Hey brother, i appreciate you shining a light on this issue, since many people still today claim that they violated Cuban airspace in January which "justified " the shootdown in February...however they didn't need to enter the airspace to beyond 12 miles to drop.the leaflets.There are however some inaccuracies in your chronolgy not even related to the planes but on basic historical dates that you got wrong: 1.Fidel passed away in 2016 not 2011 2.But even before 2011,actually in around 2006 Fidel retired and his brother Raul took over. I don't want you to lose credibility over this details but if I don't point them out someone trying to discredit you WILL use them
From the smiley I guess you meant that sarcastically. It is, however, a correct statement. Totally NOT a CIA operation. Subsequent events proved that without a doubt.
Indeed, it was NOT a CIA operation. To imagine that the CIA would undertake a one time leafleting operation is fairly ludicrous. Had it been part of a government program it would have been part of a much wider overall program, not a one-off drop as a political gesture.
The group was totally separated from any US government involvement, being funded via subscriptions by,”Little old ladies in Hialeah,” and occasional well heeled donors.Many of originators of the group were veterans of the Bay of Pigs debacle and had no love or trust in the CIA or the US government. They recognized that independence of action was far more important than funding tied to a Washington bureaucracy. The group was under constant surveillance to the point that the tower chief at the Opa Locka airport was tasked with making upwards of twenty phone calls to various agencies whenever the group launched a search and rescue mission. Eventually the chief told the authorities to choose one number to call as his job and the job of the air traffic controllers was to separate aircraft, not spy on people. The group was a thorn in the side of the Clinton administration. If the group had been funded by the government, that funding would have been shut down, ending the group. So, no, snarky emojis and eye rolls do not constitute knowledge or facts. The group received no funding, overt or covert from the US government.
The ICAO investigator informed us that the leaflets floated as far as Batabanó, 50 kilometers south of Havana!
Some of the leaflets must have caught an updraft in the clouds!
Hey brother, i appreciate you shining a light on this issue, since many people still today claim that they violated Cuban airspace in January which "justified " the shootdown in February...however they didn't need to enter the airspace to beyond 12 miles to drop.the leaflets.There are however some inaccuracies in your chronolgy not even related to the planes but on basic historical dates that you got wrong:
1.Fidel passed away in 2016 not 2011
2.But even before 2011,actually in around 2006 Fidel retired and his brother Raul took over.
I don't want you to lose credibility over this details but if I don't point them out someone trying to discredit you WILL use them
Thanks for the correction! Small things, yes, but it is always important to get things right in the details.
Totally not CIA operation. :)
From the smiley I guess you meant that sarcastically. It is, however, a correct statement. Totally NOT a CIA operation. Subsequent events proved that without a doubt.
@@theancientartofmodernwarfa6481 Sure. :)
Indeed, it was NOT a CIA operation. To imagine that the CIA would undertake a one time leafleting operation is fairly ludicrous. Had it been part of a government program it would have been part of a much wider overall program, not a one-off drop as a political gesture.
The group was totally separated from any US government involvement, being funded via subscriptions by,”Little old ladies in Hialeah,” and occasional well heeled donors.Many of originators of the group were veterans of the Bay of Pigs debacle and had no love or trust in the CIA or the US government. They recognized that independence of action was far more important than funding tied to a Washington bureaucracy. The group was under constant surveillance to the point that the tower chief at the Opa Locka airport was tasked with making upwards of twenty phone calls to various agencies whenever the group launched a search and rescue mission. Eventually the chief told the authorities to choose one number to call as his job and the job of the air traffic controllers was to separate aircraft, not spy on people.
The group was a thorn in the side of the Clinton administration. If the group had been funded by the government, that funding would have been shut down, ending the group.
So, no, snarky emojis and eye rolls do not constitute knowledge or facts. The group received no funding, overt or covert from the US government.