Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities
- 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 secret police agency that Fulgencio Batista maintained in the 1950s, which gained a reputation for brutality in its fight against pro-Castro rebels.
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 Cuba's Office of Investigation of Enemy Activities (OIEA), a counter-espionage unit that targeted Nazi and Fascist agents.
Development of BRAC was aided and encouraged by the CIA starting in 1956 (see CIA activities in Cuba#Cuba 1956).
ee also
*The Lost City (2005 film)
External links
*http://www.jonathanpollard.org/2000/021900b.htm
*http://www.geocities.com/theangryearth/batista.html
*http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuban-rebels/kirkpatrick.htm
*http://www.ruleoflawandcuba.fsu.edu/regime-9.cfm
*http://www.wicuba.org/ageearticle.html
*http://www.themilitant.com/1996/6016/6016_13.html
*http://www.glosk.com/PO/Forte/-2999722/pages/Fulgencio_Batista/46104_en.htm
*http://www.cubaverdad.net/revolution.htm
*http://chat.mapleleafs.com/index.php?showtopic=74060
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