The Author Ernesto F. Betancourt worked directly with Castro in 1959, after representing him in Washington during the insurrection against Batista and was a member of the Castro delegation during his first visit to the US in April that year. He was present at a meeting of the Economic Cabinet at the Banco Nacional de Cuba in July that year, when Castro stated that "if the US send the Marines, I don't care. They will have to kill 300 to 400 hundred thousand Cubans and I will get a bigger monument than Jose Marti." The author opposed the Bay of Pigs invasion and predicted its failure. A month before the Missile Crisis, provided Bobby Kennedy information, obtained by former Rebel Army officers infiltrated in Cuba, on missile deployment. He also, organized the research department of Radio Marti, before it went on the air, and directed the station for its first five years. Does not have any property to recover in the island and opposes a US invasion of Cuba. Finally, although Cuba born, is an American citizen by birth and does not seek any office in a post-Castro government.