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CASTRO'S SECRETS: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine Brian Latell, Palgrave McMillan St. Martin's Press, New York 2012, 247 pages, $27.00
CASTRO'S SECRETS is an account of the covert battle of intelligence communities in Castro's Cuba and the Kennedy administration's CIA. The author provides interviews with highranking Cuban defectors and former CIA officials, and compares them to interviews, public records, and declassified documents from the CIA files. His main points are that the Kennedy administration grossly underestimated the Cuban intelligence community and Castro's power in the region, which led to confrontation in the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. The other main point is Castro's alleged connection to the Kennedy assassination.
One of the main subjects of the book is the highest-ranking Cuban intelligence official to ever defect. In 1987, Florentino "Tiny" Aspilliga Lombard...