Marita Lorenz
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Sep 9, 2026
Chris TerrillNARRATOR
This is the story of one of the most extraordinary CIA operations of them all.
Chris TerrillNARRATOR
It will involve the Mafia, a Watergate burglar, and Castro's lover.
Marita LorenzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He looked at me.
Marita LorenzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Did you come to kill me?
9 MINS LATER
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A romantic relationship would actually get her into his bedroom, so she would be able to bypass all of his security layers.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
She would be the ultimate recruitment target for the CIA and for the US government.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No one could track him down except for this one person who was his lover.
Chris TerrillNARRATOR
In April 1959, Fidel Castro is invited to the US by the Society of Newspaper Editors.
Dory WileyGUEST
But, uh, it's the only time we got, uh, several different CIA directors on the stand with cross witness te- You know, it's one thing to testify in front of Congress, but it's a whole nother thing to do it in a courtroom under cross examination.
Dory WileyGUEST
And we also got Hunt, and we got David Atlee Phillips, and Frank Sturgis, Marita Lorenz.
Dory WileyGUEST
Her testimony was amazing, amazing.
Dory WileyGUEST
You even know who that is? That's Oswald...