The Dirección de Contra-Inteligencia Militar (Military Counterintelligence Directorate) is the
military intelligence
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Cuba
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. It only provides military intelligence for the
Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
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, unlike its non-military counterpart, the
Dirección de Inteligencia
The Intelligence Directorate ( es, Dirección de Inteligencia, DI), commonly known as G2 and, until 1989, named Dirección General de Inteligencia (DGI),Foreign Intelligence Service, based upon a 14 June 1993 agreement on military cooperation between the two countries.
It is focused on collecting information on the
United States Armed Forces
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operations at
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base ( es, Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO, pronounced Gitmo as jargon by members of the U.S. military) is a United States military bas ...
. It has an attached elite troop unit: the Special Destination Unit (UDE). Its chief for several years was Major General Jesús Bermúdez Cutiño, as well as General Gandarilla Bermejo.
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Intelligence Directorate
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