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Antonio Arce fled_to
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“in which he not only revealed giving the diary to Castro, but that he himself had worked for the CIA, charging the agency with interfering in the internal affairs of Bolivia. Arrudes finally returned to the capital to stand trial. He surviv…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 34:47
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“Balinquina Hotel, exiles decided to make a raid. Six Cubans crammed into a speedboat with .50 caliber machine guns and a cannon and a bunch of rifles. On August 24th, they entered the suburban harbor at Miramar, sailed close enough to the h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 11:37
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So this guy, who basically became a whistleblower, disappeared from Montevago and turned up later in Havana. Probably get to get the hell out of Dodge because he would have been a dead man walking down there. About half a year later, in 197…
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and offered the Navy access to Cuba through Quintero. They were delighted. After three or four weeks, we had a man reporting from Havana Harbor on what was going on and who was doing it. Wilson reactivated another one of his agents from the…
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By 2011, that was over 2 million. These are just a few examples of the transformation, a political project that Chavez himself would eventually brand as the 21st century socialism. As Venezuela's thrived, however, the health of its leader d…
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of Paul Dorfman and Alan Dorfman. The National City Bank itself had once leased its racetrack in Havana, which they lost to Castro, and also through a subsidiary, the Hotel Nacional in Cuba, the casino, which they leased to Meyer Lansky of …
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Because they were exploiting people. They were, you know, paying them pennies on the dollar and all that other stuff. So Bezos family applied for Miguel to get a refugee visa. The application was successful and he departed the Havana airpor…
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and closed the mafia-owned casinos in Havana. Then Castro declared his commitment to communism, putting a Soviet ally only 90 miles from American territory. The CIA's Western Hemisphere Division got the job of ridding Cuba of Castro, and th…
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In the 1970s, some of the CIA handlers for the Miami Cuban exiles developed a flexible attitude towards what would be tolerated in exchange for help of these informants. But for Morales, his dangerous game finally caught up with him when he…
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stopped inside a little Havana jewelry store that served at the crossroads of the city's criminal underworld. The shop owner, a fellow Bay of Pigs exile, was a friend of theirs from their CIA days, whose customers included some of the city'…
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And diplomat Wayne Smith, who worked with him at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, identified CIA assassin David Sanchez Morales as the man in a photo taken at the Ambassador Hotel the night of the killings. All right. So this is saying that Davi…
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In a way, the administration's hand was then forced by one of the freelance strikes by a Cuban exile. Acting on information that the Czech and Soviet officers gathered on Friday night for a party at Havana's hotel, exiles determined to make…
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At CIA headquarters in New York on 1959, there was a subdued atmosphere as members of key people sat around the table awaiting news from Havana. Fletcher Prouty represented the Pentagon at the seance, which took place the day and the hour t…
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For months, the agency had followed events in Cuba in growing fear of the disintegration of Americans' cozy position with their military dictator, Batista. They had been unable to quell the rebellion that spread rapidly through the island, …
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began focusing on anti-Castro schemes in late 1958. That November, William Polly, who owned the Havana Bus Company and many sugar plantations and a whole bunch of other shit down there, had founded the Cuban Airline in addition to owning th…
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Polly traveled to Havana in early December to fill out the Cuban politicians. King and another CIA officer accompanied him. But the moment had already passed. They waited too long. In Cuba, the rebel drive was retaining its momentum. Quote,…
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a general strike had given a frightening illustration of how unpopular a dictator he had become. The question preoccupying everyone was that Batista, what would he do now? Prouty's group on New Year's Eve understandably sat in an atmosphere…
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Aboard three planes, the group took flight. Batista left Camp Columbia base at 2.40 in the morning on January 1st, 1959. David Attlee Phillips, now a part-time CIA undercover agent in Havana, sat in his backyard as the aircraft flew overhea…
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At first, didn't believe him. At that moment, the M26 unit closest to Havana, a column of Santa Clara under Argentine Shea Cavera, was 150 miles away. They still had a lot of fighting to do, but Batista wasn't going to hang around. Shea was…
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He got the news seven hours after Batista fled. Che Guevara immediately ordered a march forward. His force arrived in Havana the next morning. He drove directly to the La Cabana Fortress, whose garrison of 15,000 men dwarfed Che's small M26…
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A few days later, David Attlee Phillips stood in the crowd as Fidel Castro entered Havana in a motorcade. Washington's efforts to shore up the dictatorship and then to force Batista into reforms that might save off a Castro revolution left …
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and with the government to squash the people and exploit them. So there's a real problem with those people. They're not going to like Castro at all. Fearful of the revolution, they left in droves, taking their money with them. Within two we…
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In 1960, the sugar plantations and Havana hotels followed. Land reform accelerated with the nationalization of large holdings, beginning with the Castro family plantation. It is said that Fidel's mother never forgave him. So he even confisc…
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One asserted that the Castro government had hired them. The story could have been true or not, but probably not, because it was later indicated that they had some fairly sketchy backgrounds, but that was going to be their cover story, that …
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The Pan-American dock, already nationalized, was unloading a French motor vessel carrying general cargo plus ammunition purchased from Belgium. On March 4th, without a warning, a blast blew away the ship's bow and most of its structure. A s…
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Flames quickly spread. All of the firefighters in Havana barely contained the blaze before it reached the nearby electric plant. More than 100 people were killed or injured. Castro immediately blamed this on Americans. Of course, Washington…
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Much more concrete was what occurred following Eisenhower's decision on August 18th. Deputy Director Richard Bissell called up Colonel Sheffield Edwards and asked him to drop by. Edwards, another of the ex-FBI folks at the agency, headed th…
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1961. Oh, that's right. JFK is now president. By then, the plot had already failed. The mafia men in Havana, Juan Orta, director general of Castro's personal office, had been slated as the hitman to poison Castro. Orta had apparently gotten…
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That didn't really matter because he was still responsible. On the other hand, Hunt actually visited Havana that summer where the headquarters-bound droller couldn't go. The search for a surrogate Cuban political movement centered in Miami.…
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political types that revealed Tract's existence up on the plantation where they're training future guerrillas. This was picked up by the Hispanic American Report, a regional studies newsletter that was written by Ronald Hilton of Stanford U…
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Lines of communication ran to camp tracks, Miami and Cuba. Howard Hunt had a claim to use agents as political operatives rather than spies. Yeah, they're both the same thing. At the headquarters in D.C., they had its call as well. When the …
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Castro's inventory included six B-26 bombers, four T-33 jet trainers, modified to be fighters, and two to four British Sea Fury fighters. Principal bases were at Havana and Santiago. A surprised air attack scheduled two days before the inva…
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The Miami B-26 had a special nose assembly with machine guns, devised for the Indonesia operation. Castro's B-26 had plastic noses as bombardiers. An enterprising reporter discovered that the bomber guns were taped up and thus could not hav…
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retained contact with 26 more Cubans, mostly in the Havana area. The CIA carefully added that some anti-Castro Cubans were carrying out sabotage missions in Cuba, quote unquote, without the CIA's support. Its own plans were for minor action…
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Another time, Robertson offered money if a raider returned with the ear of an enemy. The man brought back two. Robertson served throughout the secret war against Cuba. What a nice guy. In a way, the exile groups forced Kennedy's hand with o…
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In any case, various versions of the diary appeared during the summer of 1968, including one released by Castro. How Havana might have acquired a copy of it became a mystery unraveled by Antonio Argudas, the interior minister. Argudas sudde…
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in which he not only revealed giving the diary to Castro, but that he himself had worked for the CIA, charging the agency with interfering in the internal affairs of Bolivia. Arrudes finally returned to the capital to stand trial. He surviv…
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Miss Lou, go ahead, and then we'll go to SR. Colonel, I'll be quick. There's just one line from the movie Havana that I know you'll appreciate because it says so much. Marion Chigwell, who plays the Gourmet Magazine fake editor who's in Hav…
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Pauly began lobbying the Eisenhower administration to take aggressive action against Castro when he was still fighting Batista soldiers in the mountains. After Fidel rode into Havana on a tank in January of 1959, Pauly, who was gripped by w…
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into the United States. That was their lifeblood. And by launching a secret campaign aimed at sabotaging Castro's government. By February of 1960, mercenary pilots hired by the CIA had dropped bombs on Cuba's sugar mills. In March, a French…
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You had to be labeled a communist in order for that security memorandum to allow the assassination or attack. You had to be dubbed a communist. The explosion in Havana's harbor was a milestone in the Cuban Revolution. At a funeral ceremony …
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On September 18, 1960, he appeared to be in a subdued mood, reported the New York Times, for reasons that was not known to the American people. The Cuban airliner that flew the delegation to the U.S. had to be immediately refueled and flown…
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Castro's blood on his hands after all, or Rayol Castro, or Che Guevara. It was the beginning of a long U.S. intelligence campaign to kill the Cuban leader, stretching over several presidencies and involving untold numbers of accomplices, in…
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You cut our sugar. They actually bombed it. Khrushchev buys our sugar. You take away our planes. Khrushchev gives us planes. The CIA knew what it wanted Castro to do. Shortly after the Cuban leader arrived home in Havana, he was addressing …
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or the Metropolitan Club. He was the son of a Cuban police sergeant. Sierra had worked his way up in the Havana Society, landing a job for the dictator Batista in his foreign ministry. But some of his intimates suggested that Sierra's gover…
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Although in an article in the Miami News indicated that at least some of his money was coming from organized crime lords who were intent on winning back their Havana gambling casinos and prostitution networks, which before Cuba had been a h…
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who was well known to hunt. Morales, a big intimidating man who had grown up in a poor Mexican family in Phoenix, did not fit the polished CIA profile. Dave Morales did the dirty work for the agency, according to Wayne Smith, a diplomat who…