Havana, Apr 16 (Prensa Latina) The US government tried to avoid the triumph of the Cuban Rebel Army in 1958.
The strategic basis of the role then played by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was the stimulation of a "third force" able to get rid of dictator Fulgencio Batista, who no longer guaranteed the protection of US interests on the island.
At the same time, it intended to hinder the displacement of the 26 de Julio Revolutionary Movement headed by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.
That maneuver was in line with what is known within the CIA as "political action operation," that is, clandestine support for individuals or organizations in third countries better responding to US political and economic interests.
Documents later declassified by the CIA reveal that in December 1958, the agency's Paramilitary Division planned to throw arms from the air.
They could not materialize it because they had planned it for the first days of January 1959, when the dictatorship had collapsed due to the rebel forces' opposition.
Since August 1958, the Department of State had been plotting a political Latina American mediation to avoid the rebel triumph, and had been committed to creating a mediating commission of the Organization of American States (OEA) since October.
An additional CIA alternative was that its old collaborator Justo Carrillo, along with ex Colonel Ramon Barquin, were to head a Military Board to take Batista out of power, as a way not to recognize the Rebel Army as lawful.
They failed to accomplish those objectives
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