Word: batista
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...were turning up in Florida by the hundreds, and many were eager to fight to restore the independence of their country. A U.S. decision was made to train and support an anti-Castro organization of Cubans who were not tainted with the earlier and hated regime of Dictator Fulgencio Batista, who is now in exile in Lisbon...
...that is not productive. Later, another organization came to the CIA's attention: the People's Revolutionary Movement (M.R.P.), led and founded by Manuel ("Manolo") Ray,* 36, a soft-spoken engineer whose talent for organization had made him leader of the highly effective underground movement against Batista in Havana. Ray became Castro's Minister of Public Works, and stood it until November 1959, shortly after Castro jailed one of his comrades-in-arms in the Sierra Maestra, Huber Matos, for objecting to Communist infiltration of the revolutionary army. Ray angrily resigned his Cabinet post and went back...
...administration had determined to isolate and if possible overthrow Castro some time before he finally isolated himself from us. If as reported our C.I.A. threw its main support to conservative elements among the refugees, this would surely reinforce these tendencies and make matters still worse. Offered a choice between Batista and Castro's proletarian brand of revolution, it is possible that a majority of Cubans would prefer, however reluctantly, to stick with Castro. Eric A. Havelock, Professor of Greek and Latin...
...Committee passed out copies of a leaflet, "Violation of Laws and Treaties," which accused the U.S. of involvement in the Cuban crisis. Claiming domestic Cuban support for Castro, the leaflet charged that "the counter-revolutionaries include persons who have lost their special social and economic privileges, former Batista grafters, and those who oppose social change...
...intervention in Cuba by U.S. armed forces," he said. "This Government will do everything it possibly can to make sure that there are no Americans involved in any actions inside Cuba." He pointed out that the Justice Department had just indicted Rolando Masferrer, onetime hoodlum leader of a pro-Batista strong-arm squad, for "plotting an invasion of Cuba from Florida in order to establish a Batista-like regime...