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Cryptonym: AMSTRUT-2

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Definition:
Juana de la Caridad Castro Ruz, sister of Fidel and Raul, who ran a radio program against her brothers' regime.
Status:
Documented
Sources:

104-10103-10072: OPERATIONS TO SPLIT THE CASTRO REGIME - INTERIM WORKING DRAFT

2/10/77, Latin American Division Chris Hopkins' "Interim Working Draft" on Operations to Split the Castro Regime: "Juana de la Caridad Castro Ruz (201-218126), younger sister of Fidel and Raul, was recruited, trained and returned to Cuba. She came back out in 1963 and functioned as a JMWAVE Station propaganda asset which included broadcasting into Cuba."

104-10104-10042: AMSTRUT/2'S PAYMENTS TO ALPHA 66

1993.07.22.09:37:48:180620: JUANA CASTRO PAYMENTS TO ALPHA 66

104-10104-10041: ALPHA 66 - RE 1 JULY MEETING WITH DOJ

104-10310-10020: FILE:DDCI DOCUMENTS

7/10/62: Memo from C/TFW William Harvey: A woman "at our instructions...obtained Juana's agreement to provide intelligence on the Cuban political leadership and to work against the Cuban communist regime, short of engaging in activity which might result in direct personal harm to her brothers Raul and Fidel."

104-10096-10145: REPORT: CIA OPERATIONS AGAINST CUBA PRIOR TO THE ASSASSINATION

"Juana Castro, younger sister of Fidel Castro, was one of the more significant CIA agent recruitments. She was a strong supporter of her brother until she realized he had led the revolution not on behalf of the oppressed Cuban people, but on behalf of the Communist movement. The wife of a Latin American diplomat, who was working as a CIA agent, convinced Juana to cooperate with the Agency. She was recruited in Mexico City by a CIA officer in September 1962, briefed extensively and trained in intelligence tradecraft. She worked as a resident foreign intelligence agent until 1964 when it was determined that she would be more valuable in a defector role."

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