Comments on: El Comandante Americano

El Comandante Americano

mrducts — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:10:24 -0800

William Alexander Morgan: The improbable story of how a high school dropout, ex-con, ranch hand, gambling enforcer, mafia gunrunner and circus fire eater from Ohio, became one of the top leaders in Castro's revolutionary army (pops), only to be executed as a traitor after the revolution.

By: scarello

scarello — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:07:15 -0800

Might be worth mentioning that Herman Marks, another American participant in the Cuban revolution, is said to have been the firing squad captain at Morgan's excecution. His whereabouts are unknown to this very day.

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:45:40 -0800

A frog farm? Now I have heard it all.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:48:01 -0800

No, Halloween Jack. Morgan started using the frog farm's trucks to take arms to anti-Castro guerrillas in the Escambray mountains. *Now* you've heard it all. Great post, mrducts, thanks - an amazing story I knew nothing about. It'd make a great movie. (I'm seeing Brad Pitt shirtless in the jungle...)

By: jamjam

jamjam — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:34:16 -0800

gambling enforcer, mafia gunrunner Another example of the CIA-Mafia connection in the US effort to overthrow Castro?