5
Armando Valladares,
Against All Hope
(San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000).
6
Alberto Bustamante, “Notas y Estadisticas Sobre Los Grupos Étnicos En Cuba,”
Revista Herencia
, volume 10, 2004. Herencia Cultural Cubana, Miami, Florida.
7
Mario Lazo,
Dagger in the Heart; American Policy Failures in Cuba
(New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968), 137.
9
Agustin Blazquez and Jaums Sutton, “Three Little Blacks,”
www.newsmax.com
, May 23, 2003.
10
Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali,
One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy 1958–1964
(New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997).
11
Bill Press, “Mr. Carter Goes to Cuba,”
www.cnn.com
, May 14, 2002.
Chapter 9: Stupid Liberals in the CIA
1
Georgie Ann Geyer,
Guerrilla Prince
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1991), 240.
2
Rufo López-Fresquet,
My Fourteen Months With Castro
(Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1966).
3
Tim Weiner, “Bay of Pigs Enemies Finally Sit Down Together,”
New York Times
, March 23, 2001.
5
Juan Antonio Rubio Padilla, “La Opinion Publica,” April 27, 1961. Found at
www.autentico.org
.
6
Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998), 15.
7
John H. Davis,
The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984).
10
Speech by Castro at the Brazilian embassy in Havana. Interestingly, Cubela had met Fitzgerald’s man in Brazil the day before. Carlos Bringuier,
Red Friday
(Chicago: Chas Hallberg & Co., 1969), 110.
12
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.,
Inner Circles; How America Changed the World
(New York: Warner Books, 1992), 116.
14
Raphael Diaz-Balart, “La Amnistia,”
La Rosa Blanca
.
15
Nathaniel Weyl,
Red Star Over Cuba: The Russian Assault on the Western Hemisphere
(New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1960), 104.
18
Howard E. Hunt,
Give Us This Day
(New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1973).
21
Enrique Encinosa,
Unvanquished: Cuba’s Resistance to Fidel Castro
(Los Angeles: Pureplay Press, 2004), 19.
22
Peter Kornbluh, ed.
Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba
(New York: New Press, 1998).
23
Tad Szulc,
Fidel: A Critical Portrait
(New York: William Morrow & Co., 1986).
24
Testimony of Arthur Gardner, “Communist Threat to The United States through the Caribbean,” U.S. Senate Subcommittee, August 27, 1960.
25
Earl E. T. Smith,
The Fourth Floor: An Account of the Castro Communist Revolution
(New York: Random House, 1962), 30–52.
Chapter 10: “We Fought with the Fury of Cornered Beasts”
1
Paul Bethel,
The Losers
:
The Definitive Report, by an Eyewitness, of the Communist Conquest of Cuba and the Soviet Penetration in Latin America
(New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1969), 372.
2
Enrique Encinosa,
Cuba en Guerra
(Miami: Endowment for Cuban American Studies, 1994), 59.
4
Enrique Encinosa,
Al Filo Del Machete
, 2002.
5
Michael Moore,
Downsize This!
(New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 193.
7
Ronald Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola Close Up: The Making of His Movies
. (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1998), 53.
8
Encinosa,
Cuba en Guerra
, 59.
12
Grayston L. Lynch,
Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs
(Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 1998).
14
Murder tally comes from
The Black Book of Communism; Crimes, Terror, Repression
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).
16
“Castro Visit Triumphant,”
Harvard Law Record
, April 30, 1959.
Chapter 11: Operation Cuban Freedom—NOT!
1
Victor Andres Triay,
Bay of Pigs: An Oral History of Brigade 2506
(Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2001).
2
Peter Wyden,
Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979), 202.
3
Edward B. Ferrer,
Operation Puma: The Air Battle of the Bay of Pigs
(Miami: Trade Litho, 1982), 210.
7
Jesus Hernandez Cuellas, “Chronicle of an Unforgettable Agony: Cuba’s Political Prisons,”
Contacto
magazine, September 1996.
8
Martin Arostegui, “Castro Weaponizes West Nile Virus,”
Insight
magazine, September 16, 2002.
9
Haynes Johnson,
The Bay of Pigs: The Leader’s Story of Brigade 2506
. (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1964), 345.
10
Humberto Fontova, “Mr. Wonderful and the Bay of Pigs,”
www.newsmax.com
, April 14, 2004.
11
Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998), 8.
15
Stephen Ambrose,
Eisenhower: Soldier and President
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), 539.
18
Néstor Carbonell Cortina, “Bahia de Cochinos: Lo Que No Dijo el Informe del Inspector de la CIA,”
www.autentico.org
. Carbonell quotes Eisenhower from
Foreign Policy
, U.S. volume VI, 1057–60.
21
Michael Beschloss,
The Crisis Years; Kennedy & Khrushchev 1960–1963
. (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 124.
23
Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998), 170.
Chapter 12: Fidel as Business Partner
1
Xinhua News Agency, 2004.
2
Testimony of former American POW on Vietnam “Cuba Program,” Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State.
3
Juan Tamayo, “Torturers’ Aim Was Total Surrender, Savage Beatings Bent Captives to Will of Man Dubbed ‘Fidel’,”
Miami Herald
, August 22, 1999.
4
Paul Bethel,
The Losers
:
The Definitive Report, by an Eyewitness, of the Communist Conquest of Cuba and the Soviet Penetration in Latin America
(New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1969), 192.
5
George Talbot, “Cuba Conference Opens Amid Controversy,”
Mobile Register
, October 13, 2003.
6
G. Fernández, Ediciones Periodísticas, March 12, 2001.
7
Interview with Armando Lago, author of
Cuba: The Human Cost of Social Revolution
and
The Politics of Psychiatry in Revolutionary Cuba
(Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991).
8
Interview of David Kay by George Stephanopoulos, ABC News, October 5, 2003.
9
Hans de Salas-del Valle, ed.
Fidel Castro on the United States: Selected Statements, 1958–2003
(Washington, D.C.: Center For a Free Cuba, 2003).
Chapter 13: Fidel’s Useful Idiots
1
Cabrera mentions the incident in his book
Mea Cuba
(Barcelona: Plaza/Janés Editores, 1992).
2
José D. Cabús,
Castro ante la Historia
(Mexico City: Editores Mexicanos Unidos, 1963), 24. See also Servando González,
The Secret Fidel Castro: Deconstructing the Symbol
(Oakland, CA: InteliBooks, 2002.)
3
Interview with Ernesto Betancourt, who is friends with Huber Matos. The incident is also mentioned in Matos’s book
Como Llego La Noche
(Barcelona: Tusquets, 2002).
4
Paul Hollander,
Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba
(New York: Harper Holophon, 1981). Mona Charen uses the shorter version, which I used and cited in Chapter Two.
7
Rafael del Pino,
Proa a la Libertad
(Mexico City: Editorial Planeta Mexicana, 1991).
8
Randall Robinson, “Why Black Cuba Is Suffering,”
Essence
, July 1999.
9
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, William A. Wieland, Robert A. Stevenson, Memorandum of a conversation, Washington, D.C., March 12, 1959. Found at
www.latinamericanstudies.org
.
Chapter 14: Castro’s Tugboat Massacre
1
Enrique Encinosa,
Unvanquished: Cuba’s Resistance to Fidel Castro
(Los Angeles: Pureplay Press, 2004), 192.
2
Speech made by Fidel Castro, at the ceremony for the fifty-first anniversary of the attack on the Moncada, Ernesto Che Guevara Square, Santa Clara, Cuba, July 26, 2004. (Quoted at
www.havana-journal.com
, August 10, 2004.
Chapter 15: Who Needs Freedom?
1
Enrique Encinosa,
Unvanquished: Cuba’s Resistance to Fidel Castro
(Los Angeles: Pureplay Press, 2004), 192.
2
Tim Graham, “Back to the ‘Peaceable’ Paradise: Media Soldiers for the Seizure of Elián,” Media Research Center Special Report, May 23, 2000.
3
Cyber Alert, “Drugs for Elián?” Media Research Center, May 3, 2000.
4
David Limbaugh,
Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2001), 315.
5
Graham, “Back to the ‘Peaceable’ Paradise: Media Soldiers for the Seizure of Elián.”
12
Interview with Enrique Encinosa.
INDEX
A
ABC
Absolute Power
(Limbaugh)
Abyssinian Baptist Church
Abzug, Bella
Acheson, Dean