A Look At The Hit Squads And The Operations That They Conducted For Castro

The Hit Teams That Carried Out Castro’s Vendettas -- Miami Herald

In an excerpt, the first of three, from his new book, ‘Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine,’ Brian Latell a retired CIA agent now with the University of Miami, discloses Castro's hit squads.

Assassination operations had always been Fidel’s personal bailiwick. None could be conducted that he did not authorize and help plan. The means for carrying out this most sinister of secret Cuban capabilities were always decentralized and rigidly compartmentalized. It was not scruples that concerned Fidel but the need for airtight deniability.

The Cubans used DGI-controlled illegals, surrogates of other nationalities, as executioners. They carried out some of the most sensitive missions overseas, especially against high-visibility, well-protected targets. Death squads drawn from Latin American terrorist and revolutionary groups beholden to Cuba could be relied on, deniability compounded by degrees of separation. Carefully screened, the foreign assassins were trained at secret Cuban bases, learning to kill in gangland-style hits, elaborately orchestrated paramilitary operations, commando strikes and sly poisonings.

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My Comment: I expect even more info/intel/leaks to be released from Cuba itself after the Castro brothers are dead and buried in the ground.