0:00:18 > 0:00:21They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28The great wonder
0:00:28 > 0:00:30is that there's any one left alive.
0:00:31 > 0:00:32Ugh!
0:00:34 > 0:00:35Ugh!
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Ugh!
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Perhaps now you will tell us your rank.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01My rank...
0:01:01 > 0:01:03My rank...
0:01:05 > 0:01:07..is go to hell.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Hello. My name is Elizabet.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25I am to be your guide.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34Outside Spain, this is the largest collection of Coellos in the world.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38Is there any truth to the notion that Coello was both influenced by Rubens
0:01:38 > 0:01:42but actually stole most of his style and passed it off as his own?
0:01:42 > 0:01:45I have heard of the theory, of course.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49But to date, there is no evidence to support it.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53- You were followed on your way to the museum.- Who are they?
0:01:53 > 0:01:57The Allamvedelmi Hatosag - what the Hungarians call the AVH.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00- AVH Secret Police. - You're not Hungarian?
0:02:00 > 0:02:03No, I'm English. My husband was Hungarian.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05I saw the AVH men through my office window,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08a car and at least three people on foot.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11It must be standard procedure for them to keep tabs on foreigners.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15We're going out a way out the AVH doesn't seem to watch.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17What happens when the Hungarian Secret Police realises
0:02:17 > 0:02:20I'm not coming out the front door after the museum closes?
0:02:20 > 0:02:23They're scared of their superiors, so they shan't report you missing.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27They'll simply go back to your hotel and wait for you there.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30We've seen it many times before.
0:02:37 > 0:02:42So what's an English girl doing mixed up in a Hungarian uprising?
0:02:42 > 0:02:45I'm doing this because of my husband.
0:02:45 > 0:02:51- How does Arpad Zelk feel about his wife being an operative in the resistance?- I'm not married to Arpad.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53I married another Hungarian.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57He was interrogated by the AVH two years ago.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59He didn't survive.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03I'm sorry.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06He and Arpad shared a prison cell together.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10One night, the guards brought my husband back to the cell.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13He'd been beaten to within an inch of his life.
0:03:15 > 0:03:22Arpad couldn't save him - he just had to sit there and watch him bleed to death on a cold stone floor.
0:03:22 > 0:03:27When he was released, Arpad came to tell me everything.
0:03:27 > 0:03:28I didn't... I didn't mean to pry.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Of course you did.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33You're an agent of the CIA.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Jack McCauliffe, let me introduce you to Arpad Zelk.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02It's an honour to meet such a distinguished poet.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04As I compose my poems in Hungarian,
0:04:04 > 0:04:08my distinction resembled that of a bird
0:04:08 > 0:04:12chirping at the top of his lungs in a soundproof cage.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15My friends, fighters in the resistance.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Please, sit down, Mr McCauliffe.
0:04:24 > 0:04:31Magyar Torkoly. A brandy made from the skins of grapes after they've been crushed to make wine.
0:04:31 > 0:04:32Egeszegedre.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Cheers. Egeszegedre.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41And now, if you please, Mr McCauliffe,
0:04:41 > 0:04:45what message do you bring to us from the United States of America?
0:04:45 > 0:04:47HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:04:47 > 0:04:54- My superiors would like you to postpone your uprising.- How long?
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Somewhere between a year and 18 months.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04The United States cannot be drawn into a war with the Soviet Union.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06We need more time.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10Radio Free Europe has spoken endlessly in its broadcasts about rolling back communism.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14- We have been listening. - Radio Free Europe is not an organ of the United States government.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17If you please, who pays for Radio Free Europe?!
0:05:17 > 0:05:23Mr McCauliffe, let me try to explain what life is like in Hungary.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27We live in a country sick with what we call... ..Esengofrasz?
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Doorbell fever.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33Everybody lives in terror that the AVH will ring their bell at midnight
0:05:33 > 0:05:35and take them away for questioning or torture.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Hungarian people will no longer live in fear of their own government,
0:05:38 > 0:05:42fear that their children might be taken away, their parents, brothers and sisters, never to return.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Your people will listen to you.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46You have influence.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48No, you don't understand. You don't understand!
0:05:48 > 0:05:51I cannot postpone what will happen any more than I can control it!
0:05:51 > 0:05:55Two Soviet tank units have been observed 40 miles outside Budapest.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57They could be here in an hour.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01Russia needs your country for their ballistic missiles if they're
0:06:01 > 0:06:03to menace NATO's southern flank in Italy and Greece.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05They will be forced to intervene.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Thucydides wrote that
0:06:11 > 0:06:13three things push men to war...
0:06:14 > 0:06:16honour, fear,
0:06:16 > 0:06:19and self-interest.
0:06:19 > 0:06:25If we go to war, for Hungarians it will be a matter of honour and fear.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29We cling to the view that America will be motivated by self-interest.
0:06:32 > 0:06:37This is not a river of hatred, of revolt, this is a waterfall of emotion.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Why are you helping him?
0:06:41 > 0:06:45Let's say, Mr McCauliffe, your wife was taken from you in the middle of the night.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47I don't have a wife.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49But you've been in love, surely?
0:06:52 > 0:06:55Let's say your love was taken from you in the middle of the night.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01And when you asked why they were doing this, they said that she was an enemy of the people.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08And what if your three-year-old daughter was taken from you...
0:07:09 > 0:07:15because they said you were no longer fit to raise her? What would you do?
0:07:15 > 0:07:16Where's your daughter now?
0:07:16 > 0:07:19THUNDER RUMBLES
0:07:20 > 0:07:23I am forbidden to see her for more than one day per year.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27She lives in the countryside on a collective farm.
0:07:29 > 0:07:30She's eight-years-old now.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36It's been 206 days since I last saw her.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43We intervene in Hungary, we risk starting something that can't be stopped.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45I don't like staring into the barrel of a gun.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48We're talking about a future more insidious than fascism, Allen.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52The Soviets are too vested in Hungary to back down if we assist with the revolution.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56They'll have to crush it, and then we'll be responsible for starting World War Three.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57If we don't take a stand here,
0:07:57 > 0:08:00we run the risk of dividing the world into two halves.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03The one half communist, the other half democratic.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07And we may never be able to penetrate the iron curtain once it's slammed shut.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25This is the one that made him famous.
0:08:25 > 0:08:30It's called "E for Ertelmisgei" which means "Intellectual in Hungarian."
0:08:30 > 0:08:33When he was released from prison, he was 29-years-old,
0:08:33 > 0:08:39and this poem had been passed from hand to hand, until half of Hungary seemed to know it by heart.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01CROWD LAUGHS
0:09:25 > 0:09:28CROWD JOINS IN
0:10:03 > 0:10:08BELL RINGS I'd like to discuss a very promising proposition for two champions.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12Those who do not want to enter this world can leave now, without embarrassment.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15For those who choose to stay,
0:10:15 > 0:10:17welcome to the company.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19THUD! Ugh!
0:10:33 > 0:10:37You are an employee of the American Central Intelligence Agency, a member of
0:10:37 > 0:10:41the Soviet Russia Division in Mr Frank Wisner's Directorate for Operations.
0:10:41 > 0:10:46Since 1952 you have worked in Berlin under the guidance of Harvey Torriti.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53You must have me confused with somebody else.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Perhaps now you will tell us your rank.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07My rank...
0:11:07 > 0:11:10HE COUGHS
0:11:10 > 0:11:11..is go to hell.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14Bring him.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26SHE SCREAMS
0:11:26 > 0:11:28NO!
0:11:28 > 0:11:30NO!
0:11:31 > 0:11:34My name is Jack McCauliffe.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38I'm an officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. My pay grade is GS-15.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40No-ooooo!
0:11:40 > 0:11:45- And what message did your government bring Arpad Zelk? - Leave her alone and I'll tell you!
0:11:45 > 0:11:48- What message did you bring from the Americans?- NO!
0:11:48 > 0:11:52What message did you bring Arpad?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54The message was...
0:11:56 > 0:11:59..if you choose to revolt,
0:11:59 > 0:12:01the United States government will lend
0:12:01 > 0:12:08its full and complete support...including...
0:12:08 > 0:12:10its full military might.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Jim, if we are not here to protect the world
0:12:14 > 0:12:19from despots and dictators, then shoot me now, because my life's work's for nothing.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23Well, Frank, subtlety and patience is far more lethal to the communists than blunt force.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26We're here because one of our own is in trouble.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30The Hungarian government has officially denied any knowledge of Jack McCauliffe's whereabouts.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33The Secret Police have him locked up. We have to push harder!
0:12:33 > 0:12:35You sent him in without diplomatic immunity.
0:12:35 > 0:12:40Can't claim to want a man back that you supposedly never sent in there in the first place.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Jim, he's a colleague of yours.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Are you that cold? You'd just let him rot in some communist prison?
0:12:45 > 0:12:49- Jack knew the risks of the mission. - Regardless, he's an American citizen.
0:12:49 > 0:12:55To go hat in hand to the Hungarians and ask for our man back is not an idea I'm willing to entertain.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58We can come down hard if they're snatching Americans up off
0:12:58 > 0:13:01the streets of Budapest?! We've got to act, Allen!
0:13:01 > 0:13:05- Or we wait.- Doing nothing isn't much of a plan to put into effect.
0:13:11 > 0:13:16Mr Kritzky, I'm not sure I've heard your voice in this room before.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20I'm not sure I like it.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23Jack has made a lot of sacrifices for the company.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27- Leaving a man in the cold isn't something I'm going to keep quiet about.- Kritzky's right.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30We're not going to let one of our agents rot in prison.
0:13:32 > 0:13:36OK, well, it's the Russians who are behind it, of course.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39If the KGB sneezes, it's the AVH that catches the cold.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43We're getting nowhere with the Hungarian secret police.
0:13:43 > 0:13:47On the other hand, the KGB does have a vested interest in preserving
0:13:47 > 0:13:50the modus vivendi between two intelligence services.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53So how should we approach the KGB?
0:13:55 > 0:13:59Well, I've got a hunch that Mr Kritzky already has a plan.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03The Sorcerer can contact his KGB counterpart in Berlin and point out
0:14:03 > 0:14:06the disadvantages to both sides if they allowed their
0:14:06 > 0:14:08satellite countries to start taking scalps.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11ENGINE ROARS OVERHEAD
0:14:11 > 0:14:15So, Oskar... You don't if I call you Oskar, do you?
0:14:15 > 0:14:18You've never thought about defecting, have you?
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Torriti, for this you bring me out in the freezing cold?
0:14:21 > 0:14:25Ooh, don't loose your water, chum, I'm just pulling your leg.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Man, you Russian's oughta lighten up a little bit.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Maybe get laid once in a while.
0:14:30 > 0:14:35No, the only reason I mention defection is because I'm concerned about your family.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40- What about my family?- Well, suppose you kick the bucket, Oskar.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Would your family get a pension?
0:14:42 > 0:14:46If you are threatening me, I must inform you there are
0:14:46 > 0:14:50two sharpshooters with your head in their telescopic sights.
0:14:50 > 0:14:55Well, if I don't make it off the ice, Oskar, you can bet your ass you won't make it off either.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57ENGINES ABOVE
0:14:57 > 0:15:01I'm concerned what would happen to your family if we start killing each other off.
0:15:01 > 0:15:05By "we" I mean the KGB and the CIA.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09After all, we're not mafia clans, we're civilized organizations
0:15:09 > 0:15:14who happen to be on either side of a divide, and we don't see eye to eye on things like...
0:15:14 > 0:15:19..you know, what makes free elections free, and not being afraid of being woken up
0:15:19 > 0:15:23in the middle of the night and dragged off to some Siberian labour camp, that kind of thing.
0:15:23 > 0:15:30We must be careful to - well, that is your KGB and my CIA - not to hurt each other's people.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33AEROPLANE ENGINE DROWNS SPEECH As far...
0:15:33 > 0:15:36As far as I know, we are not hurting any CIA people.
0:15:36 > 0:15:41You don't know very far because one of my people's in your custody right now.
0:15:41 > 0:15:46But I am given regular updates of all activities in Moscow and Berlin.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50This particular person fell off our radar screens, hasn't been seen for two days in Budapest.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Ah, Hungary! HE CHUCKLES
0:15:53 > 0:15:58I'm afraid that complicates matters, Harvey. The Hungarian AVH is completely autonomous.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Autonomous, my ass.
0:16:01 > 0:16:06The KGB runs the AVH, like it runs every other intelligence service in eastern Europe.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09You KGB guys take a crap, the AVH flushes the toilet.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Oskar, what would happen if
0:16:19 > 0:16:23I were to reach inside my jacket now, pull out my handgun,
0:16:23 > 0:16:26and shove it up against your Stalin-loving Russki-gut?
0:16:26 > 0:16:29THEY LAUGH
0:16:29 > 0:16:32I would say it would be a form of suicide.
0:16:35 > 0:16:40Looks like your sharpshooters lost their competition of hide and seek against my crew.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43HE COCKS GUN Harvey...!
0:16:43 > 0:16:46- How would you like a new blow hole, Oskar? - REPLIES IN RUSSIAN
0:16:46 > 0:16:49- GUN CLICKS - Aw, damn.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52- I forgot to load it. - REPLY IN RUSSIAN
0:16:52 > 0:16:57Anything happens to my guy, Oskar, I'm loading this gun and I'm coming after you.
0:16:57 > 0:17:03- SHOUTS IN RUSSIAN - My guy doesn't come back, your wife starts collecting your pension!
0:17:07 > 0:17:10WATER SPLASHES
0:17:28 > 0:17:31SHOUTS FROM OUTSIDE
0:17:44 > 0:17:47CROWD CHANTS
0:17:54 > 0:17:57Let me begin by expressing my regret at the -
0:17:57 > 0:17:59what shall I call it -
0:17:59 > 0:18:04the zeal with which some of my Hungarian colleagues questioned you.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07You handled yourself admirably under interrogation.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11Even under duress, you stuck with your story.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13There's no story.
0:18:13 > 0:18:17The United States government will stop your tanks at the border.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24Our courtesy extended to you does not apply to the English national
0:18:24 > 0:18:28who was taken into custody the same night as you.
0:18:28 > 0:18:33She told us everything that was said in the meeting between yourself and Arpad Zelk.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36We know the truth.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Where is she?
0:18:39 > 0:18:41She continues to be interrogated.
0:18:41 > 0:18:47My Hungarian colleagues are hoping to put their hands on Arpad Zelk before the...
0:18:49 > 0:18:53..the demonstrations in the city grow any larger.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55EXPLOSION OUTSIDE
0:18:55 > 0:18:57LOUD SHOUTS FROM CROWD
0:19:05 > 0:19:07GLASS SMASHES
0:19:13 > 0:19:16That's not what I'd call demonstrations.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19That's a full fledged revolution going on.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29THEY SHOUT
0:19:49 > 0:19:51TYRES SQUEAL
0:20:12 > 0:20:13GUN SHOTS
0:20:36 > 0:20:40I'm an American! Don't shoot! I was their prisoner! Don't shoot!
0:20:40 > 0:20:44Don't shoot, I was their prisoner! Don't shoot!
0:20:52 > 0:20:54GUN SHOTS
0:20:56 > 0:20:59- Where is Elizabet? - She's still inside.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15SOLDIERS CRY OUT
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Elizabet?
0:22:40 > 0:22:42SHE SOBS
0:22:51 > 0:22:55Jack, I think I told them who you were.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58It's over now. It's over.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25SHE PLEADS
0:23:36 > 0:23:42- I have information that could be of help to your Central Intelligence Agency.- How did you know I was CIA?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45How did you know I worked for Wisner? That I was in Berlin with Karidi?
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Take me into your custody.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50Protect me from them and I will tell you everything.
0:23:53 > 0:23:54I think you're outta luck, buddy.
0:23:54 > 0:23:58You have a mole in your CIA!
0:23:58 > 0:23:59That is how I know. The mole.
0:23:59 > 0:24:04- Who?- I can give you information that you can surely use to find out his identity.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09If he's telling the truth, he has information that could be vital to the CIA.
0:24:17 > 0:24:23I can help you, McCauliffe! Protect me! Protect me! Protect me! Protect me!
0:24:57 > 0:25:00HE GIVES OUT A LONG CRY, THEN GUN SHOT
0:25:09 > 0:25:12NEWSREEL: Hatred, smouldering for a decade, erupts without warning,
0:25:12 > 0:25:15the flames of liberty and revenge against tyranny leap high.
0:25:15 > 0:25:20With uncontrolled fury, crowds set fire to Russian flags and put Soviet books to the torch.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24The Red Star is sent tumbling into the gutter.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Budapest is in revolt.
0:25:36 > 0:25:41Word comes of shooting on the other side of the city, and the rebels, armed now, run to the scene.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43GUNFIRE
0:25:43 > 0:25:46A quiet park has become a no-man's land.
0:25:48 > 0:25:52They are showing the world that freedom is worth dying for.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02You know how to drive a tractor?
0:26:02 > 0:26:05- I could try.- Good, then you can try to drive that.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23Elizabet!
0:26:39 > 0:26:42GUNFIRE
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Fire!
0:27:43 > 0:27:47- SOLDIER PLEADS - After years of being "comrades", we have suddenly become "citizens."
0:27:58 > 0:28:03Arpad! Arpad, listen to me. You've got to take back control or you're going to force the Soviet's hand.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06You stop now and you can still negotiate.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09- No negotiation.- They'll destroy you. and everything you fought for
0:28:09 > 0:28:11unless you take control and stop the killing.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15You think you can have half a revolution, one without bloodshed?
0:28:15 > 0:28:19The Russians will not invade, for the same reason they didn't invade Yugoslavia.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23They know our young people are ready to die for the revolution, and they
0:28:23 > 0:28:25will take a lot of young Russian soldiers with them.
0:28:27 > 0:28:31You're asking me to control years of oppression, torture and terror.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34I couldn't stop it even if I wanted to.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38Firing!
0:28:47 > 0:28:51For God's sake, Arpad, take these people prisoner!
0:28:54 > 0:28:56No negotiation.
0:29:07 > 0:29:12If we're the only country sending supplies to Austria, the Hungarians are gonna wish they'd never left.
0:29:12 > 0:29:1510,000 beds set up in shelters all across Vienna won't be enough.
0:29:15 > 0:29:18ENGINE SPLUTTERS
0:29:18 > 0:29:22- What the hell is that, Frank? - It's from McCauliffe!
0:29:22 > 0:29:24From Jack? Read it!
0:29:24 > 0:29:29"Freedom fighters under-supplied against T-34 tanks
0:29:29 > 0:29:31"Will fight to death for their cause.
0:29:31 > 0:29:35"Urge powers that be to back up Hungarians. McCauliffe."
0:29:35 > 0:29:38HE LAUGHS
0:29:38 > 0:29:43You're gonna have to convince Cockroach Alley to help the Hungarians on your own, Frank.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45We promised these people that we would support them.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48We've got to send in troops to back them up!
0:29:48 > 0:29:53Ike is absolutely adamant about not sending in troops or tanks to help the Hungarians.
0:29:53 > 0:29:54Most of these revolutionaries,
0:29:54 > 0:29:56they're students.
0:29:58 > 0:30:03- Kids, Allen!- We know we're not sending in tanks, but do the Russians need to know that?
0:30:03 > 0:30:07Yes. If the Russians believe the United States is sending
0:30:07 > 0:30:13air cover and tanks, that could give the Hungarians just the amount of time they need to hold out.
0:30:13 > 0:30:14Outlast the Russians, maybe.
0:30:24 > 0:30:26If that's the best we can do...
0:30:26 > 0:30:28Start radio traffic.
0:30:31 > 0:30:34Make sure the Soviets are listening.
0:31:26 > 0:31:29PHONE RINGS
0:31:39 > 0:31:42Hello...?
0:31:45 > 0:31:47Sasha.
0:31:57 > 0:31:58TAPPING AT THE DOOR
0:32:04 > 0:32:06LOUDER KNOCK AT DOOR
0:32:12 > 0:32:13Da?
0:32:32 > 0:32:34GUN FIRE IN DISTANCE
0:32:42 > 0:32:44GUN SHOTS
0:32:57 > 0:32:59GUNFIRE
0:32:59 > 0:33:02SCREAMING
0:33:55 > 0:33:58Jack! come this way. I know a way out, come!
0:34:00 > 0:34:03Through this alley way, I know a way to Kilian barracks!
0:34:07 > 0:34:10Stone walls, three metres thick!
0:34:21 > 0:34:23Where is America now, huh? Huh?!
0:35:12 > 0:35:14It's over, isn't it?
0:35:19 > 0:35:22It won't be over for Arpad until he is dead.
0:35:22 > 0:35:25Until everyone is dead.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27Are you willing to die for this?
0:35:27 > 0:35:29Why do you care, Jack?
0:35:29 > 0:35:31You can go back to the CIA, to America.
0:35:31 > 0:35:33This isn't even your country!
0:35:33 > 0:35:36But it's my daughter's country!
0:35:36 > 0:35:38And I'll fight for her freedom, for her future
0:35:38 > 0:35:43so that she doesn't have to live in fear of imprisonment, of torture.
0:35:45 > 0:35:48And I'll stand at her father's side to do that.
0:35:54 > 0:35:57RUMBLING
0:36:22 > 0:36:28Here's another one. "Mongolian units searching neighbourhoods block by block, house by house,
0:36:28 > 0:36:30"hunting for ringleaders of rebellion."
0:36:30 > 0:36:36"Thousands of freedom fighters being thrown into boxcars and carried off in the direction of the Ukraine."
0:36:36 > 0:36:39They're putting people into concentration camps.
0:36:39 > 0:36:42Here's one from the Associated Press correspondent in Budapest.
0:36:42 > 0:36:47"Under heavy machine gunfire, any news about help? Quickly, no time to lose."
0:36:47 > 0:36:50Maybe you should get some shut-eye, sir. You haven't slept in days.
0:36:50 > 0:36:54This is from a Hungarian reporter. "SOS. Fighting very close now.
0:36:54 > 0:36:56"Don't know how long we can resist.
0:36:56 > 0:37:01"Rumours circulating that American troops will be here within one or two hours.
0:37:01 > 0:37:02"Is it true?"
0:37:07 > 0:37:09Kritzky, this country isn't being overrun.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14It's being exterminated.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04ARTILLERY FIRE
0:38:36 > 0:38:38MACHINE-GUN FIRE
0:38:40 > 0:38:45- We are seconds away from a shell coming through that window and killing everybody!- I know!
0:39:01 > 0:39:04I will negotiate our surrender.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59GUNSHOT
0:40:01 > 0:40:03SHE SCREAMS
0:40:07 > 0:40:09SHE CRIES OUT FURIOUSLY
0:40:27 > 0:40:29Come with me. Come! Come!
0:40:49 > 0:40:52But it's as good as cold-blooded murder, Allen.
0:40:52 > 0:40:53Murder!
0:40:53 > 0:40:56For six years - six years!
0:40:56 > 0:41:01- we encouraged the Hungarians and the surrounding Soviet satellite countries
0:41:01 > 0:41:03to rebel against the Russian chokehold.
0:41:03 > 0:41:06We sent countless messages across Radio Free Europe,
0:41:06 > 0:41:10spent millions creating covert capabilities for just such an occasion.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12- I know, Frank. - Stockpiled arms across Europe.
0:41:12 > 0:41:15Trained emigres by the thousands. And what do we do?
0:41:15 > 0:41:20We offer damn pious phrases from Eisenhower.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23"The heart of America goes out to the people of Hungary."
0:41:23 > 0:41:26We told these people to rise up and break free of their Communist chains
0:41:26 > 0:41:30- and now we're turning our backs on them!- Calm yourself, Frank.
0:41:32 > 0:41:35'Mr Director, I wish to state for the record
0:41:35 > 0:41:39'that everyone in this room... Hell, everyone in Washington itself,
0:41:39 > 0:41:43'is culpable in the deaths of these freedom fighters.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45'We will, all of us,
0:41:45 > 0:41:47'have blood on our hands.'
0:41:50 > 0:41:52I tried to warn you, Frank.
0:41:55 > 0:41:58It's your methods that brought us to this place.
0:41:58 > 0:42:02You know, despite your personality, I have respect for you, James.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05But I hope you're wrong.
0:42:05 > 0:42:09I hope to God we never have to see the world through your cynical eyes.
0:42:25 > 0:42:26There you go.
0:43:28 > 0:43:29There! It's Jack!
0:43:30 > 0:43:32Jack!
0:43:35 > 0:43:37You made it.
0:44:00 > 0:44:01How are you feeling?
0:44:04 > 0:44:07They gave me something for the pain.
0:44:10 > 0:44:14Still don't see why I have to lie on this bed.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16You've been through a hell of a lot.
0:44:16 > 0:44:18Just rest.
0:44:23 > 0:44:26It wasn't supposed to end this way.
0:45:57 > 0:46:01I read through the notes of the debriefing team in Vienna
0:46:01 > 0:46:07and I'm particularly interested in your suspicions regarding a mole in The Company.
0:46:09 > 0:46:13The AVH colonel who interrogated me,
0:46:13 > 0:46:17he knew that I was assigned to Frank Wisner's Operations Directorate,
0:46:17 > 0:46:19that I was in the DDO's Soviet Russia Division.
0:46:19 > 0:46:23He knew that I'd worked in the Berlin station, that I worked under Torriti.
0:46:27 > 0:46:29I believe there is a mole.
0:46:30 > 0:46:34I believe it is the same Sasha who gave you up to the Russians,
0:46:34 > 0:46:37who in turn then informed the Hungarian secret police.
0:46:39 > 0:46:42The Wiz is retiring, Jack.
0:46:42 > 0:46:45I didn't know that.
0:46:45 > 0:46:47Hungary broke them.
0:46:49 > 0:46:53Apparently, he feels personally responsible for the deaths of thousands
0:46:53 > 0:46:55and no-one can dissuade him from this idea.
0:47:09 > 0:47:12ELECTRIC SURGE
0:47:21 > 0:47:23Can't keep up with you any more.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28That desk job's got you soft.
0:47:32 > 0:47:34I've been meaning to tell you...
0:47:35 > 0:47:38..how sorry I am about Hungary.
0:47:39 > 0:47:43What Ike did was wrong. He should have supported the rebels.
0:47:43 > 0:47:46That's already yesterday's news.
0:47:46 > 0:47:50With that stuff at the Suez Canal, nobody remembers Hungary.
0:47:50 > 0:47:53Nobody'll remember what happened in Budapest.
0:47:54 > 0:47:57It'll go down as a footnote in history.
0:47:57 > 0:48:00- You don't know that.- Sure I do.
0:48:00 > 0:48:03So do you, Leo. Let's row.
0:48:24 > 0:48:29Have someone bring me the 424 file on Jack McCauliffe, please.
0:48:57 > 0:49:02Mr McCauliffe? I welcome you to the rear end of the planet Earth.
0:49:02 > 0:49:07Humidity, 100%, mosquito population in the billions.
0:49:07 > 0:49:13Malaria is a problem, as is Chagas disease and dengue fever.
0:49:13 > 0:49:16So, where'd you learn to speak English so well?
0:49:16 > 0:49:18Fort Benning, Georgia.
0:49:18 > 0:49:20Advanced course in infantry tactics.
0:49:20 > 0:49:23I understand you've been training your troops for some time.
0:49:23 > 0:49:28Cuban kids learning to strip M-1s and put them back together again blindfolded.
0:49:28 > 0:49:32The mortar teams learning to bracket their targets.
0:49:32 > 0:49:36Me, all of us, we're in this thing for keeps.
0:49:36 > 0:49:38We are going to win
0:49:38 > 0:49:40or we are going to die.
0:49:43 > 0:49:46My orders are to act as a clearing house between you and Washington.
0:49:46 > 0:49:50You tell me your problems and I'll send along the ones that need solutions.
0:49:51 > 0:49:57First, the CIA has to screen the recruits better in Miami before they get here.
0:49:57 > 0:50:00Last week, I got a man who is a convicted murderer
0:50:00 > 0:50:03and a retarded kid who thinks Castro is a brand of sofa.
0:50:03 > 0:50:07Once they're here, we can't send them back because they know we exist.
0:50:07 > 0:50:09All right. Screen recruits, got you.
0:50:11 > 0:50:15SOLDIERS CHANT IN THE BACKGROUND
0:50:20 > 0:50:24I was promised portable showers but they never came.
0:50:24 > 0:50:29Your military advisers and Mr McCauliffe are washing in the swimming pool.
0:50:29 > 0:50:32They put up a sign saying "Officers Only".
0:50:32 > 0:50:35My men have nowhere to wash.
0:51:12 > 0:51:16If we're gonna be working together, you better start calling me Jack.
0:51:16 > 0:51:18OK, Jack.
0:51:18 > 0:51:24Data suggests 75-80% of Cuban army personnel disagree with Castro's political system
0:51:24 > 0:51:28so the officers are ready to rebel and bring their troops with them.
0:51:28 > 0:51:31Now, on the march to Havana,
0:51:31 > 0:51:36they will grow in number, picking up disgruntled Cuban military and non-military personnel.
0:51:36 > 0:51:41By the time they get to Havana, they'll be large enough to scare Castro out of Cuba.
0:51:41 > 0:51:44We estimate the invading brigade will double in size in four days,
0:51:44 > 0:51:46at which point they will break out of the beachhead.
0:51:46 > 0:51:48And if they can't break out?
0:51:48 > 0:51:54They'll take to the Sierra Maestra and go guerrilla, like Castro and Che Guevara did.
0:51:54 > 0:51:57What about Castro? I don't see him rolling over so easily.
0:51:57 > 0:51:59We have other plans on that end, Allen.
0:51:59 > 0:52:04My father-in-law, who is tight with Truman and Ike, mentioned to me over the weekend
0:52:04 > 0:52:08that he knows something is up with Cuba and even mentioned Trinidad Beach.
0:52:08 > 0:52:14Now, if Phil Swett knows where we're landing, then other people probably do too.
0:52:14 > 0:52:17It might be time to start looking for a new landing site.
0:52:17 > 0:52:19Yeah, start looking, Kritzky.
0:52:23 > 0:52:25Look at these men!
0:52:25 > 0:52:30Proud fighters, ready to storm the beaches to take back their homeland.
0:52:30 > 0:52:34- Thanks to you, Jack, they will do it with honour.- Thanks to me?
0:52:34 > 0:52:37Many of these men left the only world they ever knew.
0:52:37 > 0:52:40They have not felt part of something in a very long time.
0:52:40 > 0:52:43Roberto, America will supply you with B-26s.
0:52:43 > 0:52:47We'll train your pilots, we'll give you a lifetime supply of M-1 ammo.
0:52:47 > 0:52:50We will help you covertly, not overtly.
0:52:50 > 0:52:51You have to do the rest.
0:53:02 > 0:53:06Still serving the cheap stuff, Kritzky. Just how I like it.
0:53:06 > 0:53:08My pay grade doesn't allow me to get anything better.
0:53:08 > 0:53:15Dick Bissell is setting up a general capability within The Company known as "Executive Action".
0:53:15 > 0:53:19Its prime objective is to disable foreign leaders.
0:53:19 > 0:53:20Disable or disappear?
0:53:20 > 0:53:22Sometimes one, sometimes the other.
0:53:22 > 0:53:24The plan has changed with Castro.
0:53:24 > 0:53:28- At first they wanted him disabled or discredited.- And now?
0:53:28 > 0:53:32Exactly. The boys who were previously in charge of this operation
0:53:32 > 0:53:35weren't the sharpest tools in the shed.
0:53:35 > 0:53:38- The kind of people who move their lips when they read. - You guys don't do that?
0:53:38 > 0:53:41If I told you about some of their plots...
0:53:41 > 0:53:43Tell me, so I don't make the same mistakes.
0:53:43 > 0:53:48One plan placed an asset at the hotel that Castro was known to frequent.
0:53:48 > 0:53:54The asset was to dust Fidel's boots with thallium salts to make his beard fall out.
0:53:54 > 0:53:56But he never put his boots out to be shined.
0:53:59 > 0:54:04Another one was to somehow foul the ventilation system in Castro's broadcasting studio with LSD
0:54:04 > 0:54:09and the idea was that he would start slurring his words
0:54:09 > 0:54:13and ramble on during one of his marathon orations to the Cuban people.
0:54:13 > 0:54:17But, the only person who was affected was the poor lab rat
0:54:17 > 0:54:21who volunteered to see if it worked.
0:54:22 > 0:54:29Dusting his wetsuit with fungus spores that would give him a chronic skin disease.
0:54:29 > 0:54:34Planting an explosive device in a rare seashell where Castro liked to dive.
0:54:34 > 0:54:36BOOM! He's chicken of the sea.
0:54:36 > 0:54:40Filling his underwater breathing apparatus with tuberculosis.
0:54:40 > 0:54:42Just shoot the bastard.
0:54:42 > 0:54:48Our assets in Cuba say everyone is living in fear of Castro's secret police chief, Pineiro.
0:54:48 > 0:54:51The entire country is dropping dimes on one another.
0:54:51 > 0:54:53People are disappearing in the night.
0:54:53 > 0:54:58Has to be something where the person we recruit can get away safely.
0:54:59 > 0:55:02- That's where you come in. - Don't worry.
0:55:05 > 0:55:08Bissell's "Executive Action" plan is in safe hands.
0:55:08 > 0:55:10TRANSLATED FROM RUSSIAN:
0:55:49 > 0:55:55Over angry Cuban protests, the United States retaliates by cutting off its imports of Cuban sugar.
0:55:55 > 0:55:58Castro seizes more Unites States property.
0:55:58 > 0:56:02The Unites States and Cuba have reached the point of no return.
0:56:02 > 0:56:04In Washington, the administration is now convinced
0:56:04 > 0:56:08it is in the United States' national interest to get rid of Fidel Castro.
0:56:11 > 0:56:14Bang!
0:56:14 > 0:56:18You just won a one-way trip to spy heaven.
0:56:18 > 0:56:19What's that all about, Harvey?
0:56:19 > 0:56:23Mother is ruining The Company with his damn suspicions.
0:56:23 > 0:56:27- News to me.- A lot of good people have been passed over for promotion
0:56:27 > 0:56:31because they're on Angleton's short list of possible moles.
0:56:31 > 0:56:34They are all going over to the private sector.
0:56:35 > 0:56:37Let's get back to reality, huh?
0:56:37 > 0:56:40Our Cosa Nostra associates.
0:56:40 > 0:56:44These jokers have nothing to lose by helping the agency, Harvey.
0:56:44 > 0:56:47Rosselli and Giancana help knock off Castro.
0:56:47 > 0:56:50Now, whether they succeed or not, whether they even try or not,
0:56:50 > 0:56:55gives them immunity against prosecution with the Attorney-General, Bobby Kennedy.
0:57:00 > 0:57:02I don't want a paper trail on this.
0:57:02 > 0:57:04No memos. I don't even want a phone call.
0:57:04 > 0:57:09You set up a slush fund of cash to work with and we never speak together in public again.
0:57:46 > 0:57:48Johnny Rosselli.
0:57:48 > 0:57:53I hope the last-minute switch in the meet didn't piss you off, but I like Brooklyn better than Manhattan.
0:57:53 > 0:57:55It's good tradecraft.
0:57:55 > 0:57:58- What's tradecraft? - Taking precautions.
0:57:58 > 0:58:00Oh, precautions.
0:58:00 > 0:58:02Precautions.
0:58:02 > 0:58:05Precaution is how come I'm still alive.
0:58:05 > 0:58:10So, Mr Rosselli, how's business since you lost the Sans Souci casino in Havana?
0:58:10 > 0:58:14Well, it's not nearly as good as it was before the Cubans went Commie!
0:58:16 > 0:58:19I take it you'd like to see the Communists gone?
0:58:19 > 0:58:22Evaporated from the planet would be better.
0:58:22 > 0:58:24I don't understand Commies.
0:58:24 > 0:58:27I mean, what the hell they got against free enterprise?
0:58:27 > 0:58:30CAR ENGINE BACKFIRING, SOUNDING LIKE GUNSHOTS
0:58:30 > 0:58:31Bang, bang!
0:58:31 > 0:58:35You just won a one-way trip to birdy heaven.
0:58:36 > 0:58:39What if I told you the interests I represent would be willing
0:58:39 > 0:58:42to open a discussion about removing your problem in Cuba?
0:58:46 > 0:58:48Ha-ha!
0:58:50 > 0:58:54You want the Cosa Nostra to knock off Castro, eh?
0:58:54 > 0:58:56My orders come from the very top.
0:58:56 > 0:59:00Casinos opening up, tourists flooding in.
0:59:03 > 0:59:05I'm as patriotic as the next guy.
0:59:05 > 0:59:09If whacking Castro is good for my country, it's good enough for me.
0:59:36 > 0:59:38Hold it! Don't move, Eugene.
0:59:38 > 0:59:40Don't move!
0:59:42 > 0:59:45Now why did you hesitate, why didn't you go upstairs?
0:59:48 > 0:59:51A sign, huh? Well, you know what, there's nowhere to run.
0:59:51 > 0:59:53All right? Cos we know everything.
0:59:53 > 0:59:55Your buddy Max Kahn is all locked up.
0:59:55 > 0:59:58Now, lose the groceries. Get your hands on your head.
0:59:58 > 1:00:04OK. Inside of this bag there are components for nitroglycerine.
1:00:04 > 1:00:07Now, if I drop the bag, they might find one of our pinkies...
1:00:07 > 1:00:11- Get your damn hands on your head. - OK.- Get your damn hands on your...
1:00:15 > 1:00:17Hold it! He's on the move!
1:00:17 > 1:00:20He's on Wisconsin, moving toward 34th! He's on foot!
1:00:41 > 1:00:44Hold it!
1:00:51 > 1:00:55- Forget your shoe, buddy? - Yeah. I sort of ran away from an angry girlfriend.
1:00:55 > 1:00:57BUS DRIVER LAUGHS
1:01:46 > 1:01:48You know what I miss?
1:01:48 > 1:01:50Cuban freakin' cigars.
1:01:50 > 1:01:53Now, that is reason enough to whack the son of a bitch.
1:01:55 > 1:01:56So how do you see this hit?
1:01:56 > 1:02:01I imagine some of your associates might waylay Mr Castro and gun him down.
1:02:01 > 1:02:07I don't see using guns on Castro, for the simple fact that no-one pulling off the hit could get away
1:02:07 > 1:02:10with all them bodyguards or whatever around.
1:02:10 > 1:02:12How do you see it?
1:02:12 > 1:02:13Castro likes milkshakes.
1:02:13 > 1:02:17- Milkshakes.- Now he always offers to pay for them milkshakes,
1:02:17 > 1:02:20but nobody never takes his money.
1:02:20 > 1:02:25Someone could, say, spike his milkshake and escape by sea in a fast boat.
1:02:25 > 1:02:27It might work.
1:02:27 > 1:02:29"Might work"? It's golden, pal.
1:02:29 > 1:02:32You give me the right poison,
1:02:32 > 1:02:35I'll get someone in Havana to put it in Castro.
1:02:38 > 1:02:41These are U2 photographs taken yesterday of the Bay of Pigs.
1:02:41 > 1:02:44It's a 13-mile stretch of beach.
1:02:44 > 1:02:49As you can see, there's three causeways leading down from the swamps.
1:02:49 > 1:02:54If the invasion force is gonna succeed, they have to secure those causeways.
1:02:54 > 1:02:56The air strip is a godsend.
1:02:56 > 1:02:59It's long enough to handle B-26s.
1:02:59 > 1:03:02Air strikes could plausibly look Cuban from D-Day onward.
1:03:02 > 1:03:06Once we secure the beaches, then planes could take off from that air strip.
1:03:06 > 1:03:08Castro's troops?
1:03:08 > 1:03:14Around 100 militiamen from the 338th Militia Battalion in five barracks, one motor pool and a radio shack.
1:03:14 > 1:03:17- No armour, no artillery.- And if the brigade needs to fall back?
1:03:17 > 1:03:22If push comes to shove, Kennedy'll have to send in the cavalry.
1:03:22 > 1:03:24Sir, Kennedy specifically told Director Dulles
1:03:24 > 1:03:27he would never authorise overt American intervention.
1:03:27 > 1:03:29Let me tell you something, Kritzky.
1:03:29 > 1:03:35You wanna be a great president, you gotta to be a wartime president. Kennedy will back the rebels.
1:03:35 > 1:03:37You mark my words.
1:03:54 > 1:03:56Hello, Gene Lutwidge.
1:04:49 > 1:04:52KNOCK ON DOOR
1:05:27 > 1:05:30What can we do for you, Mr Toretti?
1:05:30 > 1:05:31Torriti.
1:05:31 > 1:05:34You can get me an Alka-Seltzer.
1:05:34 > 1:05:36Oh, my, do you have an upset stomach?
1:05:36 > 1:05:39No, I want you to arrange for someone else to have an upset stomach.
1:05:39 > 1:05:45- How upset do you want this person's stomach to become?- I'd like their stomach to stop functioning.
1:05:45 > 1:05:50Which would suggest you don't want to give anyone time to pump his stomach.
1:05:50 > 1:05:52You got it, doc.
1:05:53 > 1:05:56No, no, no. I'm afraid an Alka-Seltzer's far too big.
1:05:56 > 1:06:00The smaller it is, the easier to slip it into a liquid without anyone noticing.
1:06:00 > 1:06:06- You do want the perpetrator to get away with the crime, I take it?- That would be a good idea.- Timetable?
1:06:06 > 1:06:08I was thinking...
1:06:08 > 1:06:10hurrying but not rushing.
1:06:10 > 1:06:13That's nicely put. The hustle without the bustle.
1:06:13 > 1:06:18The haste without the waste. Would that everyone in the CIA function the way you do, Mr Torretti.
1:06:18 > 1:06:22- Torriti.- Rapido, rapido.
1:06:31 > 1:06:34We have to take precautions. This line is unsecured.
1:06:34 > 1:06:39'I have some very interesting news for Starik that can't wait for dead drops.
1:06:39 > 1:06:44'You're going to have to remember what I tell you, then encode it and send it immediately.'
1:06:44 > 1:06:47- What's the news? - 'It's about a certain island-nation
1:06:47 > 1:06:48'south of Florida.'
1:07:15 > 1:07:17D-Day minus two.
1:07:17 > 1:07:19So far, so good, Jack.
1:07:23 > 1:07:28- What's your problem now? - When is the last time you heard of a troop ship going into combat
1:07:28 > 1:07:31crammed with 1,000 tons of ammunition below deck?
1:07:31 > 1:07:37Jack, Castro only has 16 operational warplanes.
1:07:37 > 1:07:42Our B-26s are going to destroy them on the ground long before we hit the beaches.
1:07:42 > 1:07:43I hope you're right.
1:07:46 > 1:07:48I know why I'm here.
1:07:48 > 1:07:50I know why my boys are here.
1:07:50 > 1:07:53But why are you here?
1:07:53 > 1:07:55I was assigned, Roberto.
1:07:57 > 1:07:59I heard you volunteered.
1:07:59 > 1:08:01Why?
1:08:05 > 1:08:08As a friend of mine once said,
1:08:08 > 1:08:11the damn Goths are at the damn gate.
1:08:11 > 1:08:13And someone's gotta man the gate.
1:08:15 > 1:08:17And that someone is you, Jack?
1:08:21 > 1:08:23Why not?
1:08:25 > 1:08:31The invasion of Cuba is clearly a violation of several treaties, as well as American law,
1:08:31 > 1:08:36which specifically prohibits enlistment and/or recruitment for foreign military expeditions,
1:08:36 > 1:08:39as well as the outfitting of foreign naval vessels
1:08:39 > 1:08:42for service against a country with which we are not at war.
1:08:42 > 1:08:47In my view, Senator Fulbright, success is self-legitimising.
1:08:47 > 1:08:49It legitimised Castro when he seized control.
1:08:49 > 1:08:53It legitimised the founding fathers. I've always taken it for granted
1:08:53 > 1:08:57that Washington and Jefferson would have been hanged as traitors
1:08:57 > 1:08:59if the revolution had failed.
1:08:59 > 1:09:02The United States is eternally condemning Moscow
1:09:02 > 1:09:05for meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign countries.
1:09:05 > 1:09:10Intervention in Cuba now will open the door for Soviet intervention anywhere around the world.
1:09:10 > 1:09:15The Soviets are already intervening in many countries in the world, senator.
1:09:15 > 1:09:20All right. No matter how Cuban the operation is made to appear, the entire planet will hold
1:09:20 > 1:09:23the United States and the Kennedy administration accountable for it.
1:09:23 > 1:09:26Are you speaking...
1:09:26 > 1:09:28for the President?
1:09:28 > 1:09:34No. But I am advising him strongly to end this madness before it starts.
1:09:34 > 1:09:40If Cuba is so dangerous to the national interests, we should declare war and send in the marines.
1:09:40 > 1:09:43The ships are already at sea, senator.
1:09:43 > 1:09:45It's already begun.
1:09:45 > 1:09:49'Six weeks after the secret meeting at the White House,
1:09:49 > 1:09:52'Fidel Castro has publicly charged that the United States
1:09:52 > 1:09:56'is training an army to invade Cuba.'
1:09:56 > 1:10:02Now, planes from the aircraft carrier Essex, patrolling the airways between Cuba and the invasion fleet,
1:10:02 > 1:10:06have seen no indication of increased air or sea activity on the part of Castro's forces.
1:10:06 > 1:10:09Sir, we have new information here...
1:10:09 > 1:10:16312th Cuban Battalion stationed off the Isle of Pines has cancelled all liberty leaves until further notice.
1:10:16 > 1:10:19Could just be part of the general manoeuvres.
1:10:19 > 1:10:21It worries me.
1:10:21 > 1:10:24I have to be honest, Dick. Every time we see a detail
1:10:24 > 1:10:28that would appear to warn us off the invasion,
1:10:28 > 1:10:30we somehow manage to explain it away.
1:10:30 > 1:10:33It's a blind spot we seem to have.
1:10:33 > 1:10:36You have a suggestion, Ebby?
1:10:36 > 1:10:39We may have to stop looking at the details,
1:10:39 > 1:10:44and see if the entire operation itself isn't flawed.
1:10:44 > 1:10:45I agree.
1:10:47 > 1:10:50Castro will not scare off the way Arbenz did in Guatemala because...
1:10:50 > 1:10:56we decide to land a brigade of emigres on one of his beaches. He's made of tougher...
1:10:56 > 1:11:01stuff than that. Everyone in this room continues...
1:11:01 > 1:11:05to try to find reasons to pursue this foolishness.
1:11:05 > 1:11:08Yet no one will ask the bigger question.
1:11:08 > 1:11:11Should we even carry out this operation?
1:11:16 > 1:11:17And the worst of it?
1:11:19 > 1:11:25The world will see this folly for exactly what it is. A CIA operation,
1:11:25 > 1:11:27start to finish.
1:11:27 > 1:11:31The Company is supposed to steal secrets
1:11:31 > 1:11:36and then analyse the bejesus out of them.
1:11:36 > 1:11:41Using the Company to do covertly what the government...
1:11:41 > 1:11:45doesn't quite frankly have the balls to do overtly
1:11:45 > 1:11:50will make it much more difficult for us to collect intelligence.
1:11:50 > 1:11:56What business do we have to mount an invasion of a country
1:11:56 > 1:12:01just because the Kennedys are pissed off at the guy who runs it?
1:12:01 > 1:12:03Don't we have an army and a navy for that?
1:12:03 > 1:12:06An air force? Marines?
1:12:06 > 1:12:10If this invasion fails,
1:12:10 > 1:12:12it will cripple the Company for years to come.
1:12:12 > 1:12:15Ridding the hemisphere of Castro,
1:12:15 > 1:12:21freeing the Cuban people from the oppression of Communism, is clearly legitimate.
1:12:22 > 1:12:25You're forgetting one thing, Dick.
1:12:25 > 1:12:26Sasha.
1:12:26 > 1:12:29Oh, right. Your mole.
1:12:30 > 1:12:36As long as Sasha exists, and he does exist, Dick...
1:12:38 > 1:12:43..valuable information is being funnelled directly to our adversary, which means the Kremlin knows.
1:12:43 > 1:12:46Which means...
1:12:46 > 1:12:48Castro knows.
1:13:12 > 1:13:14Ahem.
1:13:22 > 1:13:25You know who I am, Arturo?
1:13:25 > 1:13:29- You are Manuel Pineiro. - You know my job?
1:13:29 > 1:13:32My position in the Government?
1:13:32 > 1:13:33Si.
1:13:33 > 1:13:35Head of Castro's secret policia.
1:13:35 > 1:13:39I have a difficult job.
1:13:39 > 1:13:41It's hard to make friends.
1:13:43 > 1:13:45It's good to...to know each other.
1:13:47 > 1:13:50Hopefully, you and I can be friends.
1:13:50 > 1:13:52For I already know much about you.
1:13:52 > 1:13:56And your cousin's fishing boat, which he keeps at the port.
1:13:59 > 1:14:02My cousin's boat is of no concern to me, senor.
1:14:02 > 1:14:06Tsk, tsk, Arturo.
1:14:06 > 1:14:08Friends do not lie to each other.
1:14:12 > 1:14:14Empty your pockets, amigo.
1:14:34 > 1:14:37How much were you paid to assassinate Fidel Castro?
1:14:38 > 1:14:42I swear on the grave of my mother, I know nothing of this.
1:14:42 > 1:14:44Who gave you your orders?
1:14:44 > 1:14:46I received no orders, senor!
1:14:46 > 1:14:48I swear this on the Bible!
1:14:48 > 1:14:50The Bible?
1:14:52 > 1:14:58These questions I ask you, Arturo Padron, they are rhetorical.
1:15:00 > 1:15:03Do you know this word, rhetorical?
1:15:03 > 1:15:04You know what it means?
1:15:08 > 1:15:10It means you already know the answers.
1:15:15 > 1:15:19Perhaps you would be so kind as to drink Senor Castro's milkshake?
1:15:25 > 1:15:27Don't you like milkshakes?
1:15:27 > 1:15:31Perhaps vanilla is not your flavour?
1:15:33 > 1:15:37Since you are so keen on tossing around the good book,
1:15:37 > 1:15:42perhaps you may remember one of my most beloved passages from the Bible.
1:15:42 > 1:15:49"Woe unto that man by whom the son of man is betrayed!
1:15:49 > 1:15:52"It had been good for that man
1:15:52 > 1:15:55"if he had not been born."
1:16:01 > 1:16:03Drink.
1:16:10 > 1:16:12Agh! Agh!
1:16:27 > 1:16:31First, I want to say that there will not be, under any conditions,
1:16:31 > 1:16:34an intervention in Cuba by United States Armed Forces.
1:16:34 > 1:16:37This government will do everything it possibly can,
1:16:37 > 1:16:38and I think it can...
1:16:38 > 1:16:41meet its responsibilities to make sure that
1:16:41 > 1:16:43there are no Americans involved in any actions.
1:16:58 > 1:17:00250 metres!
1:17:00 > 1:17:03250 metres!
1:17:05 > 1:17:07150 metres!
1:17:07 > 1:17:09150 metres!
1:17:10 > 1:17:12100 metres!
1:17:12 > 1:17:14100 metres!
1:17:17 > 1:17:19LOUD CRASH
1:17:21 > 1:17:24We hit a reef! SHOUTING AND COMMOTION
1:17:32 > 1:17:34Give me a knife!
1:17:42 > 1:17:46- We're 50 metres off shore!- He's dead!
1:17:54 > 1:17:57We're afloat here!
1:17:59 > 1:18:03GUNFIRE
1:19:43 > 1:19:46Hombre...at last.
1:19:50 > 1:19:55'This here's Whistlestop. Combat information centre reports,
1:19:55 > 1:19:57'Castro still has operational aircraft.
1:19:57 > 1:20:04'Expect y'all gonna be hit soon. Unload all troops and supplies, and take your ships to sea ASAP.'
1:20:04 > 1:20:08What about air cover we're supposed to have over the beach?
1:20:08 > 1:20:11'Combat information central has a sighting from one of our Seahawks.
1:20:11 > 1:20:14'Enemy battalion, estimated 900 men,
1:20:14 > 1:20:19'repeat, 900 men spotted approaching the middle causeway.
1:20:19 > 1:20:22'One pilot counted 60, say, 60 vehicles,
1:20:22 > 1:20:23'and a dozen Stalin Three tanks.'
1:20:23 > 1:20:29He's onshore? I want his ass back on that boat, now!
1:20:29 > 1:20:32What about Kennedy's promise of air support?
1:20:32 > 1:20:35It was only to strafe Castro's air force planes on the ground.
1:20:35 > 1:20:39Reports are saying there's as many as a half dozen of Castro's Sea Fury aircraft still operational.
1:20:41 > 1:20:43They'll be sitting ducks.
1:21:32 > 1:21:34Take cover!
1:22:18 > 1:22:21So the units that are blocking the causeways had to retreat.
1:22:21 > 1:22:27And now Castro's tanks have rolled unchallenged to within firing distance of the two landing beaches.
1:22:27 > 1:22:30- Casualties are heavy.- How many?
1:22:30 > 1:22:34- 100 dead, twice that wounded. - Four of the National Guard pilots
1:22:34 > 1:22:37who trained the Cubans in Guatemala took matters into their own hands.
1:22:37 > 1:22:40They flew a sortie in two B-26s.
1:22:40 > 1:22:43Both planes were shot down over Cuba.
1:22:43 > 1:22:46Kennedy must authorise jets to fly combat missions over the beaches.
1:22:46 > 1:22:51- He absolutely refuses.- It would take them all of 45 minutes to clean up the causeways, Allen!
1:22:51 > 1:22:55I've just come from the Oval Office. Kennedy said he will not commit
1:22:55 > 1:23:00American armed forces into combat to save this mission.
1:23:00 > 1:23:03Then everybody on that beach is as good as dead.
1:23:03 > 1:23:05I'm aware of that, Dick.
1:23:07 > 1:23:09Take him! Here.
1:23:12 > 1:23:15Get them all off the beach!
1:23:15 > 1:23:17Get the men off the beach!
1:23:23 > 1:23:25OK, come on.
1:23:25 > 1:23:29Jack, my men are going to be massacred in a matter of minutes!
1:23:29 > 1:23:32Where's the damn air cover?
1:23:57 > 1:23:59Grow a pair of balls, Bissell.
1:23:59 > 1:24:03Go over Dulles' head. Go over the President's head if you have to!
1:24:03 > 1:24:06This isn't some recon flight you can just bury in a report, Harvey.
1:24:06 > 1:24:08It's the invasion of a damn country!
1:24:08 > 1:24:10I'd be out on my ass forever.
1:24:10 > 1:24:14- Maybe thrown in prison.- Dick, please.
1:24:14 > 1:24:17Jack is dead unless we get him some air cover now.
1:24:20 > 1:24:23Whistlestop, need air cover!
1:24:23 > 1:24:27Beach is compromised. Repeat, need air cover! Whistlestop...
1:24:27 > 1:24:31do you copy? Whistlestop, need air cover!
1:24:33 > 1:24:35Get your ass out of here, Jack!
1:24:35 > 1:24:38- You can't help us any more. - Damn it, Roberto, I'll leave when everyone leaves!
1:24:42 > 1:24:45Jack, we don't need America's help any more!
1:24:46 > 1:24:48Castro will capture you.
1:24:48 > 1:24:51He'll tell the world we were led by American officers.
1:24:51 > 1:24:56- He'll tell the world my men died for America, not for Cuba! - I'm not leaving, Roberto!
1:24:56 > 1:25:00I'll kill you myself before I let you fall into their hands alive!
1:25:00 > 1:25:03I swear to you! I'll kill you!
1:25:03 > 1:25:07I mean it, Jack! I'll blow your damn head off!
1:25:07 > 1:25:09You'll just be another body floating in the surf.
1:25:09 > 1:25:11They'll never know who you were!
1:25:11 > 1:25:13Go, Jack! Go, now!
1:25:17 > 1:25:18I'm sorry.
1:25:24 > 1:25:26Don't take away our dignity.
1:25:26 > 1:25:28It's the last thing we've got.
1:25:40 > 1:25:42Vamanos!
1:26:00 > 1:26:03Carpet Bagger, come in.
1:26:03 > 1:26:06Carpet Bagger, this is Whistlestop.
1:26:07 > 1:26:10Carpet Bagger, do you read?
1:26:10 > 1:26:12Carpet Bagger.
1:26:12 > 1:26:14This is Whistlestop...
1:26:14 > 1:26:17Carpet Bagger, come in! Carpet Bagger...
1:26:17 > 1:26:20Carpet Bagger, do you read?
1:26:55 > 1:26:58At 3:45pm, Wednesday April 19th,
1:26:58 > 1:27:00resistance ends.
1:27:00 > 1:27:03All those who are not killed are taken prisoner.
1:27:03 > 1:27:07In less than 72 hours, Castro has destroyed the brigade.
1:27:07 > 1:27:09The American-planned financed, trained
1:27:09 > 1:27:14and backed invasion of Cuba is now a total failure.
1:27:37 > 1:27:39Oh, Jack.
1:27:39 > 1:27:41Leo says you've been through hell.
1:27:48 > 1:27:52Yeah, Adelle...I have.
1:27:56 > 1:27:58It's a week's salary, so...
1:27:58 > 1:27:59enjoy it.
1:28:04 > 1:28:08Castro's conducting sham trials.
1:28:08 > 1:28:11They'll be executing Roberto and dozens of his men within weeks.
1:28:13 > 1:28:16Half of them aren't even 20 years old. They're just kids.
1:28:16 > 1:28:19I know, buddy.
1:28:22 > 1:28:23I'm sorry.
1:28:33 > 1:28:35I'm turning in my resignation tomorrow, Leo.
1:28:35 > 1:28:38No, you are not!
1:28:38 > 1:28:40Want to let you know before I went to the Director.
1:28:42 > 1:28:45Oh, yeah?
1:28:45 > 1:28:47What are you gonna do without the Company?
1:28:47 > 1:28:49Private sector.
1:28:49 > 1:28:52Pays better.
1:28:52 > 1:28:56- People you know don't die.- Hey...
1:28:56 > 1:28:59we set out to change the world, remember?
1:28:59 > 1:29:05Listening to the recruitment speech, we were sitting on the edge of our seats, you and me.
1:29:05 > 1:29:07Am I still on the edge of my seat, Leo?
1:29:08 > 1:29:12- Are you?- You're a true believer. You can't help it.
1:29:15 > 1:29:16I'm not so sure.
1:29:17 > 1:29:21The Distinguished Intelligence Medal is one of the Agency's highest honours,
1:29:21 > 1:29:28awarded today to Jack J McCauliffe for courage above and far beyond the call of duty.
1:29:28 > 1:29:32Jack McCauliffe, on behalf of the Company, I...
1:29:32 > 1:29:35We want to thank you for your...
1:29:35 > 1:29:39bravery, your loyalty, and unquestionable patriotism.
1:29:49 > 1:29:53Please remember the Cuban rebel soldiers.
1:29:53 > 1:29:55Remember how we failed them.
1:29:58 > 1:30:00So we don't fail the same way again.
1:30:03 > 1:30:06- Hear hear. - SOMEBODY CLAPS
1:30:20 > 1:30:22To you, sport!
1:30:22 > 1:30:24To you!
1:30:27 > 1:30:29You're a hero, Jack!
1:30:29 > 1:30:32Jack McCauliffe. He's a damn hero!
1:30:34 > 1:30:37That's great, Jack!
1:30:37 > 1:30:40Woo! Ha-ha-ha!
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