
Castro's Secrets
The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine
Brian Latell(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 24. May 2012
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-230-62123-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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 LifeMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
463 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-62123-7 (9780230621237)
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Person
BRIAN LATELL has tracked Castro for the CIA since the 1960s. He is the recognized authority in Cuban-American history with regular appearances on NBC News, as well as CNN and NPR. His articles have appeared in The Miami Herald and Time. Currently, he is a senior research associate at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami, USA. Latell is the author of After Fidel. He lives in Key Biscayne, Florida.