Was Armando Valladares really an innocent political prisoner or was he one of Batista's henchmen who tried to undermine Castro's leadership?

Answer 1

In Noam Chomsky's "Media Control", he states the case that the United States used untrue Propaganda to create a romantic character out of Armando Valladares. In actuality, Valladares was a former henchman of the corrupt Batista administration who planted bombs in public venues.