INFORMATION REPORT: THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE (DIRECCION GENERAL DE INTELIGENCIA - DGI)
Originator: CIA
Document date: 07/08/1964
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REPORT NO.

SUBJECT

The Organization of the General

Directorate of Intelligence.

(Direccion General de

Inteligencia - DGI)

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8 July 1961

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THIS iS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF. CONTENT IS TENTATIVE

SOURCE:

A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelli-

gence

Service until April 1964.

Headquarters Comment.

The following infornation, as reported

by source during

a debriefing, includes a description of the

General Directorate of Irtelligence (Direccion Genoral de

Inteligencia - DGI), a break-down of each of i3s departmerts,

the functions of sach department, a diagram (Chart A) of the

organization of the DGI, and a map (Chart B) of the DGI com-

pound in Habana.

1.

Introduction.

The Gereral Directorato of Intelligence (Direccion General de

Inteligencia

_- DGi) is the Cuban external interligence agenoy,

charged with maintaining security, collecting information,

and promoting Cuban Government intelligence policies abroad.

rior), and was established sometime in mid-1961.

corned only with operations abroad. The collection of

intelligence within Cuba, counterintelligence, and security

aro the responsibility of the Department of State Security

(Departamento

de Seguridad del Estado - DSE).

The two agercies

are independent but maintain Tiaison and coordination on cer-

2.

The Dil, also known as "M," or 'M Departmert," is organized

director general and his deputy; its

a main headquarters with administrative and personnel offices.

eight departments, cand

the director's office (see organization

It is closely connected with

venendez, the nister of Interior,

and is also of contiruing

interest to Fidel Castro,

Raul Castro, and Ernesto "Che", Guevara.

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The Director's Ortice.

3. The director soneral of the dad 15 Manuel PINEJRO Losada, known

as "Rod Beard"

, (Barba Roja).

He Is closely associated

with

FaMirO VALUES.

to whom he has direct access at any time; he 18

required to report regularly to Fidel CASTRO and to coordinate

with him all expenditures of laire sums: and he also has direct

contact with GUEVARA.

Raul CASTRO often visits PINEIRO's office;

nis principal interest appears to lu the guerrilla schools (see

slow), but he may have other's in the DGI.

PINEIRO also handled

the principal contacts with the Soviet advisors of the DGI.

direction of the DGI is handled through a deputy.

but he also

has direct contact as desired with department chiefs and lower-

lerel personnel: chiefs

of field stations report directly to him,

although other fiold-station business is handled through the

departments responsible for field work.

PINEIRO himself has

some important agerls

in fiold work ard has subsequently

acted as their handling officer.

• 4.

PINEIRO has his office in his residence at Alst Avenue and

There he keeps

functional files of everything

Miramar district of Habana DGI: other files

concerring

from individual sections

are brought to him for review and then

returned to the department

o: section that maintains them.

There is a daily courier

service botween his house

and the DGI

headquarters.

The house has at least two separate telephones,

ond personal and one official.

latter provining direct com-

munication with all

groverament agencles.

One of the telephone

numbers is 29-1257.

entrince of the house always

has two guards in

olive-green uniforms;

they are probably from

In addition, PINEIRO has a

bodyguard staff of six, also

prolably from the dSE.

them are always with him on 24-

hour shifts; one acts as chautfour when he goes

while the

other two follow

in a second car.

He kceps three cars, all 1961

Oldsmobiles, one blue, one wife, and one black.

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In his home office PINEIRO has an aide.

psoudonym "Castor, "6 who

handles the office work but dues not

attend private interviews.

In Cuba he stays in the office and does

outside the office.

When PINEIRO travels abroad.

"Castor" ac-

companies him, as for example on his visit.

190t. At the main DOI headquarters.

PINEIRO also has a secre-

tary, pseudonym "Vidalina." and a clerk-typist.

"Zoraida": they occupy desks in the executive office of the DGI

dipury chief but work strictly for PINEIRo.

"Vidalina" handles

all incoming and outgoing correspondence and cable traffic and

distributes it both within Del headquarters and abroad.

DGI Ma in Headquarters.

The min headquarters of the directorate is known as "Department

M"ut the Ministry of Intrrior. but very lew people know any-

thing about it or are even aware of its existence.

a house and grounds which were tormerly the property of the GOME

it covers a whole city block bounded by t9th and

5ls8 dronues and 78th and suth Streets in the larrazabal section

of the Marianad suburb of Moband.

The block is a compound sui-

rounded by a concrete wall. with trees planted completely around

There are two entrances: a main entrance with wooden

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loeated near the center of the block on 80th Street and a

steel doors located directly through ihe

The main entrance is manned by guards

armed with PiShl machineguns: the rear entrance is kept locked

and is used only in emergencies. No pass or identfication is

required to enter the grounds.

The headquarters compound (sce diagram on page 15) contains all

the thiee opera-

the center of the compound but off the main axis between the

gates.

It houses most of the offices in its two stories and also

contains a canteen. publle teiephones, and a police radio for the

city and the Ninistry.of Interior.

There are no large assembly

rooms; conferences are held in small rooms.

Within the compound,

separated from l Building by driveways and parking lots, are

several other structures:

a. A try-story building housing the Personnel Department on the .

first floor and the Inspection Department on the second.

b. Three one-story service buildings: & guard office with

sleeping quarters for 20 lo

25 guards, a food-stornge unre-

house, and a clothing-storage rehouse.

The guard office

and the Personnel-Inspection building flank the main entrance

un 80th Street.

A two-story building, in the angle of the grounds formed by

78th Street and 49th Avenue, housing the Technical Operational

Support Department.

Two of its sections, the

Photographic

aboatory and the Conccalment Device Section, occupy indi

vidual buildings in the compound.

8. General administration of the DGI Is handled from the M Building.

(Inu) CHAIN.

pseudonym "Agusto," has

Besides acting as director goneral when PINEIRO is

away from Cuba, CHAIN is

responsible specifically for management

of large expenditures, South American affair's, and the approval

of false passports for travelers.

He signs, in pseudonym, all

notices ind circulars issues

has the pseudonym. "Gorgina, „to the directorate.

CHAIN's office, through

distributes cable traffic to tho DGI departments.

"Vidalira."

outgoing cable traffic and diplomatic pouch traffic are received

at this offico from the Contral Ciphoring Service (Scivicio

Central de Clirados - SCC), which

is a communal coding and de-

coding service operated by the

CHAIN's office apparently

also acts as a leceiving and distributiny center for clandestine

radio triflic but does not itself

send or receive radio messages;

the actual transmission is possibly controlled by the Communist

Party.

9.

Directly under the deputy director are two aiministrative depart-

ments for staft mombers.

which occupy a

an tango asped to The Personer departete.

building in the headquarters

compound.

headed by pseudonym "Polayo," which handles all maiters concerning

staff wombor administration

(selection, hiring, pay, promotion.

dismissal, social security, etc.), has about 14

or 15 merber's.

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11.

The Inspection repareront, headed by pacudonja "Dirio," which 18

responsible

don discipline In tho dlinstorate and inr

investiga-

tions of siali personnel, probably bolna: hirins, has 10 to 12

sods depratment chipío are probably former members of

the DSE, and suse of the offico stall are also former DSE mombore.

Soviot Advisors.

Attached to the dii headquarters 18 a froup of Snuirt advisors,

who occupy offices in a-Building.

Thal, presence and identities

aro kept as secret as possible, evon anorg the officers who work

with them, and they are known only hi pinudonyns.

They have

especially

close catacts with Manuel PINEIRO and CHAIN, and

vith the Illegal dapariment, whoso offlonis can consult directly

with thon at any sine.

Ordinary desk officors in other dopart-

monts. can consult the

Soviot advisors only at their offices in

#-Building, there so special security precautions are observed,

but they do not see nuch of them except when visiting the

Illegal Deparinent then the advisors are corking thorn.

soviets can visit aay cupartmant whenever thay "15h.

Information obtained by. pat ngents abrond can be passed to the

Soviot advisors.

The five known are the following:

b.

"El Frances" (The Frenchman), PINFIRO's personal advisor,

is apparenely the chief Soviot advisor in Cuba.

an office in y Arilding and finquently visits PINEIRO's

He was born botwean 1909 and 1914; is about five

saven inches tall and of modium build; has very grey

hair; has blue eyes with bags under them; and wears at all

timos gold-franed glasses with snall-to-medium round lensos.

Ho has a car assigned by tho

Cuban governeat and drives 1t himself.

A Soviet can, raDe unknown, accompantes "El Frances." He

15 five feet eight inches tell, ds of nediun to thin build,

weighing abous 145 pounds, and is clear shaven.

who saw hia frequontly at DGI headquartors hever hoard him

speak.

C.

"Juan," who shares an M Building office with "El Francos"

but works principally in the Illegal Department, is the

consultant on illegal operations, directs the recruitment

and handling of agents, arranges their entry and cover, and

At one time ho spent about six months in

France; the geraral impression 1s that he sas three as an

Illeral resideat rather than in the Soviet Enhassy.

sponks excellen: Spanish with very little accent. and ap-

parently has taoan the language a long tise.

cir assigaed Sy the Cuban anvernment and calves la hiasell.

Ho was born betren 1910 and 1321 and is an activa, athlotio

man, about sir deet tali and weighind a musk; 200 pounds,

with biüe ejes.

ile looks young, although bis hair i5 frey,

as 1s the short-clipped mustache he wears low on his lip.

d.

• Soviet woran, sane unknown,

rechnical Operacional Sunt Ps in sta Department of

She car Born intween

1929 and 193%, is fiva fant sevra nu plain Inches tall, is

tas, has blin

eyes ard sirst strulder-length

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wald and dowdy. Nearing ins heels

and a surrot-sable dress. lite a peasand's.

A suriel mian.

name unknown.

volks on Solel Anerican eptira-

she illegal Department.

Operational Deartments.

Of the eight deprements making up the headquaiters. three are

operational, tour are conocrned

with operational support or

training. and one is administrative.

The three operational de

pilliments are legal Centers (Contros Legales - MS). 1llegal

(Ilegal). and darional LiberaTion (Liberacion Nacional - Li):

were cornerly a single department. Known as da

(intelligence).

1ll throe departments handle operations auroad

purpose of collecting Information on the hoss country'.

permoing Culin political aims, and conducting subversive

Their operatdons are distinguished by suo factors.

connee ions and Communist Party-loftist group liaison.

The Deparemen: of Legal Centors do responsible for operarions

conducied throgh Cuban siticind missions in countries with wnich

diplomaste relations and has normally nothing to do with

1llcaal agents.

The other swo departments handle illeral agents.

both an countries with which Cuba has relations and in these with

The Illugal Depairmont has no connection

Parilos or organized letiis: groups abroad: the

Liberation Deparement deals mainly with such parades

and groups: tha Degarimont of Legal Couters may Hork wich them

o unilaterally.

All three departments are organized in 500-

saphloal divisions with ared dosks for each country within

thell respectire

fields or responsibility; there is thus some

merlapping

in dost covcingr.

The DGI has

or overseas intelligence operations las

distince from sorrilla warfare operations covered below in

paragraphs 19 and 201: legal flold stations and illogal agents.

legal fiold soarion exists in every country

with which cuba

nas alplomatic relations: its porsonnel aro

membels of the local

Cuban diplomatic, consular, or trade mission.

Officers are

all pires of the DGI organizalion; no distinetion

for crample, botween officers

fion the Illegal Dopart-

ment and the Natzonal Liberation Department, but each person

asslaned overseas porforms whatever duties the local situation

Fiol

starion chiefs report diroctly to PISEIRO, but

adminisiratoon goes through other channels. is explained tolow.

Fiold stations volt in size,

depending on local objectises and

the quality of diploratic rolations.

In Soviet Blue countries,

for crample, field siacions are usually small, with only one or

two offirers. uno hale

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intelliyence collection or sinilar

responsiblery bur aro

to Cuba and with liaison with

charged principally with aidang trailers

the local intelligence sersice.

In countries quiride

the Soviet Bloc.

legal field stations have

valous responsibals es: in Larin America. Their principal 2c-

Livilles are promotion and direction of aubersion and siberage

and arrangerents lor sucrrilla

The largese fiold

station is in derico. which is imporrant because it is a tajor

transit pour for duch personnel and materials. and beause it

1o cool poil Mr any lllist Ornation of any County

whieh has representarives in Mexico.

Maderal don other Latin

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American countries usualio son linet to bedce and is toryarded

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Mexico is also a mortine place for operations of-

ficer's trom Cuba and ageris drom Coutral and South America:

similarly sorres

as a needins

plare los agents from the

leanl field stardons do not normally deal with

illegal agents except in a great energency.

In all legal field

stations. the Dot represontative is charged

with keeping track of, checklys, and reporting on the political

scillvities at the other cembors of the minsion to which he is

attached.

UGl officers also assist with the political classes

and bectures hold periodically los mombery of the missron. but

this is a task shared by all mission momiers and 1s not assigned

to any officer specifically.

Physical security, such as techni-

cal examinition of Cuban premises for audio surveillance devices,

is not a DGI responsibility: it 1s

periorard by the DSE.

In countries with which Cuba dues

not have diplonaiie relations.

DGI activities are handled by agents stationed permanentls

os' as momkirs of Communist Parties

and leftist groups.

Their assignmenty are sabotage. subversion,

training of guerrilla warfare candidates and

in latin America primarily.

Venezuela as the countries in which its operations

have been most successful.

from an adjacent country. Ideld operations are sun

The Dopartment of Legal Centers Departamento Centros Legales -

The MS department is

headed by Fedro TAOWS Diaz.

donym "Oloniel.

and has a staff 01.15 to 20 persons.

not in the " Building compound, but in a building

at the cornor of 31st duenue and 6ath Street in the Mariano

suburb of Habana.

The depariment is in charge of the fiold

stations.

known as legal centers, in cach country with which

diplomatic relations or where she maintains commercial

Its personnel are not assigned abroad as a rule:

the service group it hoadquarters

for field person-

noted above, report directly to PINEIRO; the NS Dopartment takes

paper work foi the field stations. including photo-

graphing incoming and ouigoing documonts; maintaining files of

correspondence; and hardling coded radio communications.

Codod radio messages prepared by desk atticers are photographed

and sent to the field on microfilm and mossages on microfilm

field are decodod and passed to the proper

department: US does

not do the decoding itself. The department

does not have its own radio station.

It dues not run any agenta

abroad: it dues, however. assign dad drops and explain their

use to fiold agents. mostly those of ine Illegal Department.

18.. The Illegal Departmen (De tanento Bekal). The department 1s

headed by pseudonym

directs operations rather than

dealing direcoly with agents: his deputy is Santiago PEREZ. pseu-

The stafi of about 20 persons is responsible lor

handling "illegal" agents.

thal 1s. agents of all nationalities

whose activities and connections

with cuba are socret.

partment recruits the agent: arranges for his training. means

of clandestino connunication. and

travel to his assigned area:

and thereafter directs. supports. and nalutains communication

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with him themuchout his

dredle tenure.

It does not deal with

nembers ort Cormunist Parties or luttist orgartzations.

persons in contact with offerld Cuban personel abroad. uho are

the responsibilities of other duparements: the nechanios of com-

munication ale also handled elmenhere.

Aprails are stationed in

all counties where Cuba

1s interested la collecting information.

penetrating die severarent, or conducting subsersire operasions.

in Europe and Contral and

South America.. The depariment has no

in daian on

the Untled States. Btriean countrlos,

and nu agents are knuun in

Aronts once trained usually remain perma

aven where there is a legal

fleld station, They do not rurmally have any. contact with

18. The Illegal Department is divided Into three main scographical

sections.

each subelivided into country desks, as follows:

a. Sectlon A. Europe, chief unknown; under this section there

are desks for all countries.

b. Section B. Contral America, chief Ramon Cesa: CUENCA Montoto

(no pseudonym),

who was formerly stationed in Mexico.

deputy is pseudonym

Rica. Dominican

"31ke."

His

Country desks include Costa

Republic, Guatemala, Haiti. Honduras. Mexico,

Nicaragua, Panama, and El Salvador.

Section personnel in-

cluded officers Fornando PASCUAL Perez,

pseudonym "Alejandro";

Saul GONZALEZ, pseudonym

"Denis"; Gustavo (Inu), pseudonym

"Lino": Paulino (Inu), pseudonym

"Maurialo"; Ratael GUZNAN,

pseudonym

"Rulando"; (fnu) RELUBA, pscudonym "Nilfredo";

apprentices (practicantes) Miguel Angel (Inu), pseudonym

"Miguel": Onar (Inu),

pseudonym

"Oscar": Raul

CONZALEZ.

pseudonym "Olexis"; and

Francisco (Inu), pseudonym "Tino."

Their desk assigoments woro sot known.

c.

America, chief unknown. Country desks 1n-

clude Argentina,

Braill, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador,

Paraguny. Peru.

Uruguay. Venezuela, and

in the section were pecudonym "Ullseg." formerly

perhaps in Chile, and pseudonym "Juan Carlos," pussibly

formerly in Pors.

Both were returned in Cuba for discipli

my reacons; they may have been assigned to the desks for

the countries where they had served.

19.

The National Liberation Department (Departamento de Liberacion

Nacional - INy.

The department has no chief; otticers wishing

advier consult

Major Guillormo JIMENEZ, pseudonym "Javier," who

is head us the Contral Amorican Soction of the department. or.

1n his absence, Ho directly to Manuel PINEIRO of his deputy.

CHAIN.

The department oftices vecupy two two-story buildings at

6610 and 60l2 7th Avenue,

between 66th and 70th Streets, in the

Ampliacion de Almondares

section of the Miranar district of

Ha ba nil .

The department,

which is one of the

largest in the Dot,

15 responsible for promotion and direction of revolutionary ar-

tivity, Including guerrilla warfare.

It acts mostly ir coopera-

tion with Communist Parties or organized leftist groups. but

conduets some operations unilatorally without local coordination.

Among its activities are the recruitment, arrangonent of travel

to and from Cula and training in Cuba,

and the direction and

support of suerrilla fighters

in its target countries.

Since

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Cula 1u not concerned sala corolutione in turopean. Isian. or

countries, It concentrades mostly on latin Amorican

Kuvernments.

except those that maintain diplomatic relations

with Cuba.

Ilthough the department has

no African interests.

Zanzilaris were trained in Cuba; the arrangements were handled

outside the

pol by Fidel CASTRO Himself, with the participation.

• of Manuel PINEIRO.

in addition lo 1ls

guerrilla work, the

•departmont, without the knowledge of the Communist Parties or

sroups with which it cooporales. recruits and arranges training

uf agents to collect information

in the target countries.

for such intelligence agents arc guerrilla warfare

trainees,

or persons proposod by the

operational support depart-

ments (NO Department and the BC Suction of the SI Department -

sce below).

The IN Department

is divided into three sections.

one support

and administiative, the other to geographical with country.

desks.

a .

Central Processing Section

(Tramites), headed by Felix

Rafacl (Inu), pseudonym

"Alberto,

the administrative

uffice for the LN Department and the unly office in the DGI

handling travel arrangements.

It plans and arranges trarel

for DGI stall officers of all departments, agents, and

trainees. furnishes operational fundy 10r

travel, and makes

the actual travel rescrvations and pruvides plane tickets

for travelers.

It also obtains passports in false names for

Cuban staff members,

issues Cuban passports in false names

to agents, and obtains visas tron

the Crechoslovakian Embassy.

In anont travel,

with the Cuban Institute

1 Friendship with Peoples (Institute Cubano del Amistad co

os Pueblos - ICAP), which arranos sone aspects of travel

The section chief has his office in the Li

Department but works manly from the

IGI headquarters in N

Building; his wife, Elva (Inu), pseudonyn "Elisa," is a

the LN Department.

The section staff consists of

administration chiet

Eulogio PONS, pseudonym "Elog"; his

assistant, pseudonym

CARRACEDO,

"Henry"; an office clerk, Carmen

pseudonym

"Mercedes"; two drivers, Juan PEREZ,

pseudonym

and psoudonym

"Manuel"; and Felix Rafael's

secretary, pseudonym

"and assistant, Draco or Draque

ESCALANTE, pseudonym "Ciro."

b.

Central American Section (Soccion Contral) is supervised by

Major Guillermo JIMENEZ,

who is head of the Department of

Information Services (SI) and acls as advisor to the entire

LN Department.

The section orranites and directs guerrilla

activities in the Contral American and Caribbean countries.

its case officers frequently travel to their oporational areas

on a case basis, each case being i separate project starting

with selection and training of agents and continuing through

gue tomore actions the target area. The section

(1) Costa Rica, headed by Oscar GARCIA Manzano, pseudony

."Orlando."

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(2)

Dominicas

republic. headed by Rollto Lazaro

SISTIN-ISH CaSaN003. P5004085m

"Rafael."

who was

formerly a: the lnited tassons in dew York and nas

arresido for attempting sabutage.

(3)

Guatomala, Beaded by forterto HERNANDEZ, pseudonym

"Noel," essisted by an apprentice, ({nu) PENA. pseudonym

"Lorénzo.:

As noted abure, the Guatemalan operations

are considered among the aust successful in Central

(1)

Haiti, readed by indres ARNONA Ramos, pseudorym "Ernesto,"

formerly comercial attache in Mexico but not

likely to

receire another field assignment because of problems

during his service there.

(5)

Honduras, beaded by felix SUAREZ, pseudonyn "Santiesteban."

(6) Nicaragua.

(7) Panama, beaded by Fernando RAVELO, pseudonym "Fermia."

(8) El Salrador.

the DGI deputy.

It deals with

guerrilla actiricies in South American countries.

There are

desks for:

(1) Argentina, beaded by Oreste VALERA.

"Jorge" and

(3)

Colombia. Leaded by Raul VIERA Linares, pseudonym "Gomez,"

formerly stationed in Bolivia, from which he returned

at the end of 1963, but unlikely to receive another foi-

eign assigatent because of difficulties in the field.

(1)

Ecuador. headed by pseudosym "Julio."

(5) Paraguay, Leaded by pseudony» "Salvano."

(6)

Peru, beaded by ffnu) JOA. pseudonym "Jordan,"

assisted

by an apprectice, pseudonya

" "Bernabe."

(7)

venezuela, Beaded by Airedo ALEIDA Garcia, pseudonym

no was in l'enezuela when it broke relations

with Cuba and was later involved in an attempted re-

covery of documents from a plane crash in Peru. which

His assistants are

The DGI considers

its Venezuelan operations the most successful in South

America.

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Operational Support Departments.

The operationl support deparements of the DGI are Technical

Operational Support (MI). Illegal Conters (110). Spocial Schools

(EE), and Infurmation Services (SI):

They handle such functions

as spottini prospective agents, providing operational information,

training both intelligence agents and guerrillas. providing clan-

destine communications butween headquarters and agents in the

field, procuring operational funds and supplies, etc.

The Department of Illegal Centers (Departamento Contros. Ilegales -

The department is not, as its name implies,

opcration of illegal field stations. but is an information col-

lection and agent candidate spotting department.

It has three

major résponsibilities:

collection of information from foreigners

visiting Culn: assessment of visiting foreigners for candidates

for intelligence agents; and screening of letters from abroad

volunteering information, both to extract any uscful data and to

assess the

possible candidates for intelligence use.

Among visiting forcigners, the NO Department dues not concern it-

self with diplonats, they are left to the DSE, nor with foreigners

who are established

residents of Cuba, who are the responsibility

of the Colonial Bureau (see below).

In debricfing foreign visi-

tors, the department often works through ICAP, which makes arrange-

ments for many visits to Cuba; in many instances, the visitors

supply information unwittingly

and are never aware that they are

in contact with Cuban intolligence.

The NO Department does not

itself recruit agents; it only

watches for, screens, and evaluates

foreign contacts as agent candidates.

If the persons it sclects

of a Communist Party vi leftist organization, they

are referred to the

LN Department: if they are not member's of

such groups, they are referred

Illegal Department; one

units does the actual recruiting.

The Department of Special Schools (Departmento Escuelas

Especiales - 2E).

This department is responsible for training

in guerrilla warfare and related subjects.

It is headed by Luis

PIREZ, pseudonym

"Bruno Diaz," who

is a DGI officer but also a

captain

in the Cuban Army.

pseudonym

"Aristides"; in office assistart, pseudonym

He has a deputy "Armando"; and a

courier, pseudonym

"Garcia."

The department

numbering

more

than

50.

is made up entirely of Cuban Army personnel on

indefinite assignment to the DGI; they are directed by the DGl

but contirue to be paid by the Army.

which also provides all sup-

port for the department.

The main office of the EE Department.

which is mainly administrative.

is a residence at 18th Street

and and 31st Avenue, telephones 21-8126 and 21-9262,

Barandilla section of the Marianao suburb of Habana.

is conducted at permanent school sites

in Habana

(none outside).

including guerrilla warfare schools at 310 Elst Avenue, in the

Country Club district.

and three in the Marianao suburb:

the western part of the Arroyo Arenas section, one in the

western part of the San Agustin section.

bounded by 214th and 226th Streets and 7th ind 15th Avenues in

the Biltmore section.

In addition there are technical training

schools (Escuelas Entrenamiento Tecnico) on East Street between

Parque and 371h Streets in the Alturas del Vedado section of

where Venezuelans and Salvadorans have been trained,

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districe. The schools aire military courses of all typos. lasting

three to sex munths, depending on the subject marter: all instruc

tors are Culan Army personnel.

No cubans are trained in the

schools. only foreigners: these are kept separate l

madlonality.

During craining, students are observed and assessed for possible

use as intelligence agents: thuse selected receive additional

individual training from the ul Department.

The Departmont of Technical Operational Support (NI).

(It has

no Spanish title, only MT. This department Is basically re-

sponsible for training indavidual

intelligence agents and pro-

viding thirm forhnical operational support such as clandestine

communtentions systems, false documents, etc.; it also provides

The department chief is

technieal support to Dol staff metine." who was formerly the sece

GuillerMO ARASTAGUIA, pseudonym

retary of Ramiro VALDES.

There are about 80 employces. Including

a main office staff consisting of a secretary, prudonym "Mayra";

two assistants, pseudonyms

"Carmen" and "Marin Antonin"; and an

administrative officer, pseudonym "Victor'."

The MI. Department

requests for

training or suppost

from the operational

departments; gives the training or provides or arranges

the operational department framework; and con-

to procres technical communications for the departments

after the agents have gone into the fiold.

and support mechanism.

The MI Dopartment also does

equipment, for example, for clandestino raddo communication,

tolls agents what to procure and lots

in their home countries with funds supplied by the

operational department directing then.

As the main tochnical

department uf the DGI, HI has must of

the derectorate's tech-

nical equipment. which it services and repairs in its own es-

tablishment,

the bulldings within theM Building compound.

kinds of prolessional cochnicians and semi-skillod laborers are

available for such duties; they are all Cubans.

The MI Depariment has five sections, with the following

responsibilitics:

2 ..

Chemical laboratory (Laboratorio QuinicoLd).

LQ, which

is headed by pseudonym

"Contreras.

" provides chemieal

secret writing systems and any other

type of communications

or operational

support requiring chonical action or analysis.

it supplies agents the systems or devices, it does

agents. but

forwards the material to the

section, which then instructs the agent.. Lo also services

messages in secret urating for the operational departments.

b.

Photographic Laboratory (Lavoratorio Fotografico - LF). LE

is headed by pseudonym

"Sedina" and has a photographer,

psoudonym "Beltran."

It takes photographs for operational

false passports and identity cards and

prepares both photographs and pages of documents where. changes

In addition. it provides microdot and microtilm

systems for clandestine communications and processes in-

coming and outgoing microdut and microfilm mossages.

Technical Training Sectior (Seccion Tecnica - ST).

who is also an instructor. is pseudonym "Teobaldo."

The chief.

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person in chalff o. radio training. also a radie instructor,

is pseudonym

The ST Sectlen

is responsible for

training agents in

any technieal liold, such as communter-

thon by secret wilting, microdot ds microfilm. radis sending

and receiving, codes. ete.

The section has a

training radio

station but doc's not handle

actual radio communications to

and from agents in the field.

d.

Travel and Passport Section (Vialfonso porte). The section.

only one

officer. pseudonym

"who provides travel

and

other documents

for all personnel of the directorate,

agents and staff, such

as extra Cuban passports. 'forged

pass-

ports of other

countries, other idontification documents,

and other necessary papers.

He makes

false

entries

in pass-

ports, such as

departure stamps for points out-

side Cuba.

e.

Concealment Dovice Suction

psoudonym "Naceo. "(Seccion Embutido - ENB).

The ElD Section is responsible

for providing any sort of

conccalment device required for

agent activities, especially those permitting the agent to

carry with him on his travels instructiens,

Information,

small objects so that they are not discovered in customs or

provides concealment devices for

forwarding of microfilm

or other clandestine materials.

Department of Information Servicos (Dupartamento Servicios de

Informacion

- SI).

The

ST Department

Is headed by Major CulTlermo

JIMENEZ, pseudonym "Javier," the

third nost important person in

the DGI (after PINEIRO and CHAIN). who also directs some of the

IN Department opcrational activities.

The department li responsi-

ble for collecting intormation and maintainin up-to-date records

of opcrational information in every fleld affecting the security

of Cuba.

It has three sections:

Operational Information Section (Soccion Informacion

Operativa - 10).

The section,

which has about 12 member's,

collects all information necessary for placing and maintaining

an agent in a foreign country, such as the travel and identity

documents required and their dates of validity, dota for

legal and illegal travel of staff personnel and agents. maps

of infiltration and exfiltration routes for operational arcas,

and up-to-date information on the general situation in each

where the DGI operates or plans to operate.

operational and other departments evaluate information they

acquire and send to the IO Section of the SI Departmen't what-

useful; the IO Section issues no formal re-

Most of the information. comes from the Illegal

but the NS Department may also supply

and Ls DepartmentsiO Section somotimes debriels stall members

information.

returning from foreign tours or short trips for operational

information or data on loreign governmentsit has one other

but it does not

debrief agent trainees arriving in Cuba.

function,

the publication of false information on people

and countries.

One of its members is a translator. Intonio

CARCEDO Ferrer, pseudonym "Andres."

b.

colonial Bureau (Buro Colonial - BC), formerly called the

MOI Section.

The BC is responsible for assessing foreigr

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residents in Cuba as porential agent candidates: like the

It dues not recruit agents liself but merely

to the proper operational department.

redllance of forelynors in Culn and observation and penetra-

don of hostile groups is not part of the Be responsibility,

but 1s a funetion of the DSE.

c.

The Map Section (Seccion Cartografin!.

With about 10 members,

it collocts and maintains maps

oi all areas in which the DGI

has an interest, Including country maps, town plans, and

special regional maps.

General Administration Dopartment.

The Genernl Administration Department (Uepartamento Administra-

cion Goncral) is

headed by pseudonym "Joaquin" and has a

staff

o1-15 to

70 persons,

including pseudonym "Sergio."

It handles

administration of all aspects of the DGI except staff personnel

ratters, which are the responsibility of the Personnel and In-

spection. Departments.

The department also controls workshope

for the maintenance and repair of DGI equipment, principalls

vehicles; it does

not work on the machines used by the technienl

sections, which attend to their own maintenance and servicing.

In addition to its ovorall administration office, the department

has six sections,

one for each of the departments except EE:

NS,

NO,

MI,

Illegal,

LN, and SI, to take care of their administration.

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GUERiL LICIORATO CE INTELLIGSICS

¡LIEUCION GUERAL DE INTELLIGENOLS - OGI)

Located in ino Larrazabal Soctlos, l'arianac, fiabara

850!: Stroot

Bain Entranco (Guariod)

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GUARE HOUSE AND CERTERY.

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PACECORAPIIO LABORITORE (LE SECEION CE MI)

CICIHING STORIGE WAREHOUSE

FOCO SIORAGE KAREHOUSE

ENZ, COTCEALISUS DEVICE SECTION 0F MI.

MI DEPARTIENT (ALL SECTIONS EUT LE AU PNB).

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Headquartors Comments

1.

The DGI was probably catablished in the senoral ceorganization

of Cuban intelligence sorodoes begun with the establishment of

the Ministry of Interior 1n June 1061 and continued for sereral

months thereafter. At that time all Cuban Intelligence agencles

were put under the new civilian ministry. and the former G-2

overall intellionce organiention, which vas under military con-

(DSE) also was civiliantzod ar the Departnent of State Security

The internal and external intelligonce services were ap-

parently soparated at that time: previously they had both been

handled by G-2.

2.

Other aspects of the DGI such as operations will be discussed

in subsequent reports.

3. Ramiro VALDES has been head. of Cuban intelligence since 1959;

before June 1961 he was head of G-2. but with the establishment

of the Ministry of Intorlor he was appointed mintster.

continued to devote special attention to intelligence activities

in that capacity.

1. PINEIRO 1s an experionced intelligence officer, asseciated with

Cuban foreignintelligence since 1959.

5. This number 19 not listed an the liabana 1962 telephone directory.

6. DGI officer's

are normally known by pseudonyms rather than true

source knew many of his colleagues only by

pseudonym and never hoard thoir true names.

fontoto, a section chied in the Illegal Department, is known ly

rue name and apparently does not have a psoudonym, and PINEIRC

is known by true name.

7. CHAIN is probably Army Captain Carlos Sixto CHAIN Soler. an Intel-.

ligence officer who sorved in Washington, D.C., as a member of

the cuban Mission to the Organization of Aneriion States in 1961

and carly 1962; the mission was withdrawn in carly 1962.

8. Source had no information about Soviet operations in latin

America.

9. The Soviet Bloc countries with which Cuba maintains relations are:

Europe:

Albania, Bulgaria, Cecchoslovakia, Bast Germany. Hungary,

Poland, Rumania, the USSA, and Yugoslavia.

Asia: Communist China, Mongolia, North Korea, and North Vietnam.

10.

The non-Bloc countries with which Cuba maintains diplomatic rela-

tions are:

Europe:

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece,

Iceland, Italy,

Luxembourk, the Gotherlands, Norway,

Portugal, Spain, Sweden.

switzerland, and the United.

Kingdom.

Thoro are also Cuban missions to the Vatican

and to the Unitod Nalions Enropean Office in Geneva.

Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Lebanon,

and Pakistan.

Algeria, Ghana. Guinea. Nall, Morocco. Fanganyika, and

the United Arab Republic.

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North America: Canada.

. There 1s also a Cuban Missdon to the

Nations in New York.

Contral America and Caribbean:

Mexico and Jamaica.

South America:

Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay,

and British Gulana

Brazil, which had maintained

•olations with Cuba until mid-May 195%.

them following the ousting of Goulait and the

change of government in Apsil 1961.

The only regular air. connection between Cuba and the Western

Hemispherc. is the schedule maintained by the official Cuban air-

two

or three times a week to Mexico.

There are also charter

12. Agent activitles in Latin America will be discussed in subse-

quent reports.

13. sure ana alue cuban abu do the into Racion is ion

14.

Relations between Cuba and Peru were broken in

1960.

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