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Thousands of documents show FBI kept close eye on Miami exiles and ‘Batista crowd’

October 12, 2016

Franco Ordoñez, In Cuba Today
Photo Credit: CM Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald

WASHINGTON--The release this week of thousands of once-secret FBI documents provides new detail on the close eye federal law enforcement officials kept on Cuba and the Miami exile community during Fidel Castro’s rise to power through the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The more than 12,000 pages of letters, reports, newspaper clippings and photos compiled over 20 years starting around 1955 show that the FBI watched with concern as the movement against Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista progressed, worried that the “Batista crowd” was growing in Miami and expressed alarm at a potential Batista plot to shoot down Castro’s plane after the new Cuban leader made a trip to the United States.

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