Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean

Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean
Legión Anticomunista del Caribe Participant in Cold War
Active	1954–1970s
Ideology	Right-wing politics Anti-communism
Leaders	Orlando Piedra, Guy Banister
Headquarters	New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Area of operations	Americas
Part of	Guatemalan Revolution Cuban Revolution Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban Missile Crisis
Allies	CIA (1954–1960s) Nicaragua (1954–1973) Dominican Republic (1954–1961)
Opponents	Cuba (1959–1970s)

The Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean (Spanish: Legión Anticomunista del Caribe, LAC), also known as the Anti-Communist Legion of the Caribbean, was an anti-Castroist right-wing group based in the Dominican Republic funded by the dictators Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and former Cuban Secret Police Chief Orlando Piedra. The purpose of the group was to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba. The group eventually became part of the World Anti-Communist League in 1967.

The group was made up of Spaniards, Cubans, Croatians, Germans, Greeks and right-wing mercenaries trained in the Dominican Republic. The group staged a failed attempt to overthrow Castro in 1959.

The headquarters of the Anti-Communist League was at one time located at Guy Banister's New Orleans office. The same location appeared on Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets distributed by Lee Harvey Oswald and such references to the league are often made in texts concerning conspiracy theories relating to Kennedy assassination.

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