INFORMATION REPORT- SILVIO CASTILLOS HURTADO.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 09/23/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Serviçe until April 1964.

Headguarters Comments

The following report is one of a series containing personality

information provided

by the source and includes supplemental

Information from the records of this agency.

It is requested that the addressees take no action on any of

the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without

first checking with this Agency.

Silvio CASTILLOS Hurtado was born between 1924 and 1929

in Las Villas Province.

is five feet nine inches tall.

about 150 pounds, is a mulatto,

and wears glasses. CASTILLO:

resides at Linea

and 6th Streets, Vedado, Habana.

Source first met CASTILLOS in 1956. CASTILLOS was

affiliated with the 26th of July Movement.

After BATISTA's

overthrow, CASTILLOS became a captain in the Cuban Rebel

was assigned to the San Ambrosio Fort (Cuartel de

San Ambrosio) as Chief of the Xilitary Tailoring. He was

later transferred to the General Staff and the last that

source heard of CASTILLOS, he

ras working for the Departamento

de Seguridad del Estado (Departent of State Security - DSE),

but source did not know his duties.

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Source insists that Silvio CASTILLOS Hurtado 1s

Identical with Silvio GARCIA Hurtado. 1, 2,3,4

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=Ilitary stuff personnel comprising the Intelligence Department,

G-2, of the Cuban Ministry of the Armed Forces (MINFAR).

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SIlViO GARCIA Hurtado was on the list with the rank of privato.

An untested source in a report dated 20 August 1962, stated that

ore Captain Silvio CASTILLO

the time of the report, training

seventy Yenezuelans

in guerrilla warfare at an unidentified camp

Although the source of this information was

"untested" at the timo of the report, he has since been

re-evaluated as "fairly rellable.")

3.

In a report dated 7 April 1964, a Cuban national, untested, tho

worked as an accountant auditor at the llilados y Tejidos Planos

textile factory in Habana until December 1963, when ho resigned,

a.: fled Cuba in March 1964, gave the following information on

Salvio CASTILLO:

Rebel Army Captain Silvio CASTILLO was a Departamento de

Seguridad del Estado (Department of State Security - DSE)

agent and investigator who worked at the DSE Headquarters

at old Colegio Marista, Reparto Sevillano, Habana.

He was a

native of source's hometown, Calabazar de

Sagua, Las Villas.

an active supporter

of the 26th of July Movement before

the present government.

Source knew that CASTILLO had arrested

many people who

were later executed.

was single, born about

192%, was five fect eight inches tall, 160 pounds,

and black wavy hair. CASTILLO lived at Calle Linda and

Calle C, Vedado, Habana.

4.

In June 1964,

an untested source reported the following information

on Captain Silvio CASTILLO Hurtado:

CASTILLO, a nulatto,

was born in Calabazar de Sagua about

a member of the Autentico Party and a former

bodyguard for Senator AGUILERA of Las Villas. CASTILLO fought

against BATISTA, was imprisoned at the Principe Prison, and

released in 1959 when CASTRO assumed power.

stationed at Camp San Ambrosio and was commissioned a licutenant,

in 1960 he was promoted to captain.

lie has a sister,

who is a nurse at the Hospital de Mazorra in Habana. His

of the Constitutional Army.

to be a Communist or pro-Castro.

Source did not consider CASTILLO

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