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The Secret Fidel Castro

Author : Servando Gonzalez
Publisher : InteliNet/InteliBooks
ISBN 13 : 0971139113
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Fidel Castro written by Servando Gonzalez and published by InteliNet/InteliBooks. This book was released on 2001 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Fidel Castro is neither a history of the Cuban revolution nor a biography of Fidel Castro. The book was written following what intelligence services call a CPP (short for Comprehensive Personality Profile), similar to the ones intelligence services keep on foreign leaders. It focuses on different aspects of Castro's actions and personality which, for some reasons, have been either ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented. The main thesis of this book is that there are many different Castros. The most widely known is the symbolic, public one, as it has been portrayed in official Cuban propaganda, Castro-friendly biographies, and mainstream American media. But there are also many secret Castros, highly different from the public one. The Secret Fidel Castro focuses on little known aspects of Castro's personality, important in the better understanding of the man and his actions?what really makes him tick.

Executive Action

Author : Fabián Escalante Font
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Executive Action written by Fabián Escalante Font and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuba's former counterintelligence chief reviews more than 600 CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro - a project code-named Executive Action. Although melodramatic and at times almost comical, the plans were both drawn up in deadly earnest and entirely unconstitutional, as subsequent US government enquiries concluded, including the 1975 Commission headed by Senator Frank Church.

CIA Targets Fidel

Author :
Publisher : Ocean Press
ISBN 13 : 9781875284900
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book CIA Targets Fidel written by and published by Ocean Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1967 secret assassination report by the CIA Inspector General

Secret Missions to Cuba

Author : R. Levine
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403960467
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Secret Missions to Cuba written by R. Levine and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-12-17 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Missions to Cuba reveals new insights into Fidel Castro's personality, details secret missions to Cuba under the Carter and Reagan administrations to negotiate the restoration of US-Cuban relations and provides an in-depth look at Miami's exile community since 1959. This groundbreaking story is told through Bernardo Benes - a lawyer who joined the refugee exodus from Castro's Cuba in 1960. Benes quickly became one of the leading voices advocating the integration of Cubans into the city's Anglo, old-boy power structure. In 1978, Cuban Intelligence recruited him as an emissary between the Carter administration and Cuba. He did the same for the CIA under Reagan in the early 1980s. In all, Benes made seventy-five secret trips to meet with high-ranking Cuban officials, spending about 150 hours face-to-face with Fidel Castro. The 1978 dialogue resulted in the release of 3,600 Cuban political prisoners and the right for Cuban exiles to visit family members on the island. Rather than being received as a hero on his return to Miami, however, Benes was branded a traitor by the Miami Cuban media for having dealt personally with Castro. His career ruined, he became a pariah in the community. Secret Missions to Cuba also examines the motives of those who vilified Benes and explores why so many Cubans in Miami have permitted themselves to be silenced - much in the same ways, Levine claims, as Cubans under Castro. But what differentiates Levine's book from any other is that he is literally breaking new ground by documenting these top-secret missions to Cuba. Furthermore, he has the corroboration of key players like Ambler Moss, who was the Ambassador to Panama under Carter; Bob Pastor, who was Carter's Latin American advisor on the National Security Council, and General Vernon A. Walters, the former Deputy Director of the CIA. The twenty-five photos in the book, some which depict Bernardo Benes with Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy and, of course, Fidel Castro, emphasize the importance of Benes' story internationally.

Castro's Secrets

Author : Brian Latell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137278412
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Castro's Secrets written by Brian Latell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the story of Cuba's powerful intelligence agency and how it was used by Castro in an attempt to launch a third world war, drawing on testimony by high-level defectors to offer insights into Castro's goals and methods.

The Double Life of Fidel Castro

Author : Juan Reinaldo Sanchez
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250068762
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Double Life of Fidel Castro written by Juan Reinaldo Sanchez and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory memoir of the 17 years Juan Sanchez spent as one of Fidel Castro's personal soldiers, in his innermost circle

The Double Life of Fidel Castro

Author : Juan Sanchez
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445648164
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Double Life of Fidel Castro written by Juan Sanchez and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few living international figures who fascinate the world more than Fidel Castro. He is at once an infamous historical figure, a modern-day politician and one of the last of his kind. From the leader of a revolution to one who has been accused of dictatorship, exploiting the power of his position to become one of the wealthiest leaders in the world, Fidel Castro's life away from the public eye has remained largely unscrutinised. Despite the world's longstanding desire to know more, biographers have thus far barely scratched the surface of Castro's life and reign. No one with any real knowledge or intimacy of Castro has ever been able to come forward to tell their story - partly because so few people can claim that distinction, and partly because the few who can would never make it out of Cuba. At long last, though, at the end of Castro's life, someone has. Juan Sanchez, former personal chaperone to Castro and, later, fugitive from the vindictive regime, offers a shocking exposure of the man to whom he was devoted for seventeen years - a man whose secret life is entirely different from the facade he presents to the people of Cuba.

History Will Absolve Me

Author : Brian Latell
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795342764
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book History Will Absolve Me written by Brian Latell and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CIA analyst who tracked Castro for decades explores the mind and motivations of the man who governed Cuba for nearly half a century. On trial in Santiago for leading a bloody assault on the city’s Moncada garrison, young revolutionary leader Fidel Castro uttered a phrase in court that would come to serve as a rallying cry for his 26th of July Movement and his regime thereafter: “History will absolve me.” Despite the fact that his methods resulted in great loss of life on both sides, Castro never wavered in his belief that in the final reckoning his life’s work would be vindicated—his violence necessary in bringing a new government to Cuba and a new political model to the developing world. For decades, CIA analyst Brian Latell tracked Castro relentlessly—getting to know his habits, his fears, and the passions that drove him. In this book, the author of After Fidel and Castro’s Secret steps from the shadows to paint a complex and nuanced portrait of the man he came to know better than any other intelligence target—revealing the mind and motivations of one of the most mercurial, passionate, and dominating leaders of the twentieth century. “One of America’s foremost Cuba analysts.” —George J. Tenet, former CIA director

The Assassination of Fidel Castro

Author : John Fleury
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781490436654
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Assassination of Fidel Castro written by John Fleury and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 50 years, Cuba has been synonymous with one name: Fidel Castro. To the public, he has seemed like a force who never could be stopped--but it's not because nobody tried to stop him. There have been over 600 assassination attempts against Castro-many by the United States. This book takes you inside an overlooked part of history, and uncovers some of the most notorious attempts.

The Longest Romance

Author : Humberto Fontova
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594036675
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Longest Romance written by Humberto Fontova and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the U.S. media's role in perpetrating Fidel Castro's totalitarian agenda and spreading his propaganda, describing how and why the dictator has been glorified in the mainstream American press.

Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution

Author : Carlos Alberto Montaner
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 141280731X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution written by Carlos Alberto Montaner and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the foremost social analyst and journalist on Cuban affairs, Carlos Alberto Montaner has written a definitive study of the Cuban regime from the vantage point of the Cuban dictator. This is not simply a history of Cuban communism but rather a personal history of its leader, Fidel Castro. Montaner's extraordinary knowledge of the country and its politics prevents the work from becoming a psychiatric examination from afar. Indeed, what personal irrationalities exist are seen as built into the fabric of the regime itself, and not simply as a personality aberration. Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution is not an apologia for past United States involvement in Cuban affairs. The author is severe in his judgments of such participation. Nor is he sparing in his sense of the betrayal of the original purposes of the Revolution of 1959 manifested in the character and policies of Fidel Castro. As the work progresses from a study of the victims to a study of the beneficiaries of the Cuban Revolution, it leaves the reader with a deep sense of the tragedy of a revolution betrayed, but not one that could have easily been avoided. Montaner is an "exile" like the great Alexander Herzen before him. His decision to live in Europe was made by choice, not of necessity. He sees his role as critical analyst, not as restoring the status quo ante. A most valuable aspect of this book is its intimate reevaluation of Fulgencio Batista. Whatever the reader's judgment of Montaner's work, no one can read it and be dismissive of the effort. It is a work of intimacy even through written in exile--and hence must be viewed as an important effort to understand the character of the man and regime who have changed the course of Cuban history in our times. Carlos Alberto Montaner is director of Firmas, a news agency and journalistic bureau located in Madrid, Spain, which services the entire Spanish-speaking world. He is author of Cuba, Castro and the Caribbean; Secret Report on the Cuban Revolution (both published by Transaction); Two Hundred Years of Gringos; and a series of novels and short stories published in Spanish, including Dog's World; Witches' Poker; Snapshots on the Edge of the Abyss, and Literature Considered as a Form of Hives.

Secret Missions to Cuba

Author : Robert M. Levine
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312239879
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Secret Missions to Cuba written by Robert M. Levine and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960 Bernardo Benes, a lawyer, fled his home in Cuba. Quickly making a name for himself in Miami, he became a leading advocate for exile causes in South Florida. Making 75 secret trips to Cuba - where he met with Castro for Presidents Carter and Reagan

Inside the Cuban Revolution

Author : Julia Sweig
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044193
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Inside the Cuban Revolution written by Julia Sweig and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Castro and Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Llano. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of Castro's 26th of July Movement's underground operatives--the only scholar inside or outside of Cuba allowed access to the complete collection in the Cuban Council of State's Office of Historic Affairs--she details the debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities.

Back Channel to Cuba

Author : William M. LeoGrande
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626616
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Back Channel to Cuba written by William M. LeoGrande and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing efforts toward normalization in a new era of engagement. Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual conflict and aggression between the United States and Cuba since 1959, Back Channel to Cuba chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh here present a remarkably new and relevant account, describing how, despite the intense political clamor surrounding efforts to improve relations with Havana, negotiations have been conducted by every presidential administration since Eisenhower's through secret, back-channel diplomacy. From John F. Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Fidel Castro after the missile crisis, to Henry Kissinger's top secret quest for normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of a new approach, LeoGrande and Kornbluh uncovered hundreds of formerly secret U.S. documents and conducted interviews with dozens of negotiators, intermediaries, and policy makers, including Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter. They reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, that provides the historical foundation for the dramatic breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba ties.

The Secret War

Author : Fabián Escalante Font
Publisher : Ocean Press (AU)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Secret War written by Fabián Escalante Font and published by Ocean Press (AU). This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time the former head of Cuban State Security speaks out about the confrontation with U.S. intelligence and presents stunning new evidence of the conspiracy between the Mafia, the Cuban counterrevolution and the CIA. Fabian Escalante details the CIA's operations in the early years of the Cuban revolution, the largest-ever covert action launched against another nation: Peter Pan, a psychological war that uprooted thousands of children; and Operations 40, Patty, Liborio and Pluto. Agents from both sides describe a scene of espionage, sabotage, assassination plots, guerrilla warfare and plans for military invasion. The secret war is a thorough account of the massive Operation Mongoose, showing how the United States was engineering a major invasion of Cuba for October 1962, prior to the arrival of the Soviet missiles on the island.

Young Castro

Author : Jonathan M. Hansen
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476732485
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Young Castro written by Jonathan M. Hansen and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate, revisionist portrait of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world, is “sure to become the standard on Castro’s early life” (Publishers Weekly). Until now, biographers have treated Castro’s life like prosecutors, scouring his past for evidence to convict a person they don’t like or don’t understand. Young Castro challenges us to put aside the caricature of a bearded, cigar-munching, anti-American hothead to discover how Castro became the dictator who acted as a thorn in the side of US presidents for nearly half a century. In this “gripping and edifying narrative…Hansen brings imposing research and notable erudition” (Booklist) to Castro’s early life, showing Castro getting his toughness from a father who survived Spain’s class system and colonial wars to become one of the most successful independent plantation owners in Cuba. We see a boy running around that plantation more comfortable playing with the children of his father’s laborers than his own classmates at elite boarding schools in Santiago de Cuba and Havana. We discover a young man who writes flowery love letters from prison and contemplates the meaning of life, a gregarious soul attentive to the needs of strangers but often indifferent to the needs of his own family. These pages show a liberal democrat who admires FDR’s New Deal policies and is skeptical of communism, but is also hostile to American imperialism. They show an audacious militant who stages a reckless attack on a military barracks but is canny about building an army of resisters. In short, Young Castro reveals a complex man. The first American historian in a generation to gain access to the Castro archives in Havana, Jonathan Hansen was able to secure cooperation from Castro’s family and closest confidants. He gained access to hundreds of never-before-seen letters and interviewed people he was the first to ask for their impressions of the man. The result is a nuanced and penetrating portrait of a man at once brilliant, arrogant, bold, vulnerable, and all too human: a man who, having grown up on an island that felt like a colonial cage, was compelled to lead his country to independence.

Trained to Kill

Author : Antonio Veciana
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1510713573
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Trained to Kill written by Antonio Veciana and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonio Veciana fought on the front lines of the CIA’s decades-long secret war to destroy Fidel Castro, the bearded bogeyman who haunted America’s Cold War dreams. It was a time of swirling intrigue, involving US spies with license to kill, Mafia hit men, ruthless Cuban exiles—and the leaders in the crosshairs of all this dark plotting, Fidel Castro and John F. Kennedy. Veciana transformed himself from an asthmatic banker to a bomb-making mastermind who headed terrorist attacks in Havana and assassination attempts against Castro, while building one of the era’s most feared paramilitary groups—all under the direction of the CIA. In the end, Veciana became a threat—not just to Castro, but also to his CIA handler. Veciana was the man who knew too much. Suddenly he found himself a target—framed and sent to prison, and later shot in the head and left to die on a Miami street. When he was called before a Congressional committee investigating the Kennedy assassination, Veciana held back, fearful of the consequences. He didn’t reveal the identity of the CIA officer who directed him—the same agent Veciana observed meeting with Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas before the killing of JFK. Now, for the first time, Veciana tells all, detailing his role in the intricate game of thrones that aimed to topple world leaders and change the course of history. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.