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So they didn't really say that Cuba made a huge difference and deserved more credit for its actions and that payments were made to support anti communist forces as part of US policy.
No, that's just a figment of mine and the BBC programme maker's minds.
No one has ever argued the Cubans did not make a huge difference. It was the object of US policy to create the conditions which made that possible. Henry Kissinger liked to tell his interlocutor he had a great reputation and then offer to help him live up to it. Many of our diplomats (especially Vernon Walters) worked in that tradition.
No one has ever argued the US did not support anti-communist forces as part of US policy. I posted long ago that we supported Savimbi.