I heard from a really reliable source that during George Bush Senior's time
as President , his wife Barbara was in fact a Cuban agent and indeed
may have had a secret romantic liasion with Fidel.
Any truth to this story?

Mongolia

Romantic liaison? Cuba? If there are any salacious remarks about
cigars, I will walk out of this thread in high dudgeon. Well, maybe
medium dudgeon. I'll save the higher grade for the next person who
mistakes me for my husband's mother. ;-)

Harharhar...

Steph53 ( who smokes;)

Gosh, when I started that rumor, it was about Hilary.

OP, those sorts of rumors are politically motivated, and should not be
considered as having any connection with reality. Every country has
them.

Curious!

Why did Pinkfreud take this Question as a direct slur on her goodself?

Could it be??????

Tulsa isn't far from Texas, you know, and all that red hair  - could
be a political statement.
Maybe it was Barbara, jr., one of the twins, but I think that the
press would have caught her, and besides, at Castro's age  - for some
time now -  I expect that his "entertainment" runs more in the line of
my favorite quotation from Kipling:
"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."

(I hope that Pinky doesn?t consider that salacious  - but then again,
maybe it would be worth calling down her verbal high dudgeon just for
the chance to read it. Hmmm, actually she brought up the subject.  I
wonder what she had in mind?)