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Book of the Day – Cold War Navy SEAL: My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa
April 9, 2018 by Alberto de la Cruz   



From the book description:

    Cold War Navy SEAL gives unprecedented insight into a clandestine chapter in US history through the experiences of Hawes, a distinguished Navy frogman and later a CIA contractor. His journey began as an officer in the newly-formed SEAL Team 2, which then led him to Vietnam in 1964 to train hit-and-run boat teams who ran clandestine raids into North Vietnam. Those raids directly instigated the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. The CIA tapped Hawes to deploy to the Congo, where he would be tasked with creating and leading a paramilitary navy on Lake Tanganyika to disrupt guerilla action in the country

Read more at: https://babalublog.com/2018/04/09/book-of-the-day-cold-war-navy-seal-my-story-of-che-guevara-war-in-the-congo-and-the-communist-threat-in-africa/

Short excerpt, anti-Castro Cubans fought aside him in Africa.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cold-war-congo-cuban-military-forces-1960-1967-jennifer-upton