INFORMATION REPORT:POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND AFFILIATIONS IN THE DIRECCION GENERAL DE INTELIGENCIA (DGI)
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Document date: 06/01/1965
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Political Attitutes and

Affilsallons 1n the Direccion

Geraral de Inteligar.cla (DGI)

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE ORADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPENISAL OR CONTENT IS TEMTATIVE.

SOURCES

A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

SerVICe: until April 1964.

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Although there are many members of the Direccion General de.

Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence - DGI) who

appear interested in and favorable toward the Communist Party,

Source knows of only three persons who are actually members:

SAUl GONZALEZ, AlIas"Donis"; Manuel VEGA Perez, alias

Viera": and Felix SCARE%, alias

"Federico Santiesteban".

SUAREZ wIs a sort ci relitical adviser in the DGI operations

-departmerts, bu: Insislid to was not a commissar,

Although Source and the other officers

SUARE% by calling him

"Comisario", SUARE% greatly

resented the term and actually physically attacked Source for

Saturday morning at 8:30, SUAREZ held a

political indoctrination meeting which all personnel were

Scurce was habitually late to these

sessions, and although ho was given penaittes for his obvious

disaflection, he never paid any attention to them.

personnel Sourer knew wer perfectly willing to talk politics

among themselves

but in a rather desultory way; the discussions

never went on very lorg.

Apparently during 1962, there had been considerable sentiment

for Anibal ESCALATE and his faction, the Parrido Socialista

Popular (PSP),

but in 1964 the PSP group was disrupted and

he real loyalty was to Fidol CASTRO rather than to the Party.

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ESCALANTE, while he remalned In Cuba, wag apparently the

linison officer between the DGI and the PSP.

When ESCALANTE

left Cuba,

the liaison between the DGI and the PSP was

taken over by Ramiro VALDES,

ag a. CP member, and he was

described as a truc representative.

The DGI operated

strictly on orders from the Party, conveyed through VALDES.

Membership in the Partido Unido Revolucionaria Socialista

(PURS) made life easier and eniry into tho DGI more simple.

Between August 1963 and April 1964, all new personnel nirec

by the DGI came from the Union de Jovenes Comunistas Union

of Young Communists - UJC), which was PURS-ortented.

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