(Telegraph-UK) Fiona Govan - Fidel Castro recruited former members of the Nazi SS Waffen to train his troops at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, declassified German intelligence files show. Papers released this week by the BND - the German foreign intelligence agency - reveal that Castro personally approved a plan to hire former Nazi officers to instruct the Cuban army. Papers dating from October 1962 show that four former officers from the Nazi death squads had been invited to Havana.
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