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TIL that my Great Uncle (Grandpa's Brother), Aldo Vera Serafin, was a Cuban Exile who was shot and killed by "unkown assailants" in the '70s. He was the head of the "Technical Investigations Department," which is a fancy name for "Cuban FBI." He betrayed Castro by working with the CIA and fled Cuba.

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