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Podcast: Richard Syrett's Strange Planet
Episode: The Cuban Five
Description: EPISODE #599 THE CUBAN FIVEThe Cuban Five were dispatched to Florida in the early 1990s to infiltrate militant anti-Castro exile groups hatching terrorist attacks against their country. In 1998, after the Cubans had passed on to the U.S. government information their agents had uncovered about a plot to blow up an airplane filled with Cuban beach-bound tourists, the FBI arrested, not the terrorists plotting the attack, but the agents trying to stop it!Stephen Kimber is the author of What Lies Across the Water: The True Story of the Cuban Five. Stephen i...