Monday, October 26, 2009

Fidel Castro sister says she aided CIA in 1960s: book

Interesting...

A sister of longtime Cuban leader
Fidel Castro aided the CIA in the 1960s, at a time when the US was plotting to assassinate him and replace his Communist regime, she said in a book released Monday.

Juanita Castro, 76, admits to working with the American spy agency in her Spanish-language book "Fidel and Raul, My Brothers. The Secret History," according to an interview aired by Univision television.

Castro, who now resides in the US, said she was contacted in 1964 after she broke with Fidel and Raul, the current president of Cuba, and collaborated with the CIA both inside Cuba and when she went into exile later that year.

Juanita Castro told Univision that a person close to her and to Fidel approached her and said,

"The CIA wanted to talk with me... because they had interesting things to tell me and interesting things to ask of me."

She said she was "left half-shocked, but in any case I told them 'yes'."

Univision said it would air more details about the story in a week-long series that continues Monday.
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1 comment:

airJackie said...

As more of the people get old the truth will come out. Now many knew about Castro was a direct of assassination by the US and for those to young to remember the same group were involved in the assassination of JFK. Now the name Noriega was also a major play. We did see the film of the smokey nole that was directly across from Kennedy's car but the FBI/CIA took the tape after it was shown on TV. Now for the record the man who took the film asked for the tape back and was told it was lost. The tape was never shown during the Warren Committion Hearing nor was it discussed.