Castro's Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, the CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Softcover

Latell, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1137278412 ISBN 13: 9781137278418

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

Published to glowing reviews, thisriveting narrative takes us back to when the Cuban Revolution was young and offers a new and surprising look at Fidel Castro. Drawing on interviews with high-level defectors from Cuban intelligence, Cuba expert Brian Latell creates a vivid narrative that chronicles Castro’s crimes from his university days through nearly 50 years in power. As Cuba’s supreme spymaster Fidel built up an intelligence system that became one of best and most aggressive anywhere. Latell argues that the CIA grossly underestimated the Cubans’ extraordinary abilities to run moles and double agents and to penetrate the highest levels of American institutions. He reveals new details about the CIA’s most deplorable plots against Cuba and shocking new findings about what Fidel actually knew of Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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Review

"Brilliant . . . This unique book not only traces Fidel Castro's extraordinary intelligence service and its acts against the U.S., but it also analyzes America's -- and especially the overeager Kennedy boys' -- attempts to kill Castro . . . informative (and wonderfully readable) . . . Latell's book, enhanced by the author's rich experience, radar-like understanding of the peculiar people involved and mastery of history, is an important contribution to understanding this crucial period that changed us much more than we imagine."--Georgie Anne Geyer, "The Columbus Dispatch"

""Castro's Secrets" begins like a slow murder mystery then builds damning fact after damning fact into a conclusive, ground-breaking portrait, based on firsthand sources, of how the Cuban strongman--in all his evil brilliance--frequently ran circles around the CIA . . . The most interesting parts of his narrative revolve around how much Castro knew about the plot to kill Kennedy, and a parallel attempt, on the part of the CIA, to assassinate the Cuban dictator . . . One of the successes of "Castro's Secrets" is that it offers readers a view of both sides of the shadow war."--"The Daily Beast"

"A fascinating study of Castro's intelligence network and its early battles with the CIA to secure Castro's hold on power."--The Sunday Times

"Britan Latell, for four decades the CIA's ranking authority on all matters Castro and Cuban, has ripped the shroud off the circumstances behind one of the more flagrant instances of journalistic malpractice ever in the Washington media."--"The Washington Times"

"Authoritative expose ...[and] a lively and revealing account of the long intelligence war between the U.S. and Cuba." --Publishers Weekly

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1137278412
• ISBN 13: 9781137278418
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304