Batallon de Brigada BB
Brigade Battalion
[REF:
Cuban Counter Revolutionary Handbook 10 October 1962 by
the CIA.
FBI HQ file
number 109-584-3387; NARA RIF Number
124-10279-10032]
[NOTE: The copies were very hard to transcribe
because of
poor photo reproduction. At points where the words were
unreadable,
three dots
(...) were inserted to indicate a missing word or words.
Words in
brackets are not contained in the original. FURTHER
NOTE: Please
consider the date,
10 Oct. 1962, when evaluating the organizations.]
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COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY
HANDBOOK
PART II: SECONDARY
ORGANIZATIONS
I. IDENTIFYING
DATA:
Common title: B. B.
Title: Batallon de Brigada
Brigade Battalion
Member of internal FND, suspected of being G-2 vehicle in
Mid-1962;
composed of ex and actual military men. Organization
made up of
cells. Political orientation not known. Claim
large number
of members and operations from Habana to Oriente.
Leading
Personalities: in U. S.: Domingo FALBER
VILLASANTE.
Coord. Gen, Exile; In Cuba: Guillermo CADENA (war name),
Coord Gen and
FND rep, in prison; Alfredo CORDERO (aka "TOBITA");
Rigoberto VALDES,
Coord. Gen. Habana; Pedro FORMENTAL; and Francisco BILBAO.
II. HISTORY
Organized prior April 1961, Cuba. Primary
activity:
commando type acts against small guerrilla groups, and
sabotage to
strategic installations. Claims to have accomplished
many of its
plans.
III. CURRENT STATUS
Not known. Basically operates in Cuba. May
have
suffered drastically from GCC roll-up resulting from planned
"uprising"
of 1962, as did FND.
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