Suzie
09-12-2007, 05:48 PM
Castro claims Cuba helped save Reagan
<!-- END HEADLINE --> <!-- BEGIN STORY BODY --> By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Writer 7 minutes ago
Fidel Castro claims Cuba's government saved the life of President Reagan by giving American officials information about an assassination plot in 1984.
The essay published Wednesday in the Communist Party newspaper Granma appeared to be the first time Cuba has made the claim. It seemed aimed at showing Cuba has cooperated with the United States in the past.
Castro, who has not appeared in public for more than a year, wrote that a Cuban security official stationed at the United Nations told the then U.S. mission security chief about an extreme right-wing group that was planning to kill Reagan during a trip to North Carolina.
MORE HERE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_castro_reagan;_ylt=AojaWB3y3YuuleCb27EkBzWs0N UE)
Anyone believe it?
<!-- END HEADLINE --> <!-- BEGIN STORY BODY --> By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Writer 7 minutes ago
Fidel Castro claims Cuba's government saved the life of President Reagan by giving American officials information about an assassination plot in 1984.
The essay published Wednesday in the Communist Party newspaper Granma appeared to be the first time Cuba has made the claim. It seemed aimed at showing Cuba has cooperated with the United States in the past.
Castro, who has not appeared in public for more than a year, wrote that a Cuban security official stationed at the United Nations told the then U.S. mission security chief about an extreme right-wing group that was planning to kill Reagan during a trip to North Carolina.
MORE HERE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_castro_reagan;_ylt=AojaWB3y3YuuleCb27EkBzWs0N UE)
Anyone believe it?