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¶ Insisted that an "embezzler should lose what he owned as well as what he stole," authorized confiscation of all personal property of Batista and hundreds of officials connected with him—including all Congressmen, mayors, governors, Supreme Court justices, all armed-forces officers who supported Batista's 1952 coup.
¶ Burst into a Havana radio and TV station, rambled on for three hours and 20 minutes about threats of counterrevolution. His enemies, he protested, "are buying arms in Miami," and the FBI is doing nothing to prevent it.