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~PSECREi duty of the PSP was to work toward unity and overcome the counterrevolutionaries. 37/ In a Special NIE of 30 June 1959 on The Situation , ~n the Caribbean through 1959, the intelligence com- munity again indicated that the internal situation in Cuba had not been decided. The SNIE commented: The Communists probably do not now control Castro, but they are in a·posi- tion to exert influence in his regime, and to carryon further organizational work. 38/ Through the summer and into the early fall of 1959, the degree of Castro's commitment to Communism continued to be a major subject of discussion within the intelligence community; and in the weekly reporting that was begun by COS Havana in early June, this topic continually occurred. In August 1959, when the Deputy Chief of Western Hemisphere Division, Rudolph Gomez, assisted Leo Churn in the preparation of an "Urgent , Report on Cuba" for distribution to members of the Research Institute of America, Castro's Communist association was prominently featured. At this time, and reflecting the views of both Western Hemisphere Division and the Department of State with whom Gomez had coordinated the paper, Fidel Castro was not - 23 -