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crm cope \ op peor. | The Net in Havana 5. The section devoted considerable effort to supporting Havana Station in preparing its agents for stay-behind roles in the event of a break in diplomatic relations. When the embassy finally closed on 3 January 1961 the station had a single net for positive intelligence. It comprised some 27 persons, 15 of | whom were reporting agents and the rest radio operators, cutouts and couriers. The principal agents and one of the radio opere ators were U.S. citizens and thus had doubtful status after the break in relations. 6. In September 1960 as the military invasion concept was beginning to gain ascendancy in project planning, the chief of the project created a G-2 unit. But instead of placing this unit directly wnder himself as a project-wide unit. and making its chief a member of his immediate staff, he put it in the paramilitary section under the aggressive Marine Corps colonel who became the paramilitary wit chief at about that time. 7. As chief of this low-echelon intelligence unit, whose analyses were to have important influence on an action vitally affecting national sacurity and prestige, wH/} brought in an officer of undoubted ability but of limited experience in para- military and FI operations. It was a grave error to place this G-2 unit in such a subordinate position in the project, and this error produced the serious consequences described below. - 76 - . an OA cee ee A