Cuba once saved former President Ronald Reagans life by tipping off American officials about an assassination plot by right-wing extremists, claims the countrys leader, Fidel Castro. astro made this extraordinary claim in a long newspaper essay that was read out on Cuban television in which he argued that his country had co-operated with the US in the past.
London, Sept.13 : Cuba once saved former President Ronald Reagan's life by tipping off American officials about an assassination plot by right-wing extremists, claims the country's leader, Fidel Castro. astro made this extraordinary claim in a long newspaper essay that was read out on Cuban television in which he argued that his country had co-operated with the US in the past.
Castro wrote that a Cuban security official stationed at the United Nations was warned in 1984 of a plot by an extreme right-wing group to kill Reagan during a planned trip to North Carolina later that year.
At a meeting two blocks from the Cuban Mission in New York, the information was given to Robert C Muller, the US mission security chief at the UN, who passed it on to his government, said Castro.
"The information was complete: the names of those implicated in the plan; day, time and hour where the assassination could occur; the type of weapon the terrorists had and where they kept their arms," Castro says in the essay.
Castro did not reveal how the Cubans stumbled on the plot, but said their authorities learned later that the FBI had arrested several people in North Carolina.
The FBI said it would take some time to check the veracity of the claims.
Records show Reagan did visit Charlotte in North Carolina in October 1984, to boost local Republican campaigns.
It was claimed last year that the CIA made 638 attempts to kill Fidel Castro, including using toxic cigars and exploding moluscs. Castro also accused Washington of misleading the public about 9/11 six years ago.
He claimed that a missile hit the Pentagon rather than a plane, because no trace was found of the passengers.
ANI