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Cuba Libre: An Interview with Intelligence Legend Felix Rodriguez (Part II)

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Education, History, News

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

SPY Historian Dr. Vince Houghton sat down with Cuban-exile-turned-CIA-officer Felix Rodriguez to discuss his extraordinary intelligence career. As a teenager, Rodriguez joined the effort to overthrow (and kill) Fidel Castro. After that mission failed, he trained and led the team that hunted – and captured – the guerilla Che Guevara in Bolivia. By the late 1960s, he took his counterinsurgency experience and applied it in covert operations against America’s enemies in Vietnam. This, and much more.

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I'm Dr. Vins Hoat, the Museum's historian and curator.

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Every month, the museum brings you interesting talks with authors, scholars, and practitioners

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who live in the world of global espionage.

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Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence.

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This is part two of SpyCast's interview with Intelligence

1:25.5

Legend Felix Rodriguez. I want to ask you now about a very successful

1:29.6

operation, that's Bolivia 1967. You train and led a team to track down now even more so one of the most famous

1:39.2

revolutionaries of all time and unfortunately he's more famous today because in the 1990s every other college student

1:45.0

had a picture of Che Govetta on their sweatshirt.

1:49.5

But you were sent down, you had intelligence that Chee was operating in Bolivia and you were sent down to train and lead a team to chase down Chee.

1:57.5

And what I found interesting from reading your book about this was the way that you went about building dossiers about all the different rebel leaders.

2:05.1

So it's a classic intelligence technique, but you really kind of hunkered down and made sure

2:10.0

you really understood the people that Shay was operating with.

2:14.0

Right.

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