The Dark Face of Marxism

In the aftermath of the La Coubre explosion, young spy Julio Antonio del Marmol must explain to Che Guevara why he had been named in a note left by the man who was in charge of the operation. Feigning ignorance, he must still go to the French embassy to meet with the Beligan ambassador and the insurance adjuster to explain what he knows. Che informs him that the French ambassador is on their side, but he thought that the Belgian ambassador was a spy for the West. Later, his contact with his uncle, the Chinese girl Chandee, verifies this information and Julio Antonio develops a plan to get rid of the watchers Che will set on him as well as the French ambassador so that he can speak with the Belgians alone. The plan works to perfection, and Julio Antonio is able to tell the insurance adjuster what actually happened and why. He then receives the news that his girlfriend, Yaneba, and her entire family had been killed in international waters as they left Cuba, shot up by a MiG Castro had sent to destroy any who would attempt to escape Cuba. He finds out that photos were taken of the attack, tracks them down, and disguises himself to get into the Belgian embassy. He delivers them personally to the ambassador as another proof of Cuban denial of basic human rights. Unfortunately, on his way to personally hand the photos off to the courier, the ambassador is assassinated in a way that it looks like an accident, and the photos have disappeared.

Auteur

Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol is the son of the primary financier behind Fidel Castro's revolution, Leonardo del Marmol. A Grand Master Mason, Leonardo organized his Masonic brothers to provide the funds Castro needed to purchase supplies and weapons. When the revolution won in January, 1959, then-11-year-old Julio Antonio wanted to become part of the revolution. His father arranged to get a letter written by his son detailing a plan to organize the Cuban youth into an army of the future into the hands of Fidel Castro, who flew out to meet the young man. Impressed by the boy's eloquence, he presented Julio Antonio with his own .38 pistol as a gift and appointed him Commander-in-Chief of the Young Commandos of the Rebel Army and the youngest military commander in the revolution. Within six months, Che Guevara showed the youth that the plan was to implement a communist system on the island. In distress, he went to warn his father, who accused Julio Antonio of being brainwashed by an uncle in Havana (who never liked the revolution) and threw his own 12 year old son out of the house. Julio Antonio went to his uncle and revealed everything he had seen, only to discover that his uncle was a master spy going back to World War II, in which he was in charge of the network preventing the Nazis from taking control of the Caribbean and Central/South America. His uncle recruits and trains Julio Antonio, making him the youngest spy in history. He continues in his role, taking secrets from Castro's own office until his cover is blown in 1971. He must leave the island for the US, taking his fight against communism to a global level.