Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities

The Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities (Buró de Represión de Actividades Comunistas, or BRAC) was the Cuban secret police agency that President Fulgencio Batista maintained in the 1950s, which gained a reputation for brutality in its fight against the 26th of July Movement.

The bureau was headed by Mariano Faget, who had first gained fame as a Nazi hunter during Batista's first turn at power, from 1940 to 1944, when he was chief of the Office of Investigation of Enemy Activities (Oficina de Investigación de Actividades Enemigas),^{[lower-alpha 1]} a counter-espionage unit that targeted Nazi and Fascist agents.

Development of BRAC was aided and encouraged by the CIA starting in 1956.

Notes

1. Also called the Servicio, Buró or Sección de Investigación de Actividades Enemigas.

External links

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3. "Cuba's Batista". Latinamericanstudies.org. 1959-01-01. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
4. "4/22/96 - Camilo Cienfuegos As An Immigrant In U.S". The Militant. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
5. "The Cuban revolution the truth behind the lies". Cubaverdad.net. Retrieved 2016-01-14.