27 October,2009 08:15 AM IST | | Agencies
The younger sister of Fidel Castro collaborated with the CIA in the 1960s as the agency was trying desperately to assassinate him.
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Juanita Castro said she helped her brother's "arch-enemy" for three years from 1961, even sheltering opponents of his communist regime in her Havana home before she defected to America in 1964.
After becoming disillusioned with her brother's revolution, Juanita said much to her own surprise she responded positively when the CIA sought her help. This she admitted in a new book, Fidel and Raul, My Brothers, the Secret History.
Like all her six siblings, she initially supported the Cuban revolution against the regime of Fulgencio Batista, in her case travelling abroad to raise money to buy arms.
After the Castros took power, she took over the management of hospitals a but soon lost confidence with her brothers as they moved towards communism and executed opponents.
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"I began to become disenchanted when I saw so much injustice," she said. Juanita, now 76,u00a0 has spent the past 35 years running a pharmacy in Miami and has not spoken to Fidel in 40 years.
