Sam Bungey

And so you feel like you're on a completely uneven footing there.

And that's immediately that Adam arrived.

What year did he arrive?

It was 2016, right?

Yeah.

After whatever it is, 50 years of Cold War antagonism, Obama really did do this historic reopening of relations with Castro.

And it was called the Thor.

And it was this big, really huge deal, historic, especially for Cuba.

This changing of...

of relations where everyone's going to open up stop being so aggressive drop the sanctions start doing business with this this island that's like 50 miles off off of florida yeah and um so that was all really exciting and that's part of the reason adam was there was that um new business new flights new everything and he's there um as part of that but also as a

CIA saw an opportunity to send more people there to gather intelligence.

But just at that same time, he says there was a huge ramping up of attacks on these spies, like intimidation and harassment.

Yeah, at least by some.