The CIA Trained Fulgencio Batista’s Torturers in Cuba

The CIA Trained Fulgencio Batista’s Torturers in Cuba

Fulgencio Batista’s Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities had a blood-spattered record of torture and political killings before the 1959 revolution. Declassified files show how the CIA nurtured the bureau and its repressive techniques. Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista of Cuba (right) with then interim Cuban president Andrés Domingo (center) and then US vice president Richard M. Nixon (left) at a Cuban presidential palace dinner in F…