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Ed Webb

U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba - ABC News - 0 views

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  • In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
  • plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities
  • to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro
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  • "The whole point of a democracy is to have leaders responding to the public will, and here this is the complete reverse, the military trying to trick the American people into a war that they want but that nobody else wants."
  • neither the American public, nor the Cuban public, wanted to see U.S. troops deployed to drive out Castro. Reflecting this, the U.S. plan called for establishing prolonged military — not democratic — control over the island nation after the invasion.
  • a time when there was distrust in the military leadership about their civilian leadership, with leaders in the Kennedy administration viewed as too liberal, insufficiently experienced and soft on communism. At the same time, however, there real were concerns in American society about their military overstepping its bounds
  • reports U.S. military leaders had encouraged their subordinates to vote conservative during the election
  • One idea was to create a war between Cuba and another Latin American country so that the United States could intervene. Another was to pay someone in the Castro government to attack U.S. forces at the Guantanamo naval base — an act, which Bamford notes, would have amounted to treason. And another was to fly low level U-2 flights over Cuba, with the intention of having one shot down as a pretext for a war.
  • Afraid of a congressional investigation, Lemnitzer had ordered all Joint Chiefs documents related to the Bay of Pigs destroyed, says Bamford. But somehow, these remained.
Eduardo Medeiros

A Crise dos Msseis em Cuba - The missile crisis in Cuba - 3 views

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    Reproduzo hoje trecho do livro Os Grandes Líderes: Fidel Castro. Esta parte do livro trata do episódio mais tenso da Guerra Fria: A Crise dos Mísseis, ocasionada pela instalação de mísseis nucleares soviéticos em Cuba, apontados para os Estados Unidos. Segundo o governo soviético, os mísseis eram uma retaliação aos mísseis nucleares americanos instalados na Turquia cujo alvo seria a União Soviética. Este conflito geopolítico poderia ter dado início a uma guerra nuclear.
Eduardo Medeiros

Malditos comunistas! Por José Roberto Torero - 0 views

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  • Eduardo Medeiros on 02 Nov 11
     
    Em Cuba, se você tiver aptidão para o esporte, vai poder se desenvolver com total apoio do estado. Pô, assim não vale! Do jeito que eles fazem, com escolas para todos, professores especializados e centros de excelência gratuitos, é moleza. Quero ver é fazer que nem a gente, no improviso. Aí, duvido que eles ganhem de nós. Duvido!
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