Annex No. 17 What Briefing if any was given the Brigade or the Brigade's Staff on Going Guerrilla
Supplemental material used in Maxwell Taylor's report on the Bay of Pigs operation.
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31 May 1961
SUBJECT:
What briefing, if any, was given the Brigade
or the Brigade's staff on going guerrilla.
REFERENCE: Paragraph F. of Memorandum Dated 22 May 1961.
The following is a summation of actions involving pre-
paration and instruction for contingency employment of the
2506 Brigade in the event elements of the Brigade or the unit
ir. total suffered defeat and were forced to operate as
guerrillas.
1. All officers and the original cadre (some 375
personnel) which formed the 2506 Brigade received exten-
sive instruction (in excess of 13 weeks) in guerrilla war-
fare organization tactics and techniques. It was with
considerrable difficulty and after strenuous instruction
were maricad inclination
operations. coventional we.med from Many operations their of the unit to guerrilla fact the operated
on that the officers of Brigade
leaders had in
as guerrillas either with Castro forces in the fight against
Batista or in the later operations against Castro after he
had seitted power.
2. During the evening, staff and operations classes
conducted during the Brigade training cycle extending from
November 1960 through March 1961, severt. discussions were
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held on the subject of a conventional defeated in the
field and forced to continue resistance as - guerrilla
element. Circumstances and ways of means of organizing and
in various parts of Cuba were discussed in detail.
These discussions did not cover the Zapata area specifically
for reasons, but covered the other feasible areas
to incluie the Escambrays, Pinar del Rio and the Oriente.
These discussions were not covered with any specific direc-
tion towards the Brigade operation in these locales, but were
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