Communist Cuba: The Monster I Helped Create and Maintain And Which Now I Denounce by Andrés Alfaya Torrado CONTENTS Foreword ......................................................................................................4 Introduction ......................................................................................................5 First Part A RIGGED REVOLUTION Ch. I A Strange Way to Seize Power....................................................8 Ch. II The Man from Moscow in Havana.........................................42 Ch. III KGB Leads the Game...................................................................79 Ch. IV From the Escambray Mountains to the Bay of Pigs...........94 Ch. V The Caribbean Crisis................................................................112 Second Part THE MERCENARIES OF THE KREMLIN Ch. VI The Problems of Socialism......................................................147 Ch. VII Time of Doubt.............................................................................178 Ch. VIII Cubans in Africa.........................................................................196 Ch. IX The Expulsion.............................................................................222 Third Part A CUBAN KGB Ch. X Birth of a Monster......................................................................237 Ch. XI Division "G"..................................................................................245 The Behavior Police..............................................................253 The "K" sector........................................................................260 Vehicle control.......................................................................266 The Tourism Office..............................................................271 The Press Office....................................................................281 The Diplomatic Office.........................................................287 Ch. XII Secret Services (DGI)................................................................291 The "15" Office......................................................................292 The "Special Works" office..................................................300 Diplomatic Assistance Office and Technical Assistance Office...................................304 Training Camps ( "Crocodile" group)................................307 Special Troops........................................................................317 Ch. XIII Independent Bodies...................................................................323 Executive Personal Security (DGPSD).............................323 The "40" Sector......................................................................329 The Border Guards...............................................................336 Ch. XIV Public Bodies of the Ministry of the Interior....................341 The Revolutionary National Police and Traffic..............341 General Technical Department of Investigations (DGTI).................................................347 "Jails and Prisons".................................................................350 Department of Immigration and Foreigners....................354 NOTES ..................................................................................................359 PLEASE NOTE: This book has been translated into English by means of Artificial Intelligence, therefore the perfection of the translation cannot be guaranteed. FOREWORD by Presenter Andrés Alfaya Torrado knows quite well who are the true masters of Cuba – he worked for them. Andrés was under the wing of “Che” Guevara since his teenage years. A fighter from the Escambray Mountains, he was fervently in- volved in the construction of a communist Cuba. Because he was very close to the top leaders, he was able to discover what was at the root of their power. As organizer and member of the G-2, the Cuban secret service, he was able to determine the degree of penetration of the Soviets in the island nation and has recon- structed, for the benefit of all, the entire secret history of the Cuban revolution, a history which he now reveals in great detail. He witnessed how the Soviets, through the Cubans, destabilized Angola as well as other Latin American states. He shows how the KGB shaped the Cuban G-2 in its own way, controlling the whole island nation through it. Every word here has the weight of a revelation. This close compan- ion of the “Che” Guevara was eventually suffocated by the totalitar- ian structures and cynicism of the true masters of Cuba. This book is not the work of a disenchanted intellectual, but that of a man of action who knows how he, and the rest of the world, have been, and continue to be, fooled. 4 INTRODUCTION by Andrés Alfaya Torrado In writing this book, my only purpose was to shed some light on the so controversial history of the Cuban revolution, which, without a doubt, was and still is one of the most enigmatic events in the his- tory of the second half of the 20th century. Its influence, in the political context of Latin America, Africa, and more generally in the context of the non-aligned countries, played a predominant role, that of a pawn used by the aggressiveness of the USSR's expansionist policy. Foreign observers who viewed Fidel Castro's revolution with some sympathy, as well as the group of young people who formed the Rebel Army in 1959, were far from thinking that behind this event lay the seeds of communism in America and that the "leader" of the revolution had been a commu- nist agent since 1947, as well as his brother Raúl and many leaders of the insurreccional struggle. As I have just returned from a dark and chaotic world, in which re- ality sometimes goes beyond the limits of fantasy, this book, which reflects it, has itself taken on a chaotic and baroque character. It is obvious that in order to be able to explain how I had access to a cer- tain level of information, as well as to the structures and maneuvers of the secret services serving Cuban foreign policy, so discussed to- day, the first two parts of the book are autobiographical, although I tried, as much as I could, to enter the scene only when my presence became indispensable. I wanted to take the reader by the hand and make him relive twenty years of history, trying to make him under- stand how a man who had been part of the Rebel Army under the command of Commander Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in the "suicide squad", elite of the revolutionary troops, one of the founders of the Cuban secret services, the G-2, a man who has traveled all over the world on dangerous missions in Asia, Africa and America, has come to understand the "truth of international communism" and may have 5 felt suffocated by the structures of a totalitarian country and by the lack of the most basic freedoms. The present work is not the product of a disenchanted intellectual who cannot satisfy his petty-bourgeois tastes in a socialist regime, on the contrary, it is that of a member of the "Nomenklatura" who has renounced his privileges to seek a truth that has led him to a to- tal opposition, to an absolute refusal of communism. The third part of the book is described in a totally different style, and if I finally decided to incorporate it into the whole work, it is because its content is extremely revealing. I have tried to describe in detail, precisely, cog by cog, all the repressive systems of the com- munist regime that allow this ideology to remain in power in totali- tarian countries through a sprawling and omnipresent police regime. All the structures of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior, whether public bodies, independent bodies, counter-intelligence services or secret services, are described, as well as the close work- ing relations with the KGB and with the advisors of this Machiavel- lian machine who have recreated in Cuba an exact replica of their own organization. I would like to show readers the "truths of communism" for which I fought and defended ideologically until I began to see that I had been deceived like so many others, and that I was only a puppet in the service of the imperialist appetites of the Soviet Union. I am therefore addressing myself especially to those who, through their youth and their thirst for social justice, let themselves be caught up in the labyrinths of international communism. If someone asks him- self the question of where the path to freedom leads, he will not find an answer in this book. I personally am not in a position to give him even an embryonic answer, but there is one thing I can tell him, and that is that this path does not go through Cuba. 1981 6 FIRST PART A RIGGED REVOLUTION 7 CHAPTER I A STRANGE WAY TO SEIZE POWER I have no intention of telling, as a historian, about the guerrillas in Sierra Maestra. I prefer to leave this work to others, who are much better qualified than I am to do it. I am thinking in particular of Commander Hubert Matos who, after twenty years in prison, has just left the country and is in exile in Costa Rica. No one, better than him, who was one of the heroes of the guerrillas, deserves so much to give his testimony. I am also thinking of Carlos Franqui1 who was the leader of the Movement's propaganda of 26 July2 in Sierra Maestra, and who, in exile, lives in Italy now. When I started to make my first weapons, these two men were already veterans of Sierra Maestra. My incorporation into the rebel army was done in a way that was almost fortuitous. In the early days of December 1958, then