
S2 Episode 4 - "Secret Honor"
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The Cubans and the Security Council - What Happened?
In 1960, Cuban intelligence knew that dozens of US military advisors were training as many as a couple hundred Batistaanos and simple mercenaries. The American government denied all charges telling The New York Times that the charges were, quote, ones we have heard before,. Richard Nixon was not one to be outdone in this area; he called the Cuban revolution an intolerable cancer just for good measure. But further complicating things for Nixon, and perhaps soon everybody, was that John F. Kennedy had in the fall been briefed by Alan Dulles and passed intelligence by friends about the nascent Bay of Pigs operation that was planned for the next year. So armed with this information and running to the right, basically,