Hinckle, Warren and Turner, William W. The Fish is Red: The Story of the Secret War Against Castro. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. 373 pages.

Over ten years of research by two well-connected investigative writers have produced a classic that belongs on every shelf. Unfortunately the book never appeared in paperback, and can't be found on used book lists because it is so prized by collectors. To get a copy you have to find one in a library and photocopy it, or get the new edition, retitled "Deadly Secrets," that Thunder's Mouth Press in New York published in 1992.

While other books deal with discrete events relating to Cuba and Castro, this one attempts a history of the anti-Castro Cuban community and their CIA and Mafia sponsors, from 1960 through the Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose, the Kennedy brothers, the New Orleans community uncovered by Jim Garrison, Omega 7 and CORU terrorism, and Watergate. Not only is the book extremely name-intensive, but many of the names are not found elsewhere.

Hinckle is a former editor of Ramparts magazine and a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Turner is a 10-year FBI veteran and expert on the paramilitary right who continues to follow developments in the Kennedy assassinations. Each author has written several other books.
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