John Kowalski Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Netflix has a movie called the Wasp Network which is based on real events. Miami anti-Castro Cubans attempt to de-stabilize Cuba in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union. Cuban government sets up an intelligence network made up of "defectors" whose objective is to infiltrate the anti-Castro Cubans and report back to Cuban intelligence. It's the 1960s all over again and except this time they are trying to disrupt Cuba's tourism business by bombing hotels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stevens Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Related: https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a32892855/the-wasp-network-true-story-cuban-five-ending-explained https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Five Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Schnapf Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 presumably the role LHO played in 1963- it was well known that castro agents had infiltrated the anti-castro exile groups. LHO would pretend to be a pro-castro sympathizer to flesh them out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Butler Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Hi John, Any idea why "Wasp" network? Any idea why the word wasp was used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kowalski Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 Hi John: It is an English translation of "La Red Avispa". Don't know why that Spanish phrase was chosen as the name of this group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Butler Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 1 hour ago, John Kowalski said: Hi John: It is an English translation of "La Red Avispa". Don't know why that Spanish phrase was chosen as the name of this group. Thanks John. I just had flashes of sociology classes where anti-wasps were a dominant theme. WASPS meant White Anglo-Saxon Protestants and were the originators of the dreaded Puritan work ethic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kowalski Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 What "La Red Avispa" could mean is that communism represented by red is going to sting represented by wasp their adversaries in the Miami anti-Castro community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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