INFORMATION REPORT- POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND AFFILIATIONS IN THE (DGI).
Originator: CIA
Document date: 06/01/1965
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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FORMATION RFPORT

INFORMATIONEREPORT

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

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COUNTRY

SUBJECT

Cuba

Political Attitudes and

Affiliations

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the Direccion

Cereral de Inteligercia (DGI)

REPORT NO.

CSCI-316/02294-65

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1 June 1965

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1964

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SOURCE

washington,

D.

(February 1965)

FIELD REPORT NO.

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEMINITIVE APPRAISAL: ÓF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE

A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

SerVICe until April 1961.

1.

Although there are many members of the Direccion General de

Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence i DGI) who

appear intercsted in and favorable toward:the Communist Party,.

Source knows of only

persons who are actually members:

Saul 'GONZALEZ, alias"Denis"; Manuel VEGA Perez, alias

Vicra", and Felix SUAREZ, alias "Federico Sartlesteban"

StAREZ was a sort of political adviser in the DGI operations

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

a person in

Although Source and the other officers

would tease SUAREZ by calling him "Comisario"

• SUAREZ greatly

resented the term and actually physically attacked Source for

Every Saturday morning at 8:30, SUAREZ held a

political indoctrination meeting which all personnel were

supposed to attend

Source was habitually late to these

sessions, 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

among themselves but in a rather desultory way; the discussions

never went on very long.

2.

Apparently during 196%. there had been considerable sentiment

for Anibal ESCALANTE and his faction, the Partido Socialista

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

the real loyalty was to Fidol CASTRO rather than to the Party.

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