Great Game in Cuba (eBook)

CIA and the Cuban Revolution

Joan Mellen (Autor)

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2016
492 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-0740-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Joan Mellen tells a brilliantly researched, meticulously supported, and compulsively readable tale that everyone concerned with how America operates should know. Samuel R. Delany, author of Dhalgren and Through the Valley of the Nest of SpidersThis completely revised and newly updated edition of The Great Game in Cuba uses the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution to examine the CIAs inner workings during the fifties and sixties. Detailing the agencys lies and deceits, Mellen paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the CIA in Cuba after the Castro revolution: what it wanted and the lengths it was willing to go to paralyze the opposition to Fidel Castro.The game begins with Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., proprietor of the legendary King Ranch, one of the largest ranches in the world. Klebergs messianic ambitions bring him to Cuba, where he establishes a satellite ranch managed by his right-hand man, the James Bondtype character Michael J. P. Malone, who secretly reported to both the FBI and to at least five CIA handlers.From there, the plot thickens as an array of Cubans share never-before-revealed information regarding the agencys activities in Cuba and its attempts to unseat Castro and install a CIA-friendly figurehead in his place. The mysterious disappearance of Camilo Cienfuegos, a major figure in Castros government, is told here for the first time. The agencys shady dealings with a major US publication are uncovered.A testament to the sheer volume of previously classified and untold information, The Great Game in Cuba is a story the world needs to hear.

Autor

Joan Mellen is the bestselling author of twenty books, including A Farewell to Justice, her biographical study of Jim Garrison’s New Orleans investigation of the Kennedy assassination. She has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Baltimore Sun. Mellen is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1959 • 1962 • 2014 • Afghanistan • agency’s • America • anti-castro • Asia • barack obama • Blockade • bobby kennedy • books on castros • books on channels • books on clays • books on concessions • books on cuban governments • books on cuban revolutions • books on diplomacies • books on farewells • books on foreign policies • books on initiatives • books on king ranches books • books on secret histories • books on secret negotiations • books on warren commissions • Castro • castro’s • channel • cia's involvement • clay • compulsively • concessions • cuban government • cuban missile • Cuban Revolution • cubans • dhalgren • Diplomacy • Embargo • expropriated • Farewell • Fidel Castro • Florida • foreign policy • Hidden History • hopkirk • initiatives • Israel • JFK assassination • jim garrison • King Ranch • largest private • Latin America • Miami • Minnesota • negotiators • never-before-seen • normalization • Normalizing • Orleans • oust • policy issue • preconditions • Presidents • secret history • secret negotiations • shaw diplomatic • Texas • turbulent 1960s • United States • Untold History • warren commission • Washington
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-0740-9 / 1510707409
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-0740-5 / 9781510707405