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ome pee ame a a revolution to take an important banking post but found Castro's Communist tendencies intolerable and went into opposition again. His group is described as liberal and progressive but rejecting any accommodation with Communism. The Organizing Committee 9. Carrillo was one of several Cuban figures whom the Agency induced to defect in late 1959 or the ‘early months of 1960. Others were Manuel Francisco Artime Buesa, . Jose Ignacio Rasco Bermudez, end Manuel Antonio Varona Loredo. Tt: was these | four who, after long negotiations, formed the organizing. com= mittee of the FRD in May 1960. . 10. Artime, who is still under 30, joined Castro's moyement as an anti-Batista student. Under instructions from -the Catholic Church he organized a group of 4,000 Catholic Action students to gain the farmers' help against Batista. The view has been expressed that he was the Jesuits’ penetration of the 26 July Movement. Castro gave him a high post in National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA) from which he resigned after ten months to form the Movement to Recover the Revolution (MRR), composed in part of his former Catholic Action followers. This exile opposition group provided a iarge proportion of the recruits for the strike force. ll. Rasco, a college and university classmate of Castro's, is a lawyer and history professor, described as a nice young “ - 63 -.