The Cuba Project
The secret war the CIA lost
Fabián Escalante
The intriguing tale of a “regime change” project that failed.
The CIA’s “Cuba Project,” initiated to remove Fidel Castro after the 1959 revolution, became the largest-ever covert action program conducted by one nation against another. It included assassination plots, sabotage, terrorist activities, paramilitary invasion plans and bizarre psychological warfare schemes. This account reads almost like a crime novel, but author Fabián Escalante, as the former head of Cuban State Security was actually a key protagonist in this espionage drama.
Fabián Escalante is internationally regarded as Cuba’s foremost authority on both US covert operations against Cuba and assassination plots against Fidel Castro. He also directed Cuba’s 1978 investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy.
Published as part of the Secret War series.
Although there is substantial documentation from U.S. sources, the facts [about this secret war] have scarcely reached the public. Fabián Escalante is in a unique position to add significant insight and information about this crucial chapter of modern history. His review of CIA covert operations against Cuba in the early years is greatly to be welcomed, and should be widely read—and pondered.
—Noam Chomsky
