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.;yep SECRET' State Department, that he was enroute to Cuba, ac- cording to Berle, "to see whether anything can be done to bring the Cuban revolt to any kind of an orderly conclusion. I' 10/ Berle, with remarkable prescience, noted: It is rough going, anti-intervention is all right up to a point. But we are re- sponsible for keeping order in the hemis- phere quite aside from the proprieties, and a rather bolder policy in that regard seems indicated. 11/ By early 1958, the Agency had become sufficiently concerned about the pro-Communist orientation of Castro's government, and particularly the pro-Castro proclivities of his two principal deputies, Ernesto Che Guevara and Raul Castro Ruz, Fidel's brother, that penetration of the Partido Socialista Popular was a priority concern of the field. ~t least two agents were successfully placed in PSP ranks, and in March 1958, one Agency officer managed to join the Castro forces in the mountains for a period of two weeks and to observe their tactics in combat. In June 1958, "Robert D. Wiecha, COB, Santiago de Cuba, got himself "captured" by Raul Castro's forces in order to be able to assist 29 US sailors and marines and 15 US - 6 -