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Eugene Carroll was a retired U.S. admiral who met with Cuban officials in Havana the day before the Cuban Air Force shot down two Hermanos al Rescate planes flying over Cuban airspace in February 1996. During the meeting, Cuban officials made comments that strongly hinted at the possibility of an attack. Carroll forwarded this information to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), but the attack proceeded the next day nonetheless. When word broke that the DIA had known about and failed to prevent the attack, the revelation portrayed the U.S. government as incompetent and ineffective. The coincidence of the timeline—Carroll receiving warning of the attack a mere day before it played out—heightened DIA analyst Reg Brown’s suspicions that a DIA colleague was operating as a Cuban spy.
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Eugene Carroll Character Timeline in Talking to Strangers
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Chapter Three: The Queen of Cuba
However, coverage of the story changed after a retired U.S. rear admiral named Eugene Carroll revealed that he and some military analysts had met with Cuban officials the day before...
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...the air strike’s unsettling coincidences. For instance, isn’t it odd that a prominent Washington insider (Carroll) just so happened to disclose Cuba’s hypothetical plans to shoot down the Rescate planes the...
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...to undertake a mission on February 24, it wouldn’t quite click that the date of Carroll’s briefing in Cuba had been selected by chance.
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...earned her the nickname “Queen of Cuba”—who had picked February 23 as the date of Carroll’s briefing. This information troubled Brown, who was reluctant to accuse such a revered colleague of...
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...paranoid. His suspicions increased upon discovering that it was Montes who had arranged for Admiral Carroll’s meeting with the Cuban officials.
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...note of her intimidating demeanor. When Carmichael asked Montes about arranging the meeting with Admiral Carroll, Montes claimed that she’d only accompanied Carroll to Cuba and hadn’t arranged the meeting herself....
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