How three CIA agents diffused Castro's rigged Alcatraz-style prison
By Luke Kenton For Dailymail.com
After the botched US-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro lined the walls of one of the country’s most notorious prisons with five tonnes of explosives.
But a remarkable tale that has been declassified for the first time reveals how three CIA agents imprisoned inside embarked on an incredible effort to ensure the bombs never went off.
David Christ, 42, was a senior officer of the CIA by the fall of 1960. Considered more of a scientist than a field operative, he was responsible for designing much of the bugging equipment used by the agency to spy on its fiercest enemies at the time.
The Isle of Pines prison was filled with dissidents and enemies of the state who long hoped to see Castro and his kind driven from power. Many of those incarcerated had been figureheads of anti-Castro movements, and if the US wanted to provoke a counter-revolution, their first port of call would like be to free the prisoners of the Isle of Pines who would help set the wheels into motion
Read more at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7238953/How-Castro-rigged-Cuban-prison-five-tons-explosives-three-undercover-CIA-defused-it.html
Isla de Pinos, Isle of the Pines prison in the picture above, Armando Valladares, author of "Against all hope" about his 23 years in Castro's prisons spent some time at this prison which was pretty awful.
