CIA insider reveals one of the agency's various sabotage operations to turn Cubans against Fidel Castro, was to make school milk undrinkable!
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Sibel
Edmonds speaks with the former CIA operative, Verne Lyon, who was
involved in Operation Chaos, in addition to covert operations in
Cuba. Lyon gives details about one of CIA's numerous sabotage
strategies, which was actually to make milk in Cuban schools
undrinkable!
As Lyon
explains:
After
the October crisis - October of 1962 - President Kennedy pulled off a
naval blockade around Cuba and told the Soviets to remove their
nuclear weapons that could attack the United States. And in exchange,
he said he would remove our missiles from Turkey and we would never
again invade Cuba like we did in 1961 at the bay of pigs.
Since
the CIA could no longer operate and implement an invasion program to
retake the island, their objectives and their goals then turn to
causing dissension in the island.
There
were rotating blackouts for three hours a day. They were scheduled.
In fact, on the radio, every morning in Habana, they would say that
the lights would go out in Vedado between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. and in
another area between 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. This was a constant thing.
There
were food shortages, there were clothing shortages, there were
transportation shortages, there was a shortage of everything. And the
Cuban people were still dedicated to the Revolution. They actually
believed things were going to get better. So, the CIA's task then was
to convince the average Cuban that they should demand a change in the
style of government, otherwise they would slowly starve to death.
Make the average Cuban worker frustrated. Make him so frustrated that
when he came home at night, his house was dark, there was no cooking
gas to cook supper. His children couldn't get milk.
All the
milk was diverted to the schools in the countryside, so families
would give up their children and send them to these schools in the
country. And maybe the kids could come home one weekend a month. So,
the state was removing the children from parental guidance and care
and upbringing. Anything the CIA could do, like bringing a swine food
to kill half a million pigs on the island. And you got to remember,
the Cuban diet consists of pork, rice and beans. So when you
eliminate the pork they're left with rice and beans and a fried egg,
or glass of sugar water for breakfast in the morning. That's not
much.
In the
secondary schools, the milk supply for the week was delivered one day
a week in a big tank truck. An agent who worked for me said that he
knew a truck driver who delivered milk to a particular secondary
school in the country. And that he knew what day the milk would be
delivered. And he thought what could we do to sabotage the milk, make
it undrinkable. Not poisoned, but undrinkable. And it was decided
that cement powder would be poured into the tanker truck.
He also
knew where this truck driver stopped to have breakfast - a piece of
bread and a cup of thick, sweet Cuban coffee. And it would take him
maybe twenty minutes, maybe half an hour to do that, which gave the
operatives time to go dump two, or three bags of cement powder into
this tanker truck of milk.
When he
got to the school and they unloaded it, I guess the instructors at
the school noticed that the milk had a funny consistency to it. And
when they tested that, I don't think they ever really decided exactly
what it was, but they knew it was undrinkable, unpalatable. So, the
children in that school didn't have any milk for a week.
There
was that kind of thing that the agency did. You know, it wasn't to
win hearts and minds and make friends. It was to increase the
frustration level of the parents of those children. This thing 'we
give you our children and you can't even feed them'. So, anything
that would make the Cuban angry at his job, angry at his government
angry at the system.
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