Back channel to Cuba: the hidden history of negotiations between Washington
and Havana DB83345
LeoGrande, William M; Kornbluh, Peter. Reading time: 21 hours, 50 minutes.
Read by Ken Kliban.
Government and Politics
World History and Affairs
Details secret discussions between the United States and Cuba, from the
outset of the 1959 Revolution. Despite the ostensibly cold relations between
the two states, LeoGrande and Kornbluh assess more than fifty years of
clandestine communications between Fidel Castro and eleven different US
presidential administrations. Violence and strong language. 2014.
This is a fascinating book which I read from Bookshare. I'd heard Peter
Kornbluh interviewed several times and during the most recent interview, the
book was mentioned. What is most interesting is that just about every US
President from Kennedy on, regardless of party, did have contact with
Castro. Some of the contacts were more constructive than others, and the
book also gives a view of some of the things that Castro said and did, which
were not reported by US media at the time. But all of the book comes from
research into official records.
Miriam
