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know i was surrounded by people with machine guns helmets stuff you see in movies. they examined my mouth they seem to many james bond movies i thought i had signed up there. they told me i was under arrest i asked for a while they said you know. cubans busted here in the united states spying for fidel are they terrorists or freedom fighters. you know the cubans i was. going to those guys they did played us in the semifinals of the pan american games in the basketball tournament the five or. five with definitive coaching against terrorists they had the cuban five other that's also been americans know that i haven't ever heard about the cuban five there that rock
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band right. i mean you know to cuban five. would you want to find out ok. ok the police are looking for you to deal with the terrorist groups in miami's of exiles planning attacks on the cuban people and foreign citizens inside cuba the cuban five every right to defend the cuban revolution the cuban revolution before my time. the story of the cuban five began more than fifteen years ago. nine hundred fifty seven i was
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a university student and i discovered that kids my age were fighting a guerrilla war in cuba i read the story in the new york times. the rebels were led by a young lawyer fee dealt castro. the us government backed a loyal and very anti communist dictator. but. we have a lot. that you. will gladly sell for. our own and there are new law you don't think. that we can pick up. up. up. north and then i was part of castro's generation.
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and openness and i was president of the accountant school and we opposed but he stood the dictator. all affectionate and business classes. we're all against but he's done it in the. life we're good for. are far worse than expected to us sugar version. of our boat people. and the n.p.a. sportscar. i really. really . had anything and everything that you could possibly had.
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my grandmother took me to cuba to homebound it was just before the revolution. and i'll never forget my very astute grandmother telling me a thirteen year old watch out for the prostitutes and again with no. luck organized crime had taken over the city. yet the mafia built the hotels you still see and have. a lot of. who would have believed that such a ragtag operation could succeed. but it did. what
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we emerged as cubans on that day i think. when i wake up it was a day of dignity patriotism and solvent a bit bob it will be a way to. you know maybe one of the revolutions important acts in those first few weeks was to eliminate the gangsters and the rockets. already. seen in both naturally was provoked angry protests from the us government only. human revolution generates a process of social changes. brought
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the first wave of migration to miami. the corrupt officials and the torture of. my father was a colonel in cuba and he left that night that that president but he still left. i remember i was seven years old when castro came to power and i remember mobs outside my home. our house was surrounded sag we were searched constantly so that's the image that i have of the revolution people were being imprisoned the fact that people were being everything was taken away from them. without trial for or without a recent. the revolutionary prosecutor had presented evidence that the men on trial
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had participated in torturing tens of thousands and killing some twenty thousand people suspected of antibodies to activity. the revolutionary court acquitted thousands of former batiste police and military officials but executed some five hundred others. some former batiste military and police officials who launched attacks from miami trying to bring down the revolutionary government. in the exiles didn't just threaten they took action. usually in mid october of one nine hundred fifty nine they flowed b twenty six's from the u.s. to bomb have. either since the revolution took
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power. we had to do more than denounce the attacks. we had to send our people there. cuba complained to washington about allowing cuban exiles to use south florida bases to bomb the island secretary of state christian herder raise the issue with the president eisenhower responded why don't the cubans just shoot the planes down . but eisenhower didn't stop the raids and cuba began heavier infiltration of its agents into the violent groups in miami. that movie ended in a second migration comes in the one nine hundred sixty s. an opera be able to see in the merchant class who came to the u.s. . the people who fled cuba fled castro came primarily to florida. were
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greeted with open arms in march one thousand nine hundred sixty president eisenhower ordered the cia to launch a covert operation to overthrow the cuban government it would be based in miami and use cuban exiles as the shock troops. were recruited and trained by the us government and the idea was to support them in overthrowing castro get rid of this communist is. spring up play it like a weed in our hemisphere a mammy station named j.m. wave was the second largest in the world outside of the headquarters in langley. so you can imagine what kind of tentacles that had throughout the community but case office for cubans and. miami was essentially like i fantasize blanco was doing the war. back when the when the second will war.
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nobody was concerned about the influence of the cia and i mean i was de because as i say the cold war was at its pay there was this undercurrent of and trade get when exiles plotting to do it on their own or plotting to do it with the say i station. first i supported castro's revolution. you know it then i said you know this man's a dictator. i thought he'd become a real communist dictator i'd become important in the n.t. castro underground if you know more and more especially asked if i'd work with him . and. he invited me to lunch at le florida if we wanted. i mean. he said he worked for an intelligence agency it was obvious it was the cia
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and his intention was to create a psychological war. but i'm in language what i'm not here to spread a rumor to provoke more fear of the government. to destabilize the cuban government but we force a lot of people believe that. the state you know parents would control children's education by this caused a huge panic this was the origin of the campaign known as pedro pan. i was thirteen years old. by the fall of nineteen sixty the central intelligence agency decided that it was in the interests of the united states. to get children of the upper middle class out of cuba.
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we call it you're full of fun because i don't care what you. project put together by. the church with assistance from the cia. some fifteen thousand kids came to the u.s. . led mission and free predications free in-store chargers free arrangement three. free studio to free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media. dot com.
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led. the lead. one thousand nine hundred sixty it became clear the cuban revolution showed blatant disrespect not only for washington's policy preferences but for private property in general. very american business and the symbolic gets into the sea. in early one nine hundred sixty the cold war entered the equation when the soviet union offered to sell cuba low priced oil washington
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ordered the u.s. refineries in cuba not to process it. we are not only assets of the texaco and so whole company yes. it is not us press conference president eisenhower announcement cuba is a sign of the united states should or might it has been in reply no more. liberal policy was going to. castro responded by nationalizing all u.s. property in cuba. eisenhower imposed a commercial and credit embargo on cuba under the radar however the cia made a major change in its plan to overthrow the cuban government. the original plan for the bay of pigs right and fell trade and set up work with the guerrillas that were
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already operating mostly in the house and the strength. but that and november of the fall of sixty somebody decided to change the concept and recruit a lot more people and they went as a strike force many of the participants in the bay of pigs that were on that landing force because i had known them personally in cuba and i had recommended on a number of occasions that such and such a person would be a good man to have in the brigade. i started training for the operation that later became very sick the beginning he was going to. be the rector from inside. the sphere. on january second one thousand nine hundred sixty one feet called the u.s. embassy a nest of spies. that
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what the united states and south respect and. that has now been reached. not affected. kennedy continued to pursue the covert plan to send a force of cuban exiles to invade the island. i was in cuba in one thousand nine hundred eighty one and like everyone else there i knew an invasion was coming but where and when. i watched militia men planting dynamite under bridges and installing anti aircraft guns along the coast. the cia backed exiles assassinated cuban school teachers and militiamen. they burned cane fields and tried to sabotage sugar mills and oil refineries.
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shortly before the invasion kennedy ordered that no u.s. air support be given to the invasion force. well first begun on the dictatorship. media thing we got involved in the first firefight which was the militia patrol that was guarding the city or the or the old town of playa hate on and and therefore after that we started them moving in then police found the first resistance at one am in the morning and wednesday the nineteenth i was awakened by a call from the white house it was mack bundy he said i am in the president's office and he would like to have you come down here soon as possible. when i arrived in the president's office president was concerned to sharpen his comment. it was increasingly clear even with the breakdown of communication that things were
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going badly. no one knew. to see the american ships in the horizon and people were trying to get in whatever boats they could find to try to reach them but the five of them either there were too few rope boats and there was just not enough time when that broadcast came from the beach and the leader said we're standing in the water and there's nothing else we can do and first we were inside this once and no. more mount and we were looking at the beach and if you know castro was coming to the beach sitting on top of the tank for a few minutes we were debating would take a shot at him and try to kill him we had him in the fight. against. a proposition to begin with but i guess kerry was not altogether with the idea
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ration should take place or that castro should be the post so one day he decided to get rid of us and that's precisely what he did. he believed that i was not being bombed or had not turned in the worst communism. the americans were just really baiting. these was not a product of ideology was a problem of being to be in effect i. asked him basin call ups we were copping a place cold candle. the kids basically freaked out because now they came to the food really safe in the den i'm going back home. there's no saying that. victory has one hundred bodies in the beatings and the immediate mood of the white
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house in the weeks that followed the bay of pigs was a mixture of anger frustration there's little doubt then that. ultimate objective remained the same which was a overthrow cuban revolution the castro regime. pigs failed and then it became obvious that the only way to win was to execute the tyrant yes to assassinate fidel castro and it does it was the first attempt was made at the presidential palace when i was here because in york we. i was recruited by the cia by colonel harold benson. later we identified him when you put. as david atlee phillips also known as morey spaceship. i had been stationed in cuba in one thousand and fifty five fifty eight i was there
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fifty nine and sixty before i had to leave rather abruptly i had a affinity for cuba the cuban people are more. moment every occasion his interest was fidel one when leaving where is fidel going to walk our feet els i ten or aries clearly they intended to assassinate him these operations against cuba were known to the attorney general of the united states the secretary of defense the secretary of state and the president for national security affairs the president united states himself. castro could not defend against these attacks so he tried to plough missy. in august one thousand nine hundred sixty one he dispatched che guevara to meet with kennedy's advisor richard goodwin in or of why. the two men met in secret during which che made it clear cuba could
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loosen its ties with the soviets stop supporting revolution in latin america and compensate the american companies that had expropriated if the united states would stop its aggressive behavior and resume trade with cuba kennedy was very interested but the rooms were of the bay of pigs for the united states were much too raw to think of beginning discussions at that point in the weeks following cuba's diplomatic gesture cia backed raids against cuba increased castro then turned to a dramatic form of deterrence from moscow the soviet union began to secretly install nuclear missiles in cuba for thirteen days the world nervously waited. would the missile crisis end with nuclear war. but kennedy and khrushchev resorted to diplomacy instead the soviet union would withdraw its missiles from cuba kennedy
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would remove u.s. missiles from turkey and not invade cuba. despite with president kennedy had promised to. the christian off on. agreeing to get the missiles out of cuba. we suddenly were found again a new boss came in and we were back in action again to get rid of castro the castro regime. and it was during this period that we ended up with what was called the autonomous groups. to involved operations against is against cuba provide money and materiel in any way to these groups do not try to direct them do not try to tell them what to do and do not ask them what they are doing the cubans were going to run their own operations and they did and if it was a disaster. what are the plainly from for its bombing mission i feel hollow and i
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was going to be the plane left from a secret base go you go. read about nine bombing. of the above or this never for the right place we did one thing on a materiel we told them where to but by their weapons and not give looked. by the mid one nine hundred sixty s. the cia officials had left miami. but the culture of violence they had nurtured remained in the further away they got from being able to realize their goal they began at some point in time they just begin to morph into regular criminals. they are the children who raised in the twenty's and thirty's and forty's and saw all political gangsterism. as
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a means to money and to power some of them were politically illiterate it's the old story of give to the end i castro freedom movement. or suffer the consequences my father always said i remember even as a small child say he never feared debating somebody who was a radical or a communist he only fear not being allowed to debate so my father did not cooperate with the terrorist and repudiated the dictatorship in cuba it was a moral position to take but it also made him a target for the extremist and on april thirtieth of one thousand nine hundred six he was a victim of a a terrorist attack that cost him both his legs and nearly his life. i would work again i would be on my feet again ok. captain there seems to be in just an unusual amount of bombings in dade county over
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the past few years what's been the record year our biggest fear is back in one nine hundred sixty eight we had forty four bombings this year so far at twenty three i think at one point in the one nine hundred seventy s. miami was having more bombings than you would find in belfast or in beirut they even bomb planted an institution and didn't do it big period of that it isn't in miami one of the bombs they place the air. back in the late seventy's was a b. f.b.i. office. that was as a message to the u.s. government saying wait a minute. we were on you were on your side were your people and now you're persecuting the violent exiles carried out dozens of attempts in miami new york new jersey and puerto rico. but their main target remained the same kind allusive.
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today i'm larry king now breaking bad stars and a gun and dean norris the nation is abuzz over the show's final season are they going to reveal any secrets well here's how they handle it so i can people come up to me and say i got to know the ne and before they even finish that sensical please don't tell me plus we said more about oh i call ahead on larry king now. you're watching larry king now she'd just received her second emmy nomination for playing sky white the put upon wife to bryan cranston's teach it turned murderous drug lord walter white in the critically acclaimed series breaking bad she's and i got on the amc show by the way is in its final season much to the dismay.
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