Introduction: Since its inception, the DGI has been inextricably linked to the intelligence agencies of the Red Camp, and for the past four decades the Cuban Intelligence Service has been actively involved in revolutionary activities to aid the Left, mainly in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.
The Cuban Intelligence Service (Spanish: Dirección de Inteligencia, DI) is the main intelligence department of the Cuban government, because before 1989, its Spanish name was Dirección General de Inteligencia, so it also has the historical abbreviation of "DGI". At the end of 1961, soon after the success of the revolution, Cuba established the Intelligence Service by the Ministry of the Interior, whose main job was to collect all foreign intelligence, and was divided into two categories and six blocks, one for the operations department and the other for the support department. "Redbeard" Piñeiro became the first head of Cuban intelligence in 1961, while another commander, Bermúdez Cutiño, directed work in places like Vedado. There are now about 15,000 people working in the Cuban Intelligence Service, and new recruits conduct research in the department, mostly in the field of counterintelligence and counter-espionage (a unique set of five-year degrees in the field), and these students participate in the programs of the Intelligence Service in the second year of recruitment. The vast majority of these college students study various Chinese, history, communication technology and sociology, and after graduation, they participate in official intelligence special service training for several months, and after more than a year, they earn the rank of lieutenant. Cuba has been excellent in intelligence warfare since the Bay of Pigs incident, and the subsequent DGI has not only repeatedly frustrated the sinister plans of the U.S. CIA several times, but has also been active in Cuba's proxy wars around the world.
The DGI logo in Call of Duty 17
Since its inception, the DGI has been inextricably linked to the intelligence agencies of the Red Camp. The relationship between the KGB in the Soviet Union and the Cuban intelligence service was very complicated, and the two sides cooperated closely on several occasions but also in some periods there was extremely fierce competition. The Soviet Union regarded the revolutionary government of Cuba as its best agent in the Americas, where the Soviet Union wanted to intervene in the situation and lacked sufficient support from the natives. The KGB's head in Mexico City, Nikolai Leonov, one of the Soviet officers who first realized fidel Castro's potential to successfully lead the revolution, urged the Soviet authorities to strengthen relations with the new Cuban leader. The Soviets believed that Cuba's struggle against U.S. imperialism was like David's epic battle against Goliath, a more emerging revolutionary movement that would attract Western intellectuals and members of the New Left.
Illustration of the history of the Cuban Revolution
But in the early 1960s, the intelligence services of Cuba's emerging regime had closer contact with the intelligence services of Czech Snorvak than the KGB. Czech Snovark provided the Cubans with intelligence reports, spy equipment, and also helped them with their training. Pinheiro and the Czech Snolvak intelligence chief in Cuba met regularly, and he was grateful that the information provided by Czech Snolvak was important to the continuation of the Cuban Revolution in the early days. Cuba had hoped to rely on Czechoslovakia to build its own ministry of the interior and intelligence services, but the Soviets soon lost interest in Cuba. Intelligence cooperation between Czechoslovakia and Cuba continued from 1962 to 1969, during which time 1,179 trained Latin American revolutionary fighters returned from Prague. In addition, Czechoslovakia helped the Cuban Intelligence Service to forge passports to facilitate the export of the revolution by guerrillas trained in Cuba.
Famous Che Guevara
Shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the Soviet Union invited 1,500 Agents of the Cuban Intelligence Service, including Che Guevara, to the KGB Base Center in Moscow for intensive training in intelligence activities. However, Cuba's defeats in Zaire and Bolivia disappointed the Soviet Union, and the Moscow authorities sensed that Cuba was becoming more and more independent of the Soviet Union, so they became more active in the construction of the Cuban Intelligence Service. In 1970, a KGB advisory group led by Victor Seminov came to the Cuban Intelligence Service to purge all officers and officers identified as anti-Soviet elements within it. Pinheiro, the first director of Cuba's intelligence service, became increasingly frustrated with cooperation with the KGB, and he was ousted in the 1970 purges and replaced by the pro-Soviet José Méndez Cominches. Seminov also seized the opportunity during cuban cooperation to oversee the expansion of espionage operations in the West by the Cuban Intelligence Service, and until 1971, 70 percent of Cuban diplomats in London were actually Intelligence Officers of the Cuban Intelligence Service, especially after the Massive Expulsion of Soviet Diplomats by the British Government, a group of people of great value to the Soviet Union. The Cuban Intelligence Service also worked directly with the KGB to assist Philip Aggie, a traitor to the C.I.A. In 1962, the Soviet Union also opened a secret base covering 73 square kilometers about 25 kilometers from Havana, in which 1,000 to 1,500 Soviets were Soviet engineers, technicians and soldiers, divided into two groups, one group specialized in intercepting and intercepting telephone calls and faxes, and the other group was responsible for covering related secret facilities. The base was later equipped with a separate satellite system and was the largest overseas surveillance base in the Soviet Union.
Guerrilla fighters in Cuba
Over the past four decades, the Cuban Intelligence Service has been actively involved in assisting the left in revolutionary activities, mainly in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. The United States has accused Cuban intelligence agents of interrogating American prisoners of war in local prisoner-of-war camps in Vietnam.
Shortly after Chilean President Salvador Allende won the presidential election in November 1970, the Cuban Intelligence Service worked closely with him to cement his dangerous presidency. Luis Fernández Onia, Cuba's intelligence chief in Chile, married Allende's daughter, but the president's daughter later committed suicide in Cuba.
After Maurice Bishop led the people in a bloodless coup in Grenada, cuban intelligence sent 780 engineers and agents to the island nation to direct the new government. The Cuban Intelligence Service also actively persuaded the Soviet Union to support Grenada General Hudson Austin, saying it played a vital role in the anti-imperialist movement in the Caribbean.
Sniper among Cuban guerrilla fighters
In 1967, Cuba began to establish contacts with several revolutionary organizations in Nicaragua, in particular the Sandinista National Liberation Front. The Cuban Intelligence Service, at Castro's personal instructions and in cooperation with the Sandinista National Liberation Front, attempted to assassinate the United States ambassador in Nicaragua. In support of the Sántino National Liberation Front, the Cuban Intelligence Service has up to nearly 2,500 agents in Nigualaja and is active at all levels of government in Nigualaja. The Cubans infiltrated the Ministry of the Interior in Niguaraga to a greater extent than the average person could have imagined, and their advice and experience were taken as orders by the revolutionary organizations, but the Soviets were disappointed by Cuba's actions in Niguaraga because the results did not meet expectations. The Cuban Intelligence Service also played an important role as Cuba and Nicaragua resumed normal diplomacy, with a brilliant agent of the Intelligence Service serving as Cuba's first ambassador to Niguaraga.
The Cuban Intelligence Service also helped Puerto Rican separatists in their confrontation with the United States, but was thwarted by the United States FBI.