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ee cae a = ee oa in a number of Latin American countries. There was a lack of sufficient readily available operational information on potential target areas, so a requirement, with special emphasis on Cuba, whose Communist control was now becoming more and more apparent, was sent throughout the intelligence commnity, and resulted in a three-volume operational study. 7. By December 1959 these studies had produced a plan for training a small cadre of Cuban exiles as paramilitary instructors, these in turn to be used for training other Cuban recruits, ina Latin American country, for clandestine infiltration into Cuba to provide leadership for anti-Castro dissidents. | | . Organization of Branch 8. On 18 January 1960 the WH Division organized Branch } (wH/4) as an expandable task force to run the proposed Cuban opera- tion. The initial Table of Organization totaled 40 persons, with 18 at Headquarters, 20 at Havana Station, and two at Santiago Base. 9. The branch also began negotiations for a Panama training site. Its officers reconnoitered the area of Miami, Florida, in search of suitable installations for office space, warehouses, safe sites, recruiting centers, communications center, and bases for the movement of persons, materiel, and propaganda into or out of Cuba. 10. At the same time Headquarters and the Havana Station were conducting a study of Cuban opposition leaders to prepare