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Chapter One: Fidel Castro’s Revenge
“I am a case officer from Cuban Intelligence. I am an intelligence comandante”: This account
is taken from Brian Latell, Castro’s Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, the CIA, and the Assassination of
John F. Kennedy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), p. 26.
one of the former Havana station chiefs: Herald Staff, “Spy work celebrated at museum in
Havana,” Miami Herald, July 16, 2001, http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/spy-
museum.htm.
until he had listed dozens of names: Benjamin B. Fischer, “Doubles Troubles: The CIA and
Double Agents during the Cold War,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
21, no. 1 (2016): 48–74.
There were detailed explanations of which park bench: I. C. Smith, Inside: A Top G-Man
Exposes Spies, Lies, and Bureaucratic Bungling Inside the FBI (Nashville: Nelson Current, 2004),
pp. 95–96.
CIA officer stuffing cash: Herald Staff, “Spy work celebrated at museum in Miami,” Miami
Herald, July 16, 2001.
“we were in the enviable position…to the Americans.”: Here Fischer quotes from Markus Wolf,
with Anne McElvoy, Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism’s Greatest Spymaster
(New York: Times Books/Random House, 1997), p. 285.
