Paul Bethel
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 Paul Bethel    (spook) | |
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US spook who worked closely with anti-Castro exiles including Alpha 66. |
Paul Bethel joined the United States Army and served in Germany at the same time as William Harvey, the Central Intelligence Agency chief of station in Berlin. Later he served as press officer in Tokyo. By 1959 he was head of the U.S. Information Agency in Cuba. He married a Cuban woman and during this time developed a close friendship with CIA agent David Atlee Phillips.
When Fidel Castro took control in Cuba, Bethel moved to Miami where he worked closely with anti-Castro exiles including Alpha 66.
His son Erik Bethel is a American financial professional nominated to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Panama in 2020.[1]
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