Castro sister 'spied for CIA'.10/26/2009 5:26:08 PM The younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro has said that she worked with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). ) against her brothers' rule in Cuba before she went into exile in 1964. Juanita Castro Juanita (Juana de la Caridad) Castro (born 6 May, 1933) is the sister of Cuban President Fidel Castro and First Vice President Raúl Castro. She has been living in the United States since 1964, in the neighborhood of Little Havana in Miami, Florida. , 76, told the Spanish-language TV channel Univision-Noticias 23 of her collaboration with the CIA on Sunday, the day before her memoirs mem·oir n. 1. An account of the personal experiences of an author. 2. An autobiography. Often used in the plural. 3. A biography or biographical sketch. 4. were published. She said the she initially supported Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution that deposed Fulgencio Batista General Rubén Fulgencio Batista (IPA: [fəlˈhɛnsio bəˈtistə], [fulˈxensio baˈtihta̩]) y Zaldívar in Cuba. But she soon became disillusioned dis·il·lu·sion tr.v. dis·il·lu·sioned, dis·il·lu·sion·ing, dis·il·lu·sions To free or deprive of illusion. n. 1. The act of disenchanting. 2. The condition or fact of being disenchanted. by the way her elder brother and his supporters were executing political opponents and embracing communism, she said. "I began to become disenchanted dis·en·chant tr.v. dis·en·chant·ed, dis·en·chant·ing, dis·en·chants To free from illusion or false belief; undeceive. [Obsolete French desenchanter, from Old French, when I saw so much injustice," Juanita Castro said in an interview with Maria Antonieta Collins, the co-writer of her memoir. CIA offer Juanita Castro, who has not had contact with her brothers for more than four decades, said that before her exile to Miami she had worked from her home in Havana to shelter and help those who she said were being persecuted by Fidel Castro's government. "My situation in Cuba became delicate because of my activity against the regime," she said. She received an invitation from the CIA shortly after the US's failed Bay of Pigs invasion Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. On Apr. 17, 1961, an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba. in 1961, asking her to collaborate by collecting information on the Castro leadership, she told Collins. "They [the CIA] wanted to talk to me because they had interesting things to tell me, and interesting things to ask me, such as if I was willing to take the risk, if I was ready to listen to them - I was rather shocked, but anyway I said yes," Juanita Castro told Collins. Collins said that "in this way began a long relationship with the arch-enemy of Fidel Castro Noun 1. Fidel Castro - Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) Castro, Fidel Castro Ruz , the Central Intelligence Agency." "During three years, from 1961 to 1964, at the risk of her own life, the work of Juanita Castro was to save the lives of her compatriots long before she left for exile in Miami," Collins said. Juanita Castro, who ran a pharmacy before retiring in 2006, last spoke to Fidel at her home in Havana in 1963 when their mother, Lina Ruz Gonzalez, died of a heart attack. She last spoke to Raul in 1964, days before she went into exile, she said. Fidel Castro, 83, established a one-party communist system in Cuba after the 1959 revolution and ruled the island for nearly half a century. He handed over the reins to Raul, 78, last year following his ill-health. Aljazeera.net 2003 - 2009 Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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