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

By Brian Latell

History : Caribbean & West Indies - General | History : Military - General | Political Science : Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism

Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: April 2012

ISBN: 9781137000019

Digital Book format: ePub (Adobe DRM)

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In CASTRO'S SECRETS, highly acclaimed author and intelligence expert Brian Latell offers a strikingly original view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba's supreme spymaster. Based on interviews with high level defectors from Cuba's powerful intelligence and security services, long-buried secrets of Fidel's nearly 50-year reign are exposed for the first time. They include numerous assassinations and attempted ones carried out on Castro's orders, some against foreign leaders. More than a dozen ranking Cuban secret agents embraced by the CIA and FBI speak in these pages; some have never told their stories on the record before. Latell also probes dispassionately into the CIA's most deplorable plots against Cuba - including previously obscure schemes to assassinate Castro - and presents shocking new conclusions about what Fidel actually knew of Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.