“Medusa” found details of the plot about sugar – some of them are amazing. A new context of 1959 in Cuba won the revolution led by Fidel Castro. The former regime (right -wing military dictatorship of Fullyhensio Batista) was pro -American. American business has invested a lot of money in Cuba – primarily in the sugar industry. The new regime nationalized all this. In the USA, mainly in Florida, a huge Cuban diaspora, consisting of opponents of Castro, formed. The State Department, the Pentagon and the CIA began to plan a coup in Cuba forces of these emigrants. The possibility of sabotage of the sugar industry was also discussed-the main source of export income of Cuba. Press Secretary, adviser and friend John Kennedy Pierre Salinger recalled how in 1961 the president called him to the oval office and said that he needed a thousand Cuban cigars by tomorrow morning. Salinger, a great lover of cigars, did not easily fulfill this assignment. The next morning he came to the president. “Well, how?” Kennedy asked. Salinger replied that he managed to get 1,200 cigars. “Very good,” said Kennedy, took out some paper out of the table and signed it immediately. It was an embargo to import Cuban goods in the United States. For example, Kennedy approved a military operation against Cuba. In many ways, this was supposed to be a repetition of the 1959 revolution: the Cuban exiles armed and prepared by the CIA are landed on the island, begin the partisan war – and overthrow the regime. Operations failed. About one and a half thousand fighters landed in April 1961 in Plai-Hyron on the southern coast of Cuba-but were very quickly defeated by government forces. Fidel Castro, who was previously more likely with a left populist, proclaimed himself a Marxist-Leninist, and his revolution-socialist. Cuba, to the horror of the American administration, began to quickly get closer to the Soviet Union. Zeru spoils Saharv August 1962 by the British dry load “Stretham Hill”, captured by the Soviet Union, left Havana and headed to Odessa. It is driving seven thousand tons of sugar purchased by the Soviet foreign trade association “Pridintorg” in Cuba. Soon after the departure, the ship hit the reef screw. It took repairs. On August 22, Stretham Hill entered the nearest port-San Juan in Puerto Rico. The port of the vessel was Hong Kong. Of the 44 crew members, 11 were British, the rest were Chinese. In Havana, the Cuban authorities did not allow the Chinese to go ashore, fearing that there could be spies among them. In San Juan, they also did not allow-this time out of fear that among them there may be spies of Mao Zedong. At the time of repair, the ship needed to partially unload. The difficulty was that Puerto Rico is the territory of the United States, and Cuban goods could not be imported there. 14 thousand sugar bags (approximately 1,300 tons) were temporarily placed on the customs warehouse. CIA agents penetrated the warehouse and mixed in 800 bags a denaturing additive for alcohol – a substance that was supposed to give a bitter taste to the sugar. It was assumed that for delivery to the USSR sugar will be processed together, so that all 7 thousand tons will be spoiled. This operation pursued several goals. Firstly, as the CIA reported to the Pentagon special operations department, direct economic damage to the Soviet Union was supposed to amount to 350-400 thousand dollars (about $ 4 million at the prices of 2025). Secondly, the sources of The New York Times spoke about the strategic significance of this sabotage: the USSR’s trust in the quality of Cuban products will be undermined, and Fidel Castro will be left without the largest buyer. Thirdly, it was expected that the owner of Stretham Hill would be involved in the trial between the USSR and Cuba, and this would fall off him and other Western carriers from participating in trade between them. The course of a couple of weeks came to the Pentagon, the State Department, and then to the President of Kennedy. If the CIA hoped for praise for a purely conducted operation, then it was mistaken. Cenvenii is angry with the CIA. Meanwhile, the Caribbean crisis is coming a year with a little to this story, trusted adviser to Kennedy Arthur Schlezinger presented him with a memorandum on the need to reorganize the CIA. It was reduced to the fact that the CIA, simply put, lost the shore. It actually does not obey anyone and does not report to anyone. The State Department is responsible for foreign policy, the Pentagon, and there is also the CIA, which leads some kind of external and defense policy: intervenes in the elections and military conflicts around the world, arranges coups and sabotage-and this does not even consult with anyone. History with the corruption of sugar fully confirmed the estimates of the sloppy. Kennedy and his administration tried to build their policy in relation to Cuba, to break its union with the USSR with diplomatic means, to persuade the allies (including the UK) to join the trading embargo-and then the CIA is suddenly arranged by the Sabotage, the legal adviser of the State Department Abram Chase, when he learned about the operation in San Juan, this was terrified and rage-this It is noticeable even by the formal memorandum that he made about this. The Soviet Union will surely discover signs of sabotage – and even if it has no evidence that the Americans carried out it, the USSR will probably trim about it everywhere. The United States can only assign responsibility to the Cuban movement against Castro. But what if anyone in the USSR is poisoning with this sugar? The CIA claims that the substance used to damage the sugar batch is safe for health – but can he believe in this matter? Believe to such an extent to take a chance of an international reputation of the United States? This is not to mention that spoiling products is simply wrong. And all this for the sake of ridiculous economic damage … When Kennedy reported on the operation, these considerations of Chase brought him to him. According to the sources of The New York Times, Kennedy was “angry” to the CIA. He was most afraid of the precedent: if they find out in the USSR that American agents mixed up something into Soviet sugar, then why would not Soviet agents mix something, say, in American coffee? The US president ordered everything possible so that the spoiled sugar did not reach the shores of the Soviet Union. The CIA had to urgently come up with a new operation to hide the previous one on September 18, 1962, the day before the STREM HILL was to leave San Juan, someone Terry Kane filed a lawsuit in the Puertoorcan court demanding to withdraw sugar. Before the revolution, he had a business of agricultural equipment in Cuba. The Cuban government was nationalized. The American court ruled that Cuba $ 800 thousand $ 800 thousand $ and his partners. On the expense of this duty, he demanded that the very batch of sugar. All of course, they understood that it was absurd: sugar did not belong to the Cuban government, but the Soviet “Prididorg”, and it was impossible to remove it against Cuban debt. Nevertheless, the court took the interim measure during the proceedings: the sugar should not leave San Juan. On September 21, the warehouse caught fire. To the chagrin of the CIA, Puertorikan firefighters worked perfectly – Sugar survived. On September 22, the USSR Foreign Ministry sent a note to the US State Department in connection with the arrest of cargo. The Soviet Union had every reason for indignation: he bought sugar, paid a lot of money for it – and the Americans seized it and did not give it out. The legal adviser of the State Department Abram Chase answered this: American courts are independent – Soviet efforts should be directed through the judicial, and not by diplomatic channels. Offer on September 24, “Pravda” “Continue the Army on the Sea Roads”. that piracy is being revived in the Caribbean. Having told about the arrested cargo “Stretham Hill”, the main Soviet newspaper listed several more cases of “atrocities of the pirates”. Including announced the “next provocation against the Soviet merchant“ Michurinsk ”: in the Caribbean, the aircraft of the American Navy flew around it. Subsequently it will become known that on September 11, 1962, the Michurinsk dry truck brought to Havana from the Navy base in the Baltic squadrons of the MiG fighters. He participated in the Anadyr operation, in which the USSR secretly placed his troops and nuclear weapons in Cuba. On October 14, on October 14, the USSR Foreign Ministry sent the State Department a new note with a demand to immediately give sugar and compensate for the damage. The next day of the CIA notified the State Department and the Pentagon, which, according to the aerial photography, Soviet missiles appeared in Cuba. It has begun. To everyone, and first of all, Kennedy President was not up to spoiled sugar. Thezru was getting rid of the spoiled Sakarakaribsky crisis on October 28. The withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. After that, the Puertoorcan court made a compromise decision: the Steretham Hill vessel was allowed to leave San Juan, and 14 thousand bags of sugar located in the customs warehouse (including 800 spoiled) were supposed to stay there. On November 11, the ship finally went on a flight. Probably, the Chinese crew experienced the greatest relief, which all these three months could not go ashore. For the remaining 14 thousand bags of the USSR, the USSR sued for even more than six months. On August 29, 1963, the CIA agent Bruce Chiver reported to the presidential adviser to National Security Macgeordu Bandy that the story was safely completed: damaged sugar was dropped into the sea. How exactly the CIA was able to crank it, Chiver did not tell. Who would have ended up in this absurd comedy of heroes. But this is only at first glance. Firstly, this story was told in 1965 by the journalist of The New York Times Max Frankel. And in 1966, he participated in a large journalistic investigation of the CIA’s activities-and this story was given as an example of what the intelligence of the special services could bring to it. Frankel reported that sending spoiled sugar to the USSR fell due to the efforts of a certain unnamed employee of the Kennedy administration. He caught this story from the stream of CIA reports, understood its significance, achieved to report to the president, and insisted that the operation be stopped. And the way to stop it – through the mechanism of judicial interim measures – most likely, he also came up with it. Max Frankel could not name the name of this person fifty years ago, and we can now – Abram Chase, Harvard lawyer, who was one of the most important Kennedy advisers during the 1960 election campaign, and after his victory became the legal adviser of the State Department. The 1980s, Chase represented the interests of Nicaragua when she filed justice to the USA to the USA, accusing them of many years of support of the rebels (“Contrass”). Nicaragua won, but since the United States did not recognize the jurisdiction of the MSU, it did not receive any compensations. The challenge was gone in 2000. Max Frankel received the Pulitzer Prize for covering the epoch -making visit of US President Richard Nixon to China in 1972. From 1986 to 1994 he was the editor -in -chief of The New York Times. He died on March 23, 2025 at the age of 94. 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