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Reveals the startling tale of the CIA's, the mob's, and Sinatra's Rat Pack's connections from Vegas to Miami to Havana, exploring America's most amazing espionage operations ever.
CIA operatives in Cuba confront the challenge of carrying out orders to eliminate Fidel Castro, while the mob's lucrative operations face jeopardy in Havana's new regime.
CIA operatives in Cuba confront the challenge of carrying out orders to eliminate Fidel Castro, while the mob's lucrative operations face jeopardy in Havana's new regime.
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00:00A CIDADE NO BRASIL
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01:02Cuba's Fidel Castro emerged triumphant
01:06after two years of guerrilla warfare...
01:08Once Castro took power,
01:10that kind of changed everything.
01:12As he was starting to build up power,
01:15the United States felt threatened.
01:18This literally could be it.
01:20There is fear about what Castro is going to do.
01:30Tremendous paranoia and near panic.
01:33The CIA did not want a communist beachhead
01:3590 miles from Key West.
01:38This was a time in our history
01:40when the world came closest to nuclear Armageddon.
01:44This island nation could be used to launch missiles.
01:51The message had come.
01:53There's no living with Castro.
01:55The CIA is going to hire the mafia
01:58to kill Castro.
02:01They made a deal with the devil
02:03to get this job done.
02:05If this comes out,
02:08what will this do to our image
02:10and the eyes of the world?
02:12What cannot happen
02:14is that it gets found out.
02:20It's an incendiary fuel
02:22that's going to blow.
02:23So now we have a new national plaque
02:50to get the power.
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04:15AMONG U.S. INTELLIGENCE
04:17AGENCIES
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04:39JUST LIKE YOU'RE PUTTING
04:40TOGETHER A JIGSAW PUZZLE
04:41DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
04:43IS THE GIFT OF HISTORY
04:45THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
04:46THE CIA HAS HELD ON
04:47TO SO MANY RECORDS
04:48WE HAVE THESE
04:49INCREDIBLE REPORTS
04:51THAT WERE FAR MORE DETAILED
04:52THAN ANYBODY KNEW
04:53THIS SAYS IN THE CIA MEMO
04:56IT'S NOT IN A CIA MEMO
04:58IT'S IN THE
04:59THIS IS ALL CONTEXTURAL
05:00SO YEAH
05:01IT'S ONLY GOT
05:02DECLASSIFIED RECORDS
05:04IN THE CIA MEMO
05:05EISENHOWER STATES
05:06I WANT HIM SORT OFF
05:08YOU MAY KNOW WHAT THAT MAKES
05:12OH SHIT
05:16THE GOVERNMENT IS
05:17SUPPOSED TO PRIDE ITSELF
05:18ON DEMOCRACY
05:20CHECKS AND BALANCES
05:21FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
05:23AND YET
05:24SO MUCH OF THIS STORY
05:25IS ABOUT CONCEALING
05:28AND ABOUT TRICKERY
05:30AND ABOUT THE SURFACE
05:32BEING DIFFERENT
05:33THAN THE AGENDA
05:34THAT'S GOING ON
05:35UNDERNEATH IT
05:36IT TOOK ALMOST 50 YEARS
05:38FOR THE CIA
05:39TO EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE
05:40THAT THEY INDEED
05:41HIRED TWO GANGSTERS
05:43TO KILL FIDEL CASTRO
05:46IT IS THE JOB
05:48OF JOURNALISTS
05:49AND HISTORIANS
05:50TO ILLUMINATE
05:52WHAT WE AS CITIZENS
05:54NEED TO KNOW
05:55ABOUT WHAT THE GOVERNMENT
05:57HAS DONE IN OUR NAMES
05:59THERE ARE MYSTERIES
06:02THAT STILL REMAIN
06:05BUT I THINK
06:06ALL THE SECRETS ARE OUT
06:08WHEN DOES THE CIA
06:12BECOME A PLAYER
06:14IN WHAT'S HAPPENING
06:15IN CUBA
06:16DOES START TO TAKE SHAPE
06:18LONG BEFORE FIDEL CASTRO
06:19HAS ARISEN
06:20IN THE 50s
06:22PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN
06:23NEW YORK
06:24IN CHICAGO
06:25IN THE WINTERTIME
06:26THEY DIDN'T GO TO LAS VEGAS
06:27THEY WENT DOWN TO HAVANA
06:29HAVANA
06:30HAVANA
06:31CUBA REALLY STARTS TO TAKE SHAPE
06:34AS A GAMBLING MECCA
06:35AS A GAMBLING MECCA
06:36IN THE 50s
06:37PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN
06:38NEW YORK
06:39IN CHICAGO
06:40IN THE WINTERTIME
06:41THEY DIDN'T GO TO LAS VEGAS
06:42THEY WENT DOWN TO HAVANA
06:44HAVANA CUBA
06:45REALLY STARTS TO TAKE SHAPE
06:50AS A GAMBLING MECCA
06:53HIGH STYLE GETS ABOARD
06:55FOR A FLYING TRIP TO HAVANA CUBA
06:59IT'S ONLY 90 MILES FROM MIAMI
07:01CARIBBEAN ISLAND
07:02GOOD CIGARS
07:04THE GOOD LIFE
07:06IT WAS EASY TO GET TO
07:08AND PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
07:10CAME THERE
07:11MY PARENTS WOULD GO PARTY IN CUBA
07:15IT WAS LIKE A COOL PLACE
07:17OPEN GAMBLING AND DRINKING
07:19AND WHERE ALL THESE RULES WERE
07:20OVER HERE
07:21THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY OF THAT
07:22OVER THERE
07:23SHOWS WERE SO, YOU KNOW, LUDE
07:27ANYTHING WAS POSSIBLE IN HAVANA
07:30IT'S A VERY SENSUAL AND SEDUCTIVE PLACE
07:33IF YOU WANTED SOMETHING NAUGHTY
07:36IT WAS PLEASURE ISLAND
07:38WHAT HAPPENS IN HAVANA
07:41STAYS IN HAVANA
07:42FROM
07:54REALLY ABOUT 52 TO 58 THE MOB
07:57ESSENTIALLY CONTROLLED THE TOURISM
08:00MARKET IN HAVANA
08:02LONG BEFORE VEGAS HAS THEM
08:03THEY HAVE THESE THRIVING CASINOS
08:06AND THE MOB IS IN THERE IN FULL FORCE
08:09WITH A GOLDEN GOOSE
08:10IT BECAME THE PLACE OF WHICH THEY
08:14HAD ALWAYS DREAMED
08:16WHERE THEY COULD PROMOTE ALL KINDS OF VICE
08:19BREAK EVERY AMERICAN LAW WITHOUT WORRYING
08:22BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T IN AMERICA
08:24THE MOB'S INFILTRATION AND CONTROL IN HAVANA
08:29COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT MEYER LANSKY
08:31MEYER LANSKY
08:38MEYER LANSKY WAS A VERY HIGH-PROFILE MOB
08:41SYNDICATE LEADER OUT OF NEW YORK
08:43HE WAS INVOLVED IN DEVELOPING LAS VEGAS
08:45CASINOS IN FLORIDA
08:48MEYER LANSKY HAD CULTIVATED A RELATIONSHIP
08:50WITH FUENCIO BATISTA
08:52THE REPRESSIVE DICTATOR OF CUBA
08:55BATISTA SAYS HE IS A FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE
08:57AS HIS SOLDIERS PATROL THE STREETS
08:59TO ESTABLISH WHAT HE CALLS DISCIPLINED DEMOCRACY
09:03IN THE 1950S THE BATISTA REGIME
09:06STARTED REALLY INVESTING IN CASINOS, HOTELS,
09:09AND GAMBLING ESTABLISHMENTS
09:11AND HE STARTED MAKING DEALS WITH MAFIA BOSSES
09:16SO BATISTA LITERALLY PAID MEYER LANSKY
09:19A SALARY TO BE THE GAMBLING CZAR OF HAVANA
09:24LANSKY KNEW THAT THE FIRST THING THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE
09:28WAS TO MAKE ALL THE OTHER HEADS OF THE MOB FEEL
09:32THAT THEY HAD A PIECE OF IT
09:34OTHERWISE THEY WOULD ASSERT THEIRSELVES IN IT
09:37THROUGH VIOLENCE AND THUGGERY
09:40EVERYONE WAS GOING TO GET THEIR PIECE OF THE PIE
09:43A CASINO, A CLUB
09:45THIS IS WHAT WAS SO WONDERFUL ABOUT THAT METAPHOR IN
09:49GODFATHER II
09:53THE SCENE ON THE ROOFTOP
09:55THE MAFIOUSI WHO ARE THERE WITH A CAKE
09:57WHICH IS THE ISLAND OF CUBA
10:00HE LITERALLY CUTS UP THE PIECES AND HANDS IT TO ALL THE MAFIOUSI
10:04THIS IS WHAT LANSKY WAS DOING IN HAVANA
10:07WE HAVE NOW WHAT WE HAVE ALWAYS NEEDED
10:10REAL PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GOVERNMENT
10:13SMALLER PIECE
10:14THE IDEA WAS THERE'S PLENTY FOR EVERYONE
10:19NEW YORK INTERESTS ARE INVOLVED IN HAVANA LAS VEGAS INTERESTS
10:24AND THEN YOU HAVE THE CHICAGO OUTFIT
10:34AND THOSE GUYS IN CHICAGO RAN THINGS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN THE FIVE FAMILIES IN NEW YORK
10:47THE CHICAGO OUTFIT HAS ESSENTIALLY A MONOPOLY OVER ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE CHICAGO LAND AREA
10:52THIS WAS A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
10:57THE BOSS OF THE CHICAGO OUTFIT AT THE TIME WAS SAM GIANCHANA
11:02GIANCHANA IS PUT IN AS THE OPERATING BOSS OF THE OUTFIT
11:05WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY THE ORGANIZED CRIME EQUIVALENT OF A CEO IN A CORPORATION
11:10HE RUNS IT ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS
11:13THE OUTFIT REALLY HAD CONTROL OVER WHAT WAS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI
11:18INCLUDING LAS VEGAS AND THEN OF COURSE HAVANA
11:27THE CHICAGO MOB HAD INTERESTS IN SOME OF THE CASINOS
11:30SOME OF THE NIGHT CLUBS
11:32SOME OF THE PROSTITUTION SOME OF THE LIVE SEX SHOWS THAT ARE GOING ON IN HAVANA
11:36MY FATHER SAM HAD SOME STUFF DOING IN CUBA
11:46MYREL LASKIN HE TURNED OUT THE BEST OF FRIENDS
11:50YOU KNOW THEY WERE INVOLVED IN A COUPLE OF HOTELS DOWN THERE
11:52DID YOU EVER GO TO HAVANA AS A TEENAGER?
11:55NO, I WANT TO GO NOW
11:58TO SEE THE PEOPLE AND THE FOOD AND WALKING THROUGH THE HOTELS THAT MY FATHER AND HIS GANG WERE INVOLVED WITH
12:08I JUST CRAVED GOING DOWN THERE
12:12ONE OF THE PEOPLE THE CHICAGO OUTFIT RELIED ON DOWN IN HAVANA
12:24WAS SANTO TRAFICANTE
12:27TRAFICANTE SPOKE SPANISH
12:29MOST OF THE MOPSTERS DID NOT
12:31SO TRAFICANTE WAS ALWAYS THERE AS THE TRANSLATOR DEALING WITH THE CUBAN CONNECTIONS
12:36SANTO TRAFICANTE JUNIOR GREW UP IN TAMPA FLORIDA IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WAS PREDOMINANTLY CUBAN
12:48THAT'S WHY HE SPOKE SPANISH UNDERSTOOD THE CULTURE
12:52AND EVENTUALLY HE'S INVOLVED IN THE CASINO INDUSTRY AND SOME OF THE MORE ELICIT ACTIVITIES THAT WERE GOING ON IN HAVANA
12:57THIS MODE OF BUSINESS IS EXTRAORDINARILY PROFITABLE TO THE MAFIA AND BATISTA
13:06THE MONEY DID NOT TRICKLE DOWN TO ANYONE
13:10THE CUBAN PEOPLE WERE NOT HAPPY WITH THAT ARRANGEMENT
13:12PEOPLE WERE NOT HAPPY WITH THAT ARRANGEMENT
13:42THE COUNTRY WAS INVOLVED IN THEIR COUNTRY
13:50CUBA DIDN'T HAVE ANY BENEFICIAL
13:53IN THEIR COUNTRY
13:56AN UNEQUAL SOCIETY HAD DEVELOPED
13:59WHERE CERTAIN SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE HAD ALL THE POWER AND ALL THE MONEY
14:04AND THE CAMPESINOS DIDN'T GET MUCH EDUCATION
14:07THERE WAS A HIGH LEVEL OF THE LITERACY
14:10THEY DIDN'T OWN THE PROPERTY THEY LIVED ON
14:14IN ACROSS BATISTA
14:16CUBAN POSITION WAS NOT HAPPY
14:17AND SIDES
14:19IT WAS NOT HAPPY TO DO
14:21SOON
14:23WE NEVER HELPED IN THEIR COUNTRY
14:25ORGANIZATIONS
14:30IT WAS NOT HAPPY TO DO
14:33BECAUSE THEM IN THEIR COUNTRY
14:34THEY WERE DONE
14:39Os trabalhadores não podiam ir lá, não podiam parar.
14:46Eles não podiam parar na porta.
14:50Eles não podiam parar.
14:53Por um lado, uma espécie de rechazo cultural a esse tipo de indústria,
15:00o que significava a prostituição, mas também o jogo.
15:07A Mafia vivia na Havana com um nível de comodidade incrível.
15:11A figura dos empresários norte-americanos, associações à Mafia,
15:16estava muito sucia porque estava vinculada ao núcleo duro da dictadura de Batista,
15:23ao núcleo duro da repressão.
15:30Estamos falando de um ejército que reprimiu nas calles da cidade um monte.
15:37Em Cuba se deu um terror grandíssimo, porque eu era uma criança chiqueira,
15:51e eu me lembro da polícia, a 5ª estação de policia, onde se torturou e matou.
15:57Eu falo de 20 mil mortos, mas não se sabe se foram isso. Mais ou menos. Mas são muito.
16:08É um show de militação de autoridade.
16:11Eles keptem pessoas em seu lugar, e Batista foi um grande parte disso.
16:15Batista era um American-backed dictator.
16:21We didn't care about his repressive ways in Cuba,
16:25because he was in the pocket of the United States,
16:30both in terms of U.S. foreign policy and American business interests.
16:35Batista orders the suspension of all civil rights.
16:39Nothing is to be broadcast or printed that is displeasing to Batista.
16:45Many Cubans felt really cut out of democratic life,
16:49which they thought they deserved.
16:51This led to the emergence of dissident groups.
16:56One of them was led by Fidel Castro.
16:59Fidel Castro está involucrado
17:06for the fight for the President's movement of the international international movement
17:11from early days.
17:14With this promise of reticulating
17:17democratic liberties, social progress,
17:21justice.
17:22É um movimento bastante ecléctico e indiferenciado ideologicamente.
17:29Não é um movimento de caráter socialista ou de caráter comunista.
17:37Fidel Castro era um revolucionário relativo.
17:40Quer dizer, ele era um advogado. Ele era um advogado de direitos civis.
17:44Ele morreu por office político nos primeiros anos 1950, como senador.
17:49E ele era provavelmente vai ser elecente até Batista rolou em Havana e levou o país em um coup d'etat.
17:59Ele levou uma encosta em Fidel Castro's carreira.
18:03E então ele levou o trabalho em muitas maneiras para Fidel Castro,
18:07como esse figura que foi determinado para dar Batista.
18:12Ele foi para as ruas para juntar guerrilha grupos.
18:19Fidel Castro e os revolucionários começaram a desenvolver poder,
18:23away de Havana.
18:25Mas você não vai conseguir isso em uma revista ou televisão reporte.
18:29Eu cresci em uma farmácia just north de onde Fidel Castro set up his revolucionário.
18:39At first, era um tipo de história de Robin Hood.
18:42Nós tínhamos 35 famílias, e alguns dos filhos de filhos.
18:47Eles falavam, você sabe, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos, vamos.
18:53E assim, vamos, vamos, vamos.
19:01Eles nunca pensavam que isso aconteça.
19:06Castro foi de uma família famosa e foi bem educada,
19:11mas todos os outros eram peixão.
19:14E isso é por isso que aqueles em poder não poderiam levar isso seriously.
19:18Como os agricultores e campesinos subiram
19:21e pegar o militaio mais poderoso no Caribe?
19:25Como isso poderia ser possível?
19:27O C.I.A. e a moça colocaram todos os seus equipamentos com o Flávio Batista,
19:33mas a moça não tinha o que a C.I.A. tinha,
19:37que eram espios e pessoas que recebiam informações sobre o que realmente estava acontecendo politicamente no Cuba.
19:43Eles estavam blindados.
19:46Desde o ano de 1958,
19:48os organismos de inteligência norte-americanos
19:51começam a ver com dúvida de movimentos revolucionários.
19:57Antes ele me levou o poder,
19:59Castro permaneceu um figura obscura para a CIA.
20:03O C.I.A.
20:05O Americano media
20:07procurava para o Fidel Castro em cima.
20:09O C.I.A.
20:11O C.I.A.
20:13Os pessoas de Sierta Maestras estão com nós.
20:14O C.I.A.
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20:41E eles não sabem o que a resposta é o que é o que é.
20:45Realmente o que é, é sobre a blindação dos que estão em poder.
20:49É sobre a hubris e a criação de que seu poder é tão supremo
20:56que você não vê sua vulnerabilidade até que seja tão tarde.
21:03Muitos primeiros CIA líderes
21:06Eles pensaram que se você fez um erro,
21:10sempre tinha que pegar você e fixe.
21:12Então eles pensaram que era verdadeiro em todo mundo.
21:15Que, se tivesse acontecido, eles poderiam poder controlar a deslizade.
21:29E a mob estávamos em descanso.
21:32Eles colocaram tudo por trás do homem em poder, Batista.
21:35E então a mob não importava o que estava realmente acontecendo politicamente.
21:39Em late 1950s,
21:41havia sempre dinheiro para ser feita de corrupção em Cuba.
21:44Em 50s, John F. Kennedy
21:51There are still whole loads of Americans coming down to enjoy the lush, tropical sexiness of Havana, including celebrities, be it like Frank Sinatra or young JFK.
22:09In the 50s, John F. Kennedy comes to Havana. I mean, he's like a brand new senator, known for having an interest in women, and he was sniffing around at the local talent.
22:25And he puts out the word, probably through an underling, who goes to the mobsters and says, you know, the senator would very much like it if you could maybe possibly connect him with a young lady.
22:37Traficante would say, we can do that.
22:45They set John Kennedy up in a room that had a two-way mirror.
22:50He had a three-way, him and two other Cuban prostitutes.
22:56Traficante was on the other side of the mirror with another gangster.
23:00The other gangster says, hey, we should be filming this because this would make tremendous blackmail material.
23:07Well, they didn't have a camera.
23:10But the idea of sex, that anything goes, was part of the debasement of Cuban society.
23:19And it had moral implications for the Cuban people.
23:26Summer 1958.
23:28Castro records his broadcasts for the Rebel Radio.
23:31His men now will come down from the mountains and fight on the plains.
23:34Castro's revolutionaries started out in the eastern part of the island.
23:41Amazingly, in a very short time, they had come very close to Havana.
23:50Batista had an army.
23:52But it really was mainly used for rounding up dissidents and torturing people in prisons.
23:58They weren't prepared to fight real battles.
24:03Castro's revolutionaries were.
24:04On New Year's Eve and on into New Year's Day of 1959, the revolution was arriving.
24:18Tanks and soldiers were rolling into Havana.
24:21When the revolutionaries arrived from the Sierra Maestra, there was no opposition.
24:29The opposition picked up and left.
24:30And actually, Batista evacuated, ran away, and Castro happened to just drive into town in a jeep with about 40 people.
24:42And there it was, to take.
24:47New Year's Day, 1959.
24:49The news spreads through Havana.
24:51Batista is finished.
24:52With Batista in flight to the Dominican Republic, the celebrating soon turns to mob action and looting.
25:01The situation before long is completely out of hand.
25:05Mobs loot and pillage.
25:06Gangs roam the streets.
25:08Anarchy reigns.
25:09They have that scene in Godfather Part II.
25:15People started to flood into the casinos.
25:17And they dragged the slot machines out into the street.
25:22And they started brush fires using gambling tables.
25:28The mafiosi were thinking, how do I get out of here?
25:31They realized their lives were in danger.
25:37It was a full-fledged uprising.
25:39There was an expression of moral punishment.
26:00In terms of this idea of the rejection of corrupt people.
26:08O mesmo jeito que um heróinato vai frio na turquia, a mob teve que ir frio na turquia na Havana.
26:21Muitas pessoas foram surpreendidas quando foi tão rápido como foi, nada mais do que a Mafia.
26:28Os povo de Cuba vê que está acontecendo.
26:33A revolução está aqui, e há uma espontânea espontânea de alegria.
26:38Toda a cidade em Hamlet, um abençoado, um abençoado, um abençoado, um abençoado à Revolução.
26:46a
27:03é o dia que a Revolução
27:05que nos levantou
27:09a alegria, a fortaleza, a risa
27:11Tudo porque estávamos tendríamos em nossas mãos
27:17a liberdade que queríamos.
27:36Por isso é o entusiasmo espontâneo,
27:38com um rehearsed entusiasmo,
27:40com o premeiro de Fidel Castro,
27:43visitando a grande cidade.
27:45Só um mês depois de o sucesso da revolução,
27:49Castro foi convidado para os Estados Unidos
27:52por a American News Papers Guild.
27:55Ele está no Face the Nation.
27:57Ele está falando com Ed Sullivan.
28:00Você está no real American tradition
28:03de George Washington,
28:05de qualquer um homem que começou com um pequeno,
28:08lutou contra a grande nação e won.
28:10Ele não foi convidado para uma visita do Estado
28:25pela administração de Eisenhower,
28:27que, claro, opusou a sua revolução.
28:29Ele disse que não lhe dá albergue,
28:31o albergue que se merece como representante de um país.
28:39E então Fidel disse,
28:41ah, não tem problema.
28:43Ele levou e foi para Harlem,
28:45para reunir com os negros,
28:47para estar ali.
28:49E isso foi um mensagem
28:52que Fidel transmitiu ao mundo.
28:58Fidel Castro tinha seus admiradores.
29:00Muitas pessoas nos Estados Unidos
29:01como um jovem Kennedy.
29:02Ele era extremamente carismático.
29:04E eu acho que há pessoas que pensavam
29:07que mudança era necessária
29:09e que Castro tinha o apoio
29:11das pessoas cubanas atrás dele.
29:13Então, eu acho que há muitas pessoas
29:15que pensavam que isso poderia
29:17ter um futuro futuro para Cuba.
29:23O CIA realmente tomou a oportunidade
29:25de fazer o visito de Castro
29:26para tentar recrutar ele.
29:28Eles queriam ele
29:29para curar Cuba
29:31de todos os comunistas.
29:32Fidel fez o ponto
29:34para a CIA
29:35que eles estavam preocupados
29:36sobre comunismo
29:38na América Latina.
29:39E o que eles realmente
29:40deveriam ser preocupados
29:41era desigualdade.
29:42A U.S. governo
29:44foi preparado para tentar
29:46oferecer ele
29:47alguma ajuda.
29:48Mas, os Cubanos
29:50não vim para pedir para o dinheiro.
29:52A revolução era orgulosa.
29:55Era jovem.
29:56Fidel não vai continuar
29:57o mesmo relacionamento
29:59que o anterior
30:00síncophante
30:01tipo de líderes
30:02de Cuba
30:03do que Cuba
30:05tinha.
30:06Foi claro
30:07que os Estados Unidos
30:08não poderiam
30:09poder controlar
30:10Fidel Castro.
30:11O que scared
30:12o s*****
30:13da CIA.
30:14do que importe
30:18de que Cuba
30:19acabou num markets
30:21no Brasil
30:22na vida.
30:23A Cia
30:24do que
30:25caía
30:26da cia.
30:26Na época
30:27os assuntos
30:28que montaram
30:29os casinos
30:30subteiros.
30:31Eles foram
30:32abandonados
30:33daSis.
30:34Eles foram
30:35forçados
30:36de fugir
30:36de Florida.
30:37O que ele criou, a hostilidade da Mafia com o projeto revolucionário, não é uma amigas fundada em um motivo ideológico.
30:48Está fundada em a clausura do maior projeto de inversão que tinha naquele momento, da Mafia Itália-Norte-America.
30:57Foi algo que os mobsters particularmente resentaram.
31:01E eles queriam reencar.
31:03Vlansky se derrubou bastante rápido.
31:09Santo Trapicante se derrubou.
31:12Ele se derrubou a polícia militar.
31:19Trapicante se derrubou no Triscornia Detention Center.
31:24Castro anunciou ao público,
31:26que eu não sei que eu sei que os gangsters em Havana,
31:30mas eu não sei que os gangsters em Havana.
31:32Eu estou inclinado a querer executar eles.
31:34Trapicante se derrubou.
31:35Trapicante se derrubou.
31:36Trapicante se derrubou.
31:37Traficante era nervoso quando ele estava ouvindo os esquadinhos de fogo.
31:51Então, a história é que Santo Traficante, o senhor Frank Regano, vem para ver ele.
31:58E Regano diz,
31:59eu vou tentar tentar fazer uma reunião com Raul Castro para você sair daqui.
32:04Porém, um 1 milioão de pagamento foi enviado para Raul Castro e Santo Traficante foi lançado por essa razão.
32:23Quando Santo Traficante desistiu Cuba e volta para os Estados Unidos, ele sete up operações em Miami.
32:30Ele foi realmente fixado no conceito de chegar em Cuba e os casinos running again.
32:35Back in Chicago, Sam Giancana was so angry about what happened with their casinos in Havana.
32:47And I guess my father was in a bad mood.
32:50I mentioned that Fidel Castro was very sexy because he was just what I thought I would like, a little rough on the edges.
33:00My father just tore into me and said,
33:03Don't you ever bring that man's name up in this house again.
33:09And his temper showed no end.
33:11And I'd seen him get enraged.
33:16If some man aggravated him, his temper just blew up.
33:28In the last year of Eisenhower's presidency,
33:31there was a huge explosion of a French ship called La Cobra in Havana Harbor.
33:37It was a horrendous tragedy.
33:46Seventy-five people on the docks were killed and on board the ship.
33:50More than 200 Cuban dock workers were injured.
33:53Small pillows around a helicopter on which Castro himself is surveying the scene.
33:59Castro's reaction to the explosion of the ship was to blame it on the United States.
34:04Castro says the ship has been blown up by United States agents.
34:09U.S.-Cuban relations were spiraling downward.
34:14From then on out, it was low-intensity warfare against the Cuban Revolution.
34:18At the time, with Cold War mania and paranoia,
34:24there is a lot of fear about what Castro is going to do.
34:30Will he embrace the Soviet Union?
34:32Will he become communist?
34:36In the 1950s, there was a sense of tremendous paranoia and near panic.
34:42There was a sense that a nuclear attack could happen at any time.
34:50Newspapers were even printing little clocks about how many minutes it would take a Russian missile to destroy New York.
34:57Our cities are prime targets for atomic attack.
35:01It was estimated over 4 million would die in New York City.
35:04Eisenhower was under pressure.
35:14You have this island nation so close to the United States that could be used to launch Soviet missiles.
35:23You're going to just let this happen?
35:25This is our backyard.
35:26The CIA officers in that era believed that they knew more than anybody about how intense the threat was.
35:37And therefore, they were motivated to do absolutely whatever was necessary to defend against this threat.
35:45Alan Dulles was in charge of the CIA, looking out to protect America's interests in a very dangerous world.
35:53Alan Dulles was the scholarly, pipe-smoking, master spy.
36:00Alan Dulles was the dominant figure in the early age of the CIA.
36:05It was actually the golden age for covert action.
36:10Alan Dulles comes from a politically connected family.
36:14Grandfather, secretary of state, brother becomes secretary of state.
36:18These are connected people.
36:19Alan Dulles was fascinated with what we now call intelligence ever since he was a little boy.
36:28He discovered the novel Kim by Rudyard Kipling.
36:31It became his favorite book.
36:34Kim is written in 1901, and it's often considered the great novel about what it is to become a spy.
36:42You have this young guy who literally is going to make a name for himself.
36:47One of the things that he learns is what he calls the great game.
36:52And the great game is the power of having information.
36:57Here was a new craft that a man could tuck away in his head.
37:01And by the look of the wide world unfolding itself before him,
37:06it seemed that the more a man knew, the better for him.
37:11Information.
37:13Everything.
37:14And that's what he discovered.
37:16From the days of Socrates, mankind has been seeking knowledge.
37:20Intelligence is nothing really other than information and knowledge.
37:25Dulles was very aware of what the Soviet intent was, and he was determined to stop it.
37:37A CIDADE NO BRASIL
38:07A CIDADE NO BRASIL
38:37A CIDADE NO BRASIL
38:39A CIDADE NO BRASIL
38:41A CIDADE NO BRASIL
38:43A CIDADE NO BRASIL
38:45Bissell was a man who wasn't the traditional spy. He believed in the high-tech aspects of it. He thought in big terms.
38:56He's reported as a guy who couldn't sit still. He was always pacing in his office. And when he had to sit at meetings, he would compulsively bend and re-bend paper clips or crush pieces of paper up into tiny balls.
39:09Eisenhower and Alan Dulles had become strongly convinced that Fidel Castro was a mortal threat to the United States.
39:19They didn't want a communist beachhead 90 miles from Key West.
39:25And to avert that, they had to do something. Eisenhower was a passionate supporter of covert action. There were all sorts of ideas. Commando raids, sabotaging, arson. And Eisenhower said, these are not going far enough. I want things that might be more drastic.
39:45In a memorandum of conference with the president, dated May 13, 1960, Eisenhower states, I want him sought off.
39:57The meaning of that would have been very clear to everyone who was present. Eisenhower was a tough guy behind that smile.
40:05This became Alan Dulles' responsibility to carry out. He asked his covert operations director, Bissell, to take on the project.
40:15Bissell proposed in a written memo to Dulles, the elimination of Fidel Castro.
40:22Dulles, perhaps a little more politically savvy, suggested that the elimination had more than a tinge of murder in it.
40:30And edited that to say, the removal of Castro from power.
40:36And that's when the ball started rolling.
40:38The whole strategy by the CIA was two-tiered. It was one to try to assassinate Castro, and then also to plan for an invasion by an army of Cuban exiles that would establish a new American-friendly government in Havana.
41:02Nick Bissell tells the vice president that the CIA is going to need 500 trained Cuban exiles to do the job.
41:13So hundreds of Cuban exiles are being trained in an invasion plan.
41:19Is it serious?
41:20Is it just the position of Palestinian
41:47o Batista regime.
41:49Isso realmente me impactou muito.
41:51Isso realmente me promove para fazer algo sobre isso.
41:56Há um treinamento de campos para o Castro.
41:59Então eu registro.
42:00Naquela época, nós pensamos que era uma operação
42:03que foi financeda por riqueos Cubans.
42:05Mas realmente, a CIA nunca even came to mind naquela época.
42:09Em todos os cubanos, eles estão sendo treinados em Florida e Latin America,
42:16a CIA está funcionando o aprovação de Presidente Dwight Eisenhower
42:22para o atletamento com esse atentamento contra Castro.
42:26Presidente Eisenhower era tão no Brasil
42:30para não ter pressão para a criação contra o Castro.
42:34O questão da questão era como fazer isso
42:36so that the president could plausibly deny
42:40that he approve the attempts to kill a foreign leader.
42:46Plausible deniability means even if people don't believe you
42:50when you say you're not involved in this operation,
42:53there's no clear evidence.
42:55They wanted somebody else to do it,
42:57as opposed to the government.
43:00They want a middleman, if you will.
43:02So the plan to get rid of Castro
43:07goes down the hierarchy of the CIA
43:09from Dulles to Bissell
43:11to head of security Chef Edwards.
43:15In a CIA memo dated August 1960,
43:19Bissell asked Sheffield Edwards
43:20if Edwards could establish contact
43:22with the U.S. gambling syndicate that was active in Cuba.
43:26Bissell was going to hire the mafia to kill Castro.
43:32The idea of the mafia created a great cover for the CIA.
43:37The mafia had a grievance against the Cuban revolution.
43:41If they were identified as the assassins of Fidel Castro,
43:46everybody would go, oh, yeah, sure, that makes sense.
43:49The government shouldn't be assassinating
43:51foreign heads of state to start with,
43:53but if you've already crossed that line in the Rubicon,
43:56and now you've decided to become partners with the mafia,
43:59it's a whole different operation.
44:01The CIA can't be seen directly dealing with the mafia,
44:12so what they have to do is use a cutout.
44:15Somebody that they know knows mafiosos.
44:19Chef Edwards told Bissell that he had a friend,
44:22a private investigator,
44:23through whom syndicate elements in Cuba could be reached.
44:26That was the path to Robert Mayhew.
44:31Now, Bob Mayhew had been an FBI agent in the 1940s,
44:36and then during the 50s,
44:38he had gone into private practice
44:39as a private investigator in D.C.
44:42He had several clients, and one of them was the CIA,
44:45so he could be trusted.
44:48The mission, should you decide to accept it,
44:51is to put them out of business permanently.
44:56Robert Mayhew claimed that he was the inspiration
44:59for Mission Impossible,
45:01very popular, very suave, 1960s spy show.
45:07And one of his big clients becomes Howard Hughes,
45:14the wealthiest man in the United States.
45:17Obviously, working for Howard Hughes,
45:19he was somebody that had a lot of access.
45:22Remember, if you get around powerful people,
45:24you're going to get information.
45:26Sheffield Edwards from the CIA reached out to Bob Mayhew
45:33and said, hey, this is something we want to do.
45:37Mayhew was reluctant to get involved in this
45:40because, hey, we're talking about assassinating
45:42the head of a government.
45:44But the argument was made, hey, this is a war.
45:48You're doing this for your country.
45:49This is a patriotic thing for you to do.
45:52Patriotism justifies people doing all kinds of things.
46:01In this case, to have a murder arranged.
46:07Mayhew is conflicted.
46:10Here he is, a good Catholic boy, went to Holy Cross.
46:15Can I kill Fidel Castro in all good conscience?
46:19And he ultimately decides that if he had been able
46:24to kill Hitler in World War II,
46:27he could have saved lives.
46:29So he says yes.
46:34People had no idea that this sort of stuff was going on.
46:38The activities of the CIA must be secret.
46:41People really thought that the FBI, the CIA,
46:45were slaying the dragons of evil.
46:47They were presenting a public image of rectitude
46:53and always being on the right side of the law.
46:58So the United States being involved
47:00in assassinating the head of state
47:02at the height of the Cold War,
47:04this thing's fraught with peril.
47:05Mayhew himself was nervous about the whole operation.
47:20Mayhew voiced concerns with the CIA contacts,
47:24like, are you really sure this is the direction you want to go?
47:27If this comes out,
47:30what will this do to our image in the eyes of the world?
47:35But the CIA at that time was so arrogant
47:38that it didn't even think about the operation falling apart.
47:44So Mayhew sets up a meeting
47:46with his connection to the Mafia, Johnny Roselli.
47:50Who is Johnny Roselli?
47:55I would say that the answer to that question
47:58depends upon who's asking it.
48:01In terms of all of the characters throughout the story,
48:04Johnny Roselli, the gangster,
48:06is at the root of everything.
48:09Roselli would team up with the CIA
48:11to create one of the strangest
48:13and most illegal chapters
48:15in the history of the United States.
48:17We'll see you next time.
48:47We'll see you next time.
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51:17We'll see you next time.
51:19Bye-bye.
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