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@ 56. By mid-March 1961 this security organization comprised 86 employees of whom 37 were trained case officers, the service having graduated four classes from its own training center, | whose chief instructor was a GP votice officer. Security Activities 2t- The FRD's service ran operations into Cuba, -many of them successful. It built up & voluminous. set of card files on Cuban personalities. -.One of its most helpful services was reporting on. meetings of FRD committees and other anti-Castro groups and on political maneuvering within the: FRD hierarchy. It also helped in recruiting for the strike force at a time when the political leaders were sabotaging this effort. Security C and counterintelligence teams were also trained for integration @ . with the strike force. . These had the primary mission of securing vital records and documents during the invasion and a secondary mission of assisting in establishing and maintaining martial law. 58. The service also carried on radio monitoring and con- ducted interrogations and debriefings. An indication of its alertness and efficiency is the fact that it supplied Miami Base with its first information on the location of a C-5i plane which was forced down in Jamaica after a mission over Cuba. The chief of the service was largely responsible for personally persuading the crew. of the downed plane to return to the training camp.