Another Failed US Plan on Cuba Recalled

The secret chapter of the latest Bush Plan on Cuba has among its numerous antecedents the “Patty Plan”, with which the US tried to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro on July 26, 1961.

An article published by Granma daily on Friday recalled a vast US government terrorist plan to destroy the Cuban revolutionary process, in which Guantanamo Naval Base, a Cuban territory illegally occupied by the US, was included.

On the 45th anniversary of the end of the Flaming Case, through which the Revolution thwarted that plot, Granma brought to public light unpublished elements of those events.

The daily recalled that after Cuba´s 1961 defeat of the mercenary invasion of Playa Giron, organized by the US, the White House contemplated the assassination of Cuban revolutionary leaders to plunge the Caribbean country into chaos and facilitate a US invasion.

To that end, US authorities even proposed assassination attempts against its own soldiers, noted Granma.

The Patty Operation, in which Cuba seized a huge quantity of weapons, including infantry arms, mortars, cannons and explosives, was one of the first and most dangerous assassination attempts targeting Cuban leaders.