Cuban State Security Bodies, dedication and continuity

Cuba since the revolutionary triumph faced the aggressive policy of the U.S. empire, a trend recognized by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who in his memories published in 1966 wrote: "In a matter of weeks after Castro entered Havana, we in the government began to consider what measures could be effective in repressing Castro".

Such provisions were applied from then on and included, in the first order, plans and attempts to assassinate Commander in Chief Fidel Castro and his brother Raul, as well as other top leaders. They also included the mercenary invasion of Bay of Pigs, the economic, commercial and financial blockade, diplomatic isolation operations in the international arena, espionage, terrorism, uprisings and subversion campaigns of all kinds.

Recalling those difficult circumstances, Fidel in his speech on the 20th anniversary of the Ministry of the Interior (Minint) said: "I think it was Lenin who said that a revolution was worth as much as it was capable of defending itself. And thus arose the demand, the clamor to arm our workers, our peasants, our students, our workers (....), thus demonstrating to imperialism that we were willing to fight and that this was a people's revolution; because only a people's revolution can arm the people".

Under his leadership, on March 26, 1959, the Department of Investigations of the Rebel Army (Dier by its Spanish acronym) was founded, the main institution for confronting enemy actions until then, which united the Intelligence of the Navy and the National Revolutionary Police to give way to the State Security Organs (OSE by its Spanish acronym), which are now reaching their 64th anniversary.

The new organization was born with the minimum formalities, without any public act or press report in a local of the former military camp of Columbia, with the presence of a group of young officers of the Rebel Army willing to fulfill urgent tasks for the security of the Island.
Another principle that Fidel foresaw was the unity that the State Security Bodies would have with the people, as the main ally in their task, which was consolidated on September 28, 1960 with the creation of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, which made it impossible for enemy agents to act with impunity in the countryside and cities because they were watched by the population.

The Historical Leader of the Revolution conceived that the OSE would have to be nourished by the most faithful and brave men coming from the Rebel Army, from the insurrectional organizations that understood the process of radicalization of the Cuban social project and would not be intimidated by the imminent aggressions of the US government.

And the selection could not have been better. From that foundational stage, Commanders Ramiro Valdes Menendez, Abelardo Colome Ibarra, Manuel Piñeiro Losada and captains Joaquin Mendez Cominches, the future combatants of the Bolivian guerrilla Eliseo Reyes Rodriguez (Captain San Luis), Jose Maria Martinez Tamayo (Papi), Orlando Pantoja Tamayo (Olo) and first lieutenant Enio Leyva Fuentes, most of whom did not exceed the third decade of life, had a very important participation.

Many fell in an unequal struggle in the ranks of the enemy, like the security agent and Commander of the Directorio Revolucionario 13 de Marzo Tony Santiago, who in 1961 when he was on his way to Miami in a boat to continue his work of penetration, was intercepted by a CIA boat that strafed it until it sank, while from the water he fired his pistol at the mercenaries and shouted: "Homeland or Death! until he was struck down by the shots, as his assassins confessed years later.

Another example of endurance was Alberto Delgado Delgado, the man from Maisinicu, an illiterate farmer who joined the Rebel Army in 1958, but in 1961, when the counterrevolution tried to capture him, he became a secret agent who infiltrated the bands of rebels until he was assassinated in 1964, without giving away his revolutionary condition under savage tortures.

They constitute another example of abnegation and continuity of what was done by those who fell in the struggle, the Five Heroes, who served sentences in U.S. prisons for defending our people, without giving up their principles, from the criminal actions of the Cuban-American mafia.
In the new scenarios, together with the traditional methods of blockade and violent actions, the empire renews its subversive methods with the use of information and communication technologies in the social networks, under the false hopes of dividing the population and provoking discouragement by exploiting the difficulties and shortages.

This 64th anniversary of the State Security Bodies has a double significance as it coincides with the elections of deputies to Parliament this Sunday, March 26, a day in which the people will vote for their representatives in the 10th Legislature of the People's Power, in an independent Homeland for which they sacrificed even their lives, combatants who contributed to frustrate the dreams of more than 10 US presidents and their lackeys to restore the neo-colony on the Island.