Bay of Pig
‘Digital Invasion’ saw Castro’s Twitter account under scrutiny.
Fresh Snowden revelations embarrass US Security Forces. New claims detail failed attempt to derail Revolution Day Celebrations.
The latest Snowden controversy concerns a case 'from within the last 8 years’, detailing how the Bush administration attempted to dent Fidel Castro’s increasing influence in South America.
Spurred on by Castro’s 'Pink' alliance with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, the
US Secret Service anonymously approached London based digital agency
R/GA via an intermediary known only as Luis Sanchez.
Believing Sanchez to be acting on behalf of the Cuban Government,
R/GA were duped into creating the technology necessary to sabotage Cuba’s famous Revolution Day celebrations.
Trigger Leak
According to the leak the plan detailed an audacious, ‘bloodless’ plot to
‘invade’ Cuba.
Luis Sanchez devised the plan on two key Castro learnings;
he's a keen user of Twitter, using it as a worldwide platform to spread
his opinions on world matters and he prefers to work at night.
Therefore, during the week of all-night fiestas that lead to the grand
Revolution Day celebrations on July 26th, whenever Castro tweeted ‘USA’,
‘the United States’, ‘Bush’, ‘the CIA’ or any permutation thereof, it would
trigger a spectacular display of Stars and Stripes themed fireworks from
within Havana and other key tourist areas in Cuba.
These would be launched in time to a recorded version of ‘The Star
Spangled Banner’ before ending in an explosion that scattered Babe Ruth
chocolate bars and Dollar bills amongst the watching audience.
This filmed event would then be simultaneously be tweeted back to Fidel’s
account.
The logistics the representatives from R/GA were brought in to develop,
entailed setting up this series of secret fire works on rooftops around
Havana and key tourist areas along Cuba’s coast.
All of these were sequenced to be set off remotely at the moment when
Castro keyed in any of the trigger phrases from his monitored Twitter
account.
Multiple mini-cams were set up to film each event and feed straight
back via browser based technology to Castro’s account.
Duped Digiteers
R/GA were under the impression they were developing the scheme to
augment the Revolution Day celebrations.
Its representatives were “shocked and horrified” after seeing the results
of the first successful display in response to a tweet from Castro
concerning ‘American neo-colonialism in Afghanistan’.
With the Cuban Authorities searching everywhere for the perpetrators
of the display, R/GA’s first impulse was to get off the Island and have
nothing more to do with Sanchez.
However, leaving proved impossible when they discovered that Sanchez
had taken their passports.
Fatty in a Coma
Before the R/GA team caught up with the elusive trickster, the Cuban
Secret Service found him.
He put up no resistance – he was found lying on the floor of his hotel
room, in a peanut and chocolate induced food coma, surrounded by
empty Babe Ruth bar wrappers.
With the names and identities of the duped digital agency team in their
possession, it didn’t take the authorities long to track them all down and
into custody.
The R/GA team were held for questioning for over a month before being
released.
The whereabouts of Luis Sanchez, also known under the alias RM Kinning,
remains unknown.
