Alpha-66

Anti-Cuban terrorist organization, founded in 1962. Its principal leader was Andres Nazario Sargent. Since its inception it has been part of the autonomous operations of the CIA which has supported it, from its earliest days of aggression against Cuba, with important financial resources and logistics. Miami police intelligence documents indicate that it is a hard line "anti-Castro" organization and "one of the most dangerous and active organizations".

Criminal activities since the ‘60s

• The murder of two Cuban fishermen and a member of the coastguard.
• Pirate attacks on coastal craft and economic facilities, including the machine gunning of a students residence in Tarara, which happened on May 19, 1963, and whose perpetrators were not prosecuted by the United States, despite their openly bragging about it.

Planning assassination attempts against Cuban President Fidel Castro, pirate attacks on fishing craft and the hotel Guitart- Cayo Coco on three occasions in recent years.

• Bomb threats to Cuban offices in Mexico, United States, Ecuador, Brazil, Canada and :.
• Between 1992 and 1993 there were six raids by armed terrorist groups, made up mainly of anti-social elements who have generally been sent on suicide missions with propaganda aims, while their real and principal leaders were hiding out in Miami, freely spending the money collected in tombolas, marathons and other fund-raising activities.

Other activities

• During the kidnapping of the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez in the United States, they participated in hostile demonstrations outside the Cuban headquarters in Washington, as well as the Cuban mission in New York, and they played an active part in guarding the house in Little Havana where the boy was being kept.
• On February 17, 2001, Elizardo Sampedro Marin was detained in Cuba. On the orders of Alpha-66, and its self-proclaimed representative in Canada, terrorist Antonio Taen Baen, they issued threats against a Latin American ambassador in Havana and representatives of press agencies, as part of a coercion and intimidation operation.
• Some believe Alpha-66 is also closely involved in organized crime and drugs. On one occasion, one of its members admitted on Miami’s Channel 51 to having participated in operations of this nature, and that in February 1995 he had visited Andros Islands to smuggle drugs into Florida.