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Related: About this forumFidel Castro, spy master, bedeviled U.S., says former analyst
For almost three decades after Fidel Castro took power, Cuba's budding intelligence service fielded four dozen double agents in a world-class operation under the nose of the CIA, according to a new book by a veteran CIA analyst.
It was not until June 1987, when a Cuban spy defected to the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, blind-siding U.S. intelligence services, that the CIA learned how badly it had been duped, writes Brian Latell, a retired veteran CIA analyst and Cuba specialist.
"Castro was a supreme, unchallenged spy master," Latell told an audience at a recent book reading.
The revelations in Latell's book help explain how Castro survived several well-documented assassination attempts and the impoverished island of Cuba weathered the changes that toppled other communist regimes in the late 20th Century.
More at: http://news.yahoo.com/fidel-castro-spy-master-bedeviled-u-says-former-120430986.html
Interesting assertions in the article.
Turbineguy
(37,387 posts)But then again, maybe not. He had lots of help from the Soviets. They were good at that sort of thing.
Mika
(17,751 posts)PufPuf23
(8,845 posts)We did nuke drills and people built bomb bomb shelters when I was in grade school.
The part in the article about the JFK assassination looks like 50th year CIA disinfo to me.
Read Waldron and Hartmann's Legacy of Secrecy.
Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)Sounds like Latell's book is howlingly funny, as a matter of fact (if the subject were not so tragic).
I recommend James Douglass' "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters"--the definitive book on the JFK assassination--for a thorough disentanglement of the Oswald in Mexico part of the misdirection (mentioned in this article).
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I have a feeling that Castro has had the goods on the CIA, re JFK's assassination, all this time, and that that is WHY this tiny communist island right off the Florida coast has not been invaded by the U.S. It's hard to figure how Cuba survived the fall of the Soviet Union, especially with Reagan in power, who had no qualms about murdering thousands of Nicaraguans against the express will of the U.S. Congress, and colluding in the slaughter two hundred thousand Guatemalan villagers, and many other atrocities in LatAm. What has stayed the hand of U.S. fascists, with overwhelming force at their command, as to Cuba?
Now that Castro is near the end of his life, perhaps they fear that he intends to disclose what he knows about the CIA and JFK's murder in a last will and testament. This bullshit book by "veteran CIA analyst" Brian Latell may be preemptive disinformation for that possibility.
JFK's murder has been solved beyond any doubt, by Douglass in his brilliant book. The Corporate Press can ignore the plain and staggering truth of it, as laid out so completely by Douglass, that the CIA murdered the president, but they won't be able to ignore Castro, if Castro were to say it from from his deathbed, especially if he has undisclosed evidence. I don't think any more evidence is needed--Douglass is conclusive. But, of course, the Corporate Press would ridicule and debunk Castro, no matter what he said. But I don't think they could ignore him.
Probably Castro would not disclose such a thing, if he thinks it would endanger Cuba. But now that the entire world recognizes Cuba's government--everybody but the U.S.--this may be the time.
SOMETHING stayed Reagan's hand, and the hand of every fascist president since then. What?
Some might say "the Cuban people" in their determination to keep their own sovereign government has prevented it--that their courage, their willingness to fight back has given the U.S. pause. That didn't stop the U.S. from invading Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Panama, Nicaragua, Iraq (twice) and Afghanistan, nor from toppling popular governments in many places, including, recently, Haiti and Honduras. Why was Cuba exempt, especially in the post-Soviet Union period, especially with bastards like Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. in the White House?
It's a puzzle that I was thinking about one day, and suddenly a light bulb went off in my head: Castro knows and they know that he knows!
It's just a guess, but interesting, huh?
PDJane
(10,103 posts)Is that they are small and independent; hell, the US can't have that. With all that the US has done to Cuba, that they had spies inside the US is a minor revenge. If they were to survive, they needed them.
I'd have done the same, thank you.