THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE (DIRECCION GENERAL DE INTELIGENCIA - DGI).
Originator: CIA
Document date: 07/08/1964
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The Organization of

the General. DATE DiSTR

8 July 1964

Directorate of Intelligence

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SOURCE

A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intell1-

gence

Service until April 1964.

The following information, as reported

by source during a debriefing, includes a description of the

Geracere torate of break does erect senerarme

Intoligcacia - DGI!, a break-dora of each

departments,

the functions uf vach department, a diagram (Chart A)

of the

organization of the DGl, and a nap (Chart B) of the DGI com-

pound

in Habana.

1.

Introduction.

The Genernl Directorate of Intelligence (Direccion General de

Intelugencia - Dül)

Is the Cuban external intelligence agency,

rior), and

was established sometine in mid-l90l.

cerned

only with opprations abroad.

The collection of

intelligence nithin Cuba, counterintelligence, and security

are the responsibility of the Derartment of State Security

(Departamento

de Seguridad del Estado - DSE).

The two agorcies

are

irdependent but maintain laison and coordination on cer-

tain matters.

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The DGI, also krown as "M," of "I Department," is organized

under a director general and his deputy; its components are

a main headquarters with administrative

and personnel offices,,

eight departments, and the director's office (see organization

chart of page 11).

Henendez, the Minister of Interior,

It Is closely gonnected with Ramiro Valdes

and is also of continuing

interest

to Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and Ernesto "Che" Guavara.

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The Directus's Office.

The director general of the pGs is Manuel PINEIRO Lesada, known

•Red Beard"

ilarba roja).

is closely associated with

Ramire VALDES, to ulion he has direct access at any time; he 1s

required to report regularly to Fidel CASTRO and to coordinate

with him all expendituret

large sums; and he also has direct

contact with GUEVARA.

Raul CASTRO often visits PINEIRO's office:

his principal interest appoais so le the guerrilla schools (see

below, but he mas nave others in the DGI.

PINEIRO also handled

the principal contrets with

the soriet advisors of the DGI.

diroction if the DGI is handled shrough a deputy. bus he also

has direct contact as dosired with department chiefs and lower-

level porsonnel: chiefs of field stations report directly to him,

although other field-station

business is handled through the

departmonts responsible for field work.

PINEIRO himself has

trained some important agents in field work and has subsequently

acted as their handling officer.

PINEIRO has

his office in his residence at 4lst Avenue and

18th Street in the Niramar district of Habana..

There he keeps-

functional filos of everything concerniny the DGI: other files

individual sections are brought to him for review and then

returned to the department os section that maintains them.

There is a daily courier service between his house and the DGI

The house has at least two separate telephones,

one personal and one officlal, the latter providing direct com-

munication

numbers Is

29-1257 stovernment agencies.

One of the telephone

The outside entrance of the house always

two guards in olive green uniforms; they are probably from

In addition, PINEIRO las a bodyguard staff of six, also

the DSE. Three of them are always with nim on 24-

hour shifts: one acts as chauffeus when he goes out. while the

second cal.

He keeps three cars, all 1961

Oldsmobiles, one blue, one bolge, and one black.

In his home office PINEIRO has an aide, pseudonym "Castor, "6 who

handles the office work but does not attend private interviews.

In Cuba ho stays in the office and does nut accompany PINEIRO

When PINEIRO travels abroad,

"Castor'" aC-

compandes him, as for example

on his visit to Moscow in April

At the main DGI headquarters. PINEIRO also has a secre-

tary, pseudonym

"Vidalina," and a clerk-typist, pseudonym

"Zoraidn";

they occupy desks in the executive office of the DGI

deputy chief but work strictly for PINEIrO.

"Vidalina" handles

all incoming and outgoing correspondence and cable traffic and

listributes it both within DCI headquarters and abroad.

DGI Main Headquarters.

The main headquarters of the directorate is known as "Department

M" of the Ministiy of

Interior,

but very few people know any-

thing about it or are even aware of its existence.

a house and grounds which were formerly the property of the GOMEZ

It covers a whole city block bounded by 19th and

51st Avenues and 78th and 80th Streets in the Lorrazabal section •

of the Marianao suburb of Habana.

The block is a conpound sur-

rounded by a concrete wall, with trees planted completely around

There are two

entrances:

a main entrance with wooden

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gates located mat the center of the block on 80th street and a

back entrance

with steel doors located directly through the

block on 78th Strcet.

The main entrance is manned by guards

armed with PPShA machineguns; the rear entrance is kept locked

and is used only in emergencies. No pass or identification is

required to enter the grounds.

The headquarters compound (see diagram on page 15) contains dil

except PINEIRO's home office, the thiee opera-

tional departments. and the Special Schools Department. describec

The main building,

called M Building.

is situated near

the center of the compound but off the main axis between the

It houses most of the offices in its two stories and also

contains a canteen; public telephones, and a police radio for the

city ard the Ministry of Interior.

There are no large assembly

rooms; conferences are held in small rooms.

Within the compound,

separated from

Building by driveways and parking lots, are

several other structures:

a. A two-story building housing the Personnel Department on the

first floor and the Inspection Department on the second.

b. Three one-story service buildings: a guard office with

sleeping quarters for 20 to 25 guards, a food-storage vare-

house, and a clothing-storage warehouse.

The guard office

and the Personnel-Inspection building flank the main entrance

on 80th Street.

c.

A two-story building, in the angle of the grounds formed by

78th Street and 49th Avenue, housing the Technical Operational

Support Department.

Two of

its sections, the Photographic

Laboratory and the Concealment Device Section, occupy indi-

vidual buildings in the compound.

General administration of the DeI is

where PINEIRO's deputy, (fnu) CHAIN, handled from the M Building,

pseudonym "Agusto," has

his office.

Besides acting as director general when PINEIRO is

away from Cuha. CHAIN is responsible specifically for management

of large expenditures,

South American affairs, and the approval

of false passports for travelers.

in pseudonym, all

notices and circulars issued to the directorate.

"Georgina."

CHAIN's office,

through "Vidalira,"

distributes cable traffic to the DGI departments.

outgoing cable traffic and diplomatic pouch traffic are received

at this office from the Central Ciphering Service (Servicio

Central de Cifrados - SCC), which is a

communal coding and de-

coding service operated by the USE.

CHAIN's office apparently

also acts as a receiving and distributing center for clandestine

radio traffic but does not itself send or receive radio messages;

the actual transmission is possibly controlled by the Communist

Directly under the deputy director are two administrative depart-

büilding in tne

Inspection (Departamento de Inspeccion) 'The Personnel Department,

headed by pseudonym

"Pelayo," which handles all matters concerning

staff member administration

stsmissel, social security, ee so os abort ia or is membero

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The Inspection Department, headed by pseudonym "Dario," which is

responsible for discipline in the directorate and for

tions of staff personnel, probably befor? hiring, has 10 to 12

Both department chleis are probably former members of

the DSE, and sone oi the öffice staff are also forger DSE members.

Soviet Advisors.

10.

Attached to the DGi headquarters is a group of Soviet advisors,

who occupy offices 1a M Building.

Their presence and identitles

aro kept as secret as-possible, even agorg the officers who work

wIth them, and they are known only by pseudonyns:

They have

especially close contacts with Manuel PINEIRO and CHAIN, 'and

with the Illegal Departuent, whose officers can consult directly.

with then at any tine.

Ordinary desk officers in

other depart-

can consult the

Soviet idvisors only at their offices. in

i Bullding, where no special security precautions are observed,

but they do not see nuch of them except when visiting the

Illegal Departnent whea the advisors are working there. The

Soviets can visit any department whenever they wish.

1l.

Information obtained by DGI agents abroad can be passed to the

Sovfet advisors.8

The five known are the following;

8.

"51 Frances" (The Frenchnan), PINEIRO's personal advisox.,

is apparently the chief Soviet advisor in Cuba.

an office in M Building and frequently visits PINEIRO's

He sas born between 1909 and 1914; is about five

seven inches tall and of mediun build; has very grey

hair; has blue eyes with bags under then; and wears at all

times gold-framed glasses with small-to-medium round. lenses.

fairly good.

He has a car assigned by the

Cuban government and drives it binself.

b.

A Soviet man,

name unknown, accompanies "5l frances.". He

eight inches tall, is of nediun to thin build,

weighing about 145 pounds,

and is clean shaven.

An officer

who saw him frequently at DGI headquarters hever heard him

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c.

"Juan," who shares an l Building office with "El Frances"

but works principally in the Illegal Department, 1s the

consultant on illegal operations their entry and cover, and

directs the recruitment

and handling of agents, arranges

At one time. he spent about six nonths in

France; the gereral impression 1s that be was there as an

illegal resident rather than in the Soviet Emtassy.

speaks excellent Spanish with very little accent zn0 ap-

parently has known the language a loug tibe.

He too has a

car assigned by the Cuban government and drives it hiaself.

Ho was born between 1919 and 1324 and 1s an active, athletic

nan, about six foet tall and weighing a husky 200 pounds,

asth brue short-clipper mustache te wears low on his lip.

He looks young, althrugh als hair 1s gray,

d.

&. Soviet wonan,

Technical Oparazional Support (4i).

1929 and 1931,

stout but not fai, has blue eyes ard sirast shoulder-length

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nanA unknown, works in ins Dapartmeat of

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merlean Coupertes usually goes first to Mexico and is forwarded

Mesico is also a

meeting place for operations of-

ficers from Cuba and agents from Contral and South America;

Canada similarly serves as a ceting place for agents from the

United States.

Legal field stations do not

normally deal with

illegal agents except in a great emergency.

In all legal field stations. the DGI representative is charged.

with keeping track of, checking, and reporting on the political

activitics of the other members

of the mission to which he is

attached.

DGI officers also assist with the political classes

and lectures held periodically for members of the mission, but

this is a task shared by all mission members and is not assigned

to nny officer specifically.

Physical security, such as techni-

cal cxamination of Cuban premises for audio surveillance devices,

is not a DGI responsibility; it is performed by the DSE.

In countries with which Cuba does not have diplomatic relations,

DGI activities are handled by agents stationed permanently in

the country as

and

illegal agents

as members of Communist Parties

leftist groups.

Their assignments are sabotage.

subversion,

selection and training of guerrilla warfare candidates and other

agents or

groups in Latin America primarily.

The DGI regards

Guatemala and Venezuela as the

which its opcrations

have been

nost successful.

{jeld operations are run from

Cuba oi from an adjacent country.

The Department of Legal Centers (Departamento Centros Legales -

The MS department is headed by pedro FaRINas Diaz.

donym "Otoniel," and has a staff of 15 to 20 persons.

offices are

the. M Building compound,

of 31st Avenue and 64th Street in the Marianao

The department is in charge of the field

as legal centers, in cach country with which

Cuba has diplomatic relations or

where she mintains commercial

missions.

Its personnel are not assigned abroad as a rule:

they act as the service group at headquarters for field person-

nel diawn from any part of the DGI

Field station chiefs, as

noted above, report directly to PINEIRO; the MS Department takes

care of all paper work for the field stations, including photo-

graphing incoming and outgoing documents; maintaining files of

field correspondence; and handling coded radio communications.

Coded radio messages prepared by desk officers are photographed

and sent to the field on microfilm and messages on microfilm

received from the field are decoded and passed to the proper

department; MS does not do the decoding itself.

The department

does not have its own radio station.

It does not run any agents

abroad; it does, however, assign dead drops

use to field agents, mostly those of the Illegal Department.

The Illegal Department (Depirtamento Ilegal). The department is

headed by pseudonym

"Lucio

who directs operations rather than

dealim directly with agents: his deputy is Santiago PEREZ, pseu-

The staff of about 20 persons is responsible for

"illegal" agents.

that is. agents of all nationalities

whose activities and connections with Cuba are secret.

The de-

partment recruits the agent; arranges for his training. means

of clandestine cormunication, and travel to his assigned area;

and thereafter directs, supports, and maintains communication

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reddish brown hair.

She is ugly and dowdy, wearing low heels

and a Soviet-style dress. like a peasant's.

e.

A Soviet man.

name unknoum: works on South American opera-

tions in the illegal Doparemont.

Operational Departments.

Of the eight departments making up the headquarters, three are

four are concerned with operitional support or

training, and one is administrative.

The three operational de-

Legal Centers (Contros Legales - NS). Illegal

(Ilegal), and Natiónal Liberation (Liberacion Nacional - LN);

the last two were formerly a single department, known as NA

(Intclligence)..

All three departments handle operations abroad

for the purpose of collecting information on the host country,

promoting Cuban political aims, and conducting subversive ac-

tivities.

Their operations are distinguished by two factors,

legal connectiors and Communist Party-leftist group liaison.

The Departmen: of Legal Centors is responsible for operations

conducted through Cuban official missions in countries with which

Cuba has diplomatic relations and has normally nothing to do with

illegal agents. The other two departments handle illegal agents,

both in countries with which Cuba has relations and in those with

which she has none.

• The Illegal Department has no connection

with Communist Parties or organized leftist groups abroad; the

National Liberation Department deals mainly with such parties

and groups; the Department of Legal Centers may work with them

or unilaterally.

All three departments are organized in geo-

graphical divisions with area

desks for each country within

their respective fields

or

responsibility; there is thus some

overlapping in desk coverage.

The DGI has two types of overseas intelligence operations (as

distinct from guerrilla warfare operations

paragraphs 19 and

legal field stations and illegal agents.

The legal field station exists in every country with which. Cuba

has diplomatic relations; its personnel are members of the local

Cuban diplomatic, consular, or trade mission.

selected from all parts of the DGI organization; no distinction

is made,

for example, between officers from

the Illegal Depart-

ment and the National Liberation Department, but each person

assigned

overseas performs whatever duties

requires.

Field starion chiefs report directly to PINEIRO, but

administration goes through other

channels,

as explained below.

Field

stations valy

depending

on local objectives and

the quality of diplomatic relations.

In Soviet Bloc countries,

for example, field stations are usually small, with only one or

two officers, who have no intelligence collection or similar

responsibility but are ciarged principally with aiding travelers

to Cuba and with liaison with the local intelligence service.

In countries outside the Soviet Bloc, legal field stations have

various responsibilities; in Latin America, their principal ac-

tivities are promotion and direction of subversion and sabotage

and arransements for suerrilla warfare.

The largest field

station is in Mexico, which is important because it is a major

transit point for both personnel and materials, and because it

is a contact point for any lottist organization of any country

which has representatives in Nexico.

Material for other latin

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with him throughout his active tenuro:

It does not deal with

members of Communist Parties

or leftist organizations.

persons in contact with official Cuumn personnel abroad.

the responsibilitios of other departments; the mechanies of com-

munication are alia handled elsewhere.

Agents are stationed in

all coriatoo miere cuoa 1s interested in collecting information,

penctrating the government, or coaducting subversare operations,

in Europe and Contral and South America. The department has no

agents in Asian oi

the Unlted Stites: I§frican countries, and no agents are known in

Agents once trained usually remain perma-

nently abroad. If they are in an area where there is a legal

field station, they do nut normally have any contact with its

The Illegal Departmont is divided into three main geographical

sections, cach subdivided into country desks, as follows:

a ;

Section A, Europe, chief unknown; under this section there

lo desks for all countries.

b.

Section B, Central America, chief Ramon Cesar CUENCA Montoto

(no pseudonym), who was

formerly stationed in Mexico.

deputy is pseudonym

Country desks include Costa

Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico,

Nicaragua, Panama, and El Salvador.

Section personnel in-

officers Fernando PASCUAL Perez, pseudonym

Saul GONZALEZ, pseudonym

"Alejandro";

pseudonym

"Maurieto"; Rafael GUZMAN,

"Hilfredo";

(Inu), pseudonym

"Olexis"; and Francisco (Inu), pseudonyn "Tino."

Their desk assignments were not known.

Section C, South America, chief unknown.

Country desks in-

clude Argentina, Bolivia,

Brazil, Chile, Colombia. Ecuador,

Paraguay,. Peru,

Venezuela, and

British Guiana.

in the section

were pseudonym "Ulises," formerly

perhaps in Chile, and pseudonym

"Juan Carlos,"

in Peru.

Both were returned to Cuba for discipli-

they may have been assigned to the desks for

the countries where they had served.

The National Liberation Department (Departamento de Liberacion

Nacional - IN.

The department has no chiel; otficers wishing

advice consult Major Guillermo JIMENEZ, pseudonym "Javier," who

is head uf the Central American Section of the department. or,

in his absence, go directly to Manuel PINEIRO or his deputy,

The department offices occupy two two-story buildings at

5610 and 6612 7th Avenue, between Ooth and 70th Streets, in the

Ampliacion de Almendares

section of the Miramar district of

The department, which is one of the largest in the dgI,

is responsible for promotion and dircction of revolutionary ac-

tivity, including guerrilla warfare.

It acts mostly in coopern-

tion with Communist Parties or organized leftist groups. but

conducts some operations unilaterally without local coordination.

Among its activities are the recruitment, arrangement of travel

co and from Cuba and training in Cuba, and the direction and

support of guerrilla fighters in its target countries. Since

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Cuba is not concerned with revolutions in Furopean, Aylan, or

Attican countries. It concentrates

mustly on latin Ameriran

gorerments. crcept these that maintain diplomatic relations

with Cal.

Althoual the dupartment has so African

interests,

zanzilnis were trained in Caba; the arrancements were handled

outside the DGI by Fidel CASTRO himself, with tho participation

of Manuel PINEIRO.

In addition to its guerrilla work, the

departmont, without the knowledge of the Communist Partley or

groups with which

1l cooperates, recruits aud arrangos training

of agents to collect information

in the taryet countries.

didates for such intolligence agents are gucrrilla warfare

trainees. of persons proposed by the operational support depart

(NO Department and the BC Soction of the Si Dopartmen't

The Li Department Is divided Into three sections,

one support

and administrative, the other two geographical with country

desks.

b.

Rafael (lnu), pseudonym

the administrative

office fus the IN Department and the only office in the DGI

handling travel arrangements.

It plans and arranges travel

for DGI staff officers of all depaitments, agents, and

trainees, furnishes opcrational funds for travel, and makes

the netual travel reservations and provides plane tickets

for travolers.

It also obtains passports in false names for

Cuban staff mombers, issues Cuhan passports in false names

to agents, and obtains visas from the Czechoslovakian Embassy.

In agent travel, it works closely with the Cuban Institute

of Friendship with Peoples (Instituto Cubano del Amistad con

lus PucUlos - ICAP), which arranges Some aspects of travel

for trainees.

The section chief has his office in the Ln

Department but works mainly from the DGI headquarters in M

Building; his wife. Elva

(Inu), pseudonym "Elisa," is a

in the LN Department.

The section staff consists of

administintion chief Eulogio PONS, pseudonym "Eloy"; his

assistant, pseudonym

"Henry";. an

olfice clork, Carmen

CARRACEDO, "Paul," and pseudonym

proudonym "Mercedes"; two drivers,

Juan PEREZ,

"Manuol"; and Folix Rafael's

secretary, pseudonym

"Norma, "and

assistant, Diaco or brague

ESCALANTE,

pseudonym "Ciro."

Contral American Section (Secelon Contral) is supervised by

Najor Guillermo JINENEZ, who is head of the Department of

Services (SI) and acts as advisor to the entire

LN Department. The section organizes and directs guerrilla

activities in the Central American and Caribbean countries.

Its case officers trequently trave! to tiell operational arcas

co divoct activities and arrange for funds, arms supplies,

and other support to agents; agent neutings are ofton hold

third country, especially Mexico.

Operations are handled

or a cast basis, each case being a separate project starting

with selection and training of agents and continuing through

guerrilla warfare action in the target area.

The section

has the tollowing

arta desks:

(1)

Costa Rica, headed by Oscar GARCIA Manzano, pseudonym

"Orlando."

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Dominican republic, Moaded by Robirto Lazaro

SANTIESTERIY Casanosa, pseudons "Rafael," who was

formerly at the United Nations in New York and was

arrested

for attempting sabotage.

(3) Guatemala, headed by Norberto HERNANDEZ. pseudonym

"Nuel," assisted by an apprentice, (Inu) PENA, pseudonym

"Lorenzo."

As noted above, the Guatemalan operations

are considored among the most successful in Central

America.

(4)

Ha1t1, headed by Andres ARMONA Ramos, pseudonym "Ernesto, "

formerly commercial attache 1a doxico but not likely to

receive another field assignment becauso of problems

during his service there.

(5)

Honduras, headed bj Felix SUAREZ, pseudonym "Santiesteban."

(6) Nicarague.

(7) Panama, headed by Fernando RAVELO, pseudonym "Fermin."

(8) El Salvador.

South America Section (Seccion Sur) has no regular chief, but

the GI deputy,

CHAIN, directs its retivitios.

It deals with

guerrilla

activities in South American countries. There are

lesks for:

(1) Argentina, headed by Oreste VALERA.

(2) British Guinna, headed by ({nu) GINES, pseudonym "Gil,"

assisted by two apprentices, pseudonyns "Jorge" and

"Rudy."

3) Colombia, headed by Raul VIERA Linares, pseudonym "Gomez,

formerly

stationed in Bolivia, fiom which he returne

at the

end

of 1963,

but unlikely to receive anothe

for-

ign assignment because of difficulties in the field

(4)

(5)

(6)

Ecuador, headed by pseudonym "Jullo."

Paraguay, headed by pseudonym "Salvano."

headed by (fnu) JOA, pseudonym "Jordan," assisted

by an apprentice, pseudonym "Bernabe."

(7)

covery of documents fiom a plane crash in Peru, which

led to his expulsion from Chile.

His assistants are

Benito (Inu), pseudonym "Saul," and pscudonym "Gary";

his secretary is pseudonym

"Narcia."

The DGl considers

its Venezuelan operations the must successful in South

America.

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22.

23.

Operational Support Departments.

The operational support departments of the DGI are Technical

Operational Support (NI). Illegal Centers (MO). Special Schooly

(FE), and Information Services (SI). Ther handle such functions

as spotting prospective agents, providing operational information,

training both intelligence agents and guerrillas, providing chan-

destine communications between headquarters and agents in tho

field, procuring operational funds and supplies, etc.

The Department. o5 Illegal Centers (Departamento Centros. Ilegales' -

N0).

The depariment is not. as

its name implies, concerned

with

operation of illugal field stations, but is an information col-

lection and agent candidate spotting department. It has three

major responsibilitles:. collection of information from foreigners

visiting Cuba; assessment of visiting foreigners for candidates

for intelligence agents; and screcning of letters from abroad

volunteering

information, both to extract any useful data and to

assess the wilters as possible candidates for intelligence

use.

'Among visiting foreigners, the MO Department does not concern it-

self with diplomats, they are left to the DSE; nor with foreigners

who are established residents of Cuba, who are the responsibllity

of the Colonial Burcau

(see below).

In debriefing foreign v1s1-

tors, the department often works through ICAP, which makes arrange-

ments for many visits to. Cuba; in many instances,

the visitors

supply

information unwittiugly and are never aware that they are

in contact with Cuban

intelligence.

The MO Department does not

itself recruit agents; it only

watches for, screens, and evaluates

foreign contacta as agent candidates.

If the persons it selecte

are mombers of a

Conmunist Party or leftist organization. they

nre referred to the LN Dupartment; if they are not members of

• such gloups,

they are referred to the Illegal Department; one

of those two units does the aclual recruiting.

The Department of Special Schools (Departamento Escuelas

Especinles - ME).

This department is responsibic for training

In vuerrilla warfare and related subjects.

It is headed by Luis

PIREZ, pseudonym

"Bruno Diaz," who is a DGI officer but also a

captain in the Cuban Army.

le has a deputy, pseudonym

"Aristides"; an office nssistant, pseudonym

"Armando"; and a

"Garcii."

The department staff, numbering

of Cuban Army personnel on

assignment to the DGI; they are directed by the DGI

which also provides all sup-

port for the dupartment.

The main office of the EE Department,

which is mainly administrative,

Is a residence at 178th Street

ind and 3ist Avenuc, telephones 21-8126 and 21-8262, in the

Training

in the western part of the Arroyo Arenas section, one in the

western part of the San Agustin

section, and one in the area

bounded by 214th and 226th Streets and 7th and 15th Avenues in

the Biltmore section.

In addition there are technical training

schools

(Escuclas Entrenaniento Tecnico) on East Street between

Parque and 37th Streets In the Alturas del Vedado section of

Ha bana,

where Vonezuelans and Salvadorans have been trained,

and on

26th Street between Ist and 3rd Avenues in the Miramar

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The schools aire mildlary courses of all types. lasting

six months, depending on the subjoct matter: all instruc-

tors are Culan Army personnel.

No Culans

are trained in the

schools, only foreigners: these are kept separate ly nationality.

During training. students are

observed and assessed for possible

intelligence agents: those

individual training from die NI Department.

The Department of Technical Operational Support ivi).

no Spantsh title. only aT. This department is lasically re-

sponsible for training individual intelligence agents and pro-

riding them technical operational support such as clandestine

communtentions systems. false documents, ete.: it also provides

techniel support to DGI staff members.

The department chief is

•Guillermo ARASTAGUIA, pseudonym "Rene.

who was fornerls the sec-

retary of Remi'" VALDES.

There are about 80 emplojees. including

a main offico staff. consisting of a secretary, pseudonym "Nayra";

two assistants, pseudonyms

"Carmen" and "Maria Anionia"; and ai

administrative

officer, pseudonym "Victor."

The NI Department

receives requents for training or support from the operational

departments; etves the training or provides or arranges for the

support outside the operational department framerork: and con-

tinues

to procery technical communications for the departments

after

the agents have bone

into the

• nothing to do with the direction of agents; it is only a training

and support mechanism.' The Ni Department also does not supply

equipment, for example, for clandestine radio communication,

but tells agenty what to procure and lets them make

purchases

in their home countries with funds supplied by the

operational department directing them.

department of the DGI. MI has most of

nical cquipment, which it services and repairs in its own es-

tablishment, the buildings within the M Building compound.

kinds of professional tochnicians

and semi-skilled laborers are

available for such dutles: they are all Culans.

The MI Department has five sections, with the following

responsibilities:

2.

Chemeal Laboratory (Laboratorio Quimice a L4). La, which

is headed by pseudonym

"Contreras,

secret wilting systems and

any other type of conmunications

or operaltonal support requiring chemical action or analysis.

the systems or devices, it does

not train agents.

but forwards the material to the training

sertion, which

then instructs the agent.

LQ also services

messages in secret writing for the operational departments.

b. Photographic Laboratory (Iaboratorio Fotografico - LF). LF

is hoaded by pseudonym

"Nedina" and has a photographer,

pseudonym "Boltran."

It takes photographs for uperational

duruments such as false passports and identity cards and

prepares both photographs and pages of documents where changes

are needud. In addition, it provides microdot and microfilm

systems for clandestine communications and processes in-

coming and outgoing microdot and microfilm messages.

c.

Technical Training Section (Seccion Tecnica - ST). The chief,

who is also an instructor. is pseudonym "Tealaldo." The

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person in charge of

is pseudonym

"Aldo, „radio training, also a radio instructor.

Section is responsible for

training agents in any technical field, such as communica-

¡ion by scuici mition, miciodul or miclofalm, radio sending

and receiving, codes, etc.

The section has a

training radio

station but does not

handle actual radio communications to

and from agents in the field.

d. Travel and Passport Section (Vial To 55 porte).

The section

nas only one officer, pseudonym

" who provides travel

for all personnel of the directorate,

agents and staff, such as extra Cuban

passports, forged pass-

ports of other countries, other identification documents,

and other necessary papors.

He makes false entries in pass-

ports. such as arrival and departure stamps for, points out-

side Cuba.

e.

Concealment Device Section (Seccion Embutido - EMB).. The

chief is pseudonym "Maceo."

The ElB Section is responsible

for providing any sort of concealment device required for

agent activities.

especially those permitting the agent to

with him on his travels instructions,

information, or

small objects so that they are not discovered in customs

other examination.

It also provides concealment devices

the forwarding of

microfilm or other clandestine materials.

Department of Information Services (Departamento Servicios de

Informacion

The SI Department is headed by Major Guillermo

pseudonym

STENEZ' (after PINEIRO and

"Javier," the third most important person in

who also directs some

Li Department operational activities.

The department is responsi-

collecting information and

in every field affecting the security

It has three sections:

a .

Operational Information Section (Seccion Informacion

Operativa - I0).

section, which has about 12 members,

collects all information necessary for placing and maintaining

an agent in a foreign country,

such as the travel and identity

b.

and up-to-date information on the general situation in each

country where the DGI operates or plans to operate.

operational and other departments evaluate information they

acquire and send to the IO Section of the SI Department what-

ever they think useful; the IO Section issues no formal re-

quirements.

Most of the information comes from the Illegal

but the iS Department may also supply

information.

ind Li Departmene lo Section sometimes debriefs staff members

returning from foreign tou's or short trips for operational

information or data on foreign governments, but it does not

lebrief agent trainees arriving in Cuba. It has one other

function.

the publication of false information on pesple

and countries.

One of its members

is a translator, Antonio

CARCEDO Ferrer, pseudonym "Andres."

colonial Bureau (Buro Colonial - BC), formerly called th

jOI Section.

The BC is responsible for assessing foreig

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residents in Cuba as potential agent candidates: like the

NO Department, it does not recruit agents itself but merely

rejers them to the proper operational department.

reillance of foreigners in Cuba and obserration and penetra-

tica of hostile groups is not part of the BC responsibility,

but is a function of the dSE.

c.

The Xap Section (Seccion Cartografia!.

Kith about 10 members,

it collects and maintains maps of all areas in which the DgI

has an interest, including country maps, town plans, and

special regional maps.

General Adninistration Department.

The General Administration Department (Departamento Administra-

cion General) is headed by pseudonym

"Joa quin"

of 15 tó 20 persons, including pseudonym "Sergio."

administration of all aspects of the DGI except staff personnel

which are the responsibility of the Personnel and In-

spection Departments: The department aiso controls workshops

"or the maintenance and repair of DGI equipment, principall.

ehicles; it does not work on the machines used by the technical

sections; which.attend to their own maintenance and servicing.

In addition to its overall administration office, the department

has sir sections,

one for each of the departments except EE: MI

MS, NO,

Illegal,

N. and SI, to take care of their administration

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COOZiL LIRECTORTE Ca INTELLIUO.O0

(ERECUICY GENERIL DE INTEILIGNNGIS - AGI)

Locate 1a to Larrasabel Sector, P'arlazao, Habana

85uk Street

Yain Entranco (Giercod)

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1.

2.

3.

Headjuarters_ Conments

The DGI was

probably established in the sonoral reorgantration

of cuban intolliyonce sorvices

besun with the establishment of

the dinistry of Interior in une lofl and continued for several

de linda calde all cuban Intelligence agencies

were put under the new civilian mintstry, and the former G-2

overall intelligence organization, which was inder milttary con-

trol, also was civilianized as the Dupartmont of State Secrrity

The Internal and exterual intelligonce services were ap-

parertly sepaïated at that line: previously they had both been

handled by G-2.

Öther aspects

of the DGI such as operations will be discussed

in subequent reports.

Ramiro FALDES

has been head of Cuhan Intolligence since 1959;

vefore June 1961. he was head of G-2. but with the

ostablishment

of the Ministry of Interior he was appointed minister.

He. hag-

•continued to devote special attention lo intelligence activities

in that capacity..

4.

PINEIRO is

cuba foreian steerienced intel loane officers associated with

5. This number is not listed in the dabina 1962 tolephone directory.

6.

IGI orficers are normally known by pseudonyms rather than true

result, source know many of his colleagues only by

pseudoam and nover heard their true names.

Montoto, a section chief in the Illegal Department, is known by

true naue and apparently does not have a pseudonym, and PINEIRO

15 knowa by

true name.

7.

CHAIN is probably Army Captain Chrlos Sixti CHAIN Scler, an intel-

ligence officer

who served in Washington, D.C., as a member

the Culan Mission to the Orgarization of

American States in 1961

and carly 1962; the mission was withdrawn in carly 1962.

8.

Source had no information about Soviet operations in latin

America.

9.

10.

The Soviet Bloc countries with which Cuba maintains relations are:

Albania,

Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary,

and Yugoslavia.

Asia: Communist China. Mongolia, Jorth Korea, and North Vietnam.

The non-Bloc countries with which Cuba maintains diplomatic rela-

tions are:

Austria, Belgium, Denmark. Finland, France. Greece,

Iceland, Italy. Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway,

portugal, Spare. Sweden. Switzerland, and the United

are also. Cuban missions to the Vatican

and to the United Nations European Office in Geneva.

Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Isracl, Japan, Lebanon,

and Pakistan.

Algeria, Ghana.

Guinea. Vali, Morocco, Tanganjika, and

the United Arab Republic.

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North America: Canada.

United Nations

There 1s also a Cuban Nission to the

in New York.

Central America and Caribbean: Mexico and Jamaica.

South

America:

Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, and British Gulana (a

trade mission).

Brazil, which had maintained

relations with Cuba until mid-lay 1961, broke

them following the ousting of GOULART and the

change of government in April 1964.

11. The only regular air connection betweer Cuba and the Hestern

Hemisphere

ly the schedule maintained by the official Cuban air-

11nc, Cubana (Empresa Consolidada Cubana de Aviacion - ECCA),

or three times a week to Mexico.

There are also charter

f11ghts to Canada, but they are principally for cargo.

12.

Agent activities in Latin America will be discussed in subse-

quent reports.

13.

•Source knew almost nothing about operations in Puerto. Rico,

Canada, and at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in Nev

York.

14.

Relations botween Cuba and Peru were broken in 1960.

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