Category: Cuba

• The Fidel Castro Counter-Strike

  A theory that Fidel Castro or Cuban intelligence arranged President Kennedy’s assassination in retaliation for repeated U.S.-backed attempts on Castro’s life and ongoing covert warfare against Cuba. The theory usually points to the documented anti-Castro plots, Oswald’s pro-Castro activity and Mexico City episode, and the possibility that Cuba chose to answer assassination plans with one of its own.

• The Castro as CIA Asset

  An early Cold War theory claiming that Fidel Castro was not an authentic revolutionary but a cultivated or controlled figure — in some versions a polished front, actor, or intelligence asset — permitted or positioned to create a long-term communist threat ninety miles from Florida. The theory reframed Castro’s charisma, media treatment, and early U.S. interactions as signs of backstage sponsorship designed to justify defense spending, hemispheric intervention, and permanent anti-communist mobilization.