The Yankee Comandante by Michael Sallah & Mitch Weiss

Author:Michael Sallah & Mitch Weiss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2014-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

The man in the lobby of the Capri said it was urgent. Call Morgan. He wanted just a few minutes with the Americano. It would be worth Morgan’s time. Morgan didn’t want to go anywhere, but the call sounded urgent. With his men in tow, he hopped into the Jeep and sped to the Capri. When he walked into the lobby, the hunched figure at the desk was waiting.

As the two men walked toward the lounge, Morgan noticed that the visitor looked more like a US law enforcement agent than a tourist. Frank Nelson had been around Havana for a long time. He was a fixer and an ex-con who fashioned himself as a modern-day spook. One day he said he was working for the CIA, and another, serving as a foreign emissary. Havana was a breeding ground for people reinventing themselves, people driven out of other places. Nelson was no different. Whatever his status, he had done his homework on Morgan and the Second Front.

In the lounge, Nelson told Morgan that his unit was in trouble. Che and Raúl were looking for any evidence they could find to start cracking down on the members. So were other government loyalists. The fact that the Second Front had been barred from top positions in government was telling enough, he said. For someone not in contact with the Second Front, Nelson knew a lot.

But Morgan was still perplexed over why he had called him.

Nelson had just returned from the Dominican Republic and had rushed to Havana to deliver the message. He wanted to offer Morgan a deal—an offer that would never be made again. The man making it was one of the most powerful in the hemisphere.

“He has the money,” said Nelson.

Castro, he said, wasn’t doing justice to the new Cuba. He was arrogant and he was dangerous, Nelson said. The man behind the offer had a simple request: He wanted Castro dead. He didn’t say how to kill him, he just wanted Castro eliminated. The man was offering one million dollars for the revolutionary leader’s head. Morgan later told members of the Second Front that he was taken aback. Rarely surprised by anything, Morgan was stunned by the offer. He wanted to know who the man was behind the money.

Rafael Trujillo, the legendary dictator who had ruled the Dominican Republic for more than thirty years, was one of the longest-serving rulers in the Caribbean. No one despised Castro more than the man known as El Jefe, a ruthless tyrant who surpassed Batista in his ability to torture and kill his opposition to keep his power. Castro had singled out Trujillo as a brute who relished the support of the United States while he was looting his country’s treasury. More than anything, he needed to be overthrown, Castro said.

Trujillo was well aware of Castro’s stinging criticism and supplied Batista with arms and ammo to make sure the barbudo never took power. But he had misjudged the rebels. When Batista finally fled Havana,

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