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Body of 'yanqui comandante' could soon be returned from Cuba
2015-02-23
[Daily Mail] Remains of American who fought with Castro then tried to oust him - only to be brutally executed in Cuba - could be returned to his wife in Ohio after more than five decades.

A five-decade struggle to retrieve the body of a controversial 'yanqui comandante' (Yankee commander) who was executed for plotting to overthrow Fidel Castro after helping put him in power could finally be near and end.

With diplomatic relations softening between the US and Cuba, the family of William Morgan say things are 'looking good' to have his remains returned.

'My lawyer went to Rome and got a letter to Pope Francis, asking him to help, and it looks like the pope is going to do it,' Morgan's widow, Olga Goodwin, told reporters from her Ohio home.
Two possibilities: Morgan was a victim of an overnight U.S. policy change or, his usefulness to the fledgling communist gov't had run it's course.

Posted by:Besoeker

#3  Brown is still alive.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-02-23 17:05  

#2  Thanks for the background info Al. Were is the foto? Is Brown still among the living ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-02-23 14:23  

#1  Morgan was a victim of an overnight U.S. policy change or, his usefulness to the fledgling communist gov't had run it's course.

Morgan was a victim of a very effective deception campaign carried out by Fidel Castro and Che. Even the Communist Party of Cuba declared itself pro-Batista and anti-Castro. Many Americans were taken in and helped Fidel fight Batista.

I was only after the Revolution that Fidel welcomed the Cuban Communist Party and revealed his true beliefs.

The other Yankees got out of Cuba as fast as they could. Morgan, however, was arrested and executed on Che's personal instructions.

The is a photo of Che Guevara, William Morgan and several American "guerrilleros" (including Ron Brown of Soldier of Fortune) clowning around in front of the camera. Given what the future held for all of them, it is a very ironic picture.

Al
Posted by: frozen al   2015-02-23 13:32  

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