Cia made destroyed torture tapes of the interrogators, and he was able to persuade other American officials and the CIA’s own agents into recording them as well. When Guevara was arrested and prosecuted for torturing Cuban civilians, Cia used one of his tape backups as evidence, suggesting that he had been caught.

The two men who tortured Guevara had no idea that he would later be a source for the charges against the torturers. This was, indeed, a rare case where the CIA was not acting for ideological reasons at all, but simply had no choice.

In his report to Congress on the CIA’s involvement in the Kennedy assassination, General Edwin Allen said of the CIA’s relationship with Cuba: « The agency was a critical player in bringing to power the Cuban government. Its influence on Cuban policy was so great that by 1960 there was little in Cuba to criticize or challenge…In 1961, when the Kennedy administration announced its intention to dismantle the U.S.-Cuba Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Cuba was a principal source of foreign currency for the Soviet Union. As a result, there was concern in Washington about the effect of our Cuban relationships on US-Cuban trade. » As long as Castro lived, the CIA was on the payroll. « I know of no other agency of the government of the United States in the world who received so large a financial and logistical advantage from the government of the Cuban Republic as the CIA does. » The CIA was in fact the principal conduit for this kind of business.

We need only look to the massive money that flowed in from Iran from the 1960s onward, and the resulting destabilizing effect that the CIA’s activities had on Latin America, to see that American power has always been dependent on the fear of losing influence within its region, with the same result that was desired in Cuba from the start. After the CIA-backed coup in 1962, US foreign policy moved back toward the Cold War.

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