Rolando Cubela Secades
Cuban revolutionary leader
Died when: 89 years 216 days (1075 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Rolando Cubela Secades (19 January 1933 – 23 August 2022) was a Cuban revolutionary leader who played a vital part in the Cuban Revolution, having been a founding member of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil and later the military leader of the DRE's Escambray Mountain front, achieving the rank of Commander, the highest military rank in the Revolutionary Army.
After the Revolution succeeded in 1959, Cubela became Cuba's envoy to UNESCO.Under the cryptonym AM/LASH, Cubela became "an important asset" of the Central Intelligence Agency, and worked with them on plots to assassinate Fidel Castro.
In 1966, Cubela was arrested for plotting the assassination of Castro, and sentenced to 25 years in prison.Released in 1979, he went into exile in Spain.
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