... economic and military support of the Soviet Union, were constant irritants to large numbers of voters (Quirk, 347). Because the uprising of such powers near the United States borders, the CIA felt the need to try and eliminate them. In doing this, certain actions had taken place: the attempted murder of Fidel Castro, and the efforts to restore organized crime in Cuba (Scott, 1). These events may have become the source behind the reasoning to assassinate president Kennedy. The revolution in Cuba delivered a serious blow to the US strategic and economic interests in Latin American countries. It violated two canons of Washingtons Latin American policy. First, the revolution annexed property belonging to the US. This was done with out compensation, which was a cardinal rule in the US economic expansion policies. Second, Castro's actions were considered as being unacceptable when he had embraced communism and aligned Cuba with the ...

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