S4E28: Episode 1: "A Broken Heart"
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4.4 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In the first installment of the series, Isikoff and his producer Mark Seman travel to Cuba where they interview Johana Ruth Tablada de la Torre, the deputy director for U.S. affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry about how the reports of Havana Syndrome were viewed by the country's leadership. The episode also features interviews with a leading Cuban human rights activist, Brian Nichols, the assistant U.S. secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs and Ben Rhodes, the ex-Obama aide who negotiated the reopening to Cuba in 2014 only to watch all his efforts undercut by the events that began with Havana Syndrome.
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| 0:31.6 | August 14th, 2015. |
| 0:37.9 | American flag is raised over the US Embassy in Atlanta, Cuba, reopened after more than |
| 0:42.3 | half a century in a ceremony led by then secretary of state, John Kerry. |
| 0:49.5 | I feel very much at home here and I feel at home here because this is truly a memorable |
| 0:56.1 | occasion. |
| 0:57.1 | It was indeed a historic moment. |
| 0:59.0 | For decades, Cuban the United States have been locked in a seemingly endless Cold War |
| 1:03.2 | grudge match, determined to stamp out a communist beachfront 90 miles from the Florida coast. |
| 1:09.0 | The CIA had plotted to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro with exploding cigars and |
| 1:13.9 | poison pellets. |
| 1:15.6 | In 1961, it tried to topple Castro's government with a disastrous invasion by Cuban exiles |
| 1:20.9 | at the Bay of Pigs. |
| 1:22.6 | And the year after that, the Soviet Union installed nuclear missiles on Cuban soil, aimed |
| 1:27.1 | at the United States, bringing the world to the brink of atomic apocalypse. |
| 1:32.1 | Relations between the two countries were frozen in amber, no functioning embassies, no high |
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