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THE WEEK, Page 18WORLDServing Two Masters
A Cuban exile in Miami says he worked both sides of the street
With the fall of Communism, double agents seem more likely to
inhabit novels than real life these days. But Cuban exile
Francisco Avila Azcuy claims he was just that -- a double agent
spying on exile commandos in Miami for Fidel Castro while
helping the FBI unravel Cuba's espionage network in the U.S. Not
uncoincidentally, a Cuban diplomat at the U.N. was expelled
after the Spanish-language Miami TV station WSCV secretly
videotaped the official discussing a prospective exile raid on
Cuba with Avila.
So was Avila the real thing? Officially, both Washington
and Havana are mum, although Avila's involvement with Miami's
Alpha 66 paramilitary group was long known to the FBI. He claims
Castro covertly funded some exile raids on Cuba to build
nationalist fervor at home and embarrass Washington. The red
faces were most obvious, however, in Miami, where rabid
anti-Castro militants like Alpha 66 and Commandos L denied that
they had been infiltrated or financed by the enemy.