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The Cold War Against Cuba Changed us

• lewrockwell.com, By Jacob G. Hornberger

Let's assume that the CIA had succeeded and that Castro had been shot dead on the streets of Havana.

It's not difficult to imagine what U.S. national-security state officials would be saying today: "If we hadn't assassinated Castro, the United States would have fallen to the communists and, today, Fidel and his brother would be running the IRS, Social Security, Medicare, public schooling, and other socialist programs owned and operated by the U.S. government."

Soon after Castro took power on January 1, 1959, when President Eisenhower was still in office, and continually through the Kennedy administration, the CIA steadfastly maintained that a communist-ruled Cuba was a grave threat to U.S. "national security" — a communist dagger situated 90 miles away from American shores and pointed directly at the United States.


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