Did Ben Rhodes get snookered by the Castro's?

Monica Showalter:

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Alejandro Castro was the nephew of Fidel Castro,* son of number two brother Raul, and considered third in line to the throne after Raul. He led the negotiations with the Obama administration's Deputy National Security Advisor, Ben Rhodes, meeting him in airports and on Skype over the course of events, making himself Rhodes' best buddy (you can read all about it in Ben Rhodes' memoirs, which reveal an astonishing and embarassingly unwitting naivete about the Cubans) and now there's speculation that the same guy Rhodes wrote so glowingly about, and who so impressed Ben he gave the Castros everything they wanted - a no-concessions, zero-conditions normalization of diplomatic relations, plus Obama visiting Havana and doing the wave with Raul - was actually plotting to stick the knife in to U.S. diplomats through the sonic attacks. Raul Castro himself, who's always styled himself as a Chinese-style communist, did want those relations but someone in Havana didn't. Fidel was obvious enough about not wanting them, and well, Alejandro was close enough to him to amass considerable power as heir apparent. So while Alejandro was backslapping with and flattering Rhodes, who ate it up, he is now accused of actually planning and executing these attacks.

Which would make Rhodes a boob.

...Up until now, Rhodes has been arguing on Twitter that Trump's downgrading of U.S. relations with Cuba only serves the interests of Cuba's hardliners. Now it turns out the biggest hardliner out there, and certainly the sneakiest, was Alejandro, the Cuban that Rhodes trusted most....

Rhodes has always struck me as a guy with an overrated self-worth.   This information tends to support that view.  But it seems typical of the Obama administration which loved cutting deals with our enemies.