Leaflets Over Havana – How Brothers to the Rescue Papered Havana

On January 13, 1995, the afternoon skies over Havana were cloudy and strong northerly winds were blowing. When Cubans looked up, they saw thousands of leaflets falling out of the clouds into the heart of the city. Yet no plane could be heard, nor any seen, and Cuban air defense radars detected nothing. How had it been done? It was a mystery. From the steps of the capital building to Old Havana, Plaza Vieja and the Plaza De La Revolucion, leaflets dropped by the non-profit search and rescue group, Brothers to the Rescue, had papered much of the city.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: "The ICAO investigator informed us that the leaflets floated as far as Batabanó, 50 kilometers south of Havana!" -- Arnaldo Iglesias, Brothers to the Rescue

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Thomas Van Hare has published over 450 articles on aviation history since 1997 at Historic Wings - http://www.historicwings.com/. He is an author, including along with Matt Lawrence, of the bestselling book, "Betrayal: Clinton, Castro & the Cuban Five", about the shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue in 1996. He serves as the Director of the Defense Technology Innovation Program LLC, a public-private partnership with the Pentagon that scouts, identifies, and brings breakthrough technologies for potential military use. He is a former three-time White House appointee working in foreign policy, national security, and defense, a former CEO of an airline and flew as a command pilot and mission director on search and rescue missions, saving over 3,000 lives.

Read more about the leaflet drop and the story of Brothers to the Rescue in the book:
BETRAYAL: Clinton, Castro & The Cuban Five, by Matt Lawrence and Thomas Van Hare
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