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Miguel L.Talleda
THE "X-FILES" OF CRIME IN COMMUNIST CUBA
With the articles that will be appearing in this section, it is our
intention to bring again to the world-wide public opinion, some of the
most atrocious crimes committed by the Communist tyranny against the
people of Cuba, during these 42 years in power; without following a
chronological order, but in a clear and concise manner, so that these
horrible acts can never be forgotten. We consider that its publication
would cause the magnitude of the catastrophe that the Cuban people
continue to suffer under the bloodthirsty dictatorship of Fidel Castro
to be fully understood.
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December 2000 - XF - 3
THE CRUEL DEATH OF WILLIAM MORGAN
One thing that has transpired from the beginning of his tenure at the
front of the Cuban dictatorship in 1969, is the all consuming hate Fidel
Castro has for the American people. The evil spirit of his personality,
probably exacerbated by the writings of Adolph Hitler's "Mein Kampf"
which was his favorite reading while an student, plus the influence of
Marx and the cruel exercise of power by Lenin and Stalin, were shaping
his unreasonable scorn and contempt for this country. A vivid example of
this hate was shown in the case of Major William Morgan, when he was
condemned to death by a firing squad.
William Alexander Morgan was an American, a blond, blue-eyed young man
from Ohio, very tough, full of physical strength, who had been in the
American army and have had some trouble while participating in the
occupation forces in Japan. He happened to be in Havana, when forces
that were against Batista attacked the National Palace on March 13,
1957. Later he joined the "II Front of Escambray" guerrillas
fighting
in the Escambray Mountains, in the central part of Cuba, taking part in
battles and ended up with the grade of Major of the Rebel Army and took
the city of Cienfuegos days before Batista ran away.
Morgan had a particular dislike for the manner in which communism was
being introduced by Castro in all the spheres of the new revolutionary
government. At the beginning he was involved in a conspiracy that some
say he told Castro about it. He always denied that it was his plan, just
that he thought that it was too soon to start a new revolution.
But he went back to the Escambray Mountains and started to develop a
frog farm, traveling constantly from Havana and back to the mountains.
He obtained from the American Embassy some 6 page booklets, containing
anti-Communist comic style stories, to release them in the towns in the
Escambray. But he started to have trouble with Che Guevara and Félix
Torres, the leading communist in that area. One of his close associates
was the also Major Jesús Carreras Zayas who had had a personal encounter
with Che Guevara while fighting in the mountains.
Both, Morgan and Carrera, had become obstacles to the forces preparing
a take over of the government by communism, and were accused of
carrying arms to the Escambray to start an uprising and were therefore
condemned to death by a firing squad. But since William Morgan was an
American, his death was not going to be easy, he had to be humiliated.
Let us read what Paul D. Bethel, says in his book The Losers (1969, page
192):
"The final months of Morgan's life in La Cabaña are vividly portrayed by
fellow inmate John Martino in his book, I Was Castro's Prisoner. The
Martino-Morgan conversations throw considerable light on the personality
and ambitions of William Morgan. In any event, William Morgan marched to
his summary trial, singing: "As the Caissons go Rolling Along." At
2:30
a.m. one day in February 1961, Fidel and Raul Castro attended his
execution by firing squad. As his hands were being tied behind his back,
an unidentified voice in the shadows of the lights beamed on Morgan
shouted: "Kneel and beg for your life!" Morgan shouted back: "I
kneel
for no man!" But they used a sharp-shooter, not a firing squad, to kill
him. First, a bullet was put through one knee, then one through the
other. As Morgan crashed to the ground cursing the Communists, the same
unidentified voice from the shadows exulted: "There! You see, we made
you kneel!" The rifleman put another bullet through one of Morgan's
shoulders. He took his time putting a bullet through the other,
prolonging the agony of his victim. Then a captain walked up to Morgan
and emptied a clip from his Tommy gun into his chest. That is how
William Morgan died."
Considering that in the presence of Fidel Castro no one else talks,
there can be no doubt as to whom the voice in the shadow was.
This is a nice portrait of Castro's hate for this country. To those
trying to sell him as a revolutionary victim of "Imperialism"
let us
remind them of the naked nature of this felon.
(Sources for this article came from the books "The Losers" by Paul D.
Bethel; "Cuba en Guerra" by Enrique Encinosa; "Freedom, A Journal
of the
Free Cuban and personal interviews of witnesses of that era.)
MLT
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