Mae Brussell Research Center

Her broadcasts and her files

Fidel Castro

In Mae's files

person
also known as Castro

Fidel Castro (1926–2016), leader of Cuba from 1959. In Mae's broadcasts he is mostly a target: of the CIA's assassination plots, and of the anti-Castro Cuban exiles she places at the centre of the Kennedy case. In No. 288 he comes in through Marita Lorenz, who said she was sent to poison him.

Across the broadcasts

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The fixed point of 1972 politics: the leader whose friends and enemies Mae thinks can be turned against a president

July 1, 1972

Mae reads Moscow's honours to Castro as one side of a squeeze she thinks is being arranged around Nixon.

"the order of Lenin and they promised full cooperation and had developed a new friendship at all levels."
Mae Brussellasserted#
Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 1 (1 Jul 1972), 25:02
288

Appears as a target rather than an actor: the man Lorenz was sent to kill, and the cause the exiles organized around

September 26, 1977

Mae identifies Lorenz by her part in the CIA's plots against Castro, which is what makes her a witness from inside the same teams.

"She was sent to Cuba to poison him. She worked with assassination teams."
Mae Brussellasserted#
Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 39:49

Mae names where any honest investigation must end: with Castro's enemies, the exile Cubans, and their sponsors.

Arguing what the Torbitt document would show the House Select Committee if it used it.

"it is an absolute proof positive that the bottom line of the investigation of the Kennedy assassination has to be the anti-Castro Cubans and the CIA"
Mae Brussellasserted#
Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 32:28

Connections

target ofMarita Lorenz

Lorenz says she was sent to Cuba to poison him and did not.

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