Anti-Castro Cuban raiders nowadays buy their 2O-mm. cannons through the mail from Finland, make their dog tags on bus station souvenir coin machines. The raiders have largely deserted the Florida coast, and operate mainly from the Bahamas, escaping detection in the maze of 700 islands. Now and then one of their boats makes a dash for Cuba to drop off guns and supplies, shoot up a shore, maybe even fire at a Russian ship.
The U.S. not only withholds help from the raiders, but actively discourages them. Washington thinks that the raids do Castro no real harm, and in fact,...
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