Research Catalog

Title

What lies across the water : the real story of the Cuban Five / Stephen Kimber.

Author

Kimber, Stephen

Publication

Halifax : Fernwood Pub., c2013.

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Description

viii, 284 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This book recounts the events leading up to the 1998 arrest of the Cuban Five, five Cuban intelligence agents convicted of conspiring to commit espionage against the United States. The five agents -- Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González -- had been sent to Florida to infiltrate and report on the activities of Miami-based, anti-Cuban terrorist groups, which were carrying out deadly terrorist attacks against Cuba. Cuba even passed on information their agents learned about those illegal attacks to the FBI. Instead of arresting the terrorists, the FBI arrested the the five men. While the men remain in jail today -- one serving a double-life-plus-fifteen-year sentence -- the terrorists they tried to stop remain free. The story of the Cuban Five illustrates the injustice and hypocrisy of the U.S. government's supposed post-9/11 zero tolerance policy toward countries harbouring terrorists. Why were men who tried to prevent terrorist attacks against Cuba charged with espionage against the U.S? And why does the U.S. continue to protect and harbour known terrorists?

Subject

• Cubans > United States
• Espionage, Cuban > United States
• Political prisoners > United States
• Prisoners, Foreign > United States
• Terrorism > Cuba > Prevention

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-280) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cast of characters -- Prologue -- Building the nest : December 12, 1990-February 1994 -- Rescuing the brothers : March 8, 1994-December 1995 -- Shootdown : January 1996-December 1996 -- Stinging the wasp : May 22, 1996-December 26, 1996 -- "Something serious" : January 1997-August 25, 1997 -- "This is really fierce" : September 4, 1997-November 1997 -- "A duty to prevent" : November 15, 1997-December 1997 -- The "Memphis incident" : January 24, 1998-April 14, 1998 -- Gabo's secret mission : April 18, 1998-June 10, 1998 -- "I sleep like a baby" : June 15, 1998-August 13, 1998 -- "The very heart of our system: : September 4, 1998 -September 15, 1998 -- Aftermath : September 15, 1998 -- Whatever happened to -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

9781552665428 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013432817

OCLC

820617257

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library