The Last Year of President Kennedy and the Multiple Path Policy Toward Cuba

ISBN-13: 9781032239538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Håkan Karlsson; Tomás Diez Acosta

Opis

This book presents new aspects of the U.S. "multiple path" policy toward Cuba that was designed and adopted after the Missile Crisis (October 1962) until the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, from a Cuban perspective.

Spis treści

Part I: Kennedy and the Anti-Cuban Policy After the October Crisis  Introduction to Part I  1. Influential Factors of the U.S. Policy Towards Cuba in 1963  2. The New Governing Body for Anti-Cuban Subversion  3. Proposals from the Coordinator of Cuban Affairs  4. Soviet Troops in Cuba and the Political Debate in the U.S.  5. "Uncontrolled" Terrorist Acts of the Counterrevolution  Part II: The "Multiple Path" Policy  Introduction to Part II  6. The Internal Counterrevolutionary "Offensive" in the Beginning of 1963  7. The Standing Group and the Political Alternatives  8. The Integrated Covert Action Program  9. Operations and "Autonomous" Groups  Part III: The Cuban-Soviet Dispute and the Reinforcement of the Cuban Defense  Introduction to Part III  10. The Cuban-Soviet Dispute and the First Visit of Fidel Castro to the Soviet Union  11. Military Reinforcement of the FAR Between 1963 and 1964  12. The Confrontation with the Internal Counterrevolution  13. The Action Against the Internal Counterrevolution and Its Groups  Part IV: The Ambivalence of the "Multiple Path" Policy  Introduction to Part IV  14. The Negotiations of Lawyer James B. Donovan and the Ambivalent Policy Towards Cuba  15. Attempts to Approach the Cuban Government

O autorze

Håkan Karlsson is Full Professor in Archaeology at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Tomás Diez Acosta is Professor and Researcher at the Instituto de Historia de Cuba.