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050 00 $aF1788$b.P575 1997
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245 00 $aPolitics of illusion :$bthe Bay of Pigs invasion reexamined /$cedited by James G. Blight, Peter Kornbluh.
260 $aBoulder, CO :$bLynne Rienner Pub.,$c1998.
300 $axix, 284 pages :$bmaps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies in Cuban history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: "John Wayne's" Betrayals --$g1.$tThe Anti-Castro Resistance Meets the CIA --$g2.$tThe CIA Calls the Shots --$g3.$tKennedy's Attempts to Topple Castro --$g4.$tAssassination and the Use of U.S. Military Force at the Bay of Pigs --$g5.$tOperation MONGOOSE and the Fate of the Resistance --$g6.$tAftermath of the Bay of Pigs Invasion --$tEpilogue: "John Wayne's" Illusions --$gApp. 3.$tChronology of U.S. Decisionmaking Regarding the Bay of Pigs Invasion and Operation MONGOOSE, January 1959-October 1962 --$gApp. 4.$tChronology of Cuban Resistance, January 1959-July 1961 --$gApp. 5.$tDeclassified Documents.
520 $aThe defeat of the attempted April 1961 invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs was one of the worst foreign-policy disasters in U.S. history. Since then, explanations of the event have emphasized betrayal by one U.S. agency or another, seeking to assign blame for the "loss" of Cuba. With the benefit of new documentation, however - from U.S. government and Cuban exile sources - as well as the first-hand accounts of key participants, Politics of Illusion shows the current mythology to be just that.
520 8 $aBased on an innovative series of meetings that brought together former CIA officials, former anti-Castro Cuban operatives, a former high-ranking Soviet official, and others who were directly involved in the events - nearly all speaking on the record for the first time - this critical oral history demonstrates that all of the anti-Castro parties were guilty of illusions, to one degree or another.
520 8 $aBlight and Kornbluh provide a thorough and perceptive context for the discussions held at the meetings, transcripts of the actual sessions, a selection of the main documents discussed by the participants, and a discussion of the implications of the participants' conclusions for current U.S.-Cuban relations.
651 0 $aCuba$xHistory$yInvasion, 1961.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034589
650 0 $aOral history.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095238
700 1 $aBlight, James G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88017862
700 1 $aKornbluh, Peter.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87932710
830 0 $aStudies in Cuban history.
852 00 $bglx$hF1788$i.P575 1998
852 00 $bleh$hF1788$i.P575 1998