Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans usually learn of the agency's covert actions only when they fail so spectacularly that they cannot be kept secret. Examples: the U-2 incident in 1960, when the Soviets shot down the spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers; the CIA-directed invasion of Cuba in 1961; the Chilean operation. Over the years, there were successes for the CIA as well: the 1953 coup that deposed Premier Mohammed Mossadegh (who had nationalized a British-owned oil company and was believed to be in league with Iran's Communist Party) and kept pro-American Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi...
Castro spent about a month down there in the late spring of 1973. There were a lot of extremist exiles in Chile from other countries in Latin America. There was a lot of assistance going into Chile from Cuba and other Communist sources. There are indications that there was some Soviet activity. They were putting some money in, as well as hardware of various sorts. This was a program to support an eventual takeover in what I would call a nondemocratic fashion-suppressing the opposition and extending Communist influence elsewhere in the hemisphere...
Washington, in recent months, has not tried to stop any nation from recognizing Castro. In fact, some observers believe that the U.S. is holding up recognition of Cuba out of a diplomatic concern for the sensibilities of the Latin-American states. Proud Latin governments want to re-establish Cuban ties before the U.S., not after, in order to avoid the appearance that they are slavishly following Washington. This spring the State Department went so far as to grudgingly allow Argentine subsidiaries of U.S. auto companies to sell 42,000 vehicles to Cuba, a clear violation of the trade embargo...
...major obstacle to improved Havana-Washington relations has already been removed: Richard Nixon. Castro hated the former President, blaming him for advocating the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and the feelings were probably mutual. The Ford Administration is now expected to start reviewing its relations with Cuba. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is already on record as saying that he has "an open mind" on the matter. So does Castro. Earlier this year he told Canadian officials visiting Havana that "time is the great healer. We could be doing business with the Americans again some day." That...
...Mexico never cut its ties with Cuba. The leftist government of Salvador Allende Gossens in Chile re-established relations with Cuba in 1970, but they were severed again last year after Allende was toppled by a right-wing military coup...