Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana

LeoGrande, William M.

ISBN 10: 1469626608 / ISBN 13: 9781469626604

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2015

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Synopsis:

History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now updated to tell the 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 towards normalization. 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.

About the Author: William M. Leogrande, professor of government at American University, USA is the author of Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992, among other books.

Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C., USA is the author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, among other books.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of ...
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good