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Visions of Freedom w/ Piero Gleijeses Part 2

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The Bay of Pigs and Fidel's Invasion

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

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