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Operation 40 & the Anti-Castro Cubans (E11)
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- Jun 13, 2026
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Summary
Once again under mounting siege, Cuba’s revolution is no stranger to violent meddling by the United States and wealthy Cubans in exile. We explore a “wet work” team of assassins, spies and brutes assembled in 1960 and known as Operation 40. As usual, your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus. Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month. Research and writing by Marty Pynchon Meier. Editing by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França . Cover art by Ruben Gerard . Super Structure selection of the week is Canción del Elegido by Silvio Rodriguez. Follow Super Structure on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superstructurepodcast/ Superstructurepodcast.com Bibliography Daniel Hopsicker - Barry and the Boys: The CIA, the Mob, and America’s Secret History Fabian Escalante - JFK: The Cuba Files and The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba (1959 - 1962) Reinaldo Taladrid and Lazaro Baredo - The Bush Family and the Kennedy Assassination Don Bohning - The Castro Obsession: US Covert Operations against Cuba, 1959 - 1965 Roben Farzad - Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami Sean Oliver and Ricardo A. Morales Jr. - Monkey Morales: The True Story of a Mythic Cuban Exile, Assassin, CIA Operative, FBI Informant, Smuggler, and Dad Larry Hancock - Someone Would Have Talked: Documented! the Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Conspiracy to Mislead History Lesley Gill - The School of the Americas John Dinges & Saul Landau - Assassination on Embassy Row Spartacus Educational encyclopedia entry on Operation 40 CRS Report for Congress - “U.S. Army School of the Americas: Background and Congressional Concerns” (Updated April 16, 2001) Manuel Roig-Franzia for WaPo - “Exile to Reveal Plan for Post…