[NYTr] Cuba has previously reported warning about plot to assassinate Reagan
 
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:57:51 -0500 (CDT)

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sent by Jane Franklin - Sep 13, 2007

 
Cuba has often mentioned warning about plot to assassinate Reagan

Regarding Fidel Castro's description in his September 11 Reflection,
"The Empire and Its Lies":

This is not the first time that Cubans have talked and written about
the warning they gave to the U.S. Government when Cuban agents learned
about a plot to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1984.  It is the
first time that I've seen this much description, but Cuban officials
and U.S. commentators (including myself) have mentioned this in
connection with the fact that Cuban agents, like the Cuban Five, have
not only saved Cuban lives but lives of people in the United States.

In fact, this warning about Reagan is mentioned in my book, CUBA AND
THE UNITED STATES: A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY.  Here is the entry from
July 9, 1989:

"July 9  President Castro tells the Council of State that U.S.
officials had at least two names of Cuban officials (Miguel Ruiz Poo
and Antonio de la Guardia) involved in drug trafficking and should have
told Cuba confidentially just as Cuba promptly reported to the U.S.
Government when it learned that a right-wing group  planned to
assassinate President Reagan."

Here is today's article from the Associated Press via The Miami Herald:

Posted on Thu, Sep. 13, 2007

Castro: Cuba helped save Reagan's life

(AP) -- Fidel Castro says Cuba once saved the life of President Ronald 
Reagan by giving American officials information about an assassination
plot.

The essay published Wednesday in the Communist Party daily Granma
appeared to be Castro's first public description of the matter. It
seemed to be aimed at showing that Cuba had cooperated with the United
States in the past.

Also Wednesday, Cuba's National Assembly president, Ricardo AlarcC3n,
told CNN that he had been ''in touch'' with Castro more than a week ago
and that the ailing leader was recovering and preparing the published
essay at the time.

In the essay, Castro wrote that a Cuban security official stationed at
the United Nations in New York alerted U.S. mission security chief
Robert C. Muller about an extreme right-wing group that was planning to
assassinate Reagan during a planned trip to North Carolina in 1984.

Castro wrote that Cuban authorities learned later that the FBI had
arrested several people in North Carolina.

The U.S. State Department's Western Hemisphere Affairs in Washington
did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.

Wayne Smith, head of the U.S. Interests Section in Cuba in the early
1980s, said he had not heard about the 1984 plot.

Miami Herald staff writer Nancy San Martin contributed to this report.

B) 2007 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.miamiherald.com

 
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