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American Veteran William Morgan Rose to the Highest Rank in Fidel Castro's Army

In the early 1950s, American Jack Turner was captured in Cuba by government troops. He was caught smuggling weapons into the island nation. The regime of Fulgencio Batista, the U.S.-backed dictator of Cuba, tortured and killed Turner. His body was then fed to sharks. It was a fatal mistake for Batista.

Years later, his best friend, William Morgan, visited Cuba as a tourist but made his way to Fidel Castro's insurgent army in the jungles of the Sierra Maestra mountains. Morgan, a U.S. Army veteran, would become one of only two foreigners to join the Cuban Revolution and reach its highest rank, "Comandante."

Batista had been a longtime ally of the United States. During his first term as a democratically elected president, Cuba declared war on Japan two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. After eight years out of the office and running for a second term in 1952, Batista led a coup against the elected leader and seized power. The Americans recognized his government just weeks later

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  • William Morgan (died 1602), MP for Haslemere
  • William Morgan (died 1569), MP for Monmouthshire
  • William Morgan (died 1582), MP for Monmouthshire
  • William Morgan (died 1583) (1542–1583), MP for Monmouth Boroughs
  • William Morgan (of Tredegar) (1560–1653), Welsh politician
  • William Morgan (of Rhymny), Welsh politician
  • William Morgan (of Dderw) (died 1649), Welsh lawyer and politician
  • William Morgan (of Machen and Tredegar) (c. 1640–1680), Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire 1659–1680
  • Sir William Morgan (of Tredegar, elder) (1700–1731), Member of Parliament for Brecon, 1722–1723, and Monmouthshire, 1722–1731
  • William Morgan (of Tredegar, younger) (1725–1763), Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire, 1747–1763
  • William Morgan (abolitionist) (1815–c. 1890), town clerk in Birmingham, England
  • William Pritchard Morgan (1844–1924), British Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil, 1888–1900
  • W. E. Morgan (William Evan Morgan, 1858–1916), Welsh
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    The Wild Life of William Morgan, Yanqui Comandante Turned Cuban Counterrevolutionary

    “Cuba shipped a million dollars’ worth of frogs’ legs to the US last year,” William Morgan, an American expat, declared shortly after the 1959 Cuban Revolution. “I’m going to double that.”

    Morgan was an adventurous man with glowing blue eyes, blond hair, and a personality that engulfed him in a constant stream of trouble. He was “nomadic, egocentric, impulsive, and utterly irresponsible,” according to the file the CIA later made on him. In a word, he was bored — constantly and profoundly.

    Two years earlier, Morgan had joined the rebels as a twenty-nine-year-old, only to fall out with them after the revolution succeeded. But with Fidel Castro’s new government pushing agrarian reform and eager to fund new enterprises, it got behind Morgan’s plans for a bullfrog hatchery. And then, in yet another twist, Morgan secretly began using the hatchery as a weapons depot for a CIA-backed coup.

    The story of William Morgan is an eccentric tale of dead ends, abandonment, revolution, and counterrevolution. It

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