INFORMATION REPORT- TELEPHONE SYSTEM IN THE DIRECCION GENERAL DE INTELLIGENCIA (DGI).
Originator: CIA
Document date: 06/02/1965
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CSCI-316/02300-65

2 June 1965.

Telephone System In the Direccion DATE DISTR

General de Inteligercla (DGI)

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THIS IS UNEVUATEL INFORMATION: SOURCE CRADINGS ARE DERINITIVE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

SOURCE:

A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Service until April 1964.

1.

In addition to the ordinary telephone systen in Havana, there 15

a government telephone systen which uses the exchange

name PIZARRA,

connecting all offices of government organizations and government-

sponsored enterprises.

Each goverrment office or enterprise has

at least on: PIZARRA telephone which is distinct from the regular

telephone system.

In the Direccion General de Intcligencia

(coneral Virectorate of Int=lligence - DGd Headquarters,

1s a PIZARRA colophore controlled by Manuel PINEIRO Losada's

"Vidalina",

"!!" building.

se the Dor wishes to call anyone on sensitive business through

the PILARRA exchang.,

he may either state his requirements to

make the call for him and report the informa-

ion back when she ras acquired it,

or go to "y" building and

make the call himself on

the PIZARRA telephone.

of PIÑEIRD's residence and offici,

where he has his own PIZARRA

telephone, no other Doi oifice has a PIZARRA telephone.

no directory for PIZARRA rumbers and it is not a dial system, but

works through a central switchboard with opcrators; it is con-

the caller picks up the telephone and gets an

operator on the contral Paladin switchboard; the caller asks for

the offter to which he wishes to speak, and, if he knows, asks for

the person to whom he wishis to speak.

A DGI officer whose office

0"181-2555) ar ask as Vidalida, Lato "S" building on the regular

2.

Each DGI office has a nunber of private (as opposed to PIZARRA)

telephones:

In

the Departamento de liberacion Nacional (National

Liberation Dipartmas! - L,

cutside the "M" building headquarters,

for example,

there ars six telephores.

From these telephones one

dials any number

in the telephone directory, private or a govern-

ment office nunber, direci.

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