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Born in Cuba, Prado and his family were caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, and fledtheir war-torn home for a better life in the U.S. Fifty years after that daring escape, he retiredfrom the CIA as the agency’s equivalent of a Two-Star General. During his two-and-a-halfdecade career, he was one of the agency’s best and most dedicated Black Ops specialists.Early in his career he served as a paramilitary officer in the agency’s elite Special ActivitiesGroup, where he fought alongside the Contras in the U.S.’s clandestine war against Nicaragua’sSandinistas. Through his heroism and dedicated service there, he was awarded the CIA’sIntelligence Medal of Merit. As soon as he returned stateside, however, he faced the politicalfiring squad of the Iran-Contra Scandal.His career took him around the globe in duty stations in Central and South America as well asthe Philippines. Following those posts, Prado joined the highest echelons of the CIAheadquarters in Langley, VA. Toward the end of 1995, Prado was appoin