Cryptonym: ODBEAT
104-10274-10404: CABLE: FOLLOWING FROM AMLINT IN 3 AUG 63 REPORT DD-315
This cable from the fall of 1963 passes along the gossip that "Rodriguez said AMBIDDY-1 (Manuel Artime) and Ruiz Williams just fakers at service of PBPRIME (U.S.) and PBPRIME had to create new intel agency, ODBEAT, for these objectives because KUBARK (CIA) so discredited already that not even PBPRIMERs had any respect for it." The Defense Intelligence Agency began operating in late 1961, not many months after the failure at the Bay of Pigs.
This cable discusses whether ODBEAT would be "substituted any moment for KUBARK (CIA) in handling PBRUMEN (Cuba) problem."
104-10308-10113: CABLE: AMPALM-4 SAID FRANCISCO CHAO REPEAT CHAO HERMIDA ATTENDED
This cable refers to a meeting between Miguel Leon and "Chief ODBEAT."
09/17/63: Official Routing Slip: To: 1. Bolton. 5. H.H. Remarks: I have a sneaking suspicion that DIA has a hand in this. PRIO is (unintelligible) in the source registry as an army contact. Alvarez is Commando-L. M." From: SAS/SO/H.