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Cold War 319: You Can Do It With Mirrors

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The Bay of Pigs post-mortem continues, and it turns out the CIA approached Cuban resistance fighters who’d spent seven years fighting Batista…. and suggested they team up with Batista guys. Shockingly, that didn’t go over well. We also get into how the failed invasion actually drove Cuba into the Soviets’ arms, and we uncover a genuinely wild thread connecting the Bay of Pigs, the CIA, Dallas  November 1963… and Pocahontas.