Castro wasnt even pro-Soviet to begin with and Frank Sturgis, the - TopicsExpress



          

Castro wasnt even pro-Soviet to begin with and Frank Sturgis, the guy whom the CIA later put in charge of the operation to topple him, actually trained Castro and Che in the Sierra Maestre and supplied them with guns. It was the USs insistence on returning the island to the likes of Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Seigel, and Lucky Luciano, even paying the mafia to assassinate Castro, that forced Castro to seek help from Moscow. Those were the days when the FBI denied that the mafia even existed.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 06:38:18 +0000

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