Cuba

[Bengalzona]

(03-24-2016, 06:49 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I think it had more to due with executions and the government taking over private lands by force if required.

I think the real question is what did we do to make them so mad at us. After the Soviet collapse we tried to offer aid and they refused. I never saw us a "being mad" at Cuba. I've always seen it as us not forcing them to be our friends.

"We are not mad at them" is post-Cold War revisionist writing. The facts are contrary. We have held a grudge. They have too. But we started it.

Some interesting reading from, none other than, the CIA library on the subject of Castro:

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol49no4/Castro_Obsession_10.htm

They do not deny attempts were made and that some attempts were just laughable:

Quote:Not a single foreign-based assassination plan is known to have come close to succeeding and most, including all of those hatched in the CIA under pressure from the Kennedy administration, were laughably inept.

Interestingly enough, the author of that book primarily deflects blame from the CIA to the JFK admin and to Robert Kennedy (which may be accurate to a degree).

For other sources of our operations against Cuba, search out:
Church Committee records from 1976
Operation Mongoose
Operation Northwoods

This stuff is all pretty well documented. We don't, however, have much (if any) evidence of Cuban espionage or sabotage efforts in the U.S. (outside of shipping a bunch of criminals over the early 80's).