Deadly Revolotionist - 1361 Words

Lowering taxes, setting land aside for the poor, and trying to help his people are all what Fidel Castro did. He was good to his people, but had ties with the Soviet Union. The CIA wanted to kill him because of his ties with the Soviet Union, and the United States wanted ties with Cuba. Fidel Castro was the Cuban prime minister, led a revolution, became a Cuban leader, and he escaped death (Fidel Castro, Famous People J1). Fidel Castro Ruz was born August 13, 1926. He was born near Biran, Oriente Province, Cuba, on his family’s sugar plantation. Fidel Castro was illegitimate and his parents were not going to send him to school, but he wanted to go so much that he begged his parents until they let him go to school when he was six or†¦show more content†¦U.S. economic dominance ended when the pro-peasant and pro-worker changes were made. In 1960 pacts were signed between Cuba and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev so that Cuba was allowed to get military and economic he lp from the USSR (Fidel Castro, Famous People J1). In March 1960, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved a CIA plan to conquer Castro. The plan was to train a paramilitary force outside Cuba so they are able to perform guerrilla action, and needed 13 million dollars. Richard Bissel and Richard Helms organized the operation. Operation Mongoose had approximately 400 CIA officers who were employed full-time to carry out the mission. The project leader was Edward Lansdale and Task Force W was led by William Harvey. The Operation Mongoose headquarters was to the JM WAVE station. Castro once said, â€Å"If surviving assassination attempts were an olympic event, I would win the gold medal.† Castro’s body guards said that they counted that there was a total of 638 assassination attempts by CIA to kill Castro. In a survey they found that 90 percent of the Cuban population supported Castro and his policies. Castro started to tighten his grip over Cuba and enjoy all the po wers that he had in the government. Then Castro put a ban on existing political parties, ruled all of Cuba, and said he would ruin the national unity and integrity. Castro wasn’t a really malicious person, but he was