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CIA installed Fidel Castro - Paul Rigby - 05-10-2008 http://www.kennedyassassinationarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=90604946_clean¤tResult=5¤tPage=0 El Paso Herald-Post (El Paso, Texas), Thursday, 4 May 1961, Page 26 It Is Hard To Moralize About Cuba By Robert C. Ruark Quote:PALOMAS, Spain. — Ordinarily the peons of punditry are a glib lot, given to laying it out fast and hard on everything from birth control to babysitting, but I have noticed a general lack of positiveness of position in this sad business of Castro and Cuba. The truth is that we have been crowded into the narrow corner of morality, and nearly everything that has been pronounced is lip service or shaded half-truths, if not outright lies in some instances. But the impairment to morality is still nakedly there, and we are just as open to the broadsides from Russia as Russia is open to attacks by us. Russia has no more right to be interfering in Cuba than we have to be meddling in Laos, with our equipment and money and tame technicians, otherwise known as soldiers without portfolio. Cuba is not so far from Russia as we are distant from Laos, in valid interest as well as miles. We say that this Cuban counter-revolution is not our cooking, which is of course ridiculous. Perhaps the hard work in the kitchen is necessary — and I believe it is—in the interests of security for North America and the hemisphere. To say that the United States was not instrumental in the backing of Castro and the overthrow of Batista is also ridiculous. That was meddling, too, even if It seemed to be meddling in the best democratic manner. We meddle all over, in point of fact, every time we send a shipment of arms or make a whacking loan or sew up a fresh treaty. Whether we have bis right is something I cannot say. But if we have it according to our -rights, then possibly the Russians have it according to theirs. CIA installed Fidel Castro - Anthony Marsh - 31-03-2010 Before Castro came into power the CIA sent Frank Bender to interview him who reported back that Castro was not a Communist and that he deserved CIA backing. I doubt that the CIA will ever declassify Bender's report. CIA installed Fidel Castro - Magda Hassan - 31-03-2010 What year was that? It is true that both Castro and Che were not communist in their early days. That came later. Even after the revolution. Castro was a nationalist to start with. CIA installed Fidel Castro - Charles Drago - 31-03-2010 If a Communist Castro did not exist, the CIA -- a tool, or facilitator, as opposed to a sponsor -- would have had to create him. Which it very well may have done. CIA installed Fidel Castro - Magda Hassan - 31-03-2010 Well the CIA do manufacture many odd things. Mainly murder and mayhem as a justification for its unnecessary existence. With the odd exploding cigar and toxic wet suit. CIA installed Fidel Castro - Anthony Marsh - 31-03-2010 I don't know if the book specified which year. Probably 1958. I'll try to dig out that book and see if it hints at the year. I think it was the Bay of Pigs book. |