(ros-10186-10148 | oe oo Rear , e Tee ves : Hee SOC aa) - od ui ey iets y - wee te te an CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Tam Beda! containg information afecting the Kaienal Defense of the Calted States Witnia the meaning of the Repionace Lawa, Title th. ESC. Geos, 163 ond TH, the trenmeteioa ot feveation of which ia any manne? 66 a8 URGUthOrse person is prohibited by law, S-E~C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM COUNTRY “Cuba REPORT NO. CSCI-316/02206-65 gaxct Buildings and Security of the ” DATE OISTR, 2 June 1965, ‘ Direccion General de Inteligencia an ; : a ; (DGI) - NO. PAGES 3 nae . REFERENCES RETURN TO ClA | -packground Use Only ATE OF §—-1964 - "Do Not Reproduce PACE & Washington, | D. C. ™ ~ : TE ACQ: FIELD REPORT NO. THIS is brary 1S INFORMATION. SOURCE GAADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 13 TENTATIVE SOURCE A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence , Service until April 1964, “a 1. The Direccion General de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence - DGI) Headquarters in “"M" Building operates on a’ schedule from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. Personnel are re- quired to sign time and attendance records and once in the building at 8:00 are not permitted to leave it until 5:30. They are given lunch in. the building cafeteria; each has a meal ticket, issued by the Personnel Department, which is punched for each meal consumed; the DGI, not the individual employee, pays. A DGI officer from one of the departments outside the headquarters building may eat in the "M’ Building cafeteria; he gets a lunch ticket from the personnel officer and also shares the mess free, the meal being deducted from his regular mess facilities in his own building. 2. The "“M* Building is guarded outside by Departamento de Seguridad del Estado (Department of State Security - DSE) personnel, two at the main gate and two at the rear gate. Beside the large double wooden gates, which have metal bars to close them, there is a small door for pedestrians. It contains a peephole through which the guards can inspect anyone seeking entrance on foot or by car. Persons arriving by car sound a horn to notify the guards that they wish admittance. If the guards recognize the pedestrian or driver, they open the gate and admit them. If the person is not known, the guards ask his identity and whom he wishes to see and telephones to the person: named and requests permission to : admit the visitor. If permission is given, the gate is opened and the visitor proceeds without escort. Each gate guard is armed with an M-S52 rifleand aPPShA or Czech M-25 machine gun, and may in addition carry a personal weapon, usually a pistol. - ; The gates are opened by hand, not electrically. S-E-C-R-E-T eer * foetoded t-a-8 sunnmeng NO FOREIGN DISSEM © | eoereten Bee aes Fagoren oO bS FO de Bf > 89 6 a en eae [ ota | Navy PREDSOINCLANT CINCSO # Tans stepte Fea dsterbution ladicated by “2".} NS ROE T: - KP (AMUG-1) -tScI~ 316/02296- [PA 1 =F mene es
14-00000 e S-E-C-R-E-T NG FOREIGN DISSES = 2 CSCI-316/02296-65 3. There are no DSE euards inside the DGI building, except for the guard quarters (dormitory) in "M" Builéing. The headquarters has two duty officers, vho alternate, Z4 hours on and 24 hours off. They are not offictally ior visibiy armed, but may carry a personal weapon, usually a pisitol, as many DGI officers do. .. Most of the pistols are U.S. 38-caliber, 45-caliber, or Soviet ‘Red Star. Employees in “M" Building are required to lock up all documents and lock their room doors any time the room is not eccupied. Keys are deposited in a key room. There is also a : ; Secret Office, on the second floor of the building, where docue ve ments of all kinds are kept. Employees may borrow documents, Signing out for them, for the day; everything must be returned at night. Generally, each officer keeps his own files, locked im a key-lock metal cabinet, in his owa office, . 4. Originally a building pass was required for entry into "M” Building. Each officer assigned to the building had a pass, Similar in appearance to a driver's licease. Officers working " in departments outside the "M”" Buildixg compound, however, did not all have passes, although some did. *The difficulty of ob- taining a pass for entry into the building became so complicated - that outside DGI employees sometimes resarted to showing their driver's licenses for admission, and successfully. There was always confusion about entrances. Fiznally the pass system became so cumbersome that it was abolished altogether, and admission to the compound is entirely on a basis of personal recognition by the guards, or, as noted above, by verification by telephone from an officer inside. Tais applies both to personnel regularly working in the building and to DGI employees from departments outside the compound, 8. The same system applies in the Departaneato de Liberacion Nacional (National Liberation Department - LN) beilding. There are four DSE guards at the outside gate who check all incoming persons. If the guards do not recognize a person, they telephone to whom- ever the caller wishes to see in the building and obtaid: -per- mission to admit him. 6. The LN Department also has a duty officer system, separate from that of "M" Building. Each officer in turn serves a 24-hour tour as duty officer; a regular roster is kept. The LN Depart- ment does not observe regular office hours like the main head- quarters; because of operational necessity, officers work when they must. They are not paid overtime and are not required to Sign time and attendance records, If they are working during meal hours, they receive food in the building; they do not have their own cafeteria but bring in food from the Departamento Escuelas Especiales (Department of Special Schools - EE}. “ 7. Up to December 1963, the LN and Yllegs] Oepartments were combined in a Single unit known as the “A Sectian (latelligence), which occupied a large house at Calic G4 betwees 3 and Sa (on a corner with no’ house number), in the Miramar Ds:strict of Havana. Per- sonnel of the two elements shared offices indiscriminately, al- though there was a differehtiation in thezr work as to illegal or guerrilla operations. In December 1255, the two functions were separated, and the LN Department meved to two buildings at G610 and 6G612_7th Avenue, between 66th ant 70th Streets, in -the mpliacion de Almendares Section of the Xiramar District of Havana. The [llegal Department remained in the Calle 94 house about one moath and then moved to a new, unknown, bocation in Alturas del Vedado section of Havana. The LN Departmeat has about thirty S~E-C-R-E~-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM