JFK The Enduring Secret

Episode 361 Ground Zero: JM WAVE And The Cuban Question Part 3 (Includes Operation Tilt)

In this third installment of our miniseries, Ground Zero: JM WAVE and the Cuban Question, we examine the dangerous two-track contradiction of U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba during the summer and autumn of 1963. While one hand of the United States government was quietly exploring diplomatic backchannels to Fidel Castro through UN diplomats and ABC News journalist Lisa Howard, the other hand was funding, arming, and launching anti-Castro exile commandos onto Cuban beaches under the secret war ...