Located only 400 miles from Miami, Florida is the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay – GITMO as known to many. It is the oldest U.S. base overseas and the only U.S. Naval Base in a Communist Country. Hear true stories from our current military soldiers and from Cubans employed on the base during 1960’s.

United States leased the 45 square miles of land and water in 1903 from our then trading partner Cuba. Both countries agreed to payment of $2,000 in gold per year ($4,085 by today’s standards) with a requirement of mutual consent by both parties to terminate the lease.

In 1961 President Dwight Eisenhower cut all diplomatic relationships with Cuba. Over 17 miles of fence were built and both the U.S. Marines and Cuba’s Frontier Brigade currently patrol opposite sides of the bases fence line 24 hours a day. Fidel Castro and now his brother refuses to cash the checks the U.S. Government send him each year for lease payment.

See and hear the true story of the U.S. Naval Base GITMO surrounded by all its secrecy.