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104-10186-10145 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (6/2/1965)

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                         General do  Inteligencia (DGI)
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                  PUKA   Washington, D. C.
                  DATE ACO. (February' 1965)                FIELD REPORT NO.
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                 SOURMs  A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban  Intelligence
                         Service until April 1964.


                     1.  In addition to the ordinary telephone system In Havana, there is
                         a government telephone syste~m which ust-s the exchange name PIZARRA,
                         connecting all offices of governm-nt organizations and government-
                         sponsored enterprises.  Each government office or enterprise has
                         at least or:, PIZARRA tclcphoe- which i- distinct from the regular
                         telephone system.  In the Directizn Cncral  %le Inteligencia
                         (General DIrectorate of Intlligenrce - DGI) Headquarters, there
                         is a PIZARPA telephone controlled by Manuel PJ EIRO Losada's X
                         secretary, Vidalina  who worksin  M building.  If any member
                         of the DGI wishes .t5 call anyone on sensitive business through
                         the PIZARRA exchange, fhe -ay either state his requirements to
                         Vidalina, wOO will make Lb!e ;all for hiai and report the informa-
                         tion back when she has acquired it, or go to M1 building and
                         make the call hiwslf  or tre PfMARRA telephone.  With the exception
                         of PI1ERO's  residence and office, where he has his own PIZARRA
                         telephone, Lo other DGI office has a PIZARRA telephone.  There is.
                         no directory for PIZARRA numbers and it is not a dial system, but
                         works through a central switchboard with operators; it is con-
                         sidered secure. The  caller picks up the telephone and geta an
                         operator on the central PIZARRA switchboard; the caller asks for
                         the office to which he ashes  to sp:eak, and-, if he knows, asks for
                         the person to whcm he wisn.. to 'speak. A DGI officer whose office
                         3.f oul id,, M build      ivr m  call iato M building on the regular
                         line (23-05)  and ask  c  VlUaAinia.
                    2.  Each DGI office has a number of private  (as opposed to PIZARRA)
                        telephones.  In the Departamento de Liberacion Nacional  (National
                        Liberation Department - LN), rutside  the M building healcouarters,
                        for example, there are six  telephones. From these teleph6nes one
                        dials any number in the telephone directory, private or a govern-
                        ment -office number, direct. For internal calls within the DGI,
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