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NOTES
Chapter One: The Terrorist Next Door
1 William B. Breuer, Vendetta! Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998), 1.
2 Ibid., 2.
3 Herbert Matthews, New York Times, February 24, 1957.
4 This quote comes from a letter written by Fidel Castro to Celia Sanchez, quoted in Fidel Castro on the United States; Selected Statements, 1958–2003, Hans de Salas-del Valle, ed. This letter is no major secret; to this day it forms a major exhibit in Havana’s very own Museo de la Revolución.
5 This quote comes from Juanita Castro’s testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 11, 1965.
6 This quote comes from a secret telegram from then U.S. ambassador to Cuba Philip Bonsal to Secretary of State Christian Herter on June 16, 1960. This telegram was declassified only on December 14, 2002. Exact quote from telegram: “Raul Castro stated the following in confidence to Faure Chaumont, Cuban Ambassador to USSR, and to Interior Minister Jose Naranjo, as he was planning a trip to USSR to seek a military assistance pact including nuclear weapons. Chaumont told a confidant that Raul said ‘my dream is to drop three atom bombs on New York. ’” Gringos In the Revolution 1956–62, Paul Wolf, ed.
7 Breuer, 2–3.
8 Andrew Tully, White Tie and Dagger; How Foreign Embassies Spy On the U.S. (New York: Pocket, 1968), 76.
9 Dr. Ernesto Betancourt, www.martinoticias.com/Radio Martí News, September 23, 2001.
10 Ibid.
11 South Florida Sun-Sentinel, March 21, 2004.
12 Betancourt, www.martinoticias.com/Radio Martí News.
13 Iranian Press Service, May 10, 2001.
14 www.cnn.com, September 18, 2000.
15 Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, January 16, 2005.
16 Granma International, Havana, January 17, 2005.
17 From “The Last Revolutionary,” Dan Rather’s interview of Fidel Castro, CBS News, July 18, 1996.
18 Myles Kantor, “Oliver Stone’s Cuban Lovefest,” www.frontpagemag.com, May 5, 2004.
19 Marc Morano, “Critics Assa
il Fidel Castro’s ‘Sickening’ Grip on Hollywood Celebs,” www.cnsnews.com, December 17, 2002.
20 Arnold Beichman, “Mona Charen Exposes Menace of Senseless Liberals,” Human Events, February 17, 2003.
21 “Castro: The Great Survivor,” BBC News, October 19, 2000.
22 “Poster Killer,” The Spectator, January 19, 2005.
23 Revista Presencia, La Paz, Bolivia, September 1974.
24 Ronald Bergan, Francis Ford Coppola, Close Up: The Making of His Movies (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1998), 53.
25 Sandra Levinson, exclusive interview with Harry Belafonte on Cuba, Cuba Now, October 25, 2003.
26 Granma International, April 19, 2000.
27 Trevor Armbrister, “Fawning Over Fidel,” Reader’s Digest, May 1996.
28 Anderson v. Republic of Cuba, No. 01-28628 (Miami-Dade Cir. April 13, 2003)
29 “U.S. Family Wins Judgment Against Cuba in ’61 Death,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 30, 2003.
Chapter Two: The Cuban Führer
1 This quote is from a presidential press conference on July 15, 1959, where President Eisenhower was responding to charges made by Cuban exile Pedro Diaz Lanz that Castro’s revolution was Communist.
2 This is from a telegram from U.S. ambassador to Cuba Earl Smith to the State Department’s Roy Rubbottom, dated December 29, 1958. It was declassified on December 12, 2002. Gringos In the Revolution 1956–62, Paul Wolf, ed.
3 Georgie Ann Geyer, Guerrilla Prince (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1991), 131.
4 Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years; Kennedy & Khrushchev 1960–1963. (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 538.
5 Fedor Burlatsky, “Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike,” New York Times, October 23, 1992.
6 Guevara biographer Jon Lee Anderson reports that Guevara told Sam Russell, a British correspondent for the socialist newspaper Daily Worker, that if the missiles had been under Cuban control, they would have fired them off. Havana Journal, October 14, 2004.
7 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (New York: Random House, 1965).
8 Foreign Affairs, volume 66, number 1, fall 1987.
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