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11/02/09 - AFP (Paris) - Cuba slams book by Castro's sister

HAVANA — Cuba's state-run media on Monday condemned a just-published book in
which Fidel Castro's sister admits she spied for the Central Intelligence
Agency.

The country's media added that the expose proves that the former Cuban
leader was a "victim" of decades of US targeting.

"The truth is in full view: Fidel Castro is the victim, the offended person,
the individual against whom they conspired," wrote the government-run La
Jiribilla magazine, saying the relentless effort to target the Cuban leader
was in "bad taste" and "low moral standing."

In acknowledging the cloak-and-dagger story, "the enemies of the revolution
for once were casting a spotlight on their misdeeds," the periodical said.

The condemnation by the Havana government follows the admission by Juanita
Castro, 76, in her Spanish-language book "Fidel and Raul, My Brothers. The
Secret History" that she worked with the US spy agency.

In the book, which went on sale last week, Juanita, the fifth of seven
Castro siblings, writes that she aided the CIA during the 1960s, at a time
when the United States was plotting to assassinate her brother and replace
his Communist regime.

Now a resident of Miami, Juanita Castro wrote that she was contacted in 1964
after she broke with Fidel and Raul, the current president of Cuba, and
collaborated with the CIA both inside Cuba and when she went into exile
later that year.