AT THE end of July 1962, Lansdale took stock of Phase I. William Harvey reported that the CIA had met its intelligence targets by establishing “inside Cuba 59 controlled Cuban agents and 31 third country controlled agents.” In addition, 169 lower-quality agents were “producing intermittent intelligence reports,” and an interrogation center set up in Opa-Locka to debrief Cuban refugees was generating eight hundred reports a month. No sabotage had taken place to date, but the CIA had infiltrated eleven sabotage teams into Cuba.75 The Defense Department, for its part, had completed detailed
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