legal connections and “Communist Party-leftist group liaison. The Department of Legal Centers is responsible for operatioas 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 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. AL1l 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 in desk coverage. . The DGI has two types of overseas intelligence operations (as distinct from guerrilla warfare operations covered below in paragraphs 19 and 20): legal field stations and illegal agents, The legal field station exists in every country with which Cuba has diplomatic relations; its personnel are members of the local Cuban diplomatic, consular, or trade mission. Officers are selected from all parts of the DGI organization; no distinction is made, for example, between officers from the Illegal 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 administration gocs through other channels, as explained below. Field stations vary in size, depending on Local objectives and the quality of diplomatic relations. In Soviet Bloc countries, for example, field stations are usually small, with only one or two officers, who have no intelligence collection or similar responsibility but are cnarged principally with aiding travelers to Cuba and with liaison with the local intelligence service. In countries outside the Soviet Bloc, legal field stations have various responsibilities; in Latin America, their principal ac- tivities are promotion and direction of subversion and sabotage and arrangements for guerrilla warfare.!° The largest field station is in Mexico, which is important because it is a major transit point for both personnel and materials, and because it is a contact peint for any leftist organization of any country which has representatives in Mexicd. Material for other Latin SECRET NO FORN DISSEM
14-00000 18. 19, SECRET NO FORN DISSEM -~ T= CS-+311 “00115-64 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 personnel abroad, who are the responsibilities of other departments; the mechanics of com- munication are also handled elsewhere. Agents are stationed in ali covatrivso Wuere Cuoa is interested in collecting iuformation, penetrating the government, or conducting subversave operations, in Europe and Central and South America. The department has ao 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 norma lly have any contact with its members. ‘The Illegal Department is divided into three main geographical sections, cach subdivided into country desks, as follows: ae Section A, Europe, chief unknown; under this section there are desks for all countries. b. Section B, Central America, chief Ramon Cesar CUENCA Montoto (mo pseudonym), who was formerly stationed in Mexico. His - deputy is pseudonym "Mike." Country desks include Costa . Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico,. — Nicaragua, Panama, and El Salvador. Section personnel in= — cluded officers Fernando PASCUAL Perez, pseudonym “Alejandro"; Saul GONZALEZ, pseudonym "Denis"; Gustavo (linu). pseudonym "Lino"; Paulino (inu), pseudonym "Mauricio"; Rafael GUZMAN, pseudonym "Rolando"; (fnu) RELOBA, pseudonym “Wilfredo”; apprentices (practicantes) Miguel Angel (lnu), pseudonym "Miguel"; Omar Cinw), pseudonym "Oscar; Raul GONZALEZ, pseudonym "Olexis"; and Francisco (inu), pseudonym "Tino." Their desk assignments were not known. ec. Section C, South America, chief unknown. Country desks ine clude Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay,. Peru, Uruguay, Venezucla, 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 countrics where they had served. The National Liberation Department (Departamento de Liberacion § he department has no chief; officers wishing advice Consult "Ma jor Guillermo JIMENEZ, pseudonym “Javier,” who is head of the Centrat 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 GGth and 7Oth Streets, in the Ampliacion de Almendares section of the Miramar district of Habana. The department, which is one of the largest in the DGI, is responsible for promotion and direction of revolutionary ac~- tivity, including guerrilla warfare. It acts mostly in coopera~ tion with Communist Parties or organized leftist groups. but conducts some operations unilaterally without local coordination. Among its activities are the recruitment, arrangement of travel to and from Cuba and training in Cuba, and the direction and support of guerrilla fighters in its target countries. Since SECRET NO FORN DISSENM
14-00000 20. “‘gevernnents. SECRET SQ FORN DISSEM ~ 8- CS-321/00115-64 Cuba is net concerned with revolutions in European, Astan, or African countrres. it concentrates mostly on Latin American exeept these that maintain diplomatic relations with Cuba. Although the department has no African interests, Zanzilaris were trained in Cuba; the arrangements were handled eutside the DGI by Fidel CASTRO himself, with the participation of Manuel PINETRO, In addition to its guerrilla work, the . department. witheut the knowledge of the Communist Parties or gteups with which it cooperates, recruits and arranges training of agehits to collect information in the target countries. Cane didates for such intelligence agents are guerrilla warfare trainees. or persons proposed by the operational support departe- ments (MO Department and the BC Section of the SI Department -- see below). The LN Department is divided into three sections, one support and adwinistrative, the other two geographical with country desks. a. Central Processing Section (Tramites),. headed by Felix Rafael (inu), pseudonym “Alberto,” is 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 passvorts in false names for Cuban staff members, issues Cuban passports in false names to ayents, and obtains visas from the Czechoslovakian Embassy. In agent travel, it works closely with the Cuban Institute ee Friendship with Peoples (Instituto Cubano del Amistad con los Pueblos = ICAP), which arranpes Som aspects of travel 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 (inu), pseudonym "Elisa," is a typist in the LN Department, The section staff consists of administration chief Evlogico PONS, pseudonym "Eloy"; his assistant, pseudonym “Henry";.an olfice clerk, Carmen _ CARRACEDO, pseudonym "Mercedes"; two drivers, Juan PEREZ, pseudonym "Raul," and pseudonym "Manuel"; and Felix Rafael's Secretary, pseudonym "Norma,"and assistant, Draco or Draque ESCALANTE, pseudonym "Ciro." ; b. Central American Section (Seecton Central) is supervised by Major Guillermo JIMENEZ, who is head of the Department of Information 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 frequently trave!? to their operational areas to direct activities and arrange for funds, arms supplies, and other support to apents; agent meetings are often held ina third country, especially Mexico. Operations are handled on a case basis, cach case being a separate project starting with selection and training of agents and continuing through guerrilla warfare action in the target area. The section has the following area desks: i (1) Costa Rica, headed by Oscar GARCIA Manzano, pseudonym "Orlando." . SECRET NO FORN DISSEM