Cuba magazine slams "bad taste" Castro sister book
* Magazine calls memoir "product of anti-Castro industry"
* Exiled Castro sister had revealed she worked for CIA
HAVANA, Nov 2 (Reuters) - An official Cuban publication on Monday dismissed as "a bad taste commercial operation" a memoir by the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro that revealed she worked for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s.
The article in the official Cuban magazine La Jiribilla said the memoir published last month by Juanita Castro, who has lived in exile in Miami since fleeing communist-ruled Cuba in 1964, was a product of "the anti-Castro industry in Miami."
"No one should expect transcendental revelations nor a political event. It's simply a commercial operation of bad taste and low moral stature," La Jiribilla said in the article by Jorge Gomez that was posted on its web site, but later removed.
It was the first official reaction in Cuba's state media to the publication of Juanita Castro's book, that added a previously unknown twist to the saga of the Castro family that has been closely entwined with Cuba's history since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution grabbed the attention of the world.
In her memoir, "Fidel and Raul, My Brothers, the Secret History," Juanita Castro, a staunch critic of her brothers' communist rule, told how she was recruited by the CIA in 1961 to help its agents and other opponents of Castro escape capture by his police and escape from the island.
"If this is true ... she would just be one more person out of thousands of Cubans who, for gifts, money or out of other motives, which could include hatred, desire for revenge or intolerance, have worked for the CIA," the Jiribilla article said. Continued...
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