Castro's Spies

[Opens May 13 and available on various digital and VOD platforms.] Ollie Aslin and Gary Lennon's fascinating, informative, intriguing, in-depth, insightful, 103-minute, 2020 documentary that details the extensive training from psychology classes to martial arts that five Cuban secret agents, including Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, and René González, received before going undercover in Miami during the 1990s and the ordinary lives they assumed, the sacrifices they made, and the toll on their families to gather intel on America until their eventual capture and consists of archival photographs and film footage and commentary by U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark (1967-1969), Cuba Under Siege author Keith Bolender, criminal defense attorneys (such as Phil Horowitz, Paul McKenna, and Jack R. Blumenfeld), former Cuban President Fidel Castro (archive footage), former U. S. Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton (archive footage), exiled Cuban Brothers to the Rescue founder José Basulto, exiled Cuban Orlando Bosch (archive footage), former U.S. attorney Guy A. Lewis, former Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcón Gerardo Hernández's wife Adriana Peréz, René González's wife Olguita Salanueva and daughter Ivette Salanueva, and FBI agents Charlie Kranz, Alan Pierce, and Stuart Kent.
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