Great Game in Cuba How the CIA Sabotaged Its Own Plot to Unseat Fidel Castro

Name: Great Game in Cuba How the CIA Sabotaged Its Own Plot to Unseat Fidel Castro
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ISBN: 9781620874677

ISBN-10: 1620874679

ISBN-13: 9781620874677

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joan Mellen

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The Great Game in Cuba uses the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution to examine the CIA’s inner workings during the fifties and sixties. Detailing the agency’s 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. Kleberg's messianic ambitions bring him to Cuba, where he establishes a satellite ranch managed by his right-hand man, the James Bond–type character Michael J. P. Malone, who secretly reported to both the FBI…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Timeline of Events


Cast of Characters


CIA Glossary



Mr. Bob in His Ascendancy


Texas and CIA: Two Cultures of Like Mind



El Patrï¿½n


A Modest Cottage Behind the Garage


Lyndon


Red Cattle


Life on King Ranch


Giant



King Ranch Goes Global


The Virgin Mary


Compaï¿½ï¿½a Ganadera Becerra


Alberto Fernï¿½ndez de Hechavarrï¿½a


The Final Days of Batista



Alberto Fernï¿½ndez Returns to Cuba



Away All Boats: The Lion and CIA


Comandante Camilo Cienfuegos


Losing Becerra


Unidad Revolucionaria


The Tejana



The Agony of Humberto Sorï¿½ Marï¿½n


La Cabaï¿½a


The Bay of Pigs


The Death of Humberto Sorï¿½ Marï¿½n


The Bruce-Lovett Report



Little Boy Blue and Our Chivas Regal Friend, 1962-1967


Our Chivas Regal Friend


The Lion



Dionisio Pastrana and the Soviet Missiles: Hard Intelligence


Forty-Three Days Without a Bath Snookered



Endgame: Cuba


Reader's Digest


Cedral


Farewell to Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., Farewell to the ï¿½Companyï¿½


Further Endgames


Notes


Bibliography


Index