Annex No. 20a Cuban Internal Situation
Supplemental material used in Maxwell Taylor's report on the Bay of Pigs operation.
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18 May 1961
CUBAN INTERNAL SITUATION
Background for Dissidence
By the beginning of 1961, the Castro Government was strong enough
to move toward extending its control in a variety of ways which it
knew would increase popular disaffection and resentment. The regime,
having already confiscated most major firms, large farms, and organized
a peoples' militia to counter-balance the arsy, was now ready to further
extend its power over the economic, social, and personal life of the
individual Cuban.
Security Controls. In January 1961, the crastion of Committees
for the Defense of the Revolution, a blocì:warden type of informant
system, placed practically every Cuban citizen under the watchful eye
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of a State informer. This was added to an already effective syst
whereby agents of the G-2 (the secret police) worked with the National
Revolutionary Police in every city and town, while, in the rural area,
mobile rural police units, cooperating with the G-2 and the militia,
covered the countryside. The Cuban security apparatus, under the
direction of local Communists and with the guidance of Soviet Bloc
intelligence officers, gave evidence of developing into a sophisticated
intelligence organization. The creation of an additional, wholly
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