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S2 Episode 7 - "Anadyr"

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The CIA's Student Revolutionary Directorate Shelled a Havana Suburb

Last weekend, a suburb in Havana was shelled from the sea by a group of student exile. The CIA backed Student Revolutionary Directorate, or DRE, carried out a commando raid on the Miramar Beachfront. They used two powerboats to shell a suburb and hotel with 50 cow machine guns and rifles. If they had been Cubans, Fidel Castro would have put up a big show. But they, we believe, were East Europeans.

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