POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND AFFILIATIONS IN THE DIRECCION GENERAL DE INTELIGENCIA (DGI).
Originator: CIA
From: CUBA
Document date: 06/01/1965
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Political Attatudes and

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• A former Cuban

Is officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

ServIce until April 1964.

1.

älthough there are many members of the Direcolon Gertial do

Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence r

appear interested in and favorable.toward:the Comnunist Party,

Souice knows of only

persons who are actually members:

Saul GONZALEZ,

alias"Denis"; Manuel VEGA Perez, alias

Viera"; and Felix SCAREZ; alias

"Federico Sant lesteban".

STAREZ was a sort of political adviser in the DGI operations

but insisted he was not a commissar; but, rather,

Although Source and the

tease SUAREZ by calling him "Comisario", SUAREZ greatly

resented the term and actually chysically attacked Source for

Every Saturday morning at 8:30,

political indoctrination meeting which all personnel were

Source was habitually late to these

and although he was given penalties for his obvious

disaffection, he never paid any attention to them.

personnel Source knew were perfectly willing to talk politics

themselves but in a rather desultory way; the discussions

never went on very long.

2.

Apparently during 1962, there had been considerable sentiment

for Anibal ESCALANTE ard his faction, the Partido Socialista

Popular (PSP), but in 1964 the PSP group was disrupted and

the real loyalty nas to Fidol CASTRO rather than to ihe Party.

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3.

when ESCALANTE

taken over by Ramiro VALDES, as a CP member, and he was

described as a true representative. The DGI operated

strictly on orders from the Party, conveyed through VALDES.

Membership in the Partido Unido Revolucionaria Socialista

(PURS) made life easier and entry into the DGI more simple.

Between August 1963 and April 1964, all new personnel hired

by the DGI came from the Union de Joveres Comunistas (Union

of Young Communists - UJC), which was PURS-oriented.

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