INFORMATION REPORT:BUILDINGS AND SECURITY OF THE DIRECCION GENERAL DE INTELIGENCIA (DGI)
Originator: CIA
Document date: 06/02/1965
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Buildings and Security of the

Direccion General de

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SOLACE

A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligenco

Service until April 1964.

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The Direccion General de Inteligencia (General Directorate of

Intelligence - DGI) Headquarters in

"gy" Building operates on a'

schedule from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.n. dally.

quired to sign time and attendance records and once in the

building at 8:00 are not permitted to leave it until 5:30.

are given lunch

in. the building cafeteria; each has a meal ticket,

issued by the Personnel Dep the Individual

which is punched for each

meal consumed; the DGI,

DGI officer from one of the departments outside the

employse 'headquarters

bullding may eat in the "y" 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 hig

own building.

The "y" Building is guarded outside by Departamento de Seguridad

del Estado (Department of State Security - DSE) personnel,

main gate and two at the rear gate.

double wooden gates, which have metal bars to close them, through

is a small door for pedestrians.

It contains a peephole

which the guards can inspect anyone seeking entrance on foot or

Persons arriving by car sound a horn to notify the guards

that they wish adnittance..

If the guards recognize the pedestrian

of driver, they open the gate and admit them.

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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 M1-52 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.

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3.

There are no DSE guards inside the DGI Sailding, except for the

guard quarters

(dormitors) in "y" Building.

The headquarters

has two duis officers,

If hours on and 24 hours

not officially or visibir armed, bur may carry d

usually a pisitol, as say dGI officers do.

Nost of the pistols are U.S. 38-calibes, 15-callber, or Soviet

Red Star.

Emplojees in "s" Building an required to lock up all

documents and lock their room doors asy time the room is not

occupied.

Keys are deposited in a key room.

Secret Office,

on the second floor of the building, where docu-

cents of all kinds are kept.

Emplorees may borrow documents,

signing out for them, for the day; everything must be returned

each officer keeps his own files, locked

in a key-lock metal cabinet, in his out office.

4.

Origtnally a building pass was required for entry into "M"

to the building had a pass,

similar in appearance to a driver's licease.

in departments outside the

"N" Building compound, however, did

not all have passes, although some did.

"The difficulty of ob-

for entry into the building became so complicated'

that outside DGI emplojoes sometimes resorted to showing their

driver's licenses for admission, and successfully.

always confusion about entrances.

Fisilly the pass system became

that it was abolished altogether,

the compound is entirely on a basis of personal recognition by

the quards,

or, as noted above, by verification by telephone

an officer inside.

This applies bora to personnel

regularly

working in the building and to DGI employees from departments

outside the compound.

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The same system applies in the Departareato de Liberacion Nacional

(National Liberation Department - Ll) bailding.

DSE guards at the outside gato who chees all incoming persons.

If the guards do not recognizo a person, they telephone to whom-

ever the caller wishes to see in the building and obtaid: 'per-

mission to admit him.

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The LY Department also has a duty officer system, separate from

that of """ 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 bours like the main head-

quarters; because of operational necessity,

officers work when

they must. They are not paid overtime sid

are not required to

time and attendance records.

If shey are working during

meal hours, they receive food in the building; they do not have

their oin cafeteria but bring in food inn the Departamento

Escuelas Especiales (Department of Special Schools - EE): "

to December 1963, the Li and Illegal Repartments were combined

in a single unit known as the .. Section (Intelligence), which

occupied a large house at Calii s betters 5 and

no house number),

in the diramar district of Havana.

sonnel of the tuo elements shared offices indiscriminately, al-

though there was a difierentiation in their nork as to illegal

or guerrilla operations.

December 19i3, the two functions

were separated,

and the Ly Department mied to tio buildings at

6610 and 6612. 7th Avenue, between both sad 70th Streets, in the

Ampliacion de Almendares section of the kiramar District of Havana.

The Illegal Departsont remained in the Calle 9i house about une

month and then soved to a now,

unknowa.. leation in alturas del

Vedado section of liavand. The li Deparisat has about thirty

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members, besides tr. four DSE men.

The office at Calle do was

still unoccupied

in April 1964 but was guarded by two DSE men.

Vhfle the MA Section existod, 1t had a secret office like that

1n "1" Building,

but when the section divided, li did not

establish a new secret office ros itself.

only members of tho Dol are admitted to DGI official Installa-

membors of'other government security agencies

may enter the DGI buildings.

Any contact a Dil officer wishes

with any non-DGI emplojue must be made outside tre official

establishments.

The Dil has one of its regular officers (identity

unknown) stationed in the DSE headquarters to handle liaison.

DGI membor who has büsiness with the DSE applies to PINEIRO'S

srcretary, "Vidalira"

, who 1s the official cortact center in

GI headquarters, statino whom he wants to see ard why.

"Vidalina"

ets in touch with the Dal liaisor officer at DSE hoadquarters,

and arranges with him a cortact ir sour public place between the

of the two services.

¡ten the apcointuort is made,

"Vidallas" notifles cos oGi requesting officer, the DGI lialson

to the arrargements mad: for them.

to the above rule is Ramon VASQUEZ, who may be a rimber of the

Before 1961, VASQUEZ had an

extorsive acquaintance in the

the DSE was formed in 1961, he became a recruitor

of personnel for it.

From thore, because of his large number of

he extendid his services to the DGI, reporting to it any

persons he corsidiril siltable sor stalf employment.

It is not

cortair whether he ds a rosbor of the DSE, of the DGI, or of some

other agency, or whocker his astivities in this line

or unofiicial. At ary rate, he may enter the DGI offices when-

ever he wishes. He was trained in Moscow before April 1961 and

at the time of the Bay of Pigs was suddenly promoted from

Ilouterant to captain. in the G-2.

The DGI has an oifice to which parsons may apply for employment

and where new recruits are interviered.

It is in Edificio 51,.

on the 12th floor, at 13th and N, Vedado, Havana.

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