Hey listeners, this episode of covert features descriptions of violence, torture, and PTSD.

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October 1959 Roosevelt Hospital

Maridil Lorenz had been involved in a whirlwind romance with a revolutionary Fidel Castro.

She then became pregnant with his child, but seven months into the pregnancy, something

happened that changed the course of her life.

I would have these crying jags where I would curl up into a ball and cry my eyes out,

wanting the baby and throwing things in on.

They would give me pills to calm me down.

Marida woke up in a car with her baby gone, now suffering from blood poisoning she required

immediate surgery and beside her in the American hospital the entire time, not her beloved

Fidel or even any of his aides, but the FBI waiting to speak with her and maybe help her

exact revenge.

They would have to have her so convinced that Castro had absolutely betrayed her that

his soul England was to invade the United States and overturn the US government that the lives

of millions of American people were in state.

Welcome to covert, a show about the shadowy world of international espionage and top secret

military operations.

Some people on the press called him a real act James Bond and he certainly was.

He used over 30 different aliases in his career as a spy and as a sass.

I'm Jamie Rennell and I'm going to take you inside history's greatest special operations

missions to learn about the people who risked their lives to eliminate threats and protect

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