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I'm your host, Jeff Kudel.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 145, and it's the Bay of Pigs part three. I've decided that

we're going to depart just a little bit from some of the longer episodes that we've had and we are

going to do it in smaller chunks here. And so we'll use today's episode as an opportunity to get a close-up look at one of the Cuban

leaders of Brigade 2506, Manuel Artemah. This was a man who in December of 1958 joined the rebel

army of Fidel Castro and he took part in offensives against the forces of the Batista regime.

And in January, 1959, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Artemot was appointed

second in command of Zone 022 in the Chiro-Rodondo district. And as you recall, the INRA was the

organization formed to implement agrarian reform,

but it was really ostensibly the organization, the front organization, which Castro used,

to rule behind the scenes. He did a lot while he was in those positions, including promoting

a group that was essentially like the

Peace Corps within Cuba. But Artemot would soon learn what the true stripes were that Castro

wore. They were communist stripes. And he would soon prove that not everybody within Cuba

was going to follow where Castro was leading. He would take a very courageous stand,

and we'll talk about it in today's episode, and the events which unfolded, the courage that he

showed while he was inside of Cuba, would eventually lead to a circumstance where the CIA

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