Interview to Witness: Recruitment of Fidel Castro by CIA in 1948. By Servando Gonzalez
Fidel Castro, who had been recruited by CIA in 1948 to participate in The Bogotazo and the murder of Jorge Eliecer Gaytan agreed with CIA that it was time to get rid of Che Guevara. The first thing that Fidel Castro did was to inform the CIA about the radio frequency that Che Guevara would transmit from Boliva, so when Che Guevara turned on his radio and started calling Fidel Castro (Manila), the CIA knew perfectly well that Che was callin and where exactly he was. To make a fuss, Fidel Castro and the CIA started with "the story" that had been the painter Ciro Busto and the French philosopher Regis Debray.\
Fidel Castro, to the left, in the streets of Bogota as a member of CIA team to murder Jo0rge Eliecer Gaytan during Bogotazo, 1948 . To his right, his friend Rafael del Pino Siero, a marine sniper
Fidel Castro met secretly with CIA during his trip to US in 1959 In the video "Bay of Pigs Declassified", Peter Kornbluh mentions this secret meeting. Peter Kornbluh is director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project and of the Cuba Documentation Project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKOs0... The following are details of the recruitment of Fidel Castro by CIA in 1948, according to Ramón Bernardo Conte Hernandez, who participated in the recruitment and was the LAST 'BAY OF PIGS' SOLDIER FREED BY CUBA ( in 1986) Retrived from the book in Spanish "La CIA, Fidel Castro, el Bogotazo y el Nuevo Orden Mundial" by SERVANDO GONZÁLEZ
http://www.intelinet.org/sg_site/Bogo... In a book he published in 1995, Ramón B. Conte, a Cuban who collaborated with the CIA on minor activities where brute force might be necessary, mentions in some detail how Castro's recruitment was carried out early of 1948 during a secret meeting that took place in the residence of Mario Lazo. Lazo was a Cuban lawyer educated in the United States, who represented the interests of many American businesses in Cuba. Conte and another CIA operative were in a car parked on the street in front of Lazo's house. According to Conte, both were armed and ready to intervene should Castro, known for his exalted temperament and passion for guns, reject the offer they were going to make and become violent. According to Conte, Castro arrived at the meeting accompanied by his friend Rafael del Pino Siero, a CIA collaborator who had been a member of the US military during World War II. Among those attending the meeting were Lazo himself, CIA officials Richard Salvatierra and Isabel Siero Perez, the former US ambassador in Cuba Willard Beaulac, as well as two other Americans that Conte only identifies as Colonel Roberts and a CIA officer only known as Mr. Davies. Several years after Conte published his book, I had the opportunity to interview him over the phone from his home in Miami. In the interview, Conte added to the list of people attending the meeting an important name he had not mentioned in his book: William D. Pawley. When the meeting was held, Pawley, a millionaire businessman and close friend of both President Eisenhower and Allen Dulles, was the American ambas-sador to Brazil. Since the time of the Office of Special Services (OSS) during World War II, Pawley had been closely linked to the intelligence services Americans. One of its associates, Colonel J.C. King, became Head of the Western Hemisphere Division of the CIA. Moreover, Pawley was one of the organizers of the Ninth Pan-American Conference of Foreign Ministers to be held in April in Bogota. According to Conte, a week after the initial meeting, Castro and del Pino met again with CIA officer Richard Salvatier
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