Chapter Nine

1. National Intelligence Estimate, 85-1-75, Cuba’s Changing International Role, October 16, 1975.

2. Peter Kornbluh and James G. Blight, “Dialogue with Castro: A Hidden History,” The New York Review of Books, October 6, 1994.

3. FBIS, December 23, 1971.

4. Henry Kissinger, Years of Renewal, Simon and Schuster, 1999, p. 816.

5. Cuban American National Foundation, Castro’s Puerto Rican Obsession, Publication 21, 1987, p. 18.

6. Edmund Mahony, “‘Aguila Blanca’: The Wells Fargo Robbery,” The Hartford Courant, November 11, 1999.

7. Edmund Mahony, “A Rocket Attack, An FBI Revelation,” The Hartford Courant, November 12, 1999; also Jorge Masetti, In the Pirate’s Den: My Life as A Secret Agent for Castro, Encounter Books, 1993, pp. 75–77.

8. Edmund Mahony, “Wells Fargo Reward Soars,” The Hartford Courant, December 8, 2004.

9. Edmund Mahony, “Clemency Granted Despite Havana Connection,” The Hartford Courant, November 7, 1999.

10. Robert A. Pastor, “Puerto Rico as an International Issue,” in Richard J. Bloomfield, ed., Puerto Rico: The Search for a National Policy, Westview Press, 1985, pp. 116.

11. Masetti, op. cit.

12. Interview by Barbara Walters, in Bohemia, July 1, 1977, translation by Cuban government Department of Stenographic Records, Havana, July 1977.

13. Bill Gertz, “DIA Fears Cuban Mole Aided Russia, China,” Washington Times, February 1, 2003.

14. FBIS, July 22, 1993.

Chapter Ten

1. Cited in Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions, University of North Carolina Press, 2002, p. 316.

2. Interview with Alcibiades Hidalgo, Miami, FL, November 10, 2004.

3. FBIS, September 4, 1979.

4. Gleijeses, op. cit., pp. 212–213.

5. Rafael del Pino, General del Pino Speaks, The Cuban American National Foundation, 1987, p. 15.

6. FBIS, September 18, 1973.

7. Stuart I. Rochester and Frederick Kiley, Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961–1973, Naval Institute Press, 1999, pp. 394–409.

8. National Intelligence Estimate, 85-1-75, Cuba’s Changing International Role, October 16, 1975.

9. Foreign Relations of the United States, Vol. VI, p. 383, Cable of January 23, 1959, from the embassy in Havana to the Department of State.

10. Jorge Masetti, The Pirate’s Den, Encounter Books, 1993, pp. 49–56.

11. Ibid., pp. 66–67; and Claribel Alegria and Darwin Flakoll, Death of Somoza, Curbstone Press, 1996, pp. 131–135.

12. Florentino Aspillaga interview by Georgie Anne Geyer, April 14, 1988, undisclosed location, Georgie Anne Geyer Collection, Hoover Archives, Stanford University.

13. Bruce D. Porter, The USSR in Third World Conflicts, Cambridge Univesity Press, 1984, p. 34.

14. Jorge Dominguez, To Make a World Safe for Revolution, Harvard University Press, 1989, p. 105.

15. Fidel Castro interview with Robert McNeil, FBIS, February 20, 1985.

16. Wayne Smith, The Closest of Enemies, W. W. Norton, 1987, pp. 206–207.

17. Manuel Sanchez Perez interview, FBIS, January 2, 1986.

18. Del Pino, op. cit.

Chapter Eleven

1. Andres Oppenheimer, Fidel’s Final Hour, Simon & Schuster, 1992, p. 77.

2. Interview with Alcibiades Hidalgo, November 10, 2004, Miami, FL.

3. Ibid.

4. Interview with Huber Matos, February 24, 1986, Miami, FL.

5. FBIS, July 13, 1989.

6. Philippe Clarence and Jacobo Machover, “It Isn’t Always Necessary to Tell the Truth,” The Globe, November 10, 1989.

7. Hidalgo interview.

8. FBIS, June and July 1989.

9. Hidalgo interview.

10. FBIS, July 11, 1989.

11. Pedro Alvarez Tabio and Otto Hernandez, “From Llanos Del Infierno to Epifanio Diaz’ Farm (II),” Granma Weekly Review, April 1981, p. 5.

12. A. B. Montes, “The Military Response to Cuba’s Economic Crisis,” Defense Intelligence Agency and CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, August 1993.

13. “An Assessment of the ‘Ochoa Affair’ in Cuba,” National Intelligence Council, July 13, 1989.

14. FBIS, July 19, 1989.

15. Hidalgo interview.

16. Luis Baez, Secretos de Generales, Editorial Losada, Barcelona, 1996, pp. 21–32; and Jon Lee Anderson, Che, A Revolutionary Life, Grove Press, 1997, p. 554.

17. Baez, op. cit.

18. Ibid., pp. 123 and 567.

19. Ibid., p. 31.

20. Ibid., p. 25.

21. Lee Lockwood, Castro’s Cuba, Cuba’s Fidel, Vintage Books, 1969, p. 170.

22. “Interview with Armed Forces Minister,” reprinted in Granma, January 11, 1987.

23. Interview by Barbara Walters, in Bohemia, July 1, 1977, translation by Cuban government Department of Stenographic Records, Havana, July 1977.

24. Herbert Matthews interview with Fidel Castro, May 2, 1966, Herbert Matthews Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.

25. Simone de Beauvoir, “What is the Situation of the Cuban Revolution?” France-Observateur, Paris, April 7, 1960.

26. Heberto Padilla, Self-Portrait of the Other, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990, p. 143.

27. Orlando Castro Hidalgo testimony, “Communist Threat to the United States Through the Caribbean,” October 16, 1969, U.S. Senate, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, p. 1427.

28. Markus Wolf, Man Without a Face, Random House, 1997, pp. 310 and 312–314.

29. Ibid., p. 311.

30. Secretos de Generales, op. cit.

31. A. B. Montes, op. cit.

Chapter Twelve

1. Gianni Mina, An Encounter With Fidel, Ocean Press, 1991, p. 249.

2. FBIS, August 5, 1994.

3. Cuba: The Outlook for Castro and Beyond, National Intelligence Estimate, 93–30, August 1993.

4. FBIS, January 31, 1991.

5. FBIS, December 23, 1991.

6. FBIS, May 2, 1991.

7. FBIS, April 5, 1991.

8. Economist, September 3, 1994.

9. FBIS, August 5, 1994.

10. National intelligence estimate, op. cit.

11. Interview with a senior U.S. government official who learned this from a ranking Cuban government official in 2004.

12. Eric Driggs, “Deteriorating Living Conditions in Cuba,” Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies, University of Miami, October 14, 2004.

13. Cuba Facts, Issue 9, March 2005, Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies, University of Miami.

14. FBIS, December 20, 1991.

15. Portions of this discussion and others about the armed forces are derived from my study, The Cuban Military and Transition Dynamics, Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies, University of Miami, 2003.

Afterword

1. Jose Ramon Fernandez and Asela de los Santos, “Cercania de Raul,” Granma, June 2, 2006.

2. Miguel Bonasso, “Relato de la Nueva Gran Batalla de Fidel,” Pagina Doce, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 14, 2006.

3. Lazaro Barredo Medina, “No Enemy Can Defeat Us,” Granma, August 18, 2006.

4. Rafael del Pino, “Vestido por el Enemigo,” La Nueva Cuba, June 22, 2006.