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Life and Death in Anti-Castro Miami

Over the decade of the 1960s, St. George was repeatedly baffled by how little attention the national media paid to the open warfare that thousands of Miami Cubans—with and (later) without CIA funding—were conducting against Communist-ruled Cuba.  This funeral procession likely took place in 1960 when the body of a Cuban man, charged with working for US intelligence, was repatriated following his execution. Mourners stitched the Cuban and American flags together over his casket in an open-air ceremony before holding a procession and rally near a bust of José Martí in a Miami park.