The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

The Cuban authorities monitored the landing. They did nothing,
because Fidel Castro was in symbiosis with Batista.
Castro's permanent headquarters was at Hacienda Sevilla, the
largest farm in Cuba, in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, east of
Turquino Peak. Rockefeller's Standard Oil earlier owned Hacienda
Sevilla.
The Americans were also able to supply Castro from Guantanamo
Bay. US Marine ships were caught transporting supplies to Castro in
Caimanera-Guantanamo in 1957.
To justify Batista's not using his air force for the only large
military operation of the war, Plan "H", Castro had his brother Rasl
kidnap fifty American citizens in the area. The American consul in
Santiago on 18 July 1958, without authorization negotiated with the
rebels the release of the hostages. He made Batista promise not to
use his air force anymore, to which Batista gladly agreed.
William A. Wieland, who led the State Department's Caribbean
office in Washington, told Earl Smith, who was ambassador to Havana
in 1957: "Cuba has been assigned to you to oversee the fall of
Batista. The decision has been made: Batista must go." (Earl Smith,
"The Fourth Floor", New York, 1962)
Smith was not a freemason, and he wished to warn the American
public against Castro. He was stopped, and the State Department
began working behind his back.
On 17 December 1958, Batista in a meeting with high-ranking
army officers who were not part of the conspiracy, made public that
Ambassador Earl Smith had told Batista he had to go. News spread to
all garrison commanders and ended the army's will to fight. The
rebels had not taken a single garrison or important town by that
time.
In Havana, the CIA was very pro-Castro ("The Communist Threat to
the USA through the Caribbean: Hearings of the Internal Security
Sub-Committee, US Senate", Washington, D. C, 1959-62). Castro's
main advocate was Herbert Matthews of The New York Times, who
portrayed him as the T. E. Lawrence of the Caribbean.
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