INFORMATION REPORT:RECRUITMENT AND HIRING PROCEDURES OF THE DIRECCION GENERAL DE INTELIGENCIA (DGI)
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Document date: 06/02/1965
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Recruitment and Hiring Procedures DATE DISTR 2 June 1965

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Inteligencia (DGI)

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8 July 1961 RETURNTO CIA

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SOURCEI

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A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cubar Intolligence ,

Service until April 196%.

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One day In 1963, Source met in Havana "Moro" MANIFF,

friend silice 1955, and complained thil he was tirra of his job

the Ministry of Exterior Comerer and Wanted to make

change, soNIfe said he would do somehort about it.

three doys later.

ROMA VASQUEL MontEngro,

source had krown at the Mistilry of Industry, camo to

see

Source, saying that MANIFF had monstened that Source was having

trouble with the militia and wanted to change jobs.

VASQUEL

promised to telephone the following duy and did so, arranging

to pick up source:

Thry drove around through Vidado

ingether while:

VASQUEl ofiered Sourer a job in esplorag: and

counter-1ntellegtr.ce.

source asked lor a little time to think

over the situation.

Tri following diy VAsQuEl telephored Source

and the day

after that YaSQuez called on Source prisonally to

uige him do nicept: souter decidd ha had britter do so and agreed.

Thereupon

Saul COYZAild brought Souter a persoral-history state-

ment form of three or four strets, which source filled out.

The

form

included full name,

date aid plice of birth, physical

description,

data on relatives (parents, brothers, and sisters),

and

addresses at which he had lived toi

GONZALEZ told Source

10 have no more worries akour his troubles

with the militia.

Thres or sour doys later Source went so the

Ministry of Interior for sire-rpriuldng.

a doctor for i physical exariration but nevor did so, and ap-

parently no one checked ui on him.

Thrue or four days later,

GONZALEd picked Source up and drove lim directly to tre Head-

quarters of the Direccion Geraral de Inteligencia (6a7+r.1)

Directorate of Intelingence - dull.

At the DGI Headquard:rs

Sourco saw several old arquaintinen, including Fernardo PASCEAL

Perez, Ramon Cesar CUENCA liontoto, 'and others.

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is soon as source was taken to the DGI Headquarters, Source was

cold to choose a pseudonin.

After source chose the pseudonym

"ictor FERNANDEZ"

sorberto HERNANDEZ Curbelo, who was then in

carge of the Departamento de Liberacion Nacional (National

Liberat.don

Department - Li) operations for Contral America under

cãe 34i Section, sent a memorandum to the DGI Personnel Depart-

ment elving the pseudonga as belonging to Source.

The actual

forwarding memorandum was sent by

the Secret Office.

This was an

because payrolls vere always made out in pseudonym.

The normal pseudonym consists of a siven name and a surname, and

used by the given name, surname, or both together.

mach officer chooses his oun pseudony, thore 1s sometimes dupli-

cation, with two persons choosing the same name.

happens nothing is done if the two persons aro working in different

departments of the DGI.

II: for any reason there 15à shift in

personnel which brings the two persons with the same pseudonyms,

first or last names,

Into the same department, one or the other

wall havo to change his pseudony in order to avold confusion.

3.

Innediately upon Joining the DGI, Source was assigned to the

Salvador Desk in

the Seccion Central (Central American Section)

of the LN Department, where he continued to work.

He was started

at once on rending the desk opcrational files and very soon was

gaven operational files from other desks to also read.

He re-

ceived only minimal security briefings and was told to invent for

hirselt some sort of reasonable cover job. Sourco kept his old

Ministry of Internal Trade identification card to use as cover.

As soon as employnent was mentioned

to him he was told that he

was being recruited

by "" and

that it was for espionage.

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