Marita Lorenz

Marita Lorenz ( born August 18, 1939 in Bremen) is a German woman who at the age of 19 years was the mistress of Fidel Castro in 1959.

Biography

Marita Lorenz is the daughter of Captain Henry Lawrence and the American dancer Alice June Lorenz, born Lofland. During the Second World War, the mother was arrested in Germany for spying for the United States. Mother and daughter were held captive in a concentration camp Bergen- Belsen to 1945.

In 1959 she was on a Caribbean cruise aboard the Berlin, on which her father was captain. The Berlin laid shortly after the Cuban Revolution in Havana in Cuba. She met President Fidel Castro know in an on-board visit and became his mistress.

After the end of this relationship as a result of carried out under unclear circumstances, birth, miscarriage or abortion ( depending on the source ), she was recruited by the CIA and worked with Castro militant opponents in Florida together. They first went back to Germany. They then returned to Miami to Frank Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt to join. The former was the leader of the "International Anti- Communist Brigade", the latter responsible "Operation 40 ," at the CIA for financing. Both had also been involved in the Watergate break-in. Marita Lorenz was sent by the CIA in January 1960 to assassinate Castro, but the project did not specify.

According to testimony before a U.S. court in a Ehrverletzungsprozess they also knew Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. They were there to under oath, on the eve of the assassination of U.S. President Kennedy was an arms shipment to Dallas takes place. Have been present for this are, among other well-known people in the group 40, and Pedro Diaz Lanz Orlando Bosch, as well as in a secured house of CIA in Dallas Gerry Hemming, Frank Sturgis and the Novo brothers ( including Guillermo Novo). Among the events on the previous days of the assassination, the testimony of Marita Lorenz and said representatives of the anti- Cuban terrorist opposition are diametrically opposed.

After the failed attack on Fidel Castro she stood in an intimate relationship with the Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, who lived in exile. Pérez was with Carlos Marcello and Meyer Lansky in contact. Marita has a daughter, Monica with him. After the death Pérez Marita donated 5 million U.S. dollars that should have been withheld by the CIA.

In 1993 she wrote with Ted Schwarz her first autobiography Marita. In 2002, her second autobiography was published, titled Dear Fidel - My life, my love, my betrayal in collaboration with the German filmmaker Wilfried Huisman. Huisman also made ​​a documentary about Marita Lorenz, Dear Fidel - Marita's Story, which was premiered in 2000 in Bremen Look Castle cinema.

Marita Lorenz now lives in New York.

Sources and Literature

• In its waters, Der Spiegel, No. 38 of 18 September 2000, page 64/65
• Marita Lorenz and Ted Schwarz: " Marita ", Goldmann, Munich, ISBN 3442428335 ( German edition of 1994, The original English edition is from 1993 )
• Marita Lorenz: Dear Fidel - My life, my love, my betrayal, List Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3471780793