REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF Fidel Castro Ruz

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REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF

A reflection on my reflections

While writing a brief reflection is helpful, in that the hundred and
twelve accredited foreign newspapers and press agencies in our country
that receive it in advance can publish important parts of its text, long
reflections allow me to expound, as extensively as I wish, on concepts I
deem important and which provide our people, the main protagonist
against any potential aggression, as well as countries facing similar
circumstances, the required information to form their own judgment. This
dilemma is, for me, a headache.

I am also concerned about the space they take up on the front pages of
our newspapers, dearly needed to report on our nation's day-to-day
events.

Therefore: I shall divide them into brief and long reflections. When
brief, they will be previously distributed to the media that usually
receive them. When long, they won't be previously distributed and will
be published on any inside page of Granma, the official newspaper.

If other political and grassroots organizations wish to publish the
reflections in their respective journals, they may do so, without using
up the space of their main sections.

The Party's Ideological Department and the Executive Director of the
Council of State may propose other options.

When taking on this task, I had no previously elaborated plan, but
rather a deeply-felt desire to communicate with our people, the main
protagonist of our resistance, as I observe the stupid actions of the
empire. Today, as in the days of what came to be known as the fertile
prison, I am filled with an immense desire to study and meditate while
recovering.

Fidel Castro Ruz
June 22, 2007
6:02 pm


CIA Documents Confirm Assassination plans

Plots to Assassinate Fidel Ordered by the White House

The Central Intelligence Agency attempted to assassinate Cuban President
Fidel Castro as well as other personalities and foreign leaders under
orders from the White House. What was already presumed and denounced
will now be corroborated in the content of documents to be declassified
next week.

Starting Monday, hundreds of secret documents about CIA actions between
1953 and 1973 will be declassified, including evidence of the
assassination plots.

"The vast majority of them [the documents] are not favorable," admitted
current CIA Director Michael Hayden.

The declassification and publishing of the documents could reveal new
details of the illegal activities of the spy agency in relation to
events like the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.

On the same day that the announcement was made, the website of the
National Security Archive of George Washington University published a
group of documents dated January 1975, in which William Colby, the CIA
director at that time, refers to the assassination attempts against
Fidel Castro, reported the BBC.

In a speech delivered to a group of historians who have exerted pressure
in the US for a more wide-reaching publication of the CIA's classified
documents, Hayden described the documents as "family jewels" and as "a
glance at a very different period and a very different Agency."

Nevertheless, what is now transpiring at the White House, with its
scandals, preventive wars and the order to capture "dead or alive" in
the name of the war against terrorism, doesn't seem very different from
the CIA past.