15-10-2009, 08:19 PM
Paul Rigby Wrote:The CIA had a variety of purposes in mind for revolutionary Cuba. A key intention was to use Cuba as the launch pad and pretext for a series of “revolutionary” movements throughout Latin America that would in turn “compel” CIA intervention in the unfortunate countries concerned (30). The Caribbean, Central and Latin America would thus be remade in the desired US image, the region’s reformist and nationalist governments alike destroyed in favour of murderous militarised oligarchies and US finance. Castro’s government was to arrest previously supportive CIA men engaged in precisely such activity – in this early instance, against the government of Nicaragua – no later than April 1959 (31). Sihanouk offered a typically shrewd Asian encapsulation: “All the efforts of the CIA were aimed at implanting an armed political opposition inside the country so that we would have to beg for American arms to keep order…” (32).
Did the most senior ranks of the CIA really view regime change in Cuba in the long term? Absolutely.
"Ex-CIA Chief Says Cuba '60-Year Failure,'" The Hartford Courant, 3 March 1963, p.7B.
Out of the mouths of babes and Allen Welch Dulles...