4. (Sort of) Off Topic: Operation Mongoose

(Sort of) The Story · Oct 17, 2022 · 55m

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The Bay of Pigs, the Vietnam War, the US plans to rapture Cuba-- all this and more on today's (Sort of) Off Topic episode!

Sources:

“Operation Mongoose: The Story of America’s Efforts to Overthrow Castro, and how they helped seal America’s fate in Vietnam” by Max Boot

This Day in History: April 17, 1961. “The Bay of Pigs Begins” History.com

“Fidel Castro” on History.com

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