The Bay of Pigs and Fidel's Invasion

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i interviewed sinior se officials, interviewed richard bissl, who was at the head of covert operation at sae at the time. And i interview richard helms, who replaced bistl a head of covert operations. They basically said that after the bay of peace, jack kennedy and bob kennedy were like demons. There was an element of personal fury because of the defeat,. which was peceves a humiliation. He really wanted to do away with fidela pasically. Until that moment, the united states had crushed any challenge in the carabian central america. It was also, iinot to us, imperial hubors, and

The second of Dan’s two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. This is the story of Cuba’s military defense of the Angolan government against a US and South Africa-backed effort to overthrow the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). The future of the entire region was on the line—including the fate of apartheid in South Africa and of Namibia, then a South African colony. Learn Southern African geography by studying these maps: thedigradio.com/visions-of-freedom-maps Support The Dig with money at Patreon.com/TheDig and receive our weekly newsletter.