Castro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine - Hardcover

Latell, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230621236 ISBN 13: 9780230621237

Publisher: Palgrave, 2012

Synopsis

In this riveting Cold War history, highly acclaimed author Brian Latell offers us a new and surprising look at Fidel Castro. Latell draws his narrative on personal interviews with high level defectors from Cuba's intelligence, many of whom have not spoken out for over nearly five decades. The result is a vivid and revelatory account that revises our understanding of how Fidel operated, what his goals were, and how he imagined the future for his tiny island nation.

Latell takes us from from the crimes Fidel allegedly committed as a youth in the anti-Battista movement, to how quickly he built up an intelligence system that rivaled the Soviet Union's KGB and Britain's M15 in effectiveness, and how that translated into a feud with JFK's administration and the CIA, and the ultimate confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crises that brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust.

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Review:

'One of America's foremost Cuba analysts.' - George J. Tenet, former director, Central Intelligence Agency

'Few Americans understand Cuba - past, present, and future - better than Brian Latell.' - Evan Thomas, Newsweek Magazine, New York Times bestselling author of Robert Kennedy: His Life

Book Description:

The never-before-told story of how Cuba's intelligence agency became the most powerful in the world, and how Fidel Castro used it to try to start a third world war

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0230621236
• ISBN 13: 9780230621237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288