The younger sister of Fidel Castro became so disillusioned with the
Cuban regime before going into exile that she began working for the CIA
against her brothers' rule, she tells Univision Noticias 23.
Juanita Castro, 76, says in the interview broadcast on Sunday that she
became especially upset that Castro was executing opponents and moving
the island toward communism.
"I began to become disenchanted when I saw so much injustice," she says.
She was interviewed by Mexican journalist Maria Antonieta Collins, who
is co-author of a new memoir titled Fidel and Raul, My Brothers, the
Secret History.
Castro says that one day a person close to both her and Fidel Castro
brought her an invitation from the CIA asking her to collaborate with
the spy agency, Reuters reports.
"They wanted to talk to me because they had interesting things to tell
me, and interesting things to ask me, such as if I was willing to take
the risk, if I was ready to listen to them -- I was rather shocked, but
anyway I said yes," Castro says.
She does not elaborate in the interview on her activities except to say
that she sheltered and helped people persecuted by the government.
"My situation in Cuba became delicate because of my activity against the
regime," says Castro, who lives in Miami.
She left Cuba in June 1964 after getting a visa to travel to Mexico
where she almost immediately denounced the Castro regime, The Miami
Herald notes.
She says she last spoke to Fidel in 1963 at the time of their mother's
death and with her other brother, Raul Castro, who now runs the country
in the place of the ailing Fidel, in 1964, shortly before she left the
island.
Castro's sister says she worked for CIA before leaving Cuba in 1964 - On
Deadline - USATODAY.com (26 October 2009)
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/10/the-younger-sister-of-fidel-castro-became-so-disillusioned-with-the-cuban-regime-before-going-into-exile-that-she-began-worki.html
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