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Judi Lynn

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1. What happened before the 5 Cuban spies went to Florida.....
Tue Oct 24, 2023, 12:20 AM
Oct 2023

Wayne S. Smith, the head of the American Interests Section in Havana, located in the Swiss Embassy (The U.S.'s substitute for an actual US embassy after the Revolution) has written about José Basulto's "exile" organization (Batista supporters working to overthrow the revolution) "Hermanos al Rescate" (Brothers to the Rescue) which flew old, retired US Air Force airplanes over Cuba continually, at very low altitude, so low that Smith said you could read their I.D. letters just standing on the steps of the Interests Section in Havana without binoculars, and threw metal medallions out, with some people on the ground getting scuffed up by them, along with "exile" leaflets, etc.

They invaded Cuban air space repeatedly, with Carter's Interests Section personnel there to witness it. at some point, Cuba became infuriated with this crap, and contacted the US repeatedly to keep these Brothers out of Cuban air space. Of course, Basulto always denied it, and continued to terrorize Cubans.

That happened before the 5 men went to Miami, and started working at the air base where the Brothers flew, apparently hoping to be able to keep an eye on their movements to prevent anything lethal from being dumped on the island by Basulto and his group of actual intentional terrorists. (Brothers to the "Rescue&quot (you bet) . They publicly claimed they flew over the Caribbean keeping their eyes on Cuban rafters travelling across the water to get to Miami, to save their lives.

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