JMWAVE had more than a hundred cars under lease and so many boats, used to ferry agents and supplies to Cuba, that it controlled the third largest navy in the Caribbean, after the United States and Cuba. It operated an archipelago of safe houses and training sites across south Florida. Some fifteen thousand Cubans were connected with JMWAVE.72 Dozens of Cuban exile groups were setting up shop in the Miami area, many with CIA backing. Miami came to resemble “wartime Casablanca,” in the words of two reporters, who noted that it “swarmed with spies, counterspies, exiled dictators, Mafia
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