threat to the revolution. But his anti-Americanism may have been given an edge by the Eisenhower administration’s support for Batista. Szulc cites a letter from Fidel to Celia Sánchez, his companion, written on 5 June 1958, shortly after a rebel position had been bombed by Batista’s air force using US-supplied bombs: ‘I have sworn that the Americans will pay very dearly for what they are doing. When this war has ended, a much bigger and greater war will start for me, a war I shall launch against them. I realize that this will be my true destiny’
