The Department of Information and Investigations of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (DIIFAR) emerged on March 26, 1959. At the end of the year, it adopted the nomenclature of the G-2 MINFAR Information Department, with a decisive role in confronting actions against the government of Fidel Castro, in 1960 and in the first half of 1961.
On June 6, 1961, the Council of Ministers of the Revolutionary Government promulgated Law 940, which constituted the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), with the nomenclature of the Department of State Security (DSE). Isidoro Malmierca Peoli (Captain) and Raimundo Torres Raído (Commander) were its main leaders. Since then, the Department of State Security, along with other Directorates of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) and the Cuban Counter-intelligence General Direction, (headed by the first Captain Orlando Lache) of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) have been in charge of confronting different aggressions against the Cuban Revolution.
Year after year, on March 26, the Cuban revolutionaries, especially the members of the Ministry of the Interior and the Revolutionary Armed Forces along with our people, commemorate the creation of the Cuban State Security Organs.
Although the official foundation of these organs took place three months after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, its antecedents and roots date back to the second half of the 19th century, when our heroic mambises began the struggle to achieve Cuba's independence.
From the beginning, the main leaders of the Liberation Army applied intelligence and counterintelligence measures, supported by special agents and clandestine cells, created with the purpose of obtaining information to fight against the Spanish army, to know their possible intentions and to plan important combats. Among those who most stood out are Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and generals Vicente García, Julio Grave de Peralta and Federico Fernández Cavada.
The National Hero José Martí, prepared the new war for independence, from the territory of the United States and Latin American countries, relying on conspiratorial and secret methods, in order to avoid the espionage of the Spanish government and the US private and governmental agencies that acted to know and frustrate their plans.
During the insurrectional struggle against Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, since March 10, 1952, intelligence and counterintelligence activities took on a new character and became useful weapons of the Revolution. These measures were applied by Fidel Castro Ruz during the preparations for the assaults on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks; by the moncadistas in the Isla de Pinos prison; in Mexico during the preparatory stage of the expedition of the Granma yacht and later, during the formation of the Rebel Army and the guerrilla struggle in the Sierra Maestra.
The guerrilla group that reached the highest levels of organization of these activities was the II Eastern Front "Frank País" led by Commander Raul Castro Ruz. On March 14, 1958, Raúl created the Committees of Revolutionary Peasants. Shortly afterwards, the Peasant Observation Service (S.O.C.) was established and later the Rebel Intelligence Service (SIR). On August 22, 1958, the head of this front, signed a decree, where it was established as a primary task to observe, investigate and report all activities developed by civilians as well as members of the Rebel Forces or any other person who can compromise, affect or endanger the internal or external security of the Revolutionary Army "26 de Julio".
On Thursday, March 26, 1959, the Intelligence Service of the National Revolutionary Police discovered a plot to assassinate Fidel. The leaders of the conspiracy were Rolando Masferrer and Ernesto de la Fe, Batistianos refugees in the United States and protected by the CIA. That same day, Fidel decided to unite the existing intelligence and counterintelligence bodies. These bodies were the DIER, the Intelligence Service of the National Revolutionary Police (G-2 PNR) and the Bureau of Naval Research (BIN). To this new body it was continued denominating DIER; and March 26 is the date of the constitution of the State Security Bodies.
A few months later, on October 16, 1959, the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces was created and designated the Commander Raúl Castro Ruz, Minister of the FAR. Then emerged, in place of the DIER, the Department of Information and Investigations of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (DIIFAR), which was later definitively named Department of Investigations of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (DIFAR) although it was also called G-2. From that moment, these organs faced off against the subversive activities of the enemy until the defeat of the mercenary invasion at Playa Girón.
On June 6, 1961, through Law 940 of the Council of Ministers, the MININT was established. The Information Department (G-2), which from then on would take the name of the Department of State Security (DSE), the National Revolutionary Police and the Maritime Police form its organic structure. Later, the Guarda Fronteras Troops. By then, counterrevolutionary organizations were increasing inside the country, banditry was restored, sabotage to the economy continued, new measures of economic blockade were applied, and above all, they were trying to implement new plans to assassinate our leaders. , especially the Commander in Chief.
The North American government prepared pretexts and provocations to invade Cuba with all the forces of its military might. A stage of superior confrontation was coming, a cruel dirty war against Cuba, the so-called Mangosta Operation, which required a superior organization to achieve victory.
Throughout these 59 years these plans and subversive actions were defeated by humble men and women of our town, mainly by young fighters of the Rebel Army and the clandestine struggle, as well as militiamen, workers and peasants. They were followed by new groups of young people, new generations of Cubans, who from their glorious ranks have devoted themselves to their work, like their predecessors, with modesty, honesty and total loyalty to face the aggressions of the North American government.
