Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Bissell Jr., deputy CIA chief and the man in charge of CIA's Cuba operation: way down...
...broadcasts from Cuba came booming in over Florida radios, nearly blotting out local U.S. stations. By flipping a dial on their TV sets, residents of Key West could see as well as hear the spectacle. In an Orwellian marathon lasting five nights running last week. Fidel Castro paraded 200, then 400, finally almost 1,000 captured rebels into Havana's Sports Palace and subjected them to a favorite pastime of the new Cuba, the televised inquisition...
...final night's telecast, Castro himself, decked out in beret, cigar and low-slung .45, strode onstage for the finale. As the chorus of "to the wall" reached a crescendo, he harangued the prisoners for 3½ hours, crying "If the people of Cuba want a Communist regime, who has the right to deny it to them?" Then he grandly announced that he would "try to persuade" the government to spare their lives-all except those identified with Batista. The prisoners, by now dizzy from denunciation, clapped and cheered...
...landing was on the way. Evidence indicated that it was a phantom army; the only force of any size left intact was a 167-man commando outfit led by an ex-Castro aide, Captain Nino Diaz. On invasion day, Diaz opened his sealed orders en route to Cuba, saw that the CIA plan called for a diversionary landing at an unfamiliar spot in Camaguey province instead of Oriente province, a region that Diaz knew well. Disgusted, Diaz turned back to Florida with...
There was also hopeful talk that the underground in Cuba, realizing that the invasion was foredoomed, had buttoned up and managed to weather the storm. Manolo Ray, leader of the M.R.P. underground and a council member, admitted heavy losses among his people. But he believed that many survived the Castro roundup. "In four months," said Ray, "we will be stronger than before." Yet other leaders say that the underground, like the exile army, is wrecked...