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Pentagon’s ‘dirty tricks’
aim to humiliate Castro
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early 1960s,
U.S. military strategists offered their bosses
a bagful of dirty tricks to harass or humiliate
Fidel Castro. The schemes ranged from flood
ing Cuba with faked photos of an overweight
Castro “with two beauties” to simulating the
sinking of a U.S. warship in an exercise in
tended to provoke a war.
About 1,500 pages of newly-released De
fense Department documents show that the
Pentagon even considered squeezing anti-
Cuba propaganda from a space disaster.
The ‘Operation Dirty Trick’ memo — written
just before John Glenn left Earth on America’s first
orbital space mission in 1962 — proposed blam
ing a Cuban impediment in case of a mishap.
“This would be accomplished by manufac
turing various pieces of evidence which would
prove electronic interference on the part of
the Cubans,” the memo said.
Some of the ideas were bizarre but others
were serious, intended to give the United
States a pretext for attacking Cuba in re
sponse to a faked provocation.
None was carried out. But the proposals
got as far as the secretary of defense, or
even discussion with the new president, Lyn
don Johnson, within a month of the assassi
nation of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22,1963.
The documents were declassified by the
Defense Department at the instigation of the
Assassination Records Review Board, a
small agency created by Congress.
“These documents further expand the histor
ical record by illustrating the United States gov
ernment’s deep interest in developing a policy
that would force Castro from power during the
early 1960s,” said board member Anna Nelson,
a historian. When Kennedy was killed, Cuba
was immediately suspected of involvement.
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