Fulgencio Batista person
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Claims (91)
Rolando Cubela ordered_assassination_of
Fulgencio Batista documented
document
“details of CIA plots with AMLASH to assassinate Castro…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.33
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 2:33
Fulgencio Batista removed_from_power
Cuba documented
“had his own New Year's Eve party, but it was very subdued. Guests ate chicken served by military aides in dress uniform. There was a little bit of champagne, more coffee than champagne. The atmosphere is captured well by a scene in the movi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 40:05
Fulgencio Batista moved_to
Miami book_quoted
“defeating Batista's army in the battle. The handwriting was on the wall. Batista was no fool, and he knew what was coming. The dictator had only a brief appearance around midnight. He did not relinquish the reins of power at a meeting with …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 4:25
United States backed
Fulgencio Batista book_quoted
“A few minutes later, a government chief came out and crossed the bridge. The occupant was an army major, unholstered his pistol and handed it to Che Guevara. We are not interested in fighting. It is not necessary now because the dictator wa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 5:51
Fulgencio Batista pardoned
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“of his first revolution. Castro was freed from prison on the Isle of Pines in May 1955 in an amnesty granted by Batista, but within a year had formed his guerrilla units. Once in power, Castro was opposed to Marxism and soon styled himself …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 13:45
26th of July Movement overthrew
Fulgencio Batista book_quoted
“and had lost most of its support among the Cubans to include the military. They had flocked to Castro's 26th of July movement, which was nicknamed M26, which took its name from the date of an unsuccessful revolt Castro had previously led. B…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 3:57
Fulgencio Batista lived_in
Portugal documented
“Of Cuba, who was living in Portugal at the time, which, of course, is very interesting because remember, Batista is the CIA installed guy that Castro gets rid of. Batista is the guy that was on the tape through the CIA and the mafia. And wh…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 32:19
Fulgencio Batista headed
Cuba book_quoted
“The author starts at a New Year's Eve party that was it says is it was hosted by Batista, who was the president of Cuba during the time when the mafia was running the island. He was more of a figurehead. And there's a whole history about ho…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 0:57
Fulgencio Batista overthrew
Cuba documented
“Cuba had a constitution that they adopted in 1940, I believe. Batista, with the help of outside players, overthrew a democratic leader and was basically in bed with the mafia and the CIA. So the irony of restore the revolution isn't talking…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 30:27
Fulgencio Batista moved_to
Cuba documented
“Aboard three planes, the group took flight. Batista left Camp Columbia base at 2.40 in the morning on January 1, 1959. David Attlee Phillips, now a part-time CIA undercover agent in Havana, sat in his backyard as the aircraft flew overhead.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 42:05
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista documented
“But Batista's corruption and oppression increasingly lost their support. Cubans flocked to Castro's July 26th movement by the droves. It had taken this name from the date of an unsuccessful revolt that Castro had once led. The M26 guerrilla…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 40:35
Fulgencio Batista member_of
United Fruit Company caller_asserted
“on my own recently. And his father and himself actually worked, uh, are connected with United Fruit as well in Cuba. And he had an interesting life kind of bouncing back between the United States and Cuba. Um, and when he fled on, uh, that,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 1:24:19
Fulgencio Batista member_of
Mafia host_asserted
“money that is siphoned off through quid pro quo type of arrangements both with the mafia i mean he got in bed with the mafia big time batista did and so there's going to be a skimming off of that money in order to allow the because the musc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 1:29:48
José Pérez San Román member_of
Fulgencio Batista book_quoted
“had actually been part of the revolution against the Batista government. And here the CIA is putting one of those people that was responsible for the repressive government of Batista in charge of the Cuban expats. That's dumber than dirt. S…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 30:08
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 58:54
Che Guevara overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 58:54
Fulgencio Batista supplied_arms_to
Cuba host_asserted
“from the Corsican Mafia in France and the Sicilian Mafia in Sicily. They staged, they used Cuba as both an arms trafficking location under the government of Batista, who we installed, and they were running drugs into Harlem.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 55:58
Fulgencio Batista overthrew
Cuba caller_asserted
“we have this uh amount of problems Alex in the last 72 years since the coup the military coup provided by Batista and uh when we started digging on that we started finding the same things that you're talking and um we have to make a decisio…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 1:19:07
Michele Sindona recruited
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 26:16
Fulgencio Batista overthrew
Cuba host_asserted
“money coming from the Jewish mafia in America. And they're totally, totally in cahoots with Batista in Cuba until segue. Until Batista gets overthrown by Fidel Castro. And we also went over this yesterday because this is going to be myth bu…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 27:12
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“money coming from the Jewish mafia in America. And they're totally, totally in cahoots with Batista in Cuba until segue. Until Batista gets overthrown by Fidel Castro. And we also went over this yesterday because this is going to be myth bu…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 27:12
Che Guevara carried_out_attack
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“Castro and Che Guevara go into the mountains and they basically set up a terrorist training camp like Gladio is. And they started launching operations against the government, Batista, out of this training area. And what I have found specifi…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 33:05
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“All right, back to the story. Sorry, I got off on a little tangent there. So with Fidel Castro won January 1959, Alistair Batista, Lansky and Traficani were in trouble, though they were expelled from their Cuban kingdom nearly a year lapse …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 50:51
CIA assisted
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“became Lansky's right-hand man and manager of his Cuban interest. And oh, by the way, the whole restoring Batista to Cuba was CIA assisted. So they have all of this casino trade going on in Cuba. They had a base for running Havana's tourist…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 45:30
Meyer Lansky relationship_with
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“A war to kill off all the Corsicans. Chapter 15, The Cubans of Florida. Meyer Lansky, the syndicate's financial wizard and chairman from 1947, began building his Cuban empire in his early 40s. When free elections chased his close friend, di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 43:58
Meyer Lansky promoted
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“The older mafia dons deemed initially didn't want to do it, but hey, everybody's making money, so we're in. When Florida's illegal casinos were shut down in 1950, Lansky promoted Batista's return to power in Cuba. You know, so much for your…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 45:01
Trafficante crime family relationship_with
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“Money. Very convenient. Cuba was very, very convenient for these guys. Traficani Jr. had proven more talented than his father, extraordinarily intelligent and energetic. He was calm in crises. Everybody loved him. He was one of the few guys…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 46:32
Fulgencio Batista relationship_with
CIA host_asserted
“I'm not pro Castro. The mafia had taken over Cuba. They were prostituting young girls and there were crime everywhere. The nationalists in Cuba are the ones that began the revolution to get Batista, who was bought off by the mafia and the U…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 23:41
Fulgencio Batista did_business_with
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“We have a lot of people in our government who are connected to Cuban exiles. So there's so much on deck right now. Wanted to share a little, was looking into Batista on my own recently. And his father and himself actually worked, are connec…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 1:24:17
Fulgencio Batista did_business_with
Mafia host_asserted
“quid pro quo type of arrangements both with the mafia i mean he got in bed with the mafia big time batista did and so there's going to be a skimming off of that money in order to allow the because the muscle of the cuban army was what allow…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 1:30:05
Rolando Masferrer worked_for
Fulgencio Batista book_quoted
“some of the people that Colonel Robert Brown had trained called Soldiers of Fortune, we call them Gladio troops, that were in the pay of Rolando Masferra. He had been mentioned earlier in the book in connection with Warbell and the CBS inva…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 3 @ 34:16
Paulino Sierra Martinez member_of
Fulgencio Batista documented
“or the Metropolitan Club. He was the son of a Cuban police sergeant. Sierra had worked his way up in the Havana Society, landing a job for the dictator Batista in his foreign ministry. But some of his intimates suggested that Sierra's gover…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 39:21
Camilo Padreda member_of
Fulgencio Batista documented
“Dade County Republican John Ellis, Jeb Bush. Yeah. On October 3rd, 1988, in Newsday, a reporter, Newt Royce and Gaylord Shaw, reported that Pedreda was once a counterintelligence officer for the former Cuban dictator, Batista.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 17:08
Fidel Castro targeted_for_regime_change
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“I started here because this, I could, I could have read some very similar story to what I just read that happened in Cuba when the OSS slash CIA went in to train Castro and Shea Cavera in the mountains of Cuba when they were preparing to ta…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:01:44
Fulgencio Batista overthrew
Cuba caller_asserted
“Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by Fidel Castro in the beginning of the revolution. But we have records. We have, how can I put it? We have so much information that we have shared to leaders like Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez, Crook, Bob Menen…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:05:56
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista caller_asserted
“Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by Fidel Castro in the beginning of the revolution. But we have records. We have, how can I put it? We have so much information that we have shared to leaders like Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez, Crook, Bob Menen…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:05:56
Raul Cantero member_of
Fulgencio Batista documented
“In Florida in 2002, when he appointed Raul Cantero, another of Bosch's attorney and grandson of Batista to the Florida Supreme Court. That's crazy. And I had no idea. Batista's son was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to the Supreme Court of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 1:23:12
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“And they had the elite landowners that had worked alongside the mafia and the CIA during the Batista regime. And when Castro overthrew it, they just exfiltrate them to the United States and they set them up primarily in New York and Miami i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 3 @ 58:02
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“JFK ripped into America's corporate plunder and political domination of the island in surprisingly unvarnished terms. He also denounced Washington's shameful practice of propping up dictators throughout Latin America, including Batista. Ken…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 31:59
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“rose up and overthrew Batista. And you have yet again, and believe me, I am not a Castro apologist, but the United States actually aided and trained and set up Gladio training camps to teach people, to include Che Guevara, how to fight in t…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 55:48
David Atlee Phillips spied_on
Fulgencio Batista documented
“Aboard three planes, the group took flight. Batista left Camp Columbia base at 2.40 in the morning on January 1st, 1959. David Attlee Phillips, now a part-time CIA undercover agent in Havana, sat in his backyard as the aircraft flew overhea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 41:35
CIA supplied_arms_to
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“And the U.S. in general openly supplying Batista with weaponries because of their role in the drug network. Because you've got to remember the timing. So we've already set up Cuba as a drug from Sicily. They brought the drugs into Cuba. The…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 @ 1:15:16
CIA installed
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“Of Cuba, who was living in Portugal at the time, which, of course, is very interesting because remember, Batista is the CIA installed guy that Castro gets rid of. Batista is the guy that was on the tape through the CIA and the mafia. And wh…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 32:19
CIA supplied_arms_to
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“And so the CIA knew when these guys got together and started training up in the mountains of Cuba that they were a force to be reckoned with. So the CIA to the Castro forces, as well as supply arms to Batista. So no matter what, the CIA was…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 with Conservative Patriot Network @ 47:16
Fulgencio Batista did_business_with
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 25:58
Fulgencio Batista did_business_with
Meyer Lansky documented
“fake banks, and all kinds of stuff. Other big names in the mafia were welcomed by Batista, including Meyer Lansky, Santo Traficante Jr. The island exploded with gambling houses, erotic hotels, and large-scale prostitutions. And they were ba…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 49:48
Fulgencio Batista did_business_with
Lucky Luciano documented
“Having originally served as the elected president of Cuba from 40 to 44, Batista seized power by a military coup in 52. The island had become a mafia stronghold after the arrival of Lucky Luciano after World War II. Once in Cuba, the mafia …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 49:19
Fulgencio Batista moved_to
Florida host_asserted
“You're fading out again. ...connections he had. And he had Swiss bank accounts. And naturally, he ended up in Florida and then later went to Madeira, Portugal. And he was in Spain in the end of his life, both Portugal and Spain. So it all f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 1:25:15
Fulgencio Batista moved_to
Madeira host_asserted
“You're fading out again. ...connections he had. And he had Swiss bank accounts. And naturally, he ended up in Florida and then later went to Madeira, Portugal. And he was in Spain in the end of his life, both Portugal and Spain. So it all f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 1:25:15
Richard M. Bissell Jr. supplied_arms_to
Fulgencio Batista book_quoted
“Bissell cabled Egan on his own authority, permitting the use of CIA pilots, but not any of the Cuban exiles, supposedly, and recalls no evidence the troops were ever used. But President Eisenhower was later briefed that the Cubans deployed …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 46:55
U.S. Navy supplied_arms_to
Fulgencio Batista book_quoted
“It seems that two plane loads flew to the affected places, but never got off the aircraft. So we're told. Cuban veterans like Felix Rodriguez, another force gump of Operation Gladio, have spoken and written about the intervention. The U.S. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 47:24
Fulgencio Batista headed
Cuba host_asserted
“the land away from their rightful owners under a corrupt Batista government. I mean, that was what brought the entire revolution. And the people that initially supported Castro, who apparently after he got in power, like many people who get…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 2:00:42
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 7:09
Fulgencio Batista overthrew
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“wearing chunky orthopedic shoes. He talks a lot about the glory days. I always wanted to fly, he said. He had made a decision as a young man to quit medical school and become a pilot in the Cuban Navy. That was under the rule of Batista, th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 31:36
CIA supported
Fulgencio Batista book_quoted
“and installed Batista. And they haven't installed a democratically elected president in any of their coups. The agency supported the Cuban exiles, but the CIA had also supported Batista. And no one had elected him either. Nor were Joseph Mu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 36:22
CIA overthrew
Fulgencio Batista book_quoted
“of quote-unquote self-determination and democracy is laughable. No one elected Castro, true enough, but the confessed goals of the Cuba project had been to get rid of him, after which Cuba themselves would supposedly be able to elect a lead…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 35:52
United States installed
Fulgencio Batista documented
“That's authoritarianism, totalitarianism, all these isms by any – they're just different flavors of the same thing. So then, again, high level, tell me the difference between two islands and you have a – and go to Batista because we did ove…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 1:06:17
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“We loved one. We loved one. We recognized him immediately in the form of Pinochet when he and the CIA overthrew Allende. But when Castro overthrew Batista, we would never recognize him. Is the difference between is that is the difference be…”
▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 3 @ 27:21
Bernard Baruch member_of
Fulgencio Batista book_quoted
“Noel, N-O-E-L, who was in contact with secret assets throughout the country. Oh, maybe like stay behind units. November 1963, Noel would be assigned to the station chief position of Madrid. That'll be important later. One of Noel's chief co…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 1:20:35
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“But the leaders of the agencies who were involved were soon after forced to retire or fired by Kennedy. The U.S. military was kept out of the action, infuriating Pentagon planners. And finally, the mafia, who had been forced to flee Havana …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner KILL ZONE Part 2 @ 33:33
Fulgencio Batista lived_in
Spain host_asserted
“You're fading out again. ...connections he had. And he had Swiss bank accounts. And naturally, he ended up in Florida and then later went to Madeira, Portugal. And he was in Spain in the end of his life, both Portugal and Spain. So it all f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 1:25:15
Fulgencio Batista moved_to
Dominican Republic documented
“soundly defeating Batista's forces. The Cuban people rushed into the street to celebrate their long-awaited liberation, and Batista beat a hasty retreat for the Dominican Republic, flying out with some of his key staff and planes loaded wit…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 56:19
Fulgencio Batista did_business_with
Santo Trafficante Jr. documented
“fake banks, and all kinds of stuff. Other big names in the mafia were welcomed by Batista, including Meyer Lansky, Santo Traficante Jr. The island exploded with gambling houses, erotic hotels, and large-scale prostitutions. And they were ba…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 49:48
26th of July Movement overthrew
Fulgencio Batista documented
“The guests 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 …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 40:35
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“the actual plan that he was actually building. So he stayed more neutral. Kennedy, knowing what they were planning on doing, took the hard line and stole the thunder. Who's that remind you of? Donald Trump. Hey, Russia, where's all those em…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 8 @ 46:12
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“I'm not pro Castro. The mafia had taken over Cuba. They were prostituting young girls and there were crime everywhere. The nationalists in Cuba are the ones that began the revolution to get Batista, who was bought off by the mafia and the U…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 23:41
United States supplied_arms_to
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“And the U.S. in general openly supplying Batista with weaponries because of their role in the drug network. Because you've got to remember the timing. So we've already set up Cuba as a drug from Sicily. They brought the drugs into Cuba. The…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 @ 1:15:16
Che Guevara carried_out_attack
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“Castro and Che Guevara go into the mountains and they basically set up a terrorist training camp like Gladio is. And they start launching operations against the government, Batista, out of this training area. And what I have found specifica…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 32:47
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“money coming from the Jewish mafia in America. And they're totally, totally in cahoots with Batista in Cuba until segue. Until Batista gets overthrown by Fidel Castro. And we also went over this yesterday because this is going to be myth bu…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 26:54
CIA funded
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“And the U.S. in general openly supplying Batista with weaponries because of their role in the drug network. Because you've got to remember the timing. So we've already set up Cuba as a drug from Sicily. They brought the drugs into Cuba. The…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 @ 1:15:16
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista documented
“soundly defeating Batista's forces. The Cuban people rushed into the street to celebrate their long-awaited liberation, and Batista beat a hasty retreat for the Dominican Republic, flying out with some of his key staff and planes loaded wit…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 56:19
CIA installed
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“The CIA installed Batista in Cuba…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 26:29
Fulgencio Batista member_of
CIA host_asserted
“Because at that point, the Batista installed guy that was as corrupt as hell and working with the CIA had pissed off enough people in Cuba that it was inevitable that there was going to be someone else in charge. And so they did that in ord…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:53:56
CIA funded
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:18:35
U.S. State Department funded
Fulgencio Batista caller_asserted
“He got really defeated by Cubans because the Cubans at that time were very focused on what they needed to do. And from that moment was the moment also that Batista started getting attention from Washington. That's the moment that Batista be…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 1:29:41
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“the land away from their rightful owners under a corrupt Batista government. I mean, that was what brought the entire revolution. And the people that initially supported Castro, who apparently after he got in power, like many people who get…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 2:00:42
Allen Dulles covered_up
Fulgencio Batista book_quoted
“explained Batista's fall by citing corruption and his consequent lack of public support. Alan Dulles is said to have taken this report and personally rewritten it. A paper Dulles forwarded to State in February of 1959, not all complimentary…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 47:02
Fidel Castro succeeded
Fulgencio Batista caller_asserted
“from the point of view of legality, constitutionally, and all of that, that Castro pretty much didn't make a revolution. Castro pretty much is a continuation of the military coup provided by Batista. So there was no revolution. That was a s…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 1:20:09
Fulgencio Batista installed_by
CIA host_asserted
“And so they had lots of people to choose from. And I don't know if this book will get into it, but we got into it in a couple of other books where the group that was in New York were more the business leaders. Because keep in mind, when the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 1:09:55
Fulgencio Batista funded
Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“corrupt Batista land deals that stole the people's land. And this Cuban exile group that came and wreaked havoc in Florida and all over the country, as a matter of fact, because they blew up a former ambassador in downtown D.C. and killed A…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 29:08
Fulgencio Batista member_of
CIA caller_asserted
“An operative from CIA into Gladio operation and Castro did too. Castro was also part of the killing of one of the, in Colombia, people know the event in 1947, I think it was. People know the event at the Bocotazo. Okay. But also Castro took…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 2 @ 1:44:52
United States overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“and still acting as if he approaches, you know? I don't know. There's no reason for Castro to gain power so easily in Cuba. And it was because Batista didn't have any longer support from the United States and had to go. But then they put in…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:26:06
Fulgencio Batista member_of
Operation Gladio caller_asserted
“An operative from CIA into Gladio operation and Castro did too. Castro was also part of the killing of one of the, in Colombia, people know the event in 1947, I think it was. People know the event at the Bocotazo. Okay. But also Castro took…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 2 @ 1:44:52
Otto Skorzeny did_business_with
Fulgencio Batista speculative
“In a letter dated April 14, 1962, Skorzeny says he is expecting the arrival that day of Encio, who is arriving from Luxembourg and is curious to know what news he's bringing. Nothing good. Encio was not further identified by Skorzeny in his…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 31:50
Fulgencio Batista planned
Bay of Pigs Invasion speculative
“There he purportedly planned the invasion, along with mobster Frank Costello and the ex-Cuban dictator Batista. So you see here the critical blending of Operation Gladio people in Europe, operations not just in Cuba, but all throughout Lati…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 58:09
Fulgencio Batista front_for
CIA host_asserted
“all of the oligarchs in the United States that basically owned all of Cuba under the leadership of Batista, who was the CIA stooge there…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 1:07:20
Fulgencio Batista installed
Dominican Republic host_asserted
“When you tell a foreign country who they can and can't have as a president and you assassinate anybody that they want as their president that is actually elected, it makes people a little radical. That obviously is newsflash to them. And in…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 21:19
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“Castro was too hard of a nut to crack, but that didn't stop them from them training Castro and his rebels and them overthrowing the government. Now, once they figured out that they couldn't co-opt Castro, they set about attacking him. Right…”
▶ X SPACES Éire Community-Operation Gladio, Colonel Towner Watkins @ 1:53:25
Hermelindo Saldiva Batista member_of
Fulgencio Batista caller_asserted
“The one that I'm saying that is his father, his name is Hermelindo Saldiva Batista. And, you know, it's very simple. You can check the DNA. But anyway, I never thought that not United States, but the people which are put in place, for examp…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:07:25
Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“All of the ambassadors are going to not want a Castro because the ambassadors actually represent the international syndicate, not us. The station warned of Batista's vulnerability, even as the CIA tried its 11th hour efforts. On December 23…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 38:00
Mentions (120)
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Because the CIA, if they're going to install a dictator, they always have dictator number two waiting in the wings. They've already learned because of Manuel Noriega and Penashe and all these other people that eventually they're installed. …
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of the Cuban elite that were employed by the mafia. Now, if you go look up Rubio's dad, he worked in some of the Cuban mafia Batista establishments in Cuba. You can make the argument, I don't have any conclusive evidence of it, that because…
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There were remnants of that affiliation when he's down in Miami, which was the case in Felix Rodriguez and all of them. Felix Rodriguez's family was very well off because they were part of the Batista Mafia Association in Cuba. He went to a…
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So they're all from very wealthy families. All of the Cuban exiles are from very wealthy, complicit Batista families. So just as a reminder that, you know, the mafia basically had installed, basically ran the government of Cuba as their own…
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were paid to be basically the plantation overseers or the director of transportation or the director of this school versus that school. And those people were their minions on the ground for all of the oligarchs in the United States that bas…
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For the majority of the Cuban exiles, that is absolutely a fable. The CIA installed Batista in Cuba and they also went into the mountains. Literally CIA agents went into the mountains and trained the Castro brothers along with Che Cabrera a…
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Yeah, I don't I can't really speak on Skorzeny, but I think it's something that I need to cover for sure. And I'm aware of it. I need to read more about that. Back to the Cubans. And here's one thing I didn't say about this Cuban doctor tha…
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In the case with, and obviously Cuba is a great example of that, the organized crime was there. We couped Cuba. We installed Batista. Batista was bought and paid for by the CIA and the United States. And as a result, there was an influx of …
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rose up and overthrew Batista. And you have yet again, and believe me, I am not a Castro apologist, but the United States actually aided and trained and set up Gladio training camps to teach people, to include Che Guevara, how to fight in t…
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And because they wanted to play both sides, they were helping Batista and they were helping Castro so they could control the aftermath. As a result of that, Castro was not going to be dictated to. And he did the same thing that they did in …
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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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from the Corsican Mafia in France and the Sicilian Mafia in Sicily. They staged, they used Cuba as both an arms trafficking location under the government of Batista, who we installed, and they were running drugs into Harlem.…
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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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we have this uh amount of problems Alex in the last 72 years since the coup the military coup provided by Batista and uh when we started digging on that we started finding the same things that you're talking and um we have to make a decisio…
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from the point of view of legality, constitutionally, and all of that, that Castro pretty much didn't make a revolution. Castro pretty much is a continuation of the military coup provided by Batista. So there was no revolution. That was a s…
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He got really defeated by Cubans because the Cubans at that time were very focused on what they needed to do. And from that moment was the moment also that Batista started getting attention from Washington. That's the moment that Batista be…
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We are, for a long time, more than six decades, with Batiste and with Fidel Castro, they've broken all of us. Sorry. That's okay. Go ahead. You know, I never find somebody that's talking about what happened in my country and in another coun…
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what happened and please don't leave I live right now in America I was living in Germany and I know what is free what is liberty and what is to respect the constitution what they was doing in my country for a long time Fidel Castro was…
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to the Soviet Union for help. But it is interesting that at one point, apparently he did reach out just before he was assassinated to the Soviet Union and legalized the Communist Party in the Dominican Republic. I'm sure that had nothing to…
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When you tell a foreign country who they can and can't have as a president and you assassinate anybody that they want as their president that is actually elected, it makes people a little radical. That obviously is newsflash to them. And in…
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And if you've read Operation Northwood, and if you haven't, please do, it's exactly the same thing of dressing up as someone else, government-employed terrorist, to attack major U.S. cities, and they were going to dress up like Cuban army. …
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on doing that in order to warrant a full-scale invasion of Cuba. Now, not only were they willing to kill thousands of people by blowing up U.S. cities, which it was major cities that they had on the plan to do, but we would have lost God kn…
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leadership in all of these countries in order to be able to so even the good guys turn bad and they are co-opted just like what happened with Castro eventually he takes on all of the dressings of a communist because he has been radicalized …
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in a Havana nightclub. Two men in the crowd pulled out pistols and shot Colonel Antonio Blanco Rico, the chief of the Cuban military intelligence services, dead. One of the gunmen, Rolando Cubela, C-U-B-E-L-A, was a medical student at the U…
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$10 million in profit annually. Cuban guerrillas overthrew the Batista dictatorship and imposed a radical social and political program around that same time in the 1960s. Other dictators fell in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina. A r…
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And the thing is, for me, at this point, so simple that I never imagined it was going to be that way. One of the things less understood about the Cuban case is that all the problems that you see today started in 1952 with a military coup pr…
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when i started closing on these arguments about gladio and all the implications we have um i started making some connections and one of the connections start with batista was our president in cuba from 1940 to 1944. he then left cuba and st…
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But at that time, on that Tona Beach, there was also a bunch of these mafia guys living there. And I said, you know what? There's no reason Batista wanted to go back to Cuba to run for the presidency again, to be president again. Even doing…
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He was not exactly the kind of guy that fit into that operation, into this operation. He was a really decent, pretty decent guy. I'm pretty much sure that the guy knew something about all of this crazy stuff running out. So, mafia guys prob…
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And it started running operations, gladiator operations from Cuba. Yep. Even laundering money or running the trafficking, armed trafficking, drug trafficking, and all of that trafficking possible for the gladiator operation because they nee…
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that the Cuban Constitution was communist. It wasn't, because it was a communist constitution. Castro would easily pick the Constitution and continue running on it. And he's not. It didn't happen. The other thing is that pretty much people …
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We found the same thing, the same tricks played in Vietnam. And we started finding the same things done a lot of times. Yes. Now, the crazy part in here is Juan Batista was not able to control Cuba. They allowed another person to get in pow…
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They got a lot of money putting into the accounts that was needed to run the whole operation, and Castro was in the middle. At some point, Castro maybe thought or think that he can run the things from himself. And that makes maybe the break…
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They thought that they were patting both sides of the fight, that they were going to support Batista in Cuba and they were going to support Castro. But basically, we know what happens. Castro tells them they're not bringing the mafia back i…
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You know, and again, the same is true as in Cuba. We funded both the Batista movement and the Chavez, not Chavez, sorry, Castro side. So this is not uncommon for these people in order for them to affect control of the overall ball of black.…
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Kim, we worked with him to kick out the Japanese and we worked with Ho Chi Minh to kick out the Japanese in Vietnam. And we worked with Castro. Actually, we trained Castro to get rid of Batista. And then the knife comes out, i.e. Gladio, an…
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The government does. And so they were using Cuba as a weapons transit place. But as far as legitimate business of the sugar plantations and some of the other commerce that was going there that was legitimate commerce, it was all owned by Am…
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and who found themselves drawn into this anti-communist circle in the U.S. In the aftermath of the 1959 revolution, tens of thousands of Cubans, including not a few supporters of the deposed Batista, had fled to the United States, and they …
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Manrara, M-A-N-R-A-R-A. His first name's Lewis. He was an accountant who escaped from Cuba to Miami in 1960. He hadn't been a strong Batista supporter, but Castro and his band of revolutionaries wasn't his cup of tea either. Shortly after h…
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It is not indicative that that's the only coup we ever did there. It is just illustrating how we destabilized the country. Because in some of these countries, we repeatedly couped their government, like in Haiti. We didn't just do it once. …
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I started here because this, I could, I could have read some very similar story to what I just read that happened in Cuba when the OSS slash CIA went in to train Castro and Shea Cavera in the mountains of Cuba when they were preparing to ta…
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was displaced out of cuba i mean he's an american but he went down there and bought all kinds of shit he owned huge plantations he owned he was the director of all transportation under batista um he owned the airline the only airline in cub…
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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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prior to him winning. And I didn't say he was a CIA puppet. And there was actually people in the CIA that were called, they called themselves Fidelistas, basically. But Castro, we have to remember that Castro wasn't actually a communist unt…
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On the other hand, it would not have been the first time the CIA was involved in a plot to eliminate an ally that they actually installed, because they did that with Batista in Cuba, Trujillo, Figueres, and Diem out of Vietnam. Mubato, at t…
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Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by Fidel Castro in the beginning of the revolution. But we have records. We have, how can I put it? We have so much information that we have shared to leaders like Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez, Crook, Bob Menen…
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The biggest lie in history, 65 years of suffering to find out that the actual president is the son of Batista himself, which what I mean with this is that, you see, Batista had three brothers.…
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and still acting as if he approaches, you know? I don't know. There's no reason for Castro to gain power so easily in Cuba. And it was because Batista didn't have any longer support from the United States and had to go. But then they put in…
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That's kind of the premise. But there was a coup in Cuba that brought Batista to power, instigated by intelligence agencies as well, to facilitate this. He was corrupt. He was very corrupt. And as we have discovered is the normal process, t…
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And yes, the CIA was involved in the initial training of the Castro brothers in Chekhov era up in the mountains. As the revolution unfolds, the successful revolution, and Batista is deposed, in walks the Fidel Castro, and as has been the ca…
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in all of these countries that we have studied. So if you're going to do a change at the top, there will be some changes in the elite group of people, potentially. Unfortunately, the people at the bottom, generation after generation, remain…
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The photo's timing places Rafael Cruz in New Orleans in 1963, August, where he lived in his late 20s. It goes on to say that it hasn't been confirmed, the normal kind of hedging your bet type thing. It says that Rafael Cruz fled to America …
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Cruz, in the CIA orchestrated bringing to power Fidel Castro. He fought with Fidel Castro, which I found very interesting. And then, of course, he says he became disillusioned and came to the United States. In The New Yorker, it speculated …
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As detailed in a biography, Rafael Cruz's association with the Cuban exile community is limited. He was born in Cuba in 1939. He claimed to have participated as a teenager in the anti-Batista revolution. And it says that he fled to the Unit…
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In Florida in 2002, when he appointed Raul Cantero, another of Bosch's attorney and grandson of Batista to the Florida Supreme Court. That's crazy. And I had no idea. Batista's son was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to the Supreme Court of …
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by a CIA director slash agent's son to the Florida Supreme Court. That's crazy. Who knew that the Florida Supreme Court justice was the grandson of Batista? Grandson or son? That's crazy. That's absolutely crazy. So that's all of the inform…
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meaning they had actually fled the regime of the country's U.S.-backed installed dictator, Batista, not Castro. Rubio's character was also tarnished by revelations that throughout the 1980s, his brother-in-law, Orlando Cecilia, directed a $…
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Because at that point, the Batista installed guy that was as corrupt as hell and working with the CIA had pissed off enough people in Cuba that it was inevitable that there was going to be someone else in charge. And so they did that in ord…
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in the dictatorships of Somoza and Guatemala, all joined in on the pre-Sandinista Castro revolution on the side of Castro. Because remember, the CIA had already determined Batista had a short lifespan in Cuba, and they actually were involve…
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He met with controversial Cuban exile named Paulino Sierra Martinez, a former henchman in the deposed close circle of Cuban dictator Batista. Sierra, whose anti-Castro activities were underwritten by the mafia and U.S. corporations with a s…
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There's that. OK, let's go back to the story. So Miguel, the guy that's going to adopt Jeff Bezos, was brought to the United States on a CIA operation called Peter Pan after their support of Fidel Castro and Batista in Cuba. OK, so he.…
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Push me to the back, to the end. It would be better. That way I won't disrupt your conversation. Whatever you want. You choose. You decide. Well, there's nobody else up here speaking, and there's nobody else asking questions, so go ahead. O…
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with a qr batista and all of that so you can put something together for us some of our people most of the people in our group understand english some a lot of them can speak english even better than me and um i would it would be highly appr…
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Thursday next week. So I'm telling you right now. Okay. I will look at my schedule and I will DM you. So Thursday next week, 9 p.m. in the afternoon and night, we're going to be talking with Colonel Watkins about Gladio, Cuba, Castro, Batis…
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That to me is a clear indication that it was the 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh into the Shah. The Shah had become so unpopular, not unlike Batista in Cuba, that there needed to be another regime change. In comes the Mullahs. And they kept the…
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But the leaders of the agencies who were involved were soon after forced to retire or fired by Kennedy. The U.S. military was kept out of the action, infuriating Pentagon planners. And finally, the mafia, who had been forced to flee Havana …
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until Cuba was gone. Then he goes on to explain the stuff that we already know about Meyer Lansky and him helping the World War II. But he says that, of course, Meyer Lansky had a lot of activity in Cuba as well and definitely wanted Batist…
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The famous night spot, nightclub, was managed by Dallas gambler Louis McWillie. He was Jack Ruby's idol, and Jack Ruby visited him in Cuba during this time. Also during this time, a distinguished guest in Havana was none other than Richard …
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He visited the casinos as well as Batista. He even had considered the possibility of establishing a law office in Havana. When Batista fell during the Castro revolution, Castro declared, I'm going to run all of these fascist mobsters, all o…
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wearing chunky orthopedic shoes. He talks a lot about the glory days. I always wanted to fly, he said. He had made a decision as a young man to quit medical school and become a pilot in the Cuban Navy. That was under the rule of Batista, th…
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He said he told Rayol, if you want to kill me, kill me, but I don't switch sides. To this day, he says he can't understand why Rayol Castro didn't call his bluff. After Fidel Castro took power and Batista fled the country in 1959, Bascaro s…
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supported Batista and his corrupt government. And then you had the peasants. And her family was part of the elite family that came to Miami. And she said, absolutely, that is true. The majority of the Cuban exiles came from the elite famili…
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Dade County Republican John Ellis, Jeb Bush. Yeah. On October 3rd, 1988, in Newsday, a reporter, Newt Royce and Gaylord Shaw, reported that Pedreda was once a counterintelligence officer for the former Cuban dictator, Batista.…
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Several Iranians who had been on the CIA's payroll in the United States joined his staff in France. They're plotting as part of his staff, this is the CIA, for him to come back to Iran. And you remember what we discovered like in Cuba with …
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Castro get all that American hardware from? What do you mean, American hardware? He had planes. He had definitely had an army there. So the question now becomes is, where did all that come from? Well, remember that he took over from Batista…
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Just like in the past, we supply both sides of every war. While Batista was still in charge of the island, the CIA was not only supplying, and the U.S. in general, openly supplying Batista with weaponry because of their role in the drug net…
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They brought the drugs into Cuba. They cut them and then they shipped them up to New York and Miami. So that's already in place. So you got to have an army if you're going to have drugs to be able to protect your stashes. So there is a lot …
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I'm pretty sure it's a YouTube video from 1959 after Batista was kicked out and Castro came to the United States and NBC did a Meet the Press with him. And it's very cool to watch with your Gladio glasses on because there's kind of a panel …
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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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ran by Fidel Castro, successful in every endeavor, appeared to be marching to Havana. Despite CIA analysts who argued Batista's solid hold on power, President Eisenhower approved measures to forestall a Castro government. So the CIA is on r…
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That's what you get for your investment in intelligence. Despite the fact that we already have documented evidence that the CIA was embedded in the mountains with the Castro and Che Guevara. Eisenhower's mind influenced by Florida businessm…
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which morphs into civil air transport, blah, blah, blah. William Polly's all over this story. He was now advocating Batista's resignation in favor of a Cuban leadership that was not as radical as Castro. So in other words, hey, Batista, rea…
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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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And without them, there's no way they can hold off Castro. For its part, the CIA became involved in at least four different plots. Colonel Prouty's group at Quarters Eye on December 31st, 1958, sat there because a U.S. aircraft, a Hilo cour…
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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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All of the ambassadors are going to not want a Castro because the ambassadors actually represent the international syndicate, not us. The station warned of Batista's vulnerability, even as the CIA tried its 11th hour efforts. On December 23…
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watched at the December 30th meeting and was looking for all possibilities of what to do. Senior diplomats more favorable towards Castro than Ambassador Smith, nonetheless, would not oppose the third force efforts. Of course, Batista knew h…
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a general strike had given a frightening illustration of how unpopular a dictator he had become. The question preoccupying everyone was that Batista, what would he do now? Prouty's group on New Year's Eve understandably sat in an atmosphere…
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had his own New Year's Eve party, but it was very subdued. Guests ate chicken served by military aides in dress uniform. There was a little bit of champagne, more coffee than champagne. The atmosphere is captured well by a scene in the movi…
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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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But Batista's corruption and oppression increasingly lost their support. Cubans flocked to Castro's July 26th movement by the droves. It had taken this name from the date of an unsuccessful revolt that Castro had once led. The M26 guerrilla…
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spread out from the Sierra, creating fronts in several parts of Cuba. Those who cared could see the handwriting on the wall. Batista was no fool of what would be his disposition. The dictator's brief appearance at his reception came around …
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Aboard three planes, the group took flight. Batista left Camp Columbia base at 2.40 in the morning on January 1st, 1959. David Attlee Phillips, now a part-time CIA undercover agent in Havana, sat in his backyard as the aircraft flew overhea…
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At first, didn't believe him. At that moment, the M26 unit closest to Havana, a column of Santa Clara under Argentine Shea Cavera, was 150 miles away. They still had a lot of fighting to do, but Batista wasn't going to hang around. Shea was…
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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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That doesn't say much about your CIA-supported dictator, Batista, because they kicked his ass. He also said the glamour of the Sierra Matre and the straggly beards is rapidly wearing off. That was the actual intelligence assessment regardin…
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So obviously, Castro was not an imminent threat. Castro did have a problem, but with Cuban conservatives, not the radicals. By and large, the landed, moneyed families had been tied to Batista. They enabled him. They wanted him and his army …
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Very interesting. So they have sugar and all of the rich people leave, the doctors, lawyers that were all in bed with the CIA and the corrupt government leave and you have immediate brain drain. And that's on purpose. Meanwhile, under Batis…
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In 1960, the sugar plantations and Havana hotels followed. Land reform accelerated with the nationalization of large holdings, beginning with the Castro family plantation. It is said that Fidel's mother never forgave him. So he even confisc…
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Paul Haleywell, et cetera, who were part of the OSS, you know, William Polly over in China. There's so many connections here. And then currently we have a lot of people in our government who are connected to Cuban exiles. So there's so much…
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on my own recently. And his father and himself actually worked, uh, are connected with United Fruit as well in Cuba. And he had an interesting life kind of bouncing back between the United States and Cuba. Um, and when he fled on, uh, that,…
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money that is siphoned off through quid pro quo type of arrangements both with the mafia i mean he got in bed with the mafia big time batista did and so there's going to be a skimming off of that money in order to allow the because the musc…
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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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But the Fidelist broke it up. They purged the army of all former Batista elements. Actually, I don't know why they didn't do that to begin with, but whatever. The October featured the Red Terror. It progressed with Havana ordering the arres…
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Jim Noel continued to head the Havana station until the U.S. withdrew the embassy in January 1961. Supposedly, he rejected their approach. Meanwhile, they're trying to find them. That's kind of weird. The CIA men wanted to put in our hands …
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Fernandez said, we didn't like that because we didn't like him. We didn't like Batista. We didn't like his army. They were assholes. We were fighting against Batista for seven years. Why would we want them to join us? Cuban struggled to cre…
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hopefully but rather unrealistically, to join the Cuban resistance that somehow they weren't approaching internally to Cuba. But attitudes towards Batista and Castro's communism remained intrinsically intertwined. Not only for the Cubans, m…
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to subvert Latin American governments. The inherent vulnerability, they called it, and CIA's wealth of know-how, which had resulted from PB's success and Ajax. It furnished the basis for the action, making Cuba just another target. By Augus…
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Is he advocating that William Polly, who had the bus in the air thing there and was paying people pennies on the dollar and got it through giving kickbacks to Batista, how are you going to do that again? How are you going to give the Cuban …
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Is he gonna have to pay the kickbacks back that he paid to the Batista government once he gets the airline back? How's all that gonna work? And who's gonna arrange all that stuff? Do you wanna hire Sullivan and Cromwell now that the Dulles …
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To cap it all off, the CIA from TRAX, which is in Guatemala, intervened in Guatemalan politics. On November 14th, a number of army officers revolted against Fuentes, who had allowed the CIA into his country. Richard Bissell awoke at 3.30 a.…
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A dispatch had just came in from Lieutenant Colonel Frank Egan, E-G-A-N, at tracks, conveying Fuentes' demand for the CIA Cubans to help him. Bissell spoke to State Department only to learn that the diplomats would not decide until later th…
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Bissell cabled Egan on his own authority, permitting the use of CIA pilots, but not any of the Cuban exiles, supposedly, and recalls no evidence the troops were ever used. But President Eisenhower was later briefed that the Cubans deployed …
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and a contingent of 2,000 Marines. No one is going to screw up us using Guatemala as a terrorist training camp. President, I don't, he goes by his, like the Hispanic name thing goes, by the middle part of his name. I don't know how to say i…
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His name they don't use, which is his last name, Fuentes, is easier for me to pronounce, just so that you guys can keep up. All right, President Fuentes survived, and with him, the CIA's privileges in Guatemala. But he became very restive a…
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On January 13th, Lieutenant Colonel David Crowe finally arrived with 40 Special Forces soldiers. Meanwhile, divisions sharpened between exiles from the student groups and those of the former Cuban military that are now Cuban exiles. When th…
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Jose Pepe San Roman, an officer of the old Batista army trained in the US at Fort Benning. You know, the home of School of Americas. He was one of theirs. And that shows you just how close the CIA was with the Batista government. So this is…
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had actually been part of the revolution against the Batista government. And here the CIA is putting one of those people that was responsible for the repressive government of Batista in charge of the Cuban expats. That's dumber than dirt. S…
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in the eyes of the expat community because he had been part of the Batista government. When the CIA saw as ensuring a professional cadre, many Cuban exiles viewed against a very principle of democracy for which they wanted to fight. You kno…
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A dozen hardcore people that had refused to participate were sequestered. In fact, they were kept prisoner until the Cuban operation had ended. Pepe San Ramon gradually gained the confidence of the rest, even those who had seen him as a Bat…