Batista's Flight event
also: Batista... fled
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The guest had been the rich and powerful of Cuba. Some of the 60 visitors knew and suspected that Batista was going to run, flee the country. Castro's irresistible forces were descending from the Sierra Matres mountains where the struggle h…
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spread out from the Sierra, creating fronts in several parts of Cuba. Those who cared could see the handwriting on the wall. Batista was no fool of what would be his disposition. The dictator's brief appearance at his reception came around …
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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…