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In December 1969, a call to world public opinion and to all Cubans circulated in Miami from the meeting of "the representatives of the ideological spheres and the sectors [of the exile] to undertake a great political-military plan [with the] objective fundamental that Cuba will once again be a free [and] democratic nation. "
Leading this initiative was the Cuban-American entrepreneur José ElÃas de la Torriente, who set up his unit action table at the headquarters of the 2506 Brigade with his shift boss, Juan José Peruyero, as well as the presidents deposed (1952) and elect (1958) of the Republic, Carlos PrÃo Socarrás and Andrés Rivero Agüero, respectively, plus the "constructive mayor" (1947-52) of Havana, Nicolás Castellanos, and a sister of the chemist: Juanita Castro.
Without reason
Since March 1962, in its guidelines for Operation Mongoose, the White House, the Pentagon and the CIA had laid as a seminal premise of any plan against Castro that his " final success will require decisive US military intervention ." Without logical-historical foundation, Torriente planned to collect funds, recruit exiles and train them to overthrow Castro outside the US. The support and bases of operations would be sought in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In "unity rally" of thousands of exiles on the night of Saturday, February 21, 1970, Torriente asked for "a vote of confidence [and] the moral, intellectual and economic support of all Cubans." Thus began to brush among the faithful after the initial contribution of 45 thousand dollars from the Cuban Free Medical Association, chaired by Dr. Enrique Huerta. After clarifying that he could not reveal secrets of war, Torriente said he would seek support in Latin America and riveted that Castro's days were numbered.
However, Torriente himself laid the first stone towards hell with the designation of the Batista general Eulogio Cantillo as military chief of the plan[1] . On March 22, 1970, PrÃo released on Channel 10 of Miami that would not provide economic aid to Plan Torriente, since Cantillo had not only betrayed him, by plotting in the marzazo in 1952, but later betrayed Batista and finally Castro himself to be a "professional traitor" and thus be the most negative figure among the military exiles.
On June 1, 1970, Torriente radioed part of his tour of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. At the Roundtable of La Fabulosa (WFAB), Torriente said that he could not "make public many of the procedures", but that the plan was moving forward. When reporting the travel expenses, he stressed that "the revolution is becoming quite cheap".
However, on June 7, 1970, the sister of the Quimdam detonated her cargo to kill rogues on Channel 23: "Torriente signed an agreement, a treaty, I would say, with us. But the document of unity that would come later was never signed [and] Mr. Torriente is being directed by the US Department of State and is serving only and exclusively the interests of the Department of State and the American Government. "
Action
The action unit was cracked, but on July 3, 1970 Torriente released a press release in Madrid announcing the invasion of Cuba with some 15,000 freedom fighters, within the same year and from an unidentified country in Central America. On the 12th of the same month he gave a press conference in Miami, where he stated that in 60 days his liberation army could already be fighting in Cuba.
In the end, the only military action of the Torriente Plan came on October 12, 1971, with a "commando but psychological operation" -according to Torriente himself- that left two dead and one wounded among the guards of the border post plus three wounded between the civilians of the Boca de Samá farmhouse. On October 18, 1971, Torriente amplified this skirmish at a banquet to raise funds from the National Republican Women's Club (New York). There he professed again that shortly the definitive war against Castro would begin.
Since April 23, 1971, Felipe Rivero DÃaz, a veteran of the Bay of Pigs and leader of the Cuban Nationalist Movement, had ruled in the Replica magazine that the Torriente Plan was "more than buried" and had served only to entertain and defraud the Cubans, while "Torriente and his intimates benefit from the profits".
On October 1, 1972, Torriente insisted that his plan "continues to work (...) We can start acting at an early date, [but] I would not be surprised if, before we even started, there was some revolt in Cuba " This was said in the radio program "Actualidad" (WQBA, La CubanÃsima), but already exile followed Rivero DÃaz's warning about "these mummies that still talk, move, produce things, ask for money ...".
Reaction
On April 12, 1974, around 9 pm, Torriente received a fatal bullet in the head while watching television at home (709 Cremona Avenue, Coral Gables) with his wife. An hour and a half later he died in Doctors Hospital's Emergency Room. Darts were falling on him that the money he was collecting for the cause of Cuba was used in a real estate project of the TMV Land Development Corporation, which associated one of the original partners of the Torriente Plan and the brother of another.
In her information about the murder ( Miami News , April 16, 1974), Hilda Inclán reported: When the plan began, Torriente had retired from his job as vice president of Collins Radio. That is also when the housing project started . " Torriente always denied the accusations of embezzlement, but his assassins left a note that ended as follows: "José ElÃas de la Torriente, executed for treason, received his zero."
The mission of giving zeros was attributed to Orlando Bosch, who always denied his participation in Torriente's death, but on July 3, 1974, he told Replica that he was far from sorry: "He played with hopes, aspirations and money from town. I could have ordered his death once we had returned to Cuba, but not here. No one else will raise a false flag for fear of losing his own life. "
Coda
The Torriente Plan marked the end of the illusion of overthrowing Castro by arms and the departure of many other false flags in times of peace -from plebiscites and national strikes in the air to tables and marches without order- raised by flag bearers they can no longer play with the money of the [Cuban] people, they can do it with the money of the [American] taxpayer and in this way they do not have to fear to lose their own lives.
[1] The minimal history of Torriente with Batista's batten is recounted by Fulgencio Batista himself and his scribe Manuel F. BenÃtez RodrÃguez in A year of conversations about the Torriente Plan: letters from General Fulgencio Batista, misguided public demonstrations of Torriente and answers to them (New York, Hispanic Print, Corp., 1970). In mid-1972, Brigadistas Peruyero, Luis Torné and Alfredo G. Durán still managed the alliance between PrÃo and Batista against Castro.
Leading this initiative was the Cuban-American entrepreneur José ElÃas de la Torriente, who set up his unit action table at the headquarters of the 2506 Brigade with his shift boss, Juan José Peruyero, as well as the presidents deposed (1952) and elect (1958) of the Republic, Carlos PrÃo Socarrás and Andrés Rivero Agüero, respectively, plus the "constructive mayor" (1947-52) of Havana, Nicolás Castellanos, and a sister of the chemist: Juanita Castro.
Without reason
Since March 1962, in its guidelines for Operation Mongoose, the White House, the Pentagon and the CIA had laid as a seminal premise of any plan against Castro that his " final success will require decisive US military intervention ." Without logical-historical foundation, Torriente planned to collect funds, recruit exiles and train them to overthrow Castro outside the US. The support and bases of operations would be sought in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In "unity rally" of thousands of exiles on the night of Saturday, February 21, 1970, Torriente asked for "a vote of confidence [and] the moral, intellectual and economic support of all Cubans." Thus began to brush among the faithful after the initial contribution of 45 thousand dollars from the Cuban Free Medical Association, chaired by Dr. Enrique Huerta. After clarifying that he could not reveal secrets of war, Torriente said he would seek support in Latin America and riveted that Castro's days were numbered.
However, Torriente himself laid the first stone towards hell with the designation of the Batista general Eulogio Cantillo as military chief of the plan[1] . On March 22, 1970, PrÃo released on Channel 10 of Miami that would not provide economic aid to Plan Torriente, since Cantillo had not only betrayed him, by plotting in the marzazo in 1952, but later betrayed Batista and finally Castro himself to be a "professional traitor" and thus be the most negative figure among the military exiles.
On June 1, 1970, Torriente radioed part of his tour of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. At the Roundtable of La Fabulosa (WFAB), Torriente said that he could not "make public many of the procedures", but that the plan was moving forward. When reporting the travel expenses, he stressed that "the revolution is becoming quite cheap".
However, on June 7, 1970, the sister of the Quimdam detonated her cargo to kill rogues on Channel 23: "Torriente signed an agreement, a treaty, I would say, with us. But the document of unity that would come later was never signed [and] Mr. Torriente is being directed by the US Department of State and is serving only and exclusively the interests of the Department of State and the American Government. "
Action
The action unit was cracked, but on July 3, 1970 Torriente released a press release in Madrid announcing the invasion of Cuba with some 15,000 freedom fighters, within the same year and from an unidentified country in Central America. On the 12th of the same month he gave a press conference in Miami, where he stated that in 60 days his liberation army could already be fighting in Cuba.
In the end, the only military action of the Torriente Plan came on October 12, 1971, with a "commando but psychological operation" -according to Torriente himself- that left two dead and one wounded among the guards of the border post plus three wounded between the civilians of the Boca de Samá farmhouse. On October 18, 1971, Torriente amplified this skirmish at a banquet to raise funds from the National Republican Women's Club (New York). There he professed again that shortly the definitive war against Castro would begin.
Since April 23, 1971, Felipe Rivero DÃaz, a veteran of the Bay of Pigs and leader of the Cuban Nationalist Movement, had ruled in the Replica magazine that the Torriente Plan was "more than buried" and had served only to entertain and defraud the Cubans, while "Torriente and his intimates benefit from the profits".
On October 1, 1972, Torriente insisted that his plan "continues to work (...) We can start acting at an early date, [but] I would not be surprised if, before we even started, there was some revolt in Cuba " This was said in the radio program "Actualidad" (WQBA, La CubanÃsima), but already exile followed Rivero DÃaz's warning about "these mummies that still talk, move, produce things, ask for money ...".
Reaction
On April 12, 1974, around 9 pm, Torriente received a fatal bullet in the head while watching television at home (709 Cremona Avenue, Coral Gables) with his wife. An hour and a half later he died in Doctors Hospital's Emergency Room. Darts were falling on him that the money he was collecting for the cause of Cuba was used in a real estate project of the TMV Land Development Corporation, which associated one of the original partners of the Torriente Plan and the brother of another.
In her information about the murder ( Miami News , April 16, 1974), Hilda Inclán reported: When the plan began, Torriente had retired from his job as vice president of Collins Radio. That is also when the housing project started . " Torriente always denied the accusations of embezzlement, but his assassins left a note that ended as follows: "José ElÃas de la Torriente, executed for treason, received his zero."
The mission of giving zeros was attributed to Orlando Bosch, who always denied his participation in Torriente's death, but on July 3, 1974, he told Replica that he was far from sorry: "He played with hopes, aspirations and money from town. I could have ordered his death once we had returned to Cuba, but not here. No one else will raise a false flag for fear of losing his own life. "
Coda
The Torriente Plan marked the end of the illusion of overthrowing Castro by arms and the departure of many other false flags in times of peace -from plebiscites and national strikes in the air to tables and marches without order- raised by flag bearers they can no longer play with the money of the [Cuban] people, they can do it with the money of the [American] taxpayer and in this way they do not have to fear to lose their own lives.
[1] The minimal history of Torriente with Batista's batten is recounted by Fulgencio Batista himself and his scribe Manuel F. BenÃtez RodrÃguez in A year of conversations about the Torriente Plan: letters from General Fulgencio Batista, misguided public demonstrations of Torriente and answers to them (New York, Hispanic Print, Corp., 1970). In mid-1972, Brigadistas Peruyero, Luis Torné and Alfredo G. Durán still managed the alliance between PrÃo and Batista against Castro.