INFORMATION REPORT: SILVIO CASTILLOS HURTADO
Originator: CIA
Document date: 09/23/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INPORMATION.. SOURCE ORADINOS ARE DEPINITIVE APPRAISAL OR CONTENT 1S TENTATIVR

SOURCE: A former Cuban IS officor who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Service unt11 April 1964.

Headquartors Connents

Tho following report is one of a series containing personality

Information provided by the source and includes supplemental

Information from the records of this Agency.

It 1s requested that the addressees tako no action on any of

tho individuals mentioned in the personality reports without

first checking with this Agoncy.

1.

SIlvio CASTILLOS Hurtado was born between 1921 and 1929

in Las Villas Provinco.

Ho 1s live feet nine inches tall,

about 150 pounds, is

mulatto, and wears glasses. CASTILLOS

resides at Linea and 6th Streets, Vedado, Habana.

2.

Source first mot CASTILLOS IN 1956. CASTILLOS WAS

affiliated with the 26th of July Movement.

overthrow, CASTILLOS became a captain in the Cuban Rebel

Army.

He was assigned to the San Ambrosio Fort (Cuartel de

San Ambrosio, as Chiet of the Military Talloring.

lnter transferred to the General Staff and the Inst that

source heard of CASTULLOS, he was working for the Departamento

de Seguridad del Estado (Department of State Security - DSE),

3.

Source insists that Silvio CASTILLOS Hurtado 1s

identical with Silvio GARCIA Hurtado. 1,2,3,1

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Silvan GlKClA Murtade was on the last with the rand or prirate.

An untested source in a report dated 20 August 1862, stated that

vie CaptaIn Silvin CASTILLO sis, al the time of the

seventy tenoruelans in suorrilla varfare at au unidentified camp

Although the source of this inforzation was

considered "untested" at the timo

of the report, he has since been

"fairly reliable.")

In a report dated 7 April 1961, i Cuban natioual, untested, who

worked as an accountant auditor at the lilados y Tejidos

textile factory. in Habana until December 1963, when he resigned,

a:! fled Cuba in March 1961, gave the following Infornation on

SaLViO CASTILLO:

Rebel Army Captain Silvio CASTILLO was a Departamento de

Sexuridad del Estado (Dupritment of State Security - DSE)

agent and investikator who worked at the DSE Headquarters

at old Colegio Marista, Reparto

Sevillamo, Habana.

native of source's hometown, Calabazar de

Sagua. Las Villas.

He was an active supporter

of the 26th of July Norement before

the present government.

Source know that CASTILLO had arrested

many people who were later executed.

He was single, born about

1923 wa face vect elet oches to lived cadge had black

Calle C, Veddo, Habana.

In June 190, an untested source reported the following information

on Captain Silvio CASTILLO Hurtado:

CASTILLO, a mulatto, vas born in Calabaza de Sayur about

He was a member of the Autentico Party and s tormer

bodyguard for Scnator AGUILERA of Las Villas. CASTILLO fought

against BATISTA, was imprisoned at the Principe Prison, and

relensed in 1959 when CASTRO assumed power.

He wis then

stationed at Camp San Ambrosio and wa's commissioned a licutenant,

in 1960 he was promoted to captain.

He has a sister, "Bella,"

who is a nurse at the Hospital de Mazorra In Habana. His

Inther's name is Felix CASTILLO.

He has two brothers, Felix

CASTILLO Hurtado, an ex-soldier

of the Constitutional Army,

and Pablo CASTILLO Hurtado, a former policcnan and ex-soldier

of the Constitutional Army.

Source did not consider CASTILLO

to be a Communist or pro-Castro.

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