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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 200
a major role in bringing Castro to power. As the US Ambassador to Cuba during
the Castro-Communist revolution of 1957-59, I had first hand knowledge about
the facts which brought about the rise of Fidel Castro. The State department
consistently intervened—positively, negatively, and by innuendo—to bring about
the downfall of President Fulgencio Batista, thereby making it possible for Fidel
Castro to take over the government of Cuba. On January 1, 1959, the government
of Cuba fell. The United States continued to aid the Castro regime by maintaining
the long-standing subsidy for Cuban sugar exports.
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Although US reports have indicated that the US government did not know Castro was a
communist and American newspaper reports at the time denied that he was, these were not only
false they were knowingly false. Castro had been involved in a communist revolution in
Columbia in 1948, he had even led a group of students in the takeover of a radio station where he
announced over the air, “This is Fidel Castro from Cuba. This is a Communist revolution.” The
CIA also had an Intelligence report on Castro. Allen Dulles, director of the CIA had received the
report in 1957. The report was “A complete dossier on Castro… and the Communists
surrounding Castro, prepared by G-2 (Intelligence) of the Cuban Army.” The report had been
hand carried to Washington D.C.
Their may be some who cling to the fictional account that Castro made an about face
after assuming power but he himself denied this. On December of 1961 he stated: “I have been a
Communist since my teens.”
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Castro soon after gaining control of Cuba in 1959 would align himself with the U.S.S.R.
The US backed numerous failed attempts to oust and even assassinate Castro. The best known of
these was the Bay of Pigs invasion.
The Bay of Pigs invasion consisted of Cuban nationals, trained equipped and financed by
the US under the approval of President Eisenhower. The key to the invasion was sixteen B-26
(model A-26 attack versions, equipped with eight .50 caliber machine guns in the nose). The B-
26s were for ground support but more importantly; they were to take out Castro’s air force.
Castro had fifteen B-26 bombers, ten Hawker Sea Furies and four T-33 jet/trainer fighters. The
T-33’s were slow but were very efficient and capable against the B-26s, so they needed to be
destroyed on the ground.
The original invasion plan called for all sixteen B-26s to be involved in the original strike
to take out Castro’s air force. Instead, for some reason, only six were involved. Castro had
become aware of the invasion and ordered the planes moved to outlying airfields. He had also
used decoys. These tactics worked and the attackers were only able to destroy five planes. Future
air strikes were canceled by President Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have known little about the
details of the invasion having been recently inaugurated. The remainder of Castro’s air force
quickly squelched the invasion.
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It was not by chance that Castro learned about the invasion. Three months prior to the
invasion, on January 10, 1961 the New York Times ran a story about how the US was training
soldiers in Guatemala for an invasion of Cuba.
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Castro didn’t need to read the story, any one of
thousands of American communists could have given him or his administration a simple phone
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