EX-AGENT DETAILS CUBAN SPY SETUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400030009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 19, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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By MERWIN K. SIGALE
Special to The Star
".Ly a, LL6 111Le111genee et uLer o.t
me has utilized an expand- the U.N, "serves as hcadquar-
a Mates. mission work for DGI, lie
rm or Soviet inteingence, tnat contact with subversive orga-
:hat the Cuban Embassy, in propaganda to enter this coun-
or Cuban and other Latin area, keeps track of the activi-
merican revolutionaries. ties of Cuban exile organiza-
The Cuban mission to the tions.
nited Nations is headquar- "It is Castro's espionage
orts in this country, he says. States."
These and other inner work- Castro Hidalgo says a key
ngs of Cuban intelligence are agent, believed responsible for
etailed by Orlando Castro Hi- the capture of a number of
algo in a book, "Spy for Fi- exiles invading Cuba, still
el," to be released next lives in Miami.
ishing Inc. of Miami. not directly involved espio-
nage a g a i n s t the United
Another Defection States, charges have not been
After an advance copy be- brought against him," the for-
ame available, word of anoth- mgr agent says.
e n i o r Cuban intelligence trouble infiltrating agents into
gency, came to light yester-the United States. Ile mentions
ay. The latest defection took . available channels such as the
lace in London and the U.S. refugee airlift, small-boat es-
'tate Department confirmed it capes, fence-jumping into the
?a
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taf -except the am assn r
n( the counselor - we
elligence personnel."
Castro Hidalgo, who fought
n Fidel Castro's rebel arm
nd later against the Bay p
igs invaders, says he i
ursuing a new life in the
nited States under another
dentily. Ile says it is in "sub
irbia," and indicates he is no
n the Washington area.
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
emigrants who travel first to
Castro Hidalgo was a top
Spain or `"Iexico.
gent in Paris for Cuba's Di-
eccion General do Inteligen- Havana Training
ia, or DGI. He writes that "a fundamen-
Disillusioned with the Cuban tai task" of the intelli
ence
g
egime, he and his family fled center in Paris, where he had
ith them - and obtained
.S. asylum.
His defection became public-
known months later, and so
g Castro's revolutionary de-
igns.
Among the items Castro I-li-
algo list on his personal
scoreboard" he claims to
ave named more than 150
gents and contacts of Cuban
'governmental organiza- derantly DGI, he says, and in
the cover job of embassy third
secretary and protocol officer,
was to facilitate the travel of
L a t i n revolutionaries to
Havana for training.
They went by way of France
and Eastern Europe. Arrange-
ments also were made, he
says, for Cuban Negro soldiers
to travel clandestinely through
Paris to Africa, where Cuba
still maintains a military unit
in Brazzaville, the Congo Re-
public.
Castro hidalgo says that
DGI has all but taken over the
Cuban news agency, Prensa
Latina, and the Cuban Insti-
tute for Friendship with the
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