{"podcast":{"title":"Super Structure with Julian Feeld","slug":"super-structure-with-julian-feeld-7836426","podcast_index_feed_id":7836426,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/super-structure-with-julian-feeld/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/super-structure-with-julian-feeld","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/super-structure-with-julian-feeld/20260328_030337_7c448c05e7379d9d1366c9dcb7c156b8.png","author":"Julian Feeld","episode_count":26,"summary":"Super Structure is a podcast about the many shapes of power. The power of propaganda, the power of political repression, and the power of revolutionary struggles the world over. We help you — and comedian Jon Gabrus — understand current events, history and politics. So join us as we live, laugh, and radicalize together.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T04:20:24.888794+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/super-structure-with-julian-feeld-7836426"},"episode":{"title":"Operation 40 & the Anti-Castro Cubans (E11)","slug":"operation-40-the-anti-castro-cubans-e11","published_at":"2026-06-13T00:29:35+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/super-structure-with-julian-feeld-7836426/operation-40-the-anti-castro-cubans-e11","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/super-structure-with-julian-feeld-7836426","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/super-structure-with-julian-feeld/2911387","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/379904/2911387/super-structure-with-julian-feeld/2026_06_13_00_23_58_b181d33e-67b7-4f42-b23e-afbd8129d425.mp3","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…","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3682,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/super-structure-with-julian-feeld-7836426/episodes/operation-40-the-anti-castro-cubans-e11/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/super-structure-with-julian-feeld-7836426/operation-40-the-anti-castro-cubans-e11.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}