Editing Manuel Piñeiro (section)

{{more citations needed|date=February 2013}}{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Manuel Piñeiro
| office              = Deputy [[Ministry of the Interior (Cuba)|Minister of the Interior of Cuba]] (1964-1968)
| party               = [[Communist Party of Cuba]]
| birth_name          = Manuel Piñeiro Losada
| birth_date          = 14 March 1933
| birth_place         = [[Matanzas]], [[Cuba]]
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|1998|3|11|1933|3|14}}
| death_place         = [[Havana]], Cuba
| resting_place       = [[Colon Cemetery, Havana]]
| spouse              = [[Lorna Burdsall]] (1955-1975)<ref name="burdsall1">{{cite web |last1=Gámez Torres |first1=Nora |title=Newly found letters offer glimpse into life of US dancer married to Cuban spy chief |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article136735808.html |website=Miami Herald |access-date=22 April 2022}}</ref><br>[[Marta Harnecker]] (1975-1998)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Timossi |first1=Jorge |title=Los cuentos de Barbarroja : comandante Manuel Piñeiro Losada |date=1999 |publisher=Ediciones Colihue |location=Buenos Aires |isbn=9789505816682 |pages=26–30 |edition=1a}}</ref>
| children            = 2
| alma_mater          = [[Columbia University]]
| nickname            = Commander Barbarroja
| allegiance          = [[26th of July Movement]]<br>[[Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces]]
| branch              = 
| serviceyears        = 1955-1998
| rank                = Commander
}}

'''Manuel Piñeiro Losada''' (14 March 1933 - 11 March 1998), also known as '''Commander Barbarroja''' (''es: "red beard"'')<ref>{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Jon Lee |title=Che Guevara : A revolutionary life |date=1997 |publisher=Grove/Atlantic |location=New York |isbn=978-0802135582 |edition=First}}</ref> was a Cuban political and military figure, a leader of the [[Cuban Revolution]], and, between 1961 and 1964, the first head of the [[Dirección de Inteligencia|Dirección General de Inteligencia]] of Cuba. Under Piñeiro, the DGI supported armed struggles in [[Latin America]], helping radical leftist [[Guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] groups in the region. Between 1964 and 1968, Piñeiro acted as the Deputy Minister of the Interior of Cuba, during this time he was in charge of the state security apparatus. A [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] reorganization of the DGI forced Piñeiro out of his position, and he was placed in charge of the DGI's Latin American affairs division.