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T-shirt belonged to the donor's father, Ramón Oroza Naveran (alias Demetrio), Deputy Director of the Ministry of Interior's Dirección General de Inteligencia (DGI). Oroza Naveran was in charge of supervising the Venceremos Brigade.
According to a report on Cuban political activity in Puerto Rico: "Venceremos Brigade activities are of such great importance to the DGI that they are controlled by a special section of the Political and Economic Intelligence Division, ranking on a par with similar sections on the UN, the U.S. Department of State, and U.S. political parties. The Brigade section is under the direct supervision of the Deputy Director of the DGI, Ramon Oroza Naveran, known under the nom de guerre of "Demetrio."
Demetrio personally supervised the creation and subsequent activities of the Brigade, and he assigned such priority to the project that all other DGI operations were held to be subordinate to the collection of intelligence from the members of the Venceremos Brigade.
Practically every Cuban national attached to the Brigade camps, right down to the food service and maintenance personnel, is a member or a co-opted member of the DGI. These DGI operatives are so skilled in their impersonations that few Brigade members are aware of their true identities. In fact, so many DGI personnel are needed to staff these camps that nearly all other operations must be suspended when the camps are active. Even maintenance and clerical personnel of the Directorate are pressed into service, as numerous photographs obtained by the Subcommittee indicate."
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/terrorism/cuban-connection-pr-app.htm
According to an FBI report:
"Since 1969, for example, the DGI has been totally controlled by the KGB "liaison team,"
originally headed by Gen Vitaliy Semenov, which shares its offices,
The KGB supplies a special fund to enable the DGI to carry out foreign missions on its
beha.f,
The DGI contains seven divisions, or lineas, The Political and Economic Intelligence
Division has primary responsibility for espionage and subversion in Western countries, Its
chief, Ramon Oroza Naveran, used the nom de guerre of "Demetrio" when he ran the DGI's
notorious Section III, responsible for deploying “illegals” (spies who do not use
diplomatic or other official cover) in target countries,
The division chief's previous employment provides a clue to why the KGB sets a high
valuation on Castro's secret service when it comes to spying on the United States,
Given the presence of a Cuban exile community of some 700,000--not to mention several
million other Spanish-speakers, mostly of Mexican or Puerto Rican origin--it is
Singularly easy for the DGI to smuggle in illegals."
https://archive.org/stream/fbis-report_prex-710fbis-weu-79-174/fbis-report_prex-710fbis-weu-79-174_djvu.txt