Classified Information: Brian Latell on The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine, Gregory Wallance on The Holocaust, FDR’s State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy
Saturday, Nov. 17, 12:30 p.m., Room 8502 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Brian Latell
From the man called "one of America's foremost Cuba analysts" by former CIA director George J. Tenet comes this original view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba's supreme spymaster. Brian Latell’s, Castro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine (Palgrave Macmillan, $27.00) exposes long-buried secrets of Castro's nearly 50-year reign for the first time. They include numerous successful and attempted assassinations carried out on Castro's orders, some against foreign leaders. Most notable is the assertion that the Castro administration was aware of Lee Harvey Oswald’s intention to kill the Kennedy. Latell began tracking the Castro brothers for the CIA in the 1960s. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time, The Miami Herald, the Washington Quarterly, among others.
Gregory Wallance
Gregory Wallance’s nonfiction thriller is America's Soul in the Balance: The Holocaust, FDR's State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy (Greenleaf Book Group Press, $26.95). At the height of World War II, four lawyers in the U.S. Treasury Department discovered that diplomats in the State Department had covered up reports of the Nazi extermination scheme–and then blocked the rescue of 70,000 Romanian Jews. The Treasury lawyers—tough-minded New Dealers from Christian, middle-class backgrounds—precipitated a titanic intergovernmental battle. The stakes were nothing less than the fates of countless European Jews, the historical reputation of FDR, and the soul of America itself. A long-time human rights activist, and former federal prosecutor Wallance is the author of Papa's Game and Two Men Before the Storm, about the Dred Scott case.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8502 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
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