MIAMI, Florida, October 28, 2009 - Fidel Castro's sister has revealed in a stunning memoir that she worked against her brother by collaborating with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Juanita Castro, in her memoirs entitled `Fidel and Raul, My Brothers, the Secret History', said she used the code named Donna and helped foes of Fidel flee the island following the Cuban revolution in the early 1960s.
In her memoirs, as told to Mexican journalist Maria Antonieta Collins, Ms Castro said she initially supported her brothers in the struggle but quickly became disenchanted after Fidel Castro began to increasingly persecute opponents and turned to communism.
"Did I feel remorse about betraying Fidel by agreeing to meet with his enemies? No, for one simple reason: I didn't betray him. He betrayed me," she wrote.
"He betrayed the thousands of us who suffered and fought for the revolution that he had offered, one that was generous and just and would bring peace and democracy to Cuba, and which, as he himself had promised, would be as 'Cuban as palm trees'."
Ms Castro said she was recruited to be a CIA operative by her friend Virginia Leitao da Cunha, the wife of the Brazilian ambassador to Cuba, and agreed to work for the CIA under the noses of her brothers.
But she said she did it on the condition that she was not asked to participate in any violent acts against them or any other member of their government.
The 76-year-old went into exile in Mexico in 1964 before emigrating to the US and has remained a firm critic of communist rule in Cuba. (Adapted from Caribworldnews)
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