Fidel Castro Hired Nazi SS Soldiers to Train His Troops during Cuban Missile Crisis, Reports German Intelligence

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Fidel Castro Hired Nazi SS Soldiers to Train His Troops during Cuban Missile Crisis, Reports German Intelligence

When it came to fending off the United States, former Communist leader Fidel Castro was willing to deal with fascists to protect Cuba.

Newly released documents from Germany’s secret intelligence agency, the BND, reveal that Castro recruited two former Nazi SS soldiers to help train his military during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The classified documents—dated October 26, 1962—show that Castro invited four SS officers to Havana and offered them four times the average salary that Germans earned then, if they would help his army. Two of the four accepted the deal.

Castro also tried to hire German paratroopers and technicians to bolster his country’s defenses against a possible American invasion.

The Cuban dictator even attempted to purchase 4,000 Belgian firearms from two men who were connected to Germany’s extreme right wing. This move, though, was apparently an attempt to reduce Cuba’s dependency on the Soviet Union.

-Noel Brinkerhoff

To Learn More:

Castro Hired Nazi SS to Train Military, Intel Documents Reveal (by Rachel Hirshfeld, Arutz Sheva / Israel National News)

Fidel Castro Recruited Nazis During Cuban Missile Crisis (by Fiona Govan, Daily Beast)

German Intelligence Agency Fights to Keep Nazi Files Secret after 50 Years (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)

Dictator of the Month: Fidel Castro (by David Wallechinsky, AllGov)

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Ana 12 years ago

Vice President Carlos Lage (57) or National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon (71) who are both capable and ruinnng the country as much as Raul. All three are reformers potentially in the direction of Gorbachev or Deng but Washington is locked down by Miami. Fidel has not left a power vacuum. The immediate post-Fidel moment has very nearly come and gone. Other options are available. Cuba is in the midst of an oil boom with US companies cut out of the deal. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the North Cuba Basin has potential reserves of between 4.6 and 9.3 billion barrels of crude. There is no democratic revolution in the works. The Cuban people are not interested in the Washington Consensus all for us, nothing for you model, but then, who is anymore? Now that Putin has been screwed on Kosovo, who knows of the possibilities.

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