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“ending of the Eisenhower presidency and at the end of the year would elect Kennedy as president. So lots of hype going on in the Eisenhower administration about the Soviet Union. And in 1959, of course, Castro had staged the revolution with…”
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And I had always thought that that was done. And I said it in the presentation that they were just hedging their bet. Right. So they're going to support Batista, which they did. And they installed Batista. And that understanding that the re…
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There was a revolutionary force that formed in the mountains of Cuba. They trained in paramilitary capability to run these jackals out of their country that were kidnapping their women and torturing people and basically destroying what thei…
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who had installed the government that was allowing all of this debasing to go on, also was funding Castro. And they sent actual CIA paramilitary people into those mountains to arm them and to train them to be snipers. So when this revolutio…
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and Che Calvera, who was fighting with them, overthrew the Batista government. Castro came to Washington, D.C. He was one of them. In the hotel where Castro was living when he initially took over, there was a CIA agent on the same floor in …
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and somewhat contain and control the boogeyman, they can't use the boogeyman to do their dastardly deeds. And I have come to appreciate this model more after doing all this research. And I'll just give you one other example. Cuba. Cuba was …
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But he's 90 miles from our coast and they never could put a glove on him. So let's just say that somehow that actually happened. The thing that I found most fascinating about every coup in Latin America, and I mean every one of them, and th…
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What happened over the next year was a steady evolution in the Justice Department's position on their case against Orlando Bosch. There was a memorandum that says they were closely monitoring the situation. Bosch, who had fought with Castro…
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Ted Cruz's father, which is where his name came up again when I was doing the other research. So Orlando Bosch was fighting with Rafael Cruz, with Castro in the revolution. Fled Cuba in 1960, but he had never been approved as a legal reside…
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The U.S. was drawn into Latin America in the same way that it had been drawn into the Golden Crescent as its attention turned to revolutionary movements and governments. The Cuban Revolution in 1959 was described by JFK as a spread of the C…
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Cuba. His parents initially were supporters of Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution. And then, of course, we get this same story until they found out that he was full of Marxism and Leninism and took the family timber business, which wo…
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ending of the Eisenhower presidency and at the end of the year would elect Kennedy as president. So lots of hype going on in the Eisenhower administration about the Soviet Union. And in 1959, of course, Castro had staged the revolution with…
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in the demonization of him winning the revolution and rejecting the CIA's dangled incentives for him to collaborate with the United States and allow all of the former United States companies to resume their operations there to include the C…
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Castro made it perfectly clear to Nixon that he wasn't going to be a CIA stooge, and that pissed them off. At the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover told Nixon that he agreed with his assessment of Castro. Eleven months later, President Eisenhower ordere…
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purchases from Cuba. As mistrust of Castro spread, Senator Kennedy, now the Democrat nominee, changed his tactics. He suggested the Eisenhower administration should have avoided Castro's revolution altogether and worked with Batista. Betwee…
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for Bush Jr. for his Iraq and Afghanistan adventures. Meanwhile, the character of the U.S. frontmen were changing. The new operatives came in new forms with new covers, such as think tanks being used instead of foundations or in addition to…
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For months, the agency had followed events in Cuba in growing fear of the disintegration of Americans' cozy position with their military dictator, Batista. They had been unable to quell the rebellion that spread rapidly through the island, …
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Polly traveled to Havana in early December to fill out the Cuban politicians. King and another CIA officer accompanied him. But the moment had already passed. They waited too long. In Cuba, the rebel drive was retaining its momentum. Quote,…
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after New Year's. The flight went as planned, but no third force existed in Cuba. You were either fighting as part of Batista's band of criminals, or you had joined the revolution, and they couldn't find any middle ground.…
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The CIA officers who had succumbed to the fervor of the anti-Batista revolution, such as William Caldwell, station chief when Castro's movement first became entrenched, had given way to more hardened out attitudes. The current chief of stat…
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The guest had been the rich and powerful of Cuba. Some of the 60 visitors knew and suspected that Batista was going to run, flee the country. Castro's irresistible forces were descending from the Sierra Matres mountains where the struggle h…
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to the iron drawbridge. There he shouted, I am Che, Cavera. I want to talk to your chief. A few minutes later, a government jeep rolled out of the fortress. The occupant, an army major, unholstered his pistol and handed it to Che Cavera. Th…
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A few days later, David Attlee Phillips stood in the crowd as Fidel Castro entered Havana in a motorcade. Washington's efforts to shore up the dictatorship and then to force Batista into reforms that might save off a Castro revolution left …
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The mafia left when Castro prohibited gambling. Imagine that. Exappropriation as attempted by Mossadegh in Iran and Arbenz in Guatemala became part of the solution. An element of irony existed here since Castro's father had once worked for …
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All of those people that live under the banner of anti-communists are going to call us communist because we don't agree with their economic model. And anything else that happens, whether it's the revolution that happened in Cuba starts a bl…
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A different story of the vendetta against Castro is told by the Cuban exiles themselves. For the most part, the exiles ardently believed, with some justification, that they created a resistance of which the CIA took advantage. As agency rep…
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50 men went back into the Sierra Matras under Manuel Artime, a former Batista military commander who had sided with Castro, styling themselves as the commandos rurales. They taught reading to illiterate peasants.…
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So anyway, we start today where we left off with kind of the transition between Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency in JFK and the lead up to the Bay of Pigs. So the third force in the Cuban context meant moderate July 26th movement adherents…
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Castro's move to the left. So you guys know that we have basically the Cuban exiles that are all here. We also have the pro Castro diehards in Cuba, but there was created a third movement that wanted revolution from the military dictator Ba…
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by publishing CIA-vetted literature, and by eliminating the intellectuals and leaders who espounded these ideas. One day shortly after Fidel Castro took over power in Havana, Angleton had a brainstorm. He summoned two Jewish CIA officers, i…
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His dream of national liberation was backed up with guns. Castro and his equally charismatic comrade, Che Cavera, made it clear from the start that they would not share the fate of Arbenz in Guatemala. They would fight fire with fire. Che w…
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hospitable reception during his 11-day visit to the U.S. Fresh from his revolutionary victory on New Year's Eve, Fidel was still something of a political mystery to the Eisenhower administration. And the media embraced him as a silver-tongu…
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You had to be labeled a communist in order for that security memorandum to allow the assassination or attack. You had to be dubbed a communist. The explosion in Havana's harbor was a milestone in the Cuban Revolution. At a funeral ceremony …
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He ended his speech with a declaration that became a ringing slogan of the Cuban Revolution. Motherland or death, we shall win. Determined that Cuba would not become another Guatemala, Castro turned to the Soviet Union for economic and mili…
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which would accumulate annually. Castro was telling the world that revolutionary Cuba had been willing to play by capitalist rules, but this was not enough for Washington. Cuba's new government had been too bold. It had clashed with the Int…
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It had also clashed with the most powerful interest of the United States. So then the example shown by the Cuban Revolution had to receive its punishment. Punitive actions of every type. Even the destruction of Cuba's foolhardy people had t…
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the first African-American reporter for CBS News, who had scored an exclusive interview with Castro when he was still fighting in the mountains, stirred liberal circles by purchasing a full-page ad in the New York Times that passionately en…
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The Fair Play for Cuba Committee, FPCC, organized a party in his honor at the hotel's ballroom. Among the guests was Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, and C. Wright Mills, whose own impassioned defense of the Cuban Revolution, Listen Yankee,…
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He said he was addicted to the habit of conversation. He rests by talking. Those were the early honeymoon days of the revolution before Castro's tendencies had hardened and before the Soviet quote unquote partnership with Cuba had begun. Th…
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to develop a plan to assassinate Castro. Mayhew and Roselli was joined at the Plaza Hotel meeting by Jim O'Connell, Mayhew's CIA handler. O'Connell posed as an American businessman who had been predispossessed by Castro's revolution and was…
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Castro's blood on his hands after all, or Rayol Castro, or Che Guevara. It was the beginning of a long U.S. intelligence campaign to kill the Cuban leader, stretching over several presidencies and involving untold numbers of accomplices, in…
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Castro's father had immigrated from Spain. Both were the second sons of shrewd entrepreneurial fathers and devout mothers. Both were educated at elite schools. Both had rejected class privilege, dedicated themselves to improving the lives o…
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by Nixon's soft-on-global communists, carved out a position on Cuba that was even more militant than the Republican candidate, declaring that Castro had betrayed the ideals of the Cuban Revolution and called his regime a communist menace th…
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rumble and spaces and anybody that's trying to dig out i sympathize with you because i'm doing it myself but that aside uh i was when we opened with castro and what he was doing in uh harlem as well as his un speech he declared himself to b…
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Castro's rule, and even today, Marxism and Leninism are tied together, but I never saw anything that Castro did or anybody who's leading Cuba today to move towards communism. So I'm not saying, and I don't think this book is saying that Cas…
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all of these players in this foreign policy or foreign countries were physically, mentally, psychologically pushed into the communist camp because they refused to conform with the U.S. dictates in allowing their resources to be plundered.…
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Castro getting his intel to fight Batista, was he getting that from the CIA too? Yes. Playing both sides? Okay. So, yeah, during the Cuban Revolution, the CIA was funding both sides. They thought they could get, they knew Batista was out. B…