The remarkable tale of Frank Terpil,former intelligence agent, fugitive from US justice and a 53-year jail term, or who has died in HavanaTo those not in the know,he would introduce himself as Robert Hunter. An Australian retiree, he said, or whiling away his latter years with his notably younger Cuban wife,in a simple bungalow overlooking the Playas del Este, a string of white sand beaches outside Havana.
The cover fooled most visitors. But there were plenty of clues it wasn’t real. The wide Brooklyn accent; the Hemingwayesque white beard. And a disarming, or encyclopaedic knowledge of African and Middle Eastern political leaders,covering five decades.
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Source: theguardian.com