(FNU) CHAIN, PSEUDONYM 'AGUSTO'.
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Document date: 06/26/1964
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SUBJECT (Inu) CHAIN, pseudonyn "Agusto"

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DESINITIVE, APPELISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

SOURCE . A forner Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Service until April 1964.

Headquarters Conneat. The following report is one of a series

containing personality information provided by the source and

includes supplemental information from the records of this Agency.

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(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 "y" Hleadquarters and handles large

expenditures for the DGI, approval of false passports for

traveleis and matters coucerning South Anerica.

the title

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

Departamento de Seguridad del Estado (DSE - Department of

State Security) officers abroad

Headquarters Comments.

1.

Source was questioned concerning the possibility of (fnu)

CHAIN being identical with Carlos Sixto CHAIN

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

assigned to the Cuban delegation to the Organization of

American States (OAS) in Washington, D.C. The subjects

of the following name traces,

therefore, may possibly

be Identical with (fnu) CHAIN, pseudonym "Agusto", of

2.

In a docurent dated 15 September 1958 a fairly reliable

source reported the following information on a

Carlos

CHAIN (Gustavo):

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Oir 30 August 1955 CHAIN, rational coordinator of the

26ti of July Revolutionary lovement and whose responsib

ility it was to effect unity arong Cubar political

opposition groups, nas arrested at tre Sanjiago central

check point when a soldier, identified him as a former

rebel; he was returning fion a meeting with Raul CASTro.

The Cuban army was Unaware of CHAIN's connection with the

26th of July dovement.

b.

On 11 Septerber 1958, after prolonged interrogation by

military auchorities,

CHAIN confessed he had been a

corrander in the

forces of Raul CASTRO, but did not

confess his cornection wit! the revel movereat.

kembers

of the 26th of July soverent feared CHAIN would be put

to death by the autiorities.

3. A usually reliable source in a report dated 8 January 1963 stated

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

22 February 1962.

4.

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

following information was provided on Carlos CHAIN Soler, First

Secretary of the Cuban delegation to the Organization of Arerican

States (OAS) in Vashiagton, D.C., uncil February 1962 when Cuba.

was expelled from the OAS:

8.

ChAIN' fros the Cuban Ministry of Interior.

who held the rank of captain,

was a security officer

He acted as

to Carlos LECHUGA Hevia, the head of the Cuban

delegation

to the OAS.

his duties involved the

sending of messages

fron: the Delegation to Cuba.

ESCARRA, a Third

Secretary to the Delegztion,

was the code

clerk who received his orders for sending nessages from CHAIN.

b.

CHAIN sent coded messages by teletype or by a cachine at

the Delegation which transritted cessages directly to the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) in Habana.

and coded messages were sent in this manner.

d'essages were

also relayed through the Mackay radio systen.

at the Delegation relayed the message to the jackay radio

CHAIN often

sent messages via the lackay radio which

not known to LECHuGA.

ESCARRA told Source that, the

systems used for MINREX messages and for the Presidential

Palace ressages were quite different.

He said the lackay

radio systen was a more

secure system which the Soviets had

assisted in providing

and had also given the instructions for

its use, CHAIN used the name "Augusto" in signing messages.

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was in contact with an Australian

(name unknown)

in lassington, p. organization.

whose friend was

to cive to the Australian to

travel to Coral Gables, Florida,

reporting on anti-cistro dotivitios.

Then the Australlan

returned to lashington, D.C., he gave source a large

envelore which source turned

Australian

turned over sinilar naterial to la contact in

the Cuban Embassy:

MAIN WOrked CLOSELY with JOSE MOLION Carreras,.

the Cuban

lelesate,to the Intèr-American Defense Staff of the oAs

in Hashington; D.C.

HOLEOY was actively engaged in

gathering information and in buying publications concern-

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

source ras not sure if MOLEON worked under thei

direction of CHAIN.

Source recalled that CHAIN often appeared as though i

were. afraid of ESCARRA Who was á

"Vieja Guardia" (01c

Guard Corrunist.

Source felt that CHAIN was not a

member of the Party.

CHAIN graduated from high school in Santiago de. fuba,

and, a:though 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.

he was in the Sierra Maestra mountains as a captain in

the Rebel Army.

In 195S he was in the Isle of Pines

In early 1959 he was appointed Coordinator

Provincial de Oriente." In this position he maltreated

the people of santiago de Cuba, and an appeal was tude

directly to Fidel CASTRO who made a trip to Santiago de

Cuba to personally investigate the trouble.

As a result

of CASTRO's visit,

CHAIN was transferred from Santiago

de Cuba to a renoté location in the castern part of

Orienta Province.

The transfer was made only to appease

the populace of

Santiago de Cuba and did nöt mean that

CHAIN claims to be close friends with Fidel CASTRO and

Carlos Rafael RODRIGUEZ Rodriguez.

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8.

Source

identified Chals as being born about 1935 ir

Palma Soriano,

Orrente Province,

Cuba, beirg sire feet

five inches tall,

weighing about 124 - 130 pounds,

having dark eyes

and blaci rair and a slim bùild.

is married and has one child, a boy.

5. ¿ usually reliable source in a report dated 5 Juae 1954 stated

woried for tie Depariment of Regioral Politics

in the Foreign Office in 1962 and also worked nits @idaa

intelligence.

Prior to 1962 ke atrended the Departaeato de

Saguidad del Estado IDSE - Departuent of Stace Security)

training course. Source sald diat CHAIN was bora about 1940.

A source with good access to travel information resoried that one

carlos CHAIN Soler, carrying diploratic passport curber D/ 64/355.

arrived in Mexico City on 1 June 1964 and was trarelia a5 am

inspector of Embassies. On 13 June 1964 he left l'exico City for

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