COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN SPUTNIK
“Castro to Go Down in
History as the Only One to Hold Out Against US Empire”
Absolutely.
He was extraordinarily brave and dedicated to his purpose,
whether you agree with everything he did or not.
What a time it was, both frightening at times and exciting.
I recall as a very young man what an exciting figure he was. Lots of young
Americans admired him then.
The United States government threw just about everything
they had - short of open war, which in those days it seemed to still have the
desire to uphold appearances about - against him.
He survived in large part owing to the great loyalty of most
of his supporters, a fact which is powerful testimony to the man's leadership.
There is the suggestion, from what we know of some of the
CIA plots, that there was an insider in Castro’s retinue who was secretly
working with the CIA. We don’t know his name, and, for all we know, he was in
fact a counterintelligence figure working for Castro.
Despite many efforts, the forces after Castro in the United
States failed in attempt after attempt to kill him, but then they went after
John Kennedy, who had more or less guaranteed Castro's future to end the Cuban
Missile Crisis, and killed him.
They even deliberately faked up the trail leading to
Kennedy's assassination with clues and hints which were intended to link Castro
to the assassination, thus warranting an American invasion of Cuba after all.
It sure wasn't poor little old Oswald, a man who actually
liked Kennedy, doing any of that.
Who else still is not completely clear, but the crazed,
fanatical Cuban refugees, trained and supplied by the CIA, along with some
fanatical CIA guys working on the file have always seemed the strongest
candidates to me.
Money for the plot undoubtedly came from the Mafia who had
been working with the CIA in this dirty business and also were disillusioned
with Kennedy.
That is of course the untold story of the Kennedy
Assassination, an event which punctuates Castro's early years much like a giant
historical exclamation point.
