01-03-2013, 09:00 PM
Cliff Varnell Wrote:Charles Drago Wrote:Jim DiEugenio Wrote:How do we know that an invasion of Cuba was not actually a real aim of the conspirators rather than a way to maneuver the cover up?
I'm certain that the invasion of Cuba WAS a real aim of some of the conspirators operating at the Facilitator and Mechanic levels.
But I submit that at the Sponsor level there could be found perception of long-term value in the maintenance of a communist "threat" just 90 miles away.
They were going to throw 140 years of the Monroe Doctrine out the window and give up the jewel of the Caribbean, the hub of international narcotics trafficking after decades-long development, and one of the favorite elite party spots...just to have another Commie boogyman?
They could have had Arbenz with Che in Guatemala if they had wanted a West Hem "boogyman".
What real estate do you think was more valuable to the Sponsors -- Cuba or Guatemala? And if you want to open the Asian poppy fields and displace the Corsican Mafia as the as the key producer the last thing you'd want is some stridently ideological dictator taking over your hard fought dope routes.
I think Castro double crossed his American patrons.
How, then, do you explain Castro's longevity?
Charles Drago
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene