Escalante, Fabian. The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba, 1959-1962. First published in 1993 as "Cuba: La guerra secreta de la CIA." Translated by Maxine Shaw and edited by Mirta Muniz. Melbourne, Australia: Ocean Press, 1995. 199 pages.

Fabian Escalante was head of Cuba's state security department from 1976-1982, and since then has been a high official in the Interior Ministry. He is considered Cuba's leading authority on the history of CIA activities against his country. During the period recounted in this book, Escalante was with Cuban counterintelligence, and in 1978 he directed the Cuban effort to help investigate the JFK assassination at the request of the U.S. House committee.

The CIA's war against Cuba from 1959-1962 was intense and unrelenting. The 42-page chronology of incidents in the back of this book shows that hardly a week went by without one sort of CIA provocation or another. With this level of cold-war escalation, it was inevitable that it would all come to a head during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. At that point the stakes became too high, and by January 1963, Operation Mongoose was officially discontinued. The CIA was still active against Cuba in later years, but between the assassination of JFK and the subsequent escalation in Vietnam, dirty tricks in other parts of the world took precedence.
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