j. edgar hoover, the u.s. ambassador, batista, the president of cuba, and general benitez was head of the cuban national police, they placed so much in their belief that he was the principles by in the new world that particularly hoover would not give up. it wasn't just that they said this, they talked to the press and other journalists and mentioned how important he was and they were rupturing the german connection in the world so with that kind of a record in, putting their names on the record they had to keep looking for him and his while ultimately becomes one of the largest files gathered during world war ii on a single agent even though well into the early stages they knew that he didn't really do very much. they thought maybe they were wrong. i like to refer to him as the weapon of mass destruction of wolrd war ii, they thought he was devastated in the whole caribbean and latin america and there was nothing there. now i would like to show you a few images from his youth and even from havana. this is the