CI Training/Foreign Intel Services

This one-day, introductory course focuses on one of the most effective and least known of the Communist intelligence organizations: the Cuban Directorate of Intelligence (DI) of the Ministry of Interior.

We will discuss the formation, development/evolution and current state of the intelligence gathering organizations that exist in Communist Cuba.

The course will cover the qualifications, selection process, and training of Cuban intelligence officers and their subsequent modus operandi, tradecraft, and targeting efforts. Cuba’s main intelligence target has been America since 1959 when Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba. 

Multiple espionage case studies enrich the students’ understanding of Cuba’s successful, and oftentimes, long-term penetration of US government, intelligence, and military organizations.

The course begins with an overview of the history of Cuba. Of particular concern is Cuba’s relationship with America, including the development, around the mid-20th Century, of strong anti-American sentiments among certain sections of the population, which was the foundation for the triumph and consolidation of Fidel Castro’s communist revolution.