Speaker 1: Minister Govera, so good to have you in Moscow.
Speaker 2: Chairman Krusechev, it is in honor. Please call me j
Speaker 2: All of Kuba appreciates the invitation.
Speaker 1: Please heavy seat. I wanted to offer my personal congratulations
Speaker 1: on defeating the Americans in the Bay of Pigs. It
Speaker 1: did a great deal for our casts and offered the
Speaker 1: world necessary hope.
Speaker 2: We are aligned in the same mission. Chairman, so I
Speaker 2: speak for the people when I ask for your help.
Speaker 2: Soviet support is necessary to help protect Kuba from further
Speaker 2: American invasions. I worry without your support we will not
Speaker 2: be so fortunate next time.
Speaker 1: Then rest easy, comrade. With Soviet weapons and Cuban courage,
Speaker 1: the Americans wouldn't dare another attack. We have prepared the
Speaker 1: arms agreement between our countries for your signature. It's all here,
Speaker 1: sixty thousand troops, medium and intermediate range ballistic missiles and
Speaker 1: thermonuclear warheads.
Speaker 2: With these warheads, the Americans will finally fear us. Yes, German,
Speaker 2: I suggest we announce this agreement to the world all
Speaker 2: the press conference and issue a public warning to the
Speaker 2: United States and the world that communism is protected in
Speaker 2: the Western hemisphere and it will survive.
Speaker 1: While certainly a worthy battle cry, I fear if we
Speaker 1: announce our union prematurely, the United States will have no
Speaker 1: choice but to act No. Instead, we should maintain total
Speaker 1: secrecy until the missiles are properly deployed and plans put
Speaker 1: in place before revealing the true nature of our partnership.
Speaker 2: But what if they discover the missiles and mission and
Speaker 2: attack us in turn?
Speaker 1: You have my word, the Soviet Union will come to
Speaker 1: Cuba's aid if that were to occur. But Kennedy boy
Speaker 1: has proven to be weak. You will only actively feels
Speaker 1: you must. That's why keeping it a secret is the
Speaker 1: best course of action.
Speaker 2: Understood, We keep it a secret until we are ready. Then,
Speaker 2: if the Americans think they can squash us like a bug,
Speaker 2: millions will taste our deadly sting.
Speaker 3: How far can your camera lens reach?
Speaker 4: Pretty far? That's another OR twelve with the NU extract
Speaker 4: to it an R twelve.
Speaker 5: It's a single stage, road transportable, surface launch, storable, liquid
Speaker 5: propellant fueled missile that can deliver a megaton class nuclear
Speaker 5: weapon over twelve hundred miles away.
Speaker 3: Don't get too excited about it.
Speaker 5: Sorry, It's like seeing King Kong in person. Yep, and
Speaker 5: that's another R fourteen the range of twenty eight hundred miles.
Speaker 3: My god, and according to my father's maps, the Soviets
Speaker 3: are building nine more of these sites. Look see here.
Speaker 3: These symbols must designate the missile type and payload.
Speaker 5: That means six sites for medium range missiles and three
Speaker 5: for intermediate range ballistic missiles. That's enough to turn the
Speaker 5: entire United States into a nuclear wasteland.
Speaker 3: The let's finish taking these photos. Go get Flosta and
Speaker 3: get the hell off this island.
Speaker 5: You're right, Okay, that's enough, I got it. Let's go,
Speaker 5: But I have to meet Olek first. Why his intel
Speaker 5: was right, which means his life is in danger. We
Speaker 5: have to get him out with us.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you know where to find him?
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 4: The Necropolis.
Speaker 3: The Cemetery of Christobal Cologne, also known as the Necropolis,
Speaker 3: was founded in eighteen seventy six in the Vedado neighborhood
Speaker 3: of Havana, Cuba. Named for Christopher Columbus, the cemetery is
Speaker 3: famous for its elaborately sculpted memorials and is estimated to
Speaker 3: have more than five hundred major mausoleums in historical and
Speaker 3: architectural terms, The necropolis is one of the most important
Speaker 3: cemeteries in the world and especially in Latin America. When
Speaker 3: first established as a Catholic cemetery, plots were originally assigned
Speaker 3: according to social class, and soon became a means for
Speaker 3: patrician families to display their wealth and power, with elaborate
Speaker 3: tombs and mausoleums constructed by famous nineteenth and twentieth century artists.
Speaker 3: The north main entrance alone is a site to behold,
Speaker 3: as it is marked by a massive gateway decorated with
Speaker 3: biblical reliefs and topped by a marble sculpture. The cemetery
Speaker 3: even has something for the sports enthusiast, containing not one,
Speaker 3: but two monuments to baseball players from the Cuban League,
Speaker 3: the nation's favorite sport.
Speaker 5: There is something so creepy about cemeteries at night, especially
Speaker 5: this elaborate and huge.
Speaker 3: We could get lost wandering around, fall into a crypt.
Speaker 5: Getting lost. That's hard to imagine.
Speaker 3: Where are we meeting oleg We're.
Speaker 4: Meeting him by the Cuban Baseball monument.
Speaker 3: Which one, but there are two monuments in the cemetery.
Speaker 3: They sure love their baseball in Cuba.
Speaker 5: It's the one for the Hall of Famers. I think
Speaker 5: Oleg enjoys the irony of it being the American pastime.
Speaker 3: Hum a spy with a sense of humor. You know,
Speaker 3: the real irony is that many Cuban players are better
Speaker 3: than American major leaguers. Jose Mendez once pitched twenty five
Speaker 3: consecutive scoreless innings in three straight appearances against the Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 5: You're just a fountain of fun facts, aren't you?
Speaker 3: Sorry? Just a baseball fan. Oh there it is up.
Speaker 7: Ahead, Hello again, Did you find what you were looking for?
Speaker 4: Oleg?
Speaker 5: We confirm your intel. They have short and intermediate range
Speaker 5: missiles armed with thermonuclear warheads.
Speaker 7: I've been told Khrushchiev approved the mission himself, though he
Speaker 7: will never admit it. He knew America had the upper hand,
Speaker 7: as they could launch missiles from Turkey and Italy to
Speaker 7: destroy the USSR before he had time to react.
Speaker 3: Well, with these missiles, he now has the upper hand.
Speaker 7: Correct. If the United States chooses to launch a nuclear
Speaker 7: weapon against the Soviet Union, there would be time for
Speaker 7: a retaliatory nuclear.
Speaker 4: Strike mutually assured destruction, and all that's left of the
Speaker 4: world has charred ashes.
Speaker 7: Now you see why I had to get the information out.
Speaker 5: Which is also why we need to get you out
Speaker 5: with us. If they find out what you've done, your
Speaker 5: life is in danger.
Speaker 8: Ssh.
Speaker 3: Do you hear that?
Speaker 9: What those are?
Speaker 3: Corridors?
Speaker 8: Shit?
Speaker 4: I see flashlights there at the edge of the cemetery.
Speaker 7: You should go now.
Speaker 4: It's neither of that. They'll kill you if they.
Speaker 7: Catch you, it will all I've been for nothing better
Speaker 7: than me than millions.
Speaker 8: Go.
Speaker 3: Thank you, aleg, good luck. I surrender.
Speaker 6: I am an armed I am an arm too long?
Speaker 3: Stop run stop, stop for me.
Speaker 4: Do you know where you're going?
Speaker 10: I have an idea gene. The design of the cemetery
Speaker 10: is set along a cross, and on each axis there
Speaker 10: is another cross formation in the center, so that's five
Speaker 10: crosses in total. The two main avenues give rise to
Speaker 10: the central cross. Each of the four resulting spaces, called barracks,
Speaker 10: are subdivided in turn by two other streets that intersect
Speaker 10: at right angles.
Speaker 2: Stop.
Speaker 4: It's so very interesting.
Speaker 6: That has to help us.
Speaker 10: The cemetery is laid out roughly on a north south asis,
Speaker 10: parallel to the Amandaris River and against the street grid
Speaker 10: of Vedado. If we can you south, we should enter
Speaker 10: by the riverside exit and therefore freedom Oil.
Speaker 4: We're right, I see them head, We're out. I think
Speaker 4: we've lost them.
Speaker 3: Now let's go get Glosta and get off this island.
Speaker 4: We better hurry. Oh, it won't give us up right away.
Speaker 5: But it's only a matter of time before they learn
Speaker 5: everything they want to know from.
Speaker 6: Him, jam and Krushchev.
Speaker 7: I hate the field report on operation and the deer proceeds.
Speaker 3: If Marshall serge and in.
Speaker 7: July missile construction specialists under the guise of machine operators,
Speaker 7: irrigation specialists and agricultural specialists first or in Cuba. Since then,
Speaker 7: a total of forty three thousand troops have been transported
Speaker 7: in to establish and defend the launch sites and install
Speaker 7: s seventy five Divina surface to air missiles at eight
Speaker 7: different locations. To shield the ballistic missiles from potential attack
Speaker 7: from the United States, All launch sites have been concealed
Speaker 7: and camouflaged by pond trees. But I unfortunately must report
Speaker 7: there has been an intelligence leak. The KGB officer has
Speaker 7: been arrested conducting espionage and confessed to his crimes, but
Speaker 7: not before critical information was compromised.
Speaker 3: What was the KGB agent's.
Speaker 7: Name Oleg Vladimirvitch Penkowsky.
Speaker 1: Then we must prepare for an American response, place your
Speaker 1: men on high alert, and prepare weapons for final deployment.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
Speaker 3: Poasa, we're back there you are.
Speaker 11: I've been worried sick. Radio Havana, Cuba just announced the
Speaker 11: military has been put on alert of Maxima, which can't
Speaker 11: be good.
Speaker 4: What did you find in case they're listening.
Speaker 3: It's worse than we imagined. There's enough nuclear weapons on
Speaker 3: the island to obliterate America.
Speaker 5: Did you get the proof we need? I have photos
Speaker 5: and locations. Now we need to get this evidence to
Speaker 5: the CIA as soon as possible and.
Speaker 3: Can get the hell out of here.
Speaker 4: Expecting someone no fit.
Speaker 3: Maybe they were listening. Then you're fowar door.
Speaker 2: It's me Javier, Oh, Javier, I'm glad to see you.
Speaker 2: I wish I came with better news. I just receive
Speaker 2: a call that Castro is taking over the Nazional Hotel
Speaker 2: as his military headquarters. Right now, Yes, and media demente.
Speaker 3: And do you know why did something happen?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but as I told you, they have
Speaker 2: been constructing tunnels and adding guns to the coast of
Speaker 2: battery outside the hotel for months though, so Castro must
Speaker 2: be preparing for something big.
Speaker 4: He's going to.
Speaker 5: Be transferring hundreds of soldiers in personnel to the hotel,
Speaker 5: will be surrounded.
Speaker 4: How are we going to get out of here?
Speaker 2: Javier, go back a second. You said he was building tunnels.
Speaker 2: See miles of them under the hotel and along the coast.
Speaker 3: That's it, of course, the tunnels. Okay, my father's maps,
Speaker 3: see these trails were missile sites, but the coastal tunnels
Speaker 3: he drew were for Castro's defensive positions beneath the hotel.
Speaker 3: He plans on using the guns above to defend the
Speaker 3: coast from invasion, and the tunnels below as the headquarters
Speaker 3: to ride out any potential nuclear attack.
Speaker 4: My god, I think you're right.
Speaker 5: He's turning this hotel into a military installation.
Speaker 11: Then we need to get out of here right now.
Speaker 5: We'll never make it to our extraction team or Guantanamo.
Speaker 5: But I have a fishing boat hidden in a cove
Speaker 5: below the hotel as an emergency plan. B. If we
Speaker 5: can make it to the boat, we can take it
Speaker 5: the ninety miles to Miami.
Speaker 4: How we can't just.
Speaker 11: Walk out of the lobby, not anymore.
Speaker 3: You're right, but we could take these tunnels Castro's tunnels exactly.
Speaker 3: We can use their own pathfinder maps against them. If
Speaker 3: I remember correctly, one should lead out just below the
Speaker 3: Malesson that's.
Speaker 5: Only a couple hundred yards from the boat.
Speaker 4: Then let's do it.
Speaker 3: Javier, come with us. It's not safe for you here anymore.
Speaker 4: Yes, we have room for one more on the boat.
Speaker 2: Which as Grassis, but I cannot leave. My family is
Speaker 2: here and so is my hotel, no matter what they
Speaker 2: do to it. But I promise you can trust my discretion.
Speaker 2: A good hotel manager respects his guest privacy.
Speaker 4: Thank you Haveavier.
Speaker 2: I hope to see you all again soon under better circumstances.
Speaker 3: We hope the same. My friend.
Speaker 7: Jane, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: Why did you punch him?
Speaker 3: My deepest apologies, Javier, just trying to save your life.
Speaker 3: Now you can say you were kidnapped by the Americans.
Speaker 3: You tried to stop us, but we knocked you out.
Speaker 3: Hopefully the shiner will help convince them it's true. No
Speaker 3: hard feelings, I.
Speaker 2: Hope, no problem sor just write me a nice review
Speaker 2: in your book next time.
Speaker 3: Next time we take you and your family back with us.
Speaker 3: That's a promise. Thank you, senor.
Speaker 4: No, thank you have here here. Put some ice on it.
Speaker 4: We should get a move on.
Speaker 2: Yes, see go the tunnel access is in the basement.
Speaker 2: I will hold them off. Okay, come on.
Speaker 3: This way to the service stairs.
Speaker 4: The tunnel is over here.
Speaker 3: It looks freshly dug and into the sewers.
Speaker 9: Wonderful.
Speaker 5: There might be soldiers down there, so let's be quiet
Speaker 5: and stick together.
Speaker 3: This tunnel should take us through the water treatment plant
Speaker 3: and out toward the coast.
Speaker 4: Lead the way.
Speaker 5: This place has more tunnels than an ant hill.
Speaker 3: And every inch lined and powered.
Speaker 9: Castro and his whole army could stay down here left
Speaker 9: of this juncture.
Speaker 4: Cots back you in the shadows. Don't make a sound.
Speaker 9: That was close?
Speaker 4: How much further?
Speaker 9: Just around this corner, then let's move it.
Speaker 11: I have never been happier to see the ocean and
Speaker 11: smell fresh air.
Speaker 4: Great work leading us out, Jeane.
Speaker 3: You should thank my father.
Speaker 5: I do. Now follow me.
Speaker 4: The boat is this way here behind the rocks.
Speaker 3: What well, it's not the Queen Mary, but it has
Speaker 3: a motor.
Speaker 4: As long as it's not the Titanic. Come on, help
Speaker 4: me get it in.
Speaker 1: The water.
Speaker 3: Climb in, I'll push it off.
Speaker 4: Didn't you think that's for us.
Speaker 3: Let's not stick around to find out. Start rowing.
Speaker 4: I'll get the motor. They've turned on the such lights.
Speaker 4: Got it. Hold on, we just have to make a
Speaker 4: pass that out clumping.
Speaker 3: Before being spotted too late. Get down. Well, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to make it go faster.
Speaker 4: We don't have to make it to Miami.
Speaker 6: Just half that out cropping.
Speaker 4: The USS Independence is anchored on the other side, two
Speaker 4: miles out.
Speaker 3: They fire anywhere close and it would be an active war.
Speaker 3: Good floor.
Speaker 5: Where almost Jeane, there's a flare on the floor below.
Speaker 4: You fire it in the direction of.
Speaker 3: That night got it? Fire away?
Speaker 5: Come on, sailors.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, come, they see us? Who is saved?
Speaker 12: Good evening, my fellow citizens. This government has promised has
Speaker 12: maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military build up
Speaker 12: on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable
Speaker 12: evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive
Speaker 12: missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island.
Speaker 12: The purpose of these bases can be none other than
Speaker 12: to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western hemisphere.
Speaker 12: Each of these missile sites is capable of striking Washington,
Speaker 12: d C. The Panama Canal, Cape Canaveral, Mexico City, or
Speaker 12: any other city in the southeastern part of the United States,
Speaker 12: in Central America, or in the Caribbean area. By the
Speaker 12: presence of these laws, large long range and clearly offensive
Speaker 12: weapons of sudden mass destruction constitutes an explicit threat to
Speaker 12: the peace and security of all the Americans. It shall
Speaker 12: be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear
Speaker 12: missile launch from Cuba against any nation in the Western
Speaker 12: hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the
Speaker 12: United States, requiring a full retiratory response upon the Soviet Union.
Speaker 12: My fellow citizens, let no one doubt that this is
Speaker 12: a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out.
Speaker 12: The path we have chosen for the present is full
Speaker 12: of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom
Speaker 12: is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And
Speaker 12: one path we shall never choose, and that is the
Speaker 12: path of surrender or submission. Our goal is not the
Speaker 12: victory of might, but the vindication of right, not pace
Speaker 12: at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom.
Speaker 12: Here in this hemisphere, and we hope around the world,
Speaker 12: God willing that goal will be achieved. Thank you and
Speaker 12: good night.
Speaker 3: Huh. Great speech. Let's hope the right people were.
Speaker 11: Listening and that they're smart enough to avoid mutually a
Speaker 11: sure destruction.
Speaker 4: What a horrible phrase.
Speaker 3: Hopefully the blockade and international outcry created by the surveillance
Speaker 3: footage will be enough for cooler heads to prevail. Rebecca,
Speaker 3: come in.
Speaker 11: Hello, Rebecca, I see your photos made it into the
Speaker 11: President's hands.
Speaker 4: Things are moving fast.
Speaker 5: Everyone's working overtime. Do you know how much longer we'll
Speaker 5: be staying here in Miami? Not much longer, but it
Speaker 5: is as safe as any place right now.
Speaker 3: Don't tell me they're planning another invasion. What have you
Speaker 3: learned with the photos?
Speaker 4: A and intel?
Speaker 5: The CIA has been able to determine that the Soviets
Speaker 5: have grossly exaggerated their nuclear stockpile. The US still has
Speaker 5: the strategic advantage.
Speaker 11: You mean we can nuke them more and that's supposed
Speaker 11: to make us feel better.
Speaker 5: No, but it does mean JFK isn't going to order
Speaker 5: an immediate invasion, and he's going instead to continue to
Speaker 5: use both military and diplomatic pressure.
Speaker 3: And after the speech, he just gave. There should be
Speaker 3: a global outcry sounds promising. Any word on.
Speaker 5: Oleg Unfortunately, we've heard through the channels that after he
Speaker 5: was captured, he was tortured and executed.
Speaker 4: Oh no, that's horrible.
Speaker 3: He was a true hero. He sacrificed himself to protect millions.
Speaker 5: And his sacrifice won't be forgotten. I will make sure
Speaker 5: of that. But I do have better news about another
Speaker 5: hero we met along the way. Who Why don't you
Speaker 5: give this number a call and I'll see you both.
Speaker 4: Later for dinner.
Speaker 3: All right? Thanks?
Speaker 5: Oh and one more thing, Jean, that last pathfinder map
Speaker 5: from your father. We believe the trail is located in
Speaker 5: the mountains near Cambodia. The Viet conger using it to
Speaker 5: move weapons and soldiers. We could use your eyes on
Speaker 5: it when you have a chance. They're calling it the
Speaker 5: Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Speaker 3: You got it.
Speaker 4: See you later.
Speaker 8: Hello, bobosh Baton tackle Jivago.
Speaker 3: Is that you, Jean, Jean.
Speaker 8: It's so good to hear your voice, my boy. The
Speaker 8: name is Babash now, by the way, Stanley Barbash, I'm
Speaker 8: still getting used to it.
Speaker 3: Then, how have you been, stan They placed.
Speaker 8: Us in a small town on the Pacific coast, like
Speaker 8: smelling the ocean in the morning and watching the sunset.
Speaker 3: How was your nephew adjustin.
Speaker 8: It's Michael now, and he's doing great, already enrolled in
Speaker 8: school and wants to play American football and go to
Speaker 8: American college, then become an astronaut like John Glenn.
Speaker 3: The American Dream. He's a smart young man. I'm sure
Speaker 3: he'll achieve anything he sets his mind to.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Jean for everything. I wish your story had
Speaker 8: the same ending. I was very sorry to hear about
Speaker 8: the death of your father. He was a great man
Speaker 8: and a great friend, and he loved you very very much.
Speaker 3: They never caught the killer, but Martin thinks the Soviets
Speaker 3: killed him rather than risk losing him to the Americans.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they would have done the same to you
Speaker 3: if given the chance.
Speaker 8: Yes, it's true that the Soviets will kill without hesitation
Speaker 8: or provocation, especially if they think it is in the
Speaker 8: service of the state. But I also warn you to
Speaker 8: watch those closest to you. Your father worked with Martin
Speaker 8: for many years and said he was also a man
Speaker 8: who cannot be trusted. The information your father held could
Speaker 8: have hurt many people. Not just the Soviets, and those
Speaker 8: people would also have reason to kill him before that
Speaker 8: information got out.
Speaker 3: Are you saying you think Martin had my father killed?
Speaker 8: Geane? All I know is there were only two sides
Speaker 8: that knew where your father was, and opportunity creates thieves
Speaker 8: and murderers. Stay safe, my boy, and trust no one.
Speaker 3: Who was that just an old friend of my father?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 3: What did you want to give me? His condolences and
Speaker 3: a few words of advice.
Speaker 11: Oh good, I was worried you were going to say
Speaker 11: it was Martin. Pack your bags, it's off to a
Speaker 11: new adventure.
Speaker 3: No. I think we've had enough adventures for a while.
Speaker 6: Not enough.
Speaker 3: Never thought i'd say it, my love, But the only
Speaker 3: place I want to go with you is home. But
Speaker 3: for now, the bedroom will have to.
Speaker 2: Do, Jean.
Speaker 3: Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable or easy.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it hurts, or it even breaks your heart. But
Speaker 3: that's okay because it's the journey that changes you. You
Speaker 3: take something with you that never leaves, and hopefully you
Speaker 3: leave something good behind in return.
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