CUBA History timeline

1. CUBA
1860 – US sailors intercepted 3 US slaver ships on their way to Cuba. The Wildfire,
the William and the Bogota. They carried 1,432 African slaves from Benin and
Congo. They were to be sold in Cuba. Slaves taken to Key West for 3 months then
returned to Africa. (internet).
1890s – Maximo Gomez guerrilla chief ,during Cubas war for independence of the
1890s, refused to operate in Zapata. (Bay of pigs ©2008 Howard Jones US)
1944 – Meyer Lansky. Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista partner with Lansky and
organised crime in Caribbean casinos.(Money and power ©(2001 S Denton R Morris
US).
1950 – The mafia forged an alliance with Fulgencio Batista which gave them control
over the casinos, drug trafficking and brothels in Cuba. (Bay of pigs Howard Jones
©2008 US)
26 July 1953 – Fidel and Raul Castro led 160 leftist guerrillas. Castro’s July 26
movement for the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista’s government.
2 December 1956 – Fidel Castro landed on the coast of Oriente province from exile in
Mexico. He had with him 82 armed guerrillas. Batista’s police shot down 70, the
other 12 escaped with Castro and took to the Sierra maestra mountains.
1959 – Fidel Castro came to power with Soviet funds. Castro turned to the USSR
which set up a subsidised oil for sugar deal. (Modern Jihad ©2003 Loretta
Napoleoni).
1959-67 – Instructing several hundred pro-Castro Latin Americans in violence and
guerrilla warfare. Dominicans, Guatemalans, Venezeulans and Chileans were trained
in special camps in Cuba and infiltrated back to their own countries.
1959-76 – Conflicting missions. Havana Washington and Africa. Piero Gleijeres
1959-76 Chapel Hill uni of north Carolina press 2002.
1 Jan 1959 – Castro drove Batista into exile and seized control of Cuba. Castro shut
down the mafias gambling operations. Castro opened the casinos a week later to nonCubans only. Ordered Cubans to pay high taxes and banned slot machines. New US
ambassador to Havana was Philip Bonsal. Castro was a Socialist. (Bay of pigs
Howard Jones ©208 US).
8 Jan 1959 – Castro entered Havana and took over the government.
1960 – Returning from a temporary assignment in Cuba, Nosenko went o Amsterdam
for three days, Nosenko was carrying a package of top secret papers which the KGB
had collected from Fidel Castro. Nosenko was delivering these papers to Che Guevara
who was touring Europe. They contained copies of personal correspondence between
Khrushchev and Castro about future Soviet military plans for Cuba.

2. April 1961 – Failed Bay of Pigs landings against Fidel Castro. (The cold war ©2005
Gaddis).
1 May 1961 – First US aircraft hijacked Puerto Rican born Antuilo Ramierez Ortiz
forced at gunpoint a national airlines plane to fly to Havana Cuba where he was given
asylum
Nov 1961 – A special secret group was established to deal with Cuba, under the code
name Mongoose. 400 Americans and 200 Cubans were given a fleet of speedboats
and $50 million annual budget to undermine Castros regime.
Nov 1961 – Two senior GRU officers left for Cuba Colonel Meshcheryakov and
lieutenant colonel N K Khlebnikov. In Cuba they worked as intel consultants in the
Castro regime against the US and Latin American countries. (Penkovsky papers
©1965).
1962 – During the Cuban missile crisis Penkovskys spy info was sent immediately to
president Kennedy, allowing the white house to monitor the progress of Soviet missile
emplacements hour by hour, and to establish which US cities were threatened.
1962 – Cuban missile crisis. The Soviets deployed medium and intermediate range
ballistic missiles on Cuba within range of the US. A much larger number of their
troops on the island that the US realised at the time, armed with tactical nuclear
weapons controlled by local commanders. (Secrets Vietnam Pentagon papers ©2002
D Ellsberg).
1962 – Khrushchev sent intermediate and medium range missiles to Cuba.(the cold
war ©20005 Gaddis).
June – Nov 1962 – In June 1962 four U2 overflights showed that the Soviets were
building anti aircraft missile emplacements on Cuba. By 29 Aug 1962 Soviet bombers
and high performance fighters were identified on new Cuban airbases. In Moscow
colonel Oleg Penkovsky 14 Oct 1962 the USAF and CIA air photographs identified
Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. By 19 Oct 1962 the US had declared a military alert
and by 22 Oct 1962 the American military was oh war footing. By 20 Nov 1962
Soviet ships turned back and the Russians began removing their rockets from Cuba.
The US removed its Titan missiles from Turkey. (The Puppet masters ©2004 JH
Wilson).
July – Sept 1962 – By late July 1962 the CIA knew of 65 Soviet ships heading for
Cuba, ten of them known to be carrying military equipment. The new CIA Director
John McCone, who had replaced Allen Dulles after the Bay of Pigs disaster, sent the
White House a memo in mid august 1962 saying missiles were a probable cargo. U2
flight on 29 Aug 1962 found a serries of anti aircraft missiles sites on Cuba. Midterm
congressional elections in the US in Nov 1962 Cuba was about to become a Soviet
nuclear base. On 8 Sept 1962 the Soviet cargo ship Omsk docked in Havana and
unloaded its cargo at night. Medium range missiles MRBMs. A second shipment of
these SS-4 missiles arrived a week later on the Poltava for Cuba they could reach
Washington DC. (Cold war ©1993 M Walker).

3. Oct 1962 – In return for withdrawing Soviet nuclear missiles from Cuba in Oct 1962
the Kremlin received an understanding from President Kennedy not to invade Cuba.
(Too secret too long Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).
14 Oct 1962 – Soviet preparations for Cuba were not discovered until a U2 flight over
western Cuba on 14 Oct, analysed the photos showed near San Cristobal under
construction. The next 13 days were the most dangerous period of the cold war. A
nuclear exchange was so close that both the Whiter House and Kremlin officials
expected bombs to fall 27 Oct black Saturday. The Soviets prepared six bases for the
MRBMs and three for the longer range SS5 IRBM missiles. A study written by the
State Department analyst Ray Garthoff. (Cold war ©1993 M Walker).
mid Oct 1962 – Missile deployment in Cuba which the US learned about in mid Oct
1962 from the mission the U2s overflew the island. (The cold war (c)2005 Gaddis).
19 – 27 Oct 1962 – On 19 Oct 1962 the CIA reported that four of the MRBM sites
were operational and some missiles appeared ready to fire. Two IRBM sites were
declared to be operational within six to eight weeks. Kennedy was surrounded by
some advisors who wanted a war on 22 Oct president Kennedy announced the
presence of the missiles in a TV address. He announced the reinforcement of the US
bases at Guantanimo bay Cuba. The crisis came on 27 Oct when the Soviet ships had
slowed and paused as they approached the US quarantine line. The CIA reported that
the vessel the Grozny suddenly began steaming directly towards the line. The FBI
reported that the Soviet diplomats in New York had begun destroying sensitive
documents. The SAC was dispersed and on full alert. (Cold war ©1993 M Walker).
22-27 Oct 1962 – Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, the wests best placed spy, had been
arrested in Moscow 22 Oct, the same day Kennedy announced the presence of the
missiles in Cuba on American TV, clearly Penkovsy had given the Americans
information on the weakness of the Soviet nuclear arsenal on 27 Oct the US learned
that one of the U2s had been shot down over Cuba. It was being flown by Major
Rudolph Anderson who had piloted the U2 which brought back the first evidence of
the missile installations, 13 days earlier. Kennedy ordered flight cover for the U2
flights in retaliation strike against the SAM anti aircraft sites in Cuba was prepared.
More than 1,000 protesters were gathered outside the White House some declaring
“peace” and some war. The Soviet garrison on Cuba compromised 42,000 men
equipped with tactical nuclear weapons. (Cold war ©1993 M Walker).
August 1963 – Oswald was arrested in New Orleans while distributing pro Castro
pamphlets. On a New Orleans radio program he extolled Cuba and defended Castro
7 Sept 1963 – Deputy director of plans at the CIA at the time was Richard Helms.
Castro knew of assassination attempts on his life all the time. A few months before
JFK was assassinated Castro made a speech in which he referred to this.
Nov 1963 – JFK assassinated in Dallas.

4. 1964 – A revolutionary trained in Cuba John Okello overthrew the pro western
government in Zanzibar. In 1964 and proclaimed the peoples republic of Zanzibar
which was promptly recognised by Cuba and the Soviet union.
1966-75 – MATEO Cuban asset, his real name was Juan Acosta a fishing boat
captain. Another CIA asset was Ignacio Rodriguez Mena Castrillon. DGI controlled
CIA assets. In 1975 he misled the CIA about Cuban arms and troop movements into
Angola. JULIO by the CIA and code ISIDRO by the DGI. (Espionage (c)1995 E
Volkman).
Jan 1966 – At the Tricontinental conference held in Havana and attended by
revolutionary leaders from around the world.
1970 – A mini manual for revolutionaries was published in the official LASO
publication Tricontinental written by Brazilian urban terrorist leader Carlos
Marighella. The mini manual gave precise instructions on terror tactics kidnappings
etc. The short book was translated into various languages and distributed worldwide
by Cuba.
Sept – Nov 1970 – Aerial photos of Cienfuegos Cuba seaport. The Soviets were back
in Cuba and constructing their own naval base there. Later photos showed
communications towers anti aircraft sites and military barracks under construction.
When a Soviet UGRA class submarine tender arrived at Cienfuegos complete with
barges equipment for radioactive waste. The Soviets were installing a nuclear naval
base in Cuba. A serious breach of the 1962 agreement in which the Soviets agreed not
to place nuclear missiles in Cuba. Kissinger saw Soviet ambassador Anatoly
Dobrynin at a meeting to halt the construction of the sub base. In Nov 1970 the
construction of the sub base stopped. (The ends of power ©1978 R Haldeman).
1974 – Arafat visited Cuba.
1974 – The National liberation directorate DLN was reorganised into the American
department DA under the communist party of Cuba central committee. The DA
centralised control over Cuban activities for national liberation movements. The DA
was responsible for planning and coordinating Cubas secret guerrilla and terrorist
training camps. Networks for the covert movement of personal and material from
Cuba. And a propaganda apparatus. DA agents also operated in Europe and other
regions. Castro ally Manual Pieiro Barbaroja was placed in charge.
1976-82 – The CIA estimated there were 300 Palestinians training in Cuban camps.
1976-82 – Illich Ramirez Sanchez Cantos, the jackal, responsible for terrorist acts in
Europe, trained in Cuba. He attended the 1966 tricontinental conference in Havana
and later trained in urban guerrilla tactics automatic weapons explosives and sabotage
in Cuba.
6 Oct 1976 – Cubana airlines explosion killed 73 people.

5. 1977 – The US interests section in Havana opened in 1977, a Cuban equivalent was
opened at the same time in Washington DC. Many of the more than 100 American
diplomats assigned to the section were CIA agents. (Espionage ©1995 E Volkman).
1978 – Abu Iyad a close aide to Arafat said in 1978 that hundreds of Palestinians had
been sent to Cuban terrorist camps.
1979 – Additional military and political support provided to Palestinians Arafat
attended the 6th non aligned conference in Havana 1979. During the visit Arafat
supported agreements for military cooperation and arms supply.
1980s – Cuban trained Guatemalans Cesar Montes and Luis Turcois. Lima led a
violent terrorist guerrilla campaign against the government in Guatemala. Montes
organised the Ejercito Guerrillero de los Pobres EGP in Guatemala. In the 1980s he
joined the FMLN in El Salvador and participated in the civil war in that country.
1980s – The Soviet Union was giving $4 billion a year through Cuba, most was used
for training guerrilla groups. The military base at Guanaho, northern coast of Cuba
was a communist training camp. Trainees arrived from Nicaragua, El Salvador,
Colombia, the Middle East, Angola etc .Moscow and Havana saw armed insurgency
as a commercial enterprise. (Modern Jihad ©2003 Loretta Napolean).
1981-85 – Soviet bloc technicians began to arrive in Cuba and immediately started a
build new and bigger antennas to carry out the threat The Reagan administration
proposed legislation supporting radio Marti in 1981 and in 1983 it passed Congress.
Castro threatened that if the US began radio Marti broadcasts he would turn Cuban
transmitters on full power and block out radio in the southern US. Cuban radios did
jam a good part of the nightime radio in the southern US. May 1985 went on air radio
Marti.
1983-90 – After the negotiations leading to the establishment of the Palestinian
national authority, Cuban Palestinian military cooperation was enhanced, including
the area of counter intel and intel.
1983 – Grenada located near the coast of Venezuela. The Soviets and Cubans were
pouring large amounts of money and weapons into the island. Grenada had received
more than $33 million in aid from Cuba and stockpiled enough Soviet arms to equip
an army of 10,000. A 600 man construction force from Cubas was building an airfield
able to handle Soviet long range TU 95 Bear bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.
These planes frequently made flights from Olenogorsk in the Soviet union along the
east coast of the US landing in Havana Cuba. (Americas wars ©2003 P Huchtausen).
1986 – Dov S Zakheim. The Grenada Operation and superpower relations. A
perspective from the Pentagon. Grenada and Soviet Cuban policy Jiri Valenta and
Hebert J Ellison Boulder Colo Westview press.
July 1987 – DGI Cuban intel agency MATEO was the code name for one of the CIAs
top assets in Cuba MATEO actually worked for the DGI. A Cuban DGI agent named
Antonio Rodriguez defected to the CIA. He said that all Cuban assets the CIA

6. recruited during the last 26 years were in fact DGI plants. Another DGI agent
defected Florentino Aspillaga Lombard DGI chief of station in Prague For 26 years a
total of 38 Cuban assets were working for the DGI which allowed Cubans to identify
at least 179 CIA agents 24 of them under diplomatic cover in the US interests section
in Havana, fled the country when the CIA first learned of the disaster. (Espionage
©1995 E Volkman).
1991-2001 – A spokesman for the Basque government in Spain met in Havana Cuba
with two high level ETA terrorists taking refuge in Cuba. Jose Angel Urtiago
Martinez and Jess Lucio Abrisqueta Corte.
1991-2001 – ETA a Spanish terrorist group seeking a separate Basque homeland
established the Cuartel General HQ in Havana Cuba.
1991-2001 – A high level PLO military delegation including the head of intel paid a
visit to Cuba.
1995 – Direccion General de intelligencia DGI (Espionage ©1995 E Volkman).
12 July 1997 – Hotel Nacional bombing. A bomb exploded at the hotel Nacional in
Havana injuring three people and causing minor damage. A previously unknown
group called the military liberation union claimed responsibility.
11 Sept 2001 – 9/11 attacks in the US bin Laden al Qaeda.
2002 – Piero Gleijeses Conflicting missions Havana Washington and Africa 19591976 Chapel Hill Uni of north Carolina press.
10 June 2005 – Castro and terrorism A chronology by Eugene Pons Institute for
Cuban and Cuban American studies Frontpage mag.com
30 Sept 2006 – 4th Latin America solidarity conference in support of Venezuela
Chavez and Cubas Castro attending is Commandante William Izarra former vice
minister of foreign affairs in Chavez regime.
2008 – The Cuban connection. Drug trafficking smuggling gambling. Eduardo Staenz
Robner traffickers and smugglers Cuba and the US.
July 2009 – Cuba signs agreement with Russia allowing oil exploration in Cuban
waters of Gulf of Mexico (Timeline BBC).

7. 2008 – The Cuban connection drug trafficking smuggling and gambling in Cuba from
the 1920s to the revolution. Educardo Saenz Rovner ebook Chapel Hill uni north
Carolina press (Worldcat database.)