Castro's Sister: I Worked With CIA

(AP)  Fidel Castro's younger sister says she collaborated with the CIA in 1964, five years after the Cuban revolution.

Seventy-six-year-old Juanita Castro told Univision's WLTV-23 station late Sunday she initially supported her brother's 1959 overthrow of the Batista dictatorship but quickly became disillusioned.

Her new memoir was released Monday by Santillana USA.

Her home became a sanctuary for anti-Communists before she fled the island in 1964. In the TV interview, Juanita Castro says she was approached by the CIA.

The station said she collaborated with the agency while in Cuba and after she left. Those details are contained in a segment of the interview due to be aired Wednesday. A transcript was not available in advance.

Juanita Castro eventually settled into a quiet life in Miami and ran a pharmacy until 2007.

[mary-miami]

I moved out of Florida about two months ago, but I remember where she had the pharmacy...27th Avenue in Miami...As far as her comment on being an CIA operative...could be...there were quite a few Cuban exiles that were in that situation, especially the ones that fought in the Bay of Pigs invasion and survived.

[curiously1]

Nah, No way....The CIA?!!!! You're kidding me....Stop it now !

[brianbwb-2009]

ran a pharmacy, eh?

I guess selling your soul does have benefits for some.