Fidel Castro claims Osama bin Laden is a US spy
Former Cuban president says the 9/11 mastermind is in the pay of the CIA and
cites WikiLeaks as his source
Chris McGreal in Washington , Friday 27 August 2010 23.24 BST
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro meets Lithuanian author and conspiracy
theorist Daniel Estulin in Havana today Photograph: Alex Castro/EPA
Fidel Castro has more reason than most to believe conspiracy theories involving
dark forces in Washington. After all, the CIA tried to blow his head off with
an exploding cigar.
But the ageing Cuban revolutionary may have gone too far for all but the most
ardent believer in the reach and competence of America's intelligence agency.
He has claimed that Osama bin Laden is in the pay of the CIA and that President
George Bush summoned up the al-Qaida leader whenever he needed to increase the
fear quotient. The former Cuban president said he knows it because he has read
WikiLeaks.
Castro told a visiting Lithuanian writer, who is known as a font of intriguing
conspiracy theories about plots for world domination, that Bin Laden was
working for the White House.
"Bush never lacked for Bin Laden's support. He was a subordinate," Castro said,
according to the Communist party daily, Granma. "Any time Bush would stir up
fear and make a big speech, Bin Laden would appear, threatening people with a
story about what he was going to do."
He said that thousands of pages of American classified documents made public by
WikiLeaks pointed to who the al-Qaida leader is really working for.
"Who showed that he [Bin Laden] is indeed a CIA agent was WikiLeaks. It proved
it with documents," he said, but did not explain exactly how.
He made his comments during a meeting with Daniel Estulin, the author of three
books about the secretive Bilderberg Club which includes men such as Henry
Kissinger, the former US secretary of state, leading European officials and
business executives. Estulin says that the club is form of secret world
government, manipulating economies and political systems.
Estulin offered his own views on Bin Laden: that the man seen in videos since
9/11 is not him at all but a "bad actor".
However the two men did find something to disagree on.
Estulin has long argued that the human race will need to find another planet to
live on because of overcrowding.
Castro was not keen. He observed that man had only made it to the moon, which
is entirely unsuitable as a new home, and what lay beyond that was not much
better. Better to fix things on earth.
"Humanity ought to take care of itself if it wants to live thousands more
years," he said.
