INFORMATION REPORT: (FNU) CHAIN, PSEUDONYM 'AGUSTO'
Originator: CIA
Document date: 06/26/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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COUNTRY,

Cuba.

SUBJECT.

(Anu) CHAIN, psoudonym "Agusto"

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CS CI-3/781,989

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DATE ACQ. May 1964

MAX EVALUATEO INORMANON, SOURE CLANOS ARE CLINO E OR NO COMICAN TIMATIVE.

SOURCES

A former

Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Service

until April 1964.

Headquarters Comment. The following report is one of a series

containing

personalIty infornation provided by the source and

includes supplemental information from the records of this Agency.

(fnu) CHAIN,

pseudonym "Agusto", resides in Cuba and is the

Deputy Chief of the Direccion General de Inteligencia (DGI -

General Directorate of Intelligence) under Manuel PINEIRO.

CHAIN works out of "N" Headquarters and handles large

expenditures for the DGI, approval of false passports for

travelors and matters concerning South America.

The title

"Inspector" is often used as a cover for travel of DGI and

Departmento de Seguridad del Estado (DSE - Department of

State Security) officers abroad

Suba HA handles atters 1, 2,3,9,5,650 is not in

Headquarters Comments.

1.

Source was questioned concerning the possibility of (inu

HAIN being identical with Carlos Sixto CHAIN Soler, bu

source did not know the name or if "Agusto" was ever

assigned to the Cuban delegation to the Organization of

States (OAS) in washington, D.C.

The subjects

of the following name traces,

therefore,

be identical with (fnu) CHAIN, pseudonym

"Agusto", of

the above report,

2.

In a document dated 15 September 1958 a fairly

reliable

source reported

the following information on a Carlos

. CHAIN (Gustavo):

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a.

On 30 August 1958 CHAIN, national coordinator of the

26th of July Revolutionary Movement and whose

it was to effect unity among Cuban political

opposition groups, was arrested at the Santiago central

a soldier identified him as a former

rebel; he was returning. from a meeting with Raul CASTRO.

The Cuban army was unaware of SlAIN's connection with the

26th of July Movement.

b:

On 11 Septerber. 1958, after prolonged interrogation by

military authorities,

CHAIN confessed he had been a

comrander in the forces of Raul CASTRO, but did not

confess his connection with the rebel moverent.

of the 26th of July Moverent feared CHAIN would be put .

to death by the authorities.

A usually reltable source in a report dated & January 1963 stated

that Carlos CHAIN Soler departed Cuba by air for bexico City on

22 February 1962.

During a debriefing of a Cuban source on 19 December 1962 the

Secretary on one cuba delegation to the organization of amerst

States (OAS) in Washington, D.C., until February 1962 when Cuba

was expelled from the OAS:

a.

CHAIN, who held the rank of captaln, was a security officer

the Cuban Ministry of Interior.

He acted as

to Carlos LECHUGA Hevla, the head of the Cuban

delegation to the OAS.

his duties involved the

of messages fron the Delegation to Cuba.

Secretary to the Delegation, was the code

clerk who received his orders for sending messiges from CHAIN.

b.

CHAIN sent coded messages by

teletype or by a machine at

the Delegation which transmitted messages directly to the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

(MINREX) in Habana.

Both open

and coded messages were sent in this manner.

Messages were

also relayed through

the Mackay radio system.

A rachine

at the Delegation relayed the message to the lackay radio

CHAIN often sent messages via the Nackay radio which

were not known

to LECHUGA.

ESCARRA told Source that the

code systens used for MINREX messages and for the Presidential

Palace ressages were quite different.

He said the Mackay

system was a more secure system which the Soviets had

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CHAIN sas in con act with an Australian (name unknota)

in dashington, D.C., whose friend was

allegedly the head

of an anti-Castro organization.

On one occasion in

CHAIN gave Source $100.00 to give to the Australlan to

trarel to Coral Gables, Florida,

reporting on anti-Castro activities.

When the Australlan

envelope which Source

Australtan

the Cuban Embassy..

turned over similar material to a contact in

HAIN worked closely with Jose MOLEON Carreras,

the Cuban

delegate to the Inter-American Defense Staff of the OAS

in Hashington; D.C,

MOLEON was actively engaged in

gathering information and in buying publications concern-

ing southern U:S. ports, U.S. Defense Department books,

Source was not sure if MOLEON worked under the:

direction of CHAIN.

Source recalled that CHAIN often appeared as though he

"Vieja Guardia" (Old

suard corrunist)..

"ember of the Party.

Source felt that CHAIN was not a

CHAIN graduated from high school in Santiago de Cuba,

and, although he entered the University there as an

engineering student, he

did not complete his studies.

He worked. in his father's grocery store in Palma

Soriano, Oriente Province and was a school teacher at

the Escuela de Cuadres Femeninos in Habana.

In 1957

he was in the Sierra Maestra nountains as a captain in

the Rebel Army.

In 1958 he was in the Isle of Pines

In early 1959 he was appointed "Coordinator

Provircial de Oriente."

In this position he maltreated

the people of Santiago de Cuba, and an appeal was made

directly to Fidel CASTRO who made a trip to Santiago de

Cuba to personally investigate the trouble.

As a result

of CISTRO's visit, CHAIN was transferred from Santiago

de cuba to a remote location in the eastern part of

Oriente Province.

The transfer was made only to appease

the populace of Santiago de Cuba and did not mean that

CHAIN

claims to be close friends with Fidel CASTRO and

Carlos Rafael RODRIGYEZ Rodriguez.

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Source identitted CHAIN as being born about 1933 ta

Palma Soriano, Oriente Province. Cuba, being fire feet

five inches tall,

weighing about 124 - 130 pounds,

having dark eyes and black hair and a slin build. CHAIN

Is married and has one child, a boy.

5. A usually reliable source in a report dated 5 June 1961 stated

that (Inu) CHAIN worked for the Department of Regional Politics

1ri the Foreign Office In 1962 and

also worked with Cuban

intelligence.

Prior to 1962 he atrended the Departarento de

Seguridad del Estado IDSE - Department of State

training course. Source said that CHAIN was born about 1940.

6.

A source with good access to travel Information reported that one

carlOs ChAIN soler,

carrying diplomatic passport number D/64/355,

arrived in Mexico City on 1 June 1964 and was

traveling as an

inspector of Embassies. On 13 June 1964 he left Mexico City for

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