Shadow Warrior

Shadow Warrior
ISBN-10
0671667211
ISBN-13
9780671667214
Series
Shadow Warrior
Category
Biography & Autobiography / General
Pages
283
Language
English
Published
1989
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Authors
John Weisman, Felix I. Rodriguez

Description

This is the story of Felix Rodriguez, one of the CIA's most extraordinary agents. A member of the anti-Castro movement from the age of 17, Cuban Felix Rodriguez was infiltrated into Cuba six weeks before the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, and was one of only 15 of the original group of 35 infiltrators who escaped after the invasion failed. In 1967, as CIA advisor to the Bolivian Army, he helped to capture Che Guevara and was the last person to interrogate him. In Vietnam Rodriguez led and advised an elite anti-guerilla force until injuries caused his premature retirement. He was also a major figure in the American support of the Nicaraguan Contras and his claims that they were being poorly equipped, claims which Oliver North failed to heed, were ultimately proved correct during the Congressional Iran/Contra hearings.

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