An agreement signed long before Cuba became communist in the 1960s.............the Bay of Pigs...........a pig in the poster...................where the woman has her index finger on the A key..................................why did Castro allow this to go on??  He played baseball.........I guess the release of prisoners.................which was what Scarface was about ................and the USA letting them have Miami...............and probably tons of smuggling..................

Agreement for the lease to the United States of lands in Cuba for coaling and naval stations
Signed	16 February 1903 (1903-02-16); 23 February 1903
Location	Havana; Washington
Effective	23 February 1903
Signatories	Cuba  United States
Citations	TS 418; 6 Bevans 1113

Agreement providing conditions for the lease of coaling or naval stations
Signed	2 July 1903 (1903-07-02)
Location	Havana
Effective	6 October 1903
Signatories	Cuba  United States
Citations	TS 426; 6 Bevans 1120

The 1903 lease agreement was executed in two parts. The first, signed in February, included the following provisions:^[31]

1. a promise by Cuba to lease to the United States a specified area at Guantanamo Bay "for the time required for the purposes of coaling and naval stations";
2. the right to acquire any privately owned land within the leased area "by purchase or by exercise of eminent domain with full compensation to the owners thereof";
3. the right to use the areas as naval stations, and for no other purpose, with a non-exclusive easement to adjacent waters;
4. consent on the part of Cuba to the US exercising "complete jurisdiction and control over" within the leased area;
5. recognition by the US of Cuba's "ultimate sovereignty"^[a] over the leased area.^[31]

The second agreement, signed five months later in July 1903, established the amount of USD$2,000 to be paid to Cuba annually by the US.^[32] Additional stipulations included the following:

1. payments were to be made in gold coin;
2. the US would pay to build and maintain fences marking the boundary of the leased area;
3. commercial and industrial activities in the area would be restricted;
4. mutual right of extradition
5. a duty-free zone, but not a port of entry for weapons or other goods into Cuba proper
6. Cuban shipping to have the right of access to the Bay
7. ratification to be within seven months.^[32]

The lease amount was changed in 1933 to $3676.50 and in 1934 to $4085.^[33][34] Payments have been sent annually, but only one lease payment has been cashed since the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro claimed that this check was deposited due to confusion in 1959, and the Government of Cuba has not cashed further checks.

World War II[edit]

During World War II, the base was set up to use a nondescript number for postal operations. The base used the Fleet Post Office, Atlantic, in New York City, with the address: 115 FPO NY.^[35] The base was also an important intermediate distribution point for merchant shipping convoys from New York City and Key West, Florida, to the Panama Canal and the islands of Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago.^[36]