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Servando González,
The Secret Fidel Castro:
Deconstructing the Symbol
(INTELLIGENCE AND ESPIONAGE)
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About the Book
The Secret Fidel Castro: Deconstructing the Symbol
is neither a history of the Cuban revolution nor a biography
of Fidel Castro. The book follows what intelligence services
call a CPP (short for Comprehensive Personality Profile), similar
to the ones intelligence services keep on foreign leaders. It
focuses on different aspects of Castro's actions and personality
which, for some reasons, have been either ignored, misunderstood,
or misrepresented.
The available information obtained about any person's life
sometimes poses almost insurmountable problems. While the most
readily verifiable information may not be the most revealing,
the most interesting may not be easily verifiable. Thus, we have
many accurate accounts of what Fidel Castro said, which, most
of the time, fully contradicts what he actually did. In addition,
not many of his biographers have tried to find out why he said
or did some of these things, because to do so might require going
beyond narrative history to examine a different, more elusive
type of fact.
Do we understand the strange phenomenon called Fidel Castro?
As you will see in this book, there are many unusual things about
Castro, among them, his eidetic (photographic) memory, his uncanny
ability to foretell events, his incredible good luck, and his
ability to mesmerize people. Obviously, Fidel Castro is different-and
not only because he is rich.
Despite the brilliance of innumerable studies about the Cuban
leader, these works alone do not ultimately enable us to fully
understand Castro himself or the changes he started in Cuba in
1959. After studying the mechanism by which Castro attained power,
the uses to which he has put his power, his speeches, his writings
and, above all, his actions, most people are still baffled by
a flood of unanswered questions.
Why did a small Caribbean country abruptly become an important
player in world politics? How could Castro achieved such unparalleled
power in Cuba? How did he gain such a strong influence in other
parts of the world? Why did Cubans come to venerate Castro as
a god? Why, after a long chain of failures, does he still exert
a mystique that is conspicuously absent when we study Stalin,
Mussolini or Perón? Why does one feel that the Castroist
revolution stands for a radically different type of revolution
from the Mexican, the French, or the American ones? Most intriguing
of all, what drives Fidel Castro, what motivates him? What went
on in his mind when he sent his troops to Africa in 1975? What
were his true intentions when he promoted guerrilla subversion
in Latin America and terrorism in the U.S. and Europe? What was
his ultimate goal when he tried in 1962 to push the United States
and the Soviet Union to a nuclear confrontation?
The main thesis of this book is that there are many different
Castros. The most widely known is the symbolic, public one, as
it has been portrayed in official Cuban propaganda, Castro-friendly
biographies, and mainstream American media. But there are also
many secret Castros, highly different from the public one. By
"deconstructing" different aspects of the life of the
symbolic Fidel Castro the author tries to prove that all of them,
the symbolic and the secret ones, are suspect and, therefore,
all answers are partial.
The Secret Fidel Castro, focuses on little known
aspects of Castro's personality, important in the better understanding
of the man and his actions-what really makes him tick.
Congrtatulations. A wonderful book. I hope you sell a million.
It came yesterday and I am up to page 109.
--Antony Sutton, author of The American Secret
Establishmnet
I've read 4 or 5 books on Castro and your's is clearly the
best of them all. Excellent book.
--H.P. Albarelli, author of A Terrible Mistake:
The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Cold War Experiments
Servando Gonzalez has written a fascinating book. Some of
his assumptions are based on seat of the pants analysis and perhaps
a bit of animus for the subject of the work. Nevertheless, his
crisp prose and intriguing revelations make the reader look at
Fidel Castro from a new perspective. Perhaps the most controversial
aspect of the book is the revisitation of the Kennedy assassination
which Sr. Gonzalez indicates was likely masterminded by Castro
himself. The evidence presented is thought-provoking. The reader
will come to his own conclusions.
The value of "The Secret Fidel Castro" is in its
vivid portrait of the "Maximum Leader", its depiction
of the dangers presented by a renegade dictator to his own people
and the people of neighboring states. More, it is a lucid study
that helps us to understand not just the man behind one of the
last surviving communist states, but also the process and ultimate
failure of socialism.
--W.J. Rayment, Conservative Bookstore
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According to Servando Gonzalez, whose book The Secret Fidel
Castro: Deconstructing the Symbol, has just been published, Castro
would refer to Batista as the "negro de mierda" (which
is not, be assured, a nice phrase).
--Jay Nordlinger, Managing Editor, National
Review Online
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A book writtenfollowing CCP intelligence (Comprehensive Personality
Profile) obtained on Castro. CCP is kept by the CIA and MI6 on
all foreign leaders. A stunning and unusual insight into Castro.
--Eye Spy magazine, U.K.
About the Author
Servando González is a Cuban-born American writer
and intelligence analyst. He received his training as a historian
at the University of Havana. He has written books, essays, articles,
and multimedia on Cuban history, intelligence and espionage,
semiotics, hypertext, and art history.
González is the author of Historia herética
de la revolución fidelista (San Francisco: El Gato
Tuerto, 1986); Observando (San Francisco: El Gato Tuerto,
1986). His articles have been published in many magazines and
newspapers. Servando is an Apple Macintosh certified multimedia
developer, and has authored many computer programs, among them:
Hypertext for Beginners, Popol Vuh: An Interactive
Text'Graphics Adventure, The Riddle of the Swastika: A
Study in Symbolism, and How to Create Your Own Personal
Intelligence Agency. He has created many Internet sites for
himself and for others; among them CastroMania: The Fidel
Watch, FAQs About Fidel Castro, Tyrant Aficionado,
The Nazis and the Swastika, and Memoirs of a Computer
Heretic.
BOOK CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Do We Understand Fidel Castro?
An Unorthodox View of Fidel Castro
Part One: Deconstructing The Symbol
Chapter 1. Charisma . . . and Beyond
Castro's Powers of Fascination
Castro's Powers of Clairvoyance
Castro's Extraordinary Good Luck
Chapter 2. The Great Pulverizer
Fidel's Extraordinary Love for Nuclear Missiles
Castro's Attempts to Destroy New York . . . and Much More
Castro's Search for The Great Equalizer
Castro Goes Nuclear . . . Powered
Castro's Wet Dreams of Nuclear Armageddon
If Not With a Bang, Perhaps With a Whiff
Chapter 3. Castro's Manifest Destiny
Setting the Record Straight
I'll Kill 200,000 Gringos
Castro Follows his Course
Fidel's Thirst for Revenge
Self-provocation as a Foreign Policy Tool
Still, Americans Don't Get It
Chapter 4. A Caribbean Magnicide
Castro's Version of the Kennedy Assassination
Killing Presidents: Castro's Life-long Obsession
Castro's Expertise in Political Assassination
High-Tech Political Assassinations
A Furiously Castro-hostile View of JFK's Assassination
Was Fidel Castro the Hidden Hand?
Chapter 5. Fidel's Sociolism
The Cuban Economy Before Castro
A Cuban Robber Baron
Fidel's Happy, Good Life in His Proletarian Paradise
A Corrupt Tyrant
The Comandante's Reserves
Fidel's Business Enterprises
The Comandante's Other Revenue Sources
Castro-Cuban Banking
From Socialism to Sociolism
Fidel's Cronies
Castro Loves Cuban Art
Part Two: Who is Fidel Castro? What
is he?
Chapter 6. The Secret Fidel Castro
The Maximum Leader
Castro's Photographic Memory
Castro's Uncommon Abilities
The Dark Side of Fidel Castro
Fidel The Procrastinator
Castro's Mastery of Symbols
A Man Driven by Envy
The Misery Specialist
Fidel's Epiphany
Castro's Health Problems
Fidel's Rages
Castro's Innate Cruelty
Castro's Twisted Mind
The Great Dissembler
Fidel's Lack of a Sense of Humor
The Cowman from Birán
Castro's Split Personality
Is Fidel Castro Crazy?
Is Fidel a Gay in the Closet?
Homosexuals in Fidel's Paradise
Is Fidel Castro a Racist?
A Closet Gringophile
King Fidel I
Chapter 7. Castroism: A Trpical Variety of Fascism?
The Soviet Union and Latin America
The Cuban Communists and Fidel
Fidel's Short-lived Anticommunism
Fidel's Short-lived Humanism
Communist "Infiltration" Continues
Fidel Becomes a "Marxist"
Castro and the Catholic Church
Enter the Jesuits
The Opium of the People
A Man Called "The Horse"
Fidel's Links to Santería
Blood Offerings Disguised as Foreign Policy
Elián: Fidel's Elegguá?
Castro and the anti-Communist Cuban Exiles
Fidel's Fascist Roots
A Caribbean Führer?
Is Castroism Fascism in Disguise?
What Really is Castroism?
The Castroist Cult
Fidel's True Ideology
The Man Behind the Symbol
Epilogue
Who is Fidel Castro?
What is He?
The Monster Next Door
The Boy Without a Name
What to do With Castro?
Castro and the "Cuban" Revolution
Afterword
A Sad Day For Fidel Castro?
Cuban Terrorists: In Miami or in Havana?
The U.S. Government's Strange Blindness
Appendixes:
1. Castro's Memorandum to Celia Sánchez
2. Castro's Letter to President Roosevelt
3. The Evaluation of Information
Notes
Sources
Index
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