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

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. 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-- Better Than Us -- On Fidel's Orders -- Rooftop Stories -- Come To Cuba -- At Daggers Drawn -- Tyrannicide -- Mouth Of The Lion -- Whiplash -- The Big Job -- Great Minds -- Conspiracy Of Silence -- Afterword. Brian Latell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. “A conclusive, ground-breaking portrait, based on firsthand sources, of how the Cuban strongman... ran circles around the CIA.” —Daily BeastIn Castro's Secrets, intelligence analyst and Cuba expert Brian Latell offers an unprecedented view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba's supreme spymaster. Based on interviews with high level defectors from Cuba's intelligence and security services—including some who have never spoken on record before—Latell reveals long-buried secrets of Fidel's nearly 50-year reign.While the CIA grossly underestimated his capabilities, Castro built one of the best and most aggressive intelligence systems in the world. Their sophisticated network ran moles and double agents who penetrated the highest levels of American Institutions. They also carried out numerous assassinations—some against foreign leaders.Latell also sheds new light on the CIA's 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. "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"-- Provided by publisher. "In Castro's secrets, ... 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 dozenranking 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'-- Publisher 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 including shocking new findings about what Fidel actually knew of Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.