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- THE WEEK, Page 18WORLDServing Two Masters
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- A Cuban exile in Miami says he worked both sides of the street
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- 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.
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- 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.
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