"It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight."

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Source: Fidel Castro accuses Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of antisemitism by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2010.

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Fidel Castro

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Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary leader known for his role in the Cuban Revolution and his establishment of a socialist state.

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