Roberto’s Story The Forgotten Young Men

At Havana University in 1960 some members of the Student Organization who had lined up against Castro found they had to flee the country. My son was among them. The students came to Miami and formed the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil.

That was about August or September 1960, six months before the Bay of Pigs, and soon afterward the CIA got in touch with, the Directorio and assigned an agent to work with them specifically. I’ll call him X. Through X the CIA selected ten or twelve of the leaders and gave them special training in counterrevolutionary activity. Sabotage, demolition, explosives, espionage, communications, all that. The idea was to send these boys into Cuba equipped to train others, and before April 1961 the project proved to be one of the biggest sabotage operations Castro had to face.

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At Havana University in 1960 some members of the Student Organization who had lined up against Castro found they had to flee the country. My son was among them. The students came to Miami and formed the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil.

That was about August or September 1960, six months before the Bay of Pigs, and soon afterward the CIA got in touch with, the Directorio and assigned an agent to work with them specifically. I’ll call him X. Through X the CIA selected ten or twelve of the leaders and gave them special training in counterrevolutionary activity. Sabotage, demolition, explosives, espionage, communications, all that. The idea was to send these boys into Cuba equipped to train others, and before April 1961 the project proved to be one of the biggest sabotage operations Castro had to face.