INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION CABLE: "RECALL OF PERSONNEL OF THE CUBAN DEPARTMENT OF DOS SECURITY WHO ARE STATIONED ABROAD"
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 11/12/64
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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RECALL OF PERSONNEL OF THE CUBAN DEPARTMENT

OF STATE SECURITY WHO ARE STATIONED ABROAD

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DATE ACQ. UNITED STATES, MIAMI (5 NOVEMBER 1964)

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• APPRAISAL: AN EDUCATED CUBAN RESIDENT IN HAVANA WHO WAS PROMINENT IN PRE-

CASTRO POLITICAL CIRCLES.

SOURCE HAS PROVED TO BE A RELIABLE

REPORTER. THE INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM LT. FERRERO.

1. AS OF 23 OCTOBER, MEMBERS OF THE CUBAN DEPARTAMENTO DE

SEGURIDAD DEL ESTADO (DSE, DEPARTMENT OF STATE SECURITY) WERE

BEING RECALLED FROM FOREIGN POSTS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO MONEY TO

PAY THEM, ACCORDING TO LIEUTENANT SEGUNDO FERRERO CUEVAS OF THE

DSE. LT. FERRERO SAID THAT THERE WERE ABOUT 800 DSE MEN OUTSIDE

CUBA, AMONG WHOM

WAS THE CHIEF IN MEXICO, WHO HAD TO RETURN FOR

THE SAME REASON. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: IF THIS FIGURE IS

CORRECT, IT MUSI REFER TO DSE AGENTS AS WELL AS OFFICERS.

(FIELD COMMENT: LI. FERRERO, FORMERLY A MEMBER OF THE SECRET

POLICE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE UNDER BOTH PRESIDENT GRAU AND

PRESIDENI PRIO, WAS KNOWY AS A SUPPORTER OF ERNESTO "CHE" GUEVARA

This materlal contains Informatlon affecting the Natlonal Delense of the United States within the meaning of the Esplonage Laws, Title

18, U.S.C. Sees. 793 and 794. the transmission

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SERNA UNDER THE CASTRO RÉGINE. THE DSE OFFICER REFERRED TO AS

"CHIEF" IN MEXICO MAY BE MANUEL EUGENIO VEGA PEREZ OR ALFREDO

MIRABAL DIAZ. SEE CSCI-316/00685-64, DATED 14 AUGUST 1964 :)

(HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: AS FAR AS IS KNOWN, MOST OF THE CUBAN

INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL STATIONED OUTSIDE CUBA ARE MEMBERS OF

THE DIRECCION GENERAL DE INTELIGENCIA (DGI, GENERAL DIRECTORATE

OF INTELLIGENCE), THE CUBAN FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE.

BOTH VEGA AND MIRABAL ARE MEMBERS OF THE DGI .)

2. FIELD DISSEM: CINCSO, CINCLANT, (ALSO SENT MEXICO CITY) .

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