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Speaker 1: But when you return to these necessary realities, do not

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Speaker 1: Hold on to the memories and apply what you've learned

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Speaker 2: Gein, I just got off the phone with my brother.

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Speaker 2: He took care of your father's funeral arrangements and cremated

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Speaker 2: him according to his wishes. Okay, he promised to keep

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Speaker 1: Please thank him for me.

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Speaker 2: I did, and Martin is working on smoothing over our

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Speaker 1: Go back, right. I just can't let it go. Of LOSTA.

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Speaker 1: I need to know who killed him.

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Speaker 3: It must be the cag B.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're right. It's just something my father said

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Speaker 2: We know they were following him, and they certainly would

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Speaker 3: Maybe try to be patient.

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Speaker 1: I am tired of waiting, sitting here, playing it over

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Speaker 1: and over in my head. We brought the maps my

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Speaker 1: And we have been sitting in this hotel room for

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Speaker 2: You'll get your answers soon. Rebecca is on her way

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Speaker 2: over with him.

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Speaker 3: Oh here there now.

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Speaker 4: Hello of lost Jean. Again, my deepest condolences and apologies.

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Speaker 4: We should have never let this happen.

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Speaker 1: Martin. Nice to see you in person again.

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Speaker 5: I blame myself. I should have been prepared. Now that

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Speaker 5: you're all here, I am. I want to tender my resignation.

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Speaker 3: Rebecca. Please, it's not your fault.

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Speaker 5: I was the agent present. It was my mission, and

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Speaker 5: it failed.

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Speaker 4: Very honorable, but unnecessary. Rebecca, there were inherent risks in

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Speaker 1: Martin's right without you, we would have never found my

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Speaker 1: help me clear my father's name and stop the attack.

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Speaker 1: He sacrificed his life for. Did you take a look

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Speaker 1: at the maps he gave me?

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Speaker 4: Yes? And for all the stories surrounding your father. He

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Speaker 4: proved to be a true hero. Those maps confirm a

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Speaker 4: report roots Seed from one of our moles in the

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Speaker 4: KGB weeks ago. It seems the Soviets are moving weapons

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Speaker 4: and battalions right under our noses. If they succeed in

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Speaker 3: What where are they moving them?

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Speaker 6: To?

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Speaker 1: Cuba? How did you know that I recognized it on

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Speaker 4: Impossible? The maps only showed trails and tunnels through unmarked

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Speaker 4: detail is astounding. If we had had maps, this specific

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Speaker 1: Something else I noticed on those maps is that many

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Speaker 4: We have a military team ready to enter Cuba.

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Speaker 1: Stop them and send us instead. Excuse me, there is

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Speaker 1: nothing under the radar about a military team, and nothing

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Speaker 4: And you're offering your services, Jean, don't.

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Speaker 3: It's too dangerous.

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Speaker 1: We've come this far. I can't let it all end

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Speaker 4: Your country owes you a huge debt, Gene.

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Speaker 1: Once we confirm the locations and contents of the missile sites,

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Speaker 5: We have a ton of contacts inside the country who

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Speaker 1: I have people of my own I trust as well,

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Speaker 1: who well. I've known Javier, the manager of Hotel Nacion

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Speaker 1: now de Kuba for years.

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Speaker 3: We spent part of our honeymoon there.

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Speaker 4: The hotel has been closed since Castro took power.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but many writers, diplomats and foreign officials still stay there.

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Speaker 2: Jean Parsacreje just stayed at the hotel after the revolution

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Speaker 2: with his wife Simond de Beauvois when they interviewed Jacob

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Speaker 1: So I suggest a similar cover. I'm still a dual

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Speaker 1: the way we came. That could work, and I.

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Speaker 5: Can enter separately on a Canadian student visa. Many activists

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Speaker 1: How would we find you?

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Speaker 5: I'll make contact once inside.

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Speaker 4: It should be a forty eight hour operation. Get in,

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Speaker 5: Music to my years Martin, I want you to ensure

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Speaker 4: Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

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Speaker 1: Cuba is one of the largest single islands of its

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Speaker 1: Though Spain had to fight several difficult and costly campaigns

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Speaker 2: Darling, we're back in Cuba. H not exactly a second honeymoon.

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Speaker 1: I wonder how different the hotel will look.

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Speaker 4: Hmmm.

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Speaker 2: It's sad to think if it boarded up and empty.

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Speaker 2: We'll have you a meet us at the airport.

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Speaker 1: He should if he received my message, and if he didn't,

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Speaker 1: then this will be a very short trip.

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Speaker 3: Well let's go find out.

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Speaker 6: Hmm.

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Speaker 3: I did miss that tropical air We.

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Speaker 1: Haven't stayed in one place long enough to acclimate.

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Speaker 3: Do you see him?

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Speaker 1: Hope, there he is on the tarmac, blaster, Jean. Ah,

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Speaker 1: it's great to see you, Javier.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, Thank you for meeting us. How have things been

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Speaker 7: You cannot imagine what they've done to the place. It's

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so sad to hear that.

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Speaker 7: Occasionally diplomatister come to stay. But Castro has turned the

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Speaker 1: Hmmm. It's said he lives in constant fear of invasion,

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Speaker 1: as you Americans.

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Speaker 7: After the Bay of Pigs, everyone is paranoid. But I

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Speaker 3: We aren't putting you out, I hope.

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Speaker 7: Oh no, not at all.

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Speaker 1: Come.

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Speaker 7: My car is waiting up front.

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Speaker 1: The Hotel Nacional de Cuba is a historic Spanish eclectic

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Speaker 1: Art Deco. In nineteen thirty three, after Fugencio Battista's September

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Speaker 1: Years later, in nineteen forty six, the hotel hosted the

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Speaker 1: albert Anastasia Vitro, Genevese, and many others. It remained a

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Speaker 7: Gene Plasta, welcome back to the nazional.

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Speaker 3: Do you see those soldiers with the guns.

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Speaker 7: They are Castro's guard I didn't report you. I promise

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Speaker 7: this is fairly routine nowadays. I hate to say.

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Speaker 1: That's fine. Let's just go inside.

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Speaker 3: They're coming towards us.

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Speaker 1: Don't act concerned. I'll handle it. Adiva, stop.

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Speaker 4: You must come with us.

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Speaker 7: Gentlemen, these are guests of my hotel.

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Speaker 4: They come now. Those are orders.

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Speaker 3: They must be a misunderstanding.

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Speaker 1: We are just travel writers and we've come a long way.

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Speaker 1: We'd love to get settled into our room. Perhaps you

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Speaker 1: can tell us what this is about. Either you come

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Speaker 1: peacefully or we will be forced to arrest you. Oh okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll go, no problem. Geane, all right, we're going take

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Speaker 1: it easy. Don't worry. I'll get to the bottom of this.

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Speaker 1: Can I at least ask where you're taking us?

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Speaker 4: Welcome on, Dante?

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Speaker 1: Who is that? Dodel Castro.

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Speaker 8: With the entire island south of the Tropic of Cancer,

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Speaker 8: the local climate is tropical, moderated by northeasterly trade winds

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Speaker 8: the Caribbean Current, which brings in warm water from the equator.

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Speaker 8: Kuban culture is influenced by its melting part of cultures,

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Speaker 8: primarily those of Spain, Africa and the indigenous Tinos of Cuba.

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Speaker 8: These melting bodies apparent and everything from the literature to

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Speaker 1: You wrote all this every word. I've been to Cuba

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Speaker 1: many times over the years.

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Speaker 3: We honeymoon at the Nacional.

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Speaker 8: But this guide book was written when Cuba was still

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Speaker 8: Now. I've taken over tourism on the island, including hotels

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Speaker 8: After the revolution, I even wrote a letter to the Americans,

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Speaker 3: Yes, we read it. It was very welcoming.

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Speaker 8: But now the US government has made Kuba their enemy,

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Speaker 1: And I are here to help.

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Speaker 3: That's right, we can help the message.

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Speaker 6: Oh.

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Speaker 1: We intend to provide an updated guidebook to show the

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Speaker 1: as Jean Paul Sats's book Did you like e Cyta? Oh,

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Speaker 1: I feel a deep kinship. Not only are we both writers,

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Speaker 2: Well, it's true, we are both American citizens. I was

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Speaker 1: But you are not a famous writer like cut No,

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Speaker 1: but our business is tourism, which I know used to

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Speaker 2: This is true, then we also know that eight out

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Speaker 1: So if you want to make back the millions the

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that Cuba is still a beautiful island worth

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Speaker 2: We want to help you bring the Americans back to Cuba,

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Speaker 2: and we know how to sell it to them.

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Speaker 1: Cigar much appreciated.

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Speaker 8: We make the best, you know.

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Speaker 1: I do. We'll be sure to include an entire chapter

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Speaker 1: on it. Very good.

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Speaker 8: I'll tell Javier to put you both in the Satra suite.

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Speaker 8: We named the room after him. You know it's the best.

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Speaker 4: To nottel.

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Speaker 3: That's very generous, have you.

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Speaker 8: Javier will make sure you get around Habana safely. I

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Speaker 8: look forward to your book.

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Speaker 1: We look forward to writing it.

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Speaker 8: You can go, Gods, guitarists.

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Speaker 3: Can I breathe now? I thought we were finished in there.

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Speaker 1: Never underestimate the power of a good guide book. My dear.

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Speaker 2: Real suave Hemingway, you can enjoy that Cuban cigar. To Malison,

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Speaker 1: The Maleson, officially known as Avenida de Masseo, is a

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Speaker 1: Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine, as well

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Speaker 3: Ough Jin, don't wonder off, how are we supposed to

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Speaker 3: spot Rebecca with all these people. She's a needle in

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Speaker 3: a haystack. Did she tell you specifically where she'd be?

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Speaker 1: She said she'd meet us on the main Isn't this

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Speaker 1: the main street? Maine? Isn't a street. It's a monument.

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Speaker 1: What they built? A monument in honor of the USS

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Speaker 1: main that exploded in Havana Harbor in eighteen ninety eight, the.

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Speaker 3: Attack that led to the Spanish American War.

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Speaker 1: That's the one, but many now think it actually exploded

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Speaker 1: from the inside. Ugh, which way is it down here?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 3: I still don't see her.

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Speaker 5: There she is, Rebecca, There you are.

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Speaker 3: I was just about to head to the.

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Speaker 5: Hotel to look for you.

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Speaker 1: We were brought in for a meeting with Castro himself.

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Speaker 5: Seriously, are you all right?

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Speaker 3: Jean shared us to go with him.

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Speaker 2: I thought we were dead until we convinced him we

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Speaker 1: Powerful man. Sure are suckers for vanity.

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Speaker 3: I think we convinced him. But do you think it's

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Speaker 5: He wouldn't have let you go otherwise.

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Speaker 1: How about you? What did you learn?

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Speaker 5: My KGB contact left a dead drop confirming the location

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Speaker 5: of the weapons and asking to meet me tonight.

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Speaker 3: What if it's a trap.

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Speaker 5: I don't think so. He could have just picked me

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Speaker 5: up at the drop if he wanted to. And it

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Speaker 5: must be important because he didn't even leave the meeting location.

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Speaker 5: In case the documents were discovered. All he wrote was

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Speaker 5: I'll meet you where I'll have immunity whatever that means.

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Speaker 3: Immunity like in a hospital law or from the law.

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Speaker 1: No, it's neither. I think he means a church. A church,

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Speaker 1: the Iglesia de la Spiritu Santo, to be exact. In

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Speaker 5: Sounds right to me lead the way.

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Speaker 1: The Iglesia de la Spirito Santo is considered one of

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Speaker 1: its modest appeal, many illustrious people of Havana have been

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Speaker 1: baptized in this church, among them the educator Jose de

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Speaker 1: la Luci Caballero, Bishop Geronimo Valdez, a founder of La

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Speaker 1: Casa de Beneficiencia Imaternidad de la Habana, was buried in

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Speaker 1: this church, and his master, Sepulcher, was discovered within the

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Speaker 1: only immune church in Havana, meaning that any persecuted individual

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Speaker 3: Rebecca, do you know what your contact looks like?

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Speaker 5: No, and I'm not sure where we're supposed to meet him.

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Speaker 3: This courtyard is huge.

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Speaker 1: There should be a metal plaque at the foot of

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Speaker 1: the bell tower that attests to the papal immunity.

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Speaker 5: Great idea, let's go there.

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Speaker 3: Hmm, nice timing.

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Speaker 1: But where is he?

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Speaker 7: Do verier no proverie?

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Speaker 3: What are they saying?

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Speaker 1: It's an old Russian proverb it means trust, but it

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Speaker 9: Thank you for meeting me.

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Speaker 5: I received your message in the documents, but I need

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Speaker 9: My name is Oleg Penkovski, Colonel Soviet military Intelligence.

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Speaker 5: How did you first make contact with the CIA.

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Speaker 9: In July, I saw American students on the Bolshoy Maskvretsky

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Speaker 9: to an officer to the US embassy, who eventually contacted

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Speaker 9: me with MI six. You need to trust me. The

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Speaker 9: Soviets are increasing their missiles here in Cuba.

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Speaker 5: I saw that in the maps you provided. But why

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Speaker 9: Because this information is so urgent and important, it couldn't wait,

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Speaker 9: and I couldn't risk it being discovered at a drop.

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Speaker 9: Only a select few of the truth of this operation.

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Speaker 9: What operation Operation Anadhir? It's a top secret operation to

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Speaker 9: approximately sixty thousand personnel in support of the main missile force,

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Speaker 9: which consists of three or twelve missile regiments and two

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Speaker 9: are fourteen missile regiments.

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Speaker 5: Those are close and intermediate range missile regiments. If that's true,

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Speaker 5: it would demand a US military response. It is true,

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Speaker 5: then we're going to need reconnaissance photos and locations of

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Speaker 5: the missile regiments to confirm the operation. I have a

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Speaker 5: Cuban contact. You can help. If they've imported missiles of

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Speaker 5: this size, someone would have seen it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Then while the two of you get the proof

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Speaker 2: we need, I'll go back with Javier and let him

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Speaker 2: show me the tourist sites in case anyone is.

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Speaker 3: Still watching us.

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Speaker 1: Perfect. So all we have to do is get this

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Speaker 1: top secret information off this enemy island before the Soviets

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Speaker 1: catch or kill us.

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Speaker 3: Are the Cubans execute us?

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Speaker 5: But if we don't, this cold war is about to

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Speaker 1: The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance and dance,

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Speaker 1: comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced by the

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Speaker 1: European dances and folk musics include zappateo, fandango, pasodoble, and retambico.

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Speaker 1: The enslaved Africans and their descendants made many percussion instruments

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Speaker 1: and preserved rhythms they had known in their homeland. The

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Speaker 1: Cuban music has contributed to the development of a wide

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Speaker 5: Makes you want to shake your hips, doesn't it? Jane,

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Speaker 5: Thanks for waiting while I talk to my contact.

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Speaker 1: He spooks easy, no problem. I was enjoying the show.

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Speaker 1: So what did he say? Have any information?

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Speaker 5: Yes, he described large trucks passing through his town at

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Speaker 5: night carrying very long, canvas covered cylindrical objects. But he

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Speaker 5: noted that the trucks were so large they couldn't make

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Speaker 1: What does that mean?

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Speaker 5: Defensive missile transporters could make such turns without difficulty. What

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Speaker 5: he saw must have been the ballistic missiles were looking for.

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Speaker 1: Did he track where they went?

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Speaker 5: He drew this map on the cocktail napkin.

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Speaker 1: It looks like it correlates to one of my father's maps.

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Speaker 1: I know where this should lead. It's a town north

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Speaker 5: I think we need to head there and see for ourselves.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking the same thing.

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Speaker 5: I hope you're wearing good walking shoes.

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Speaker 1: A good travel writer comes prepared for all occasions.

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Speaker 5: Then let's mumbo out of here.

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Speaker 1: Look here, this road looks freshly cut into the jungle, and.

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Speaker 5: It's wide enough for the trucks to maneuver.

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Speaker 1: From this map, the first location is a quarter mile

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Speaker 1: past this ridge.

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Speaker 5: We're getting close. Ah, God, damn, mosquitoes are eating me alive.

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Speaker 5: All the surveillance should be done in the comfort of

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Speaker 5: a U two spy plane at seventy thousand feet, not

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Speaker 5: I'm deep in the Cuban rainforest. I'll tell them what

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Speaker 5: they can shove in.

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Speaker 1: Their photo gap, photo gap.

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Speaker 5: That's the nice way. The suits in DC are explaining

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Speaker 5: why we have no surveillance photos of Cuba the last

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Speaker 5: five weeks.

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Speaker 1: I assumed they would be sending constant YouTube surveillance over

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Speaker 1: Cuba after the Bay of Pigs disaster.

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Speaker 5: Well they were, But then a U two operated by

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Speaker 5: the US Air Forces Strategic Air Command flew over suck

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Speaker 5: Khalin Island in the Soviet Far East by mistake. Then

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Speaker 5: nine days later, a Taiwanese operated U two was lost

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Speaker 5: over western China to an SA two surface to air missile.

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Speaker 5: So now US officials are worried that one of the

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Speaker 5: Soviet SAMs in Cuba might shoot down a CIA YouTube

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Speaker 5: initiating another international incident.

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Speaker 1: It seems we are on the precipice of an international

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Speaker 1: incident either way.

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Speaker 5: And clearly the Soviets and Cubans knew about the photo

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Speaker 5: gap and took full advantage. Another intelligence failure. If you

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Speaker 5: asked me, wait, get low. There are lights up ahead.

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Speaker 5: Sh nice and slow, careful not to break any twigs. Stop.

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Speaker 5: That's close enough. Stay here.

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Speaker 1: We're still pretty far. I can't make out much from

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Speaker 1: this distance.

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Speaker 5: That's why I brought my telephoto lens.

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Speaker 4: What do you see?

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Speaker 5: There are missiles camouflaged in the palm trees, lots of them.

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Speaker 8: Good eye.

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Speaker 1: I can barely make them out.

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Speaker 5: That one closest is the R twelve, a medium ranged

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Speaker 5: ballistic missile with an effective range of two thousand kilometers.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I guess Oh it turned out to be right.

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Speaker 5: Oh, and there's the R fourteen, big son of a bitch.

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Speaker 5: It's an intermediate range ballistic.

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Speaker 1: Missile, well kind of range.

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Speaker 5: Forty five hundred kilometers from here, basically anywhere in the

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Speaker 5: continental US.

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Speaker 1: My god, oh shit, what what is it?

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Speaker 5: The warhead that R fourteen is carrying is thermo nuclear.

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Speaker 1: Nuclear as a mushroom cloud nuclear.

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Speaker 5: Jesus, not just one. They're all armed with thermonuclear warheads.

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Speaker 7: My god.

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Speaker 1: Forty five hundred kilometers. That's twenty eight hundred miles. Cuba

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Speaker 1: is only ninety miles from mainland US.

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Speaker 5: The missiles alone would be bad enough, but with the nukes,

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Speaker 5: DC would be a wasteland before we could even fire a.

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Speaker 6: Missile, and at this distance, the entire continental United States,

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Speaker 6: who would be completely annihilated.

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