Home. Fidel Castro was a 'supreme, unchallenged spymaster whose double agents duped the CIA for decades', according to new book. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 16:06 GMT, 28 May 2012 | Updated: 16:06 GMT, 28 May 2012 For almost three decades after Fidel Castro took power, Cuba's budding intelligence service fielded four dozen double agents in a world-class operation under the nose of the CIA, according to a new book by a veteran CIA analyst. It was not until June 1987, when a Cuban spy defected to the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, blind-siding U.S. intelligence services, that the CIA learned how badly it had been duped, writes Brian Latell, a retired veteran CIA analyst and Cuba specialist. 'Castro was a supreme, unchallenged spy master,' Latell told an audience at a recent book reading.
Book: Brian Latell, right, author of Castro's Secrets, the CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine, left, said Castro was a 'supreme, unchallenged spymaster' November 1959: Cuban premiere Fidel Castro eats a meal surrounded by armed men a few months after he took control of Cuba Latell began watching Cuba in the mid-1960s and served as U.S. Revolutionary Politics::index title. Register | Votetocracy. Home | Costs of War.