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...engaging in extremely serious terrorist actions against our country under the sponsorship of the Cuban American National Foundation in Miami. They harassed our Air Force, violated our air space, dropped leaflets on our capital and engaged in other constant acts of provocation. On July 13 they dropped leaflets on Havana. It was a real provocation. On Jan. 9 and 13, they came back and dropped thousands of leaflets. In fact, people watched from Malecon [Havana's oceanfront promenade] as MiGs made warning passes against their planes. People were criticizing the Cuban air force. We reported each and every violation...
...chief of staff calling to tell him that 40 minutes earlier, three small, unarmed Cessna planes piloted by Cuban-American exiles from Miami, members of a group called Brothers to the Rescue, had penetrated Cuba's airspace with the apparent intention of dropping antigovernment leaflets over Havana. Castro's Air Defense Force had just blown two of the planes out of the sky, killing four...
Last July, Jose Basulto, a Bay of Pigs veteran with CIA connections who piloted the only plane that escaped the Feb. 24 attack, buzzed Havana, dropping leaflets that exhorted Cubans to overthrow Castro. Cuba complained to the U.S., and the Federal Aviation Administration launched a probe, still ongoing, into whether Basulto's license should be suspended. But that did not deter him from his anti-Castro campaign. According to records the Cuban government provided TIME, the Brothers entered Cuban airspace more than a dozen times in 1994 and '95, and Cuba said it made a diplomatic protest on most occasions...
...strange twist to the story, Juan Pablo Roque, a Cuban military pilot who had defected to the U.S. in 1992 and flown dozens of missions with the Brothers, suddenly returned to Havana. He appeared on Cuban television to denounce his former colleagues as provocateurs and potential terrorists. Roque, it turned out, had acted as an informant for both the FBI and Cuba. His wife Ana in Miami had had no idea of his double life. In an interview with TIME, she said that a few days before he left, he told her he had taken his clothes to the cleaner...
CATHY BOOTH, Miami bureau chief, flew to Havana (via Nassau) for the exclusive interview she and assistant managing editor Joelle Attinger had with Fidel Castro after Cuba's shoot-down of rebel planes from the U.S. It was his fourth meeting in a year with TIME. "When we saw him in New York City in October, he wore a Dutch designer suit to woo the business community," she says. "This time he was back in fatigues." Fatigue is one word recent observers have pinned on the 69-year-old Castro, but last week, Booth says, "he looked fully invigorated...