December 30, 2008

That "U.S.- Backed Dictator" Castro Overthrew

I defy any and all to find "U.S.-Backed Dictator" ABSENT from the word "Batista" in any of the MSM articles on Cuba right now. Just in case an odd reporter might prefer the documented historical record to Castro-regime hand outs, try this:

Former U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Earl T. Smith, during Congressional testimony in 1960, declared flatly: "We put Castro in power." He referred to the U.S. State Department and CIA's role in aiding, both morally and materially, the Castro rebels, to their pulling the rug out from under Batista with an arms embargo, to hiding Castro rebels in the U.S. embassy, and finally to the U.S. order that Batista vacate Cuba. Ambassador Smith knew something about these events because he personally delivered the messages to Batista, who was then denied exile in the U.S.

"The U.S. State Dept. is in our pocket," boasted Julio 26 New York operative Mario Llerena in 1958

"Me and my staff were all Fidelistas," boasted Robert Reynolds, the CIA's "Caribbean Desk's specialist on the Cuban Revolution" from 1957-1960. "Everyone in the CIA and everyone at State were pro-Castro, except ambassador Earl Smith." This statement is from former CIA operative in Santiago Cuba, Robert Weicha. The U.S. gave Castro's regime its official benediction more rapidly than it had recognized Batista's in 1952, and lavished it with $200 million in subsidies.

In August 1959, the liberal U.S. ambassador to Cuba, Philip Bonsal, even alerted Castro to a conspiracy against his regime by anti-communist Cubans. Thanks in part to Ambassador Bonsal's solicitude for a regime then insulting his nation as "a vulture preying on humanity!" and poised to steal $2 billion from U.S. stockholders, the anti-Castro plot was foiled, hundreds of the plotters imprisoned or executed, and the regime that three years later came closest to vaporizing many of America's biggest cities (including Bonsal's home) with nuclear missiles, survived.

Posted by Humberto at December 30, 2008 03:58 PM

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Earl E. T. Smith wrote in his memoirs "The Fourth Floor" that on Dec. 17, 1958, he gave Batista a State Department ultimatum that he had to resign and leave the country as the U.S. no longer supported him. Bonsal was a fool who Castro kept waiting for four hours outside his office before receiving him.

Posted by: delacova [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 31, 2008 05:06 AM

Of course, not one of these American "fidelistas" ever took any responsibility for the results of their pro-Castro actions. Not one has ever publicly expressed shame or remorse and at least apologized to the Cuban people. Same as the New York Times, among others.

Posted by: asombra [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 31, 2008 10:05 AM


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