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S2 Episode 6 - "Nothing To Lose"

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CIA Kryptonim - The Bay of Pigs

An internal CIA audit conducted by the agency's inspector general, Lyman Kirkpatrick, concluded that Richard Bissell had been grossly incompetent. The report was kept secret for nearly 40 years because it was considered so damaging to the agency's reputation. There were several highly evolved assassination plots set in motion by the summer of 1961, which all failed.

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