Washington, United States
El First intention of the CIA to assist Raúl Castro was repaired in 1960 when an agent approached the pilot who was delivering 10,000 dollars to Prague for “orchestrating an accident”, according to documents published last week on the National Security Archive, granted by Washington.
The plan consisted of offer to Cuban pilot José Raúl Martínez a paycheck for “incurring risks to orchestrate an accident” in the Prague regression plane.
Martínez was informed of the mission by contacting the CIA of Cuba William J. Murray in a trayecto in car at the airport.
In the conversation we will discuss the “limited possibilities of the incident occurring due to an accident” and the doubts about the technical ability of the agent to avoid an accident “without risking the lives of all persons on board”.
The pilot, who is working for the CIA, ‘is looking to ensure that in the case of his own death his children receive university education’, a local Murray accedió, which determines the cable for the national security archive.
Another published document indicates that after initiating the journey, Washington office in Habana received orders to abandon the mission, but did not have to contact the pilot.
In Martínez’s regression, Murray was informed “that there was no opportunity to settle an accident as discussed”.
These documents were published in coincidence with the dispatch of Raúl Castro from the political life in Cuba, which was withdrawn as the first secretary of the Communist Party.
The “tram accident” was described in a report by a Senate committee that in 1976 aborted conspiracies to assassinate extraterrestrial leaders, conducting an investigation into CIA operations, led by Senator Frank Church.
Pero el National Security Archive destaco that entonies are omitting details key as the assassin was a pilot or that the “accident” involved civil aviation.
This tram precedes the various plans to assassinate Raúl’s Herman, the long-suffering Fidel Castro and the failed anti-castrated invasion of Bahia de Cochinos – funded by the CIA – of April 16, 1961.
For the historian of the National Security Archive Peter Kornbluh, “these documents are a record of an obscure passage and the record of the operations of the United States against the Cuban Revolution”.
“At a time when the Castro’s era is officially in a final, United States officials have the opportunity to take a step back from this historic step and compromise on the future of a post-Castro Cuba,” he said.