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

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Education, History, News

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2015

⏱️ 69 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. Warning: This podcast contains some salty language. Consider it PG-13.

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Museum in Washington, D.C. I'm Dr. Vince Hote, the museum's historian and curator.

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Every month, the museum brings you interesting talks

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with authors, scholars, and practitioners 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 three of spy cast interview with intelligence legend

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Felix Rodriguez.

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Let's talk about the time period in between

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when you cut Che and when you finally

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volunteered to go to Vietnam in 1970,

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what was happening in between?

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Well, after I came back from Chez's operation,

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like actually, you know, in October, we were flowing to from there to like I guess I already

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told you that to Panama and from Panama to Charreston-Sasco

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