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31	Being successfully nasty: the United States, Cuba and state-sponsored terrorism, 1959-1976 Douglas, Robert 11 August 2008 (has links) Despite being the global leader in the “war on terror,” the United States has been accused of sponsoring terrorism against Cuba. The following study assesses these charges. After establishing a definition of terrorism, it examines U.S.-Cuban relations from 1808 to 1958, arguing that the United States has historically employed violence in its efforts to control Cuba. U.S. leaders maintained this approach even after the Cuban Revolution: months after Fidel Castro’s guerrilla army took power, Washington began organizing Cuban exiles to carry out terrorist attacks against the island, and continued to support and tolerate such activities until the 1970s, culminating in what was the hemisphere’s most lethal act of airline terrorism before 9/11. Since then, the United States has maintained contact with well-known anti-Castro terrorists, in many cases employing and harbouring them, despite its claims to be fighting an international campaign against terrorism. HISTORY CUBA GERALD FORD GEORGE H. W. BUSH UNITED STATES U.S.-CUBAN RELATIONS TERRORISM WAR ON TERRORISM FIDEL CASTRO BAY OF PIGS OPERATION MONGOOSE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS DWIGHT EISENHOWER JOHN KENNEDY LYNDON JOHNSON RICHARD NIXON HENRY KISSINGER GEORGE W. BUSH CUBAN EXILES JORGE MAS CANOSA LUIS POSADA CARRILES ORLANDO BOSCH FELIX RODRIGUEZ CORU CUBAN REVOLUTION FILIBUSTERING NARCISO LOPEZ
32	The Struggle Against Bandits: The Cuban Revolution and Responses to CIA-Sponsored Counter-Revolutionary Activity, 1959-1963 Rossodivito, Anthony, M 01 January 2014 (has links) Following the 1959 victory of the Cuban revolution, the United States government along with the CIA and their Cuban émigré allies immediately undertook a campaign of subversion and terrorism against the Cuban revolution. From 1959 until 1963 a clandestine war was waged between supporters of the revolution and the counter-revolutionary organizations backed by Washington. This project is a new synthesis of this little-known story. It is an attempt to shed light on a little known aspect of the conflict between the United States government and the Cuban revolution by bringing together never-before seen primary sources, and utilizing the two distinct and separate historiographies from the U.S. and Cuba, concerning the clandestine struggle. This is the story of Cuba’s resistance to intervention, the organization of the counter- revolution, and finally how the constant defeat of CIA plots by the Cubans forced changes in U.S. strategy concerning intervention in Cuba and in other parts of the developing world that would have far-reaching and long-last effects. Thesis University of North Florida UNF United States -- Relations -- Cuba Arts and Humanities History United States History

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Being successfully nasty: the United States, Cuba and state-sponsored terrorism, 1959-1976

The Struggle Against Bandits: The Cuban Revolution and Responses to CIA-Sponsored Counter-Revolutionary Activity, 1959-1963