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Fact #2. “He sponsored terrorism wherever he could and allied himself with many of the worst dictators on earth.”
Castro’s sister, Juanita Castro testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in June 1965, said that “Fidel’s feeling for this country cannot even be imagined by Americans. His intention, his obsession to destroy the U.S. is one of his main interests and objectives.”
Frightening what the Castro-Che regime had in storage for the American people. Thanks to the FBI under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, the agents were able to stopped this terrorist plot saving the New Yorkers from a holocaust bigger that 9/11.
On November 17, 1962, less than a month from the Cuban Missile Crisis, the F.B.I. arrested three Cubans on charges of plotting a vast campaign of sabotage in New York City and seized a cache of explosives and incendiary devices. Among the targets were oil refineries in New Jersey, New York’s mayor retail stores, the New York subway system and throw hand grenades into crowds of Christmas shoppers. “It was a question of moving in before they had a chance to use their equipment," said John Malone, agent in charge of the New York FBI office. Also 10 others that were being trained in the art of sabotage have been subpoenaed. One of the three detainees included Roberto Santiesteban Casanova, an attaché at the Cuban Mission. Because he had arrived recently, his official papers were being processed and the U.S. government asserted he still did not enjoy diplomatic immunity. A Cuban couple, Jose Gomez Abad and his wife Elisa Montero de Gomez Abad, were charged with complicity in the affair and ordered to leave the country. Both were attaches at the Mission, and as such did have diplomatic immunity from arrest. FBI agents said they confiscated an arsenal of weapons when they arrested the trio. The cache was found in a Manhattan Jewelry manufacturing shop of Garcia Orellana one of the arrested.*
*The News-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nov. 19, 1962
The News-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan on November 19, 1962 · Page 10
Cuban diplomats Elsa Montera Maldonado and Jose Gomez Abad, a husband and wife team at the Cuba Mission in New York City, who in reality were State Security agents who plotted to murder large numbers of Americans. Both were expelled for their role in a planned terrorist attack on the Friday after Thanksgiving in 1962 which sought to detonate 500 kilos of explosives inside Macy’s, Gimbel’s, Bloomingdale’s and Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal.*
*Partial Chronology of Cuban Diplomatic Malfeasance 1962 – 2015 Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Partial Chronology of Cuban Diplomatic Malfeasance 1962 - 2015
CUBANS SEIZED WITH ARMS HERE IN SABOTAGE PLOT, November 18, 1962
3 CUBANS SEIZED WITH ARMS HERE IN SABOTAGE PLOT - Prisoners and Weapons in the Cuban Sabotage Case 3 CUBANS SEIZED IN SABOTAGE PLOT Explosives in Safe 3 Grenades on Display Cartridges Shown Separately Suspect Impassive - Front Page - NYTimes.com
As soon as Santiesteban arrived in New York, he contacted the rest of his team, including José Gómez Abad and his wife Elsa, both attachés at the Cuban mission, and José García Orellana, a Cuban immigrant who ran a costume jewelry shop in Manhattan. FBI estimates of how many others were involved in the plot range from twenty-five to fifty people. The secret mission of the terrorist team was to accomplish Castro’s orders to blow up a big portion of Manhattan, including the Statue of Liberty, Macy’s department store, several subway stations, the 42nd street bus terminal and Grand Central station, as well as several refineries along the New Jersey shore, including the Humble Oil and Refining Company in Linden. To this effect they stored a huge cache of explosives at Garcia’s shop.*
*Andrew Tully, White Tie and Dagger (New York: Pocket Books, 1968), pp. 74-78.
Castro’s agents had targeted Macy’s, Gimbels, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan’s Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving.
A little perspective: for their March 2004 Madrid subway blasts, all 10 of them, that killed and maimed almost 2,000 people, al-Qaeda used a grand total of 100 kilos of TNT. Castro and Che’s agents planned to set off five times that explosive power in the three biggest department stores on earth, all packed to suffocation and pulsing with holiday cheer on the year's biggest shopping day. Thousands of New Yorkers, including women and children, actually -- given the date and targets -- probably mostly women and children, were to be incinerated and entombed.*
*Humberto Fontova, The Blackest of Fridays Planned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Townhall, November 28, 2014.
https://townhall.com/columnists/hum...nned-by-fidel-castro-and-che-guevara-n1924230
Castro’s sister, Juanita Castro testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in June 1965, said that “Fidel’s feeling for this country cannot even be imagined by Americans. His intention, his obsession to destroy the U.S. is one of his main interests and objectives.”
Frightening what the Castro-Che regime had in storage for the American people. Thanks to the FBI under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, the agents were able to stopped this terrorist plot saving the New Yorkers from a holocaust bigger that 9/11.