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"Joan Mellen tells a brilliantly researched, meticulously supported, and compulsively readable tale that everyone concerned with how America operates should know." --Samuel R. Delany, author of Dhalgren and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders This completely revised and newly updated edition of The Great Game in Cuba uses the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution to examine the CIA's inner workings during the fifties and sixties. Detailing the agency's lies and deceits, Mellen paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the CIA in Cuba after the Castro revolution: what it wanted and the lengths it was willing to go to paralyze the opposition to Fidel Castro. The game begins with Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., proprietor of the legendary King Ranch, one of the largest ranches in the world. Kleberg's messianic ambitions bring him to Cuba, where he establishes a satellite ranch managed by his right-hand man, the James Bond-type character Michael J. P. Malone, who secretly reported to both the FBI and to at least five CIA handlers. From there, the plot thickens as an array of Cubans share never-before-revealed information regarding the agency's activities in Cuba and its attempts to unseat Castro and install a CIA-friendly figurehead in his place. The mysterious disappearance of Camilo Cienfuegos, a major figure in Castro's government, is told here for the first time. The agency's shady dealings with a major US publication are uncovered. A testament to the sheer volume of previously classified and untold information, The Great Game in Cuba is a story the world needs to hear.

Intro -- Half-Title Page -- Dedication -- By the Same Author -- Title Page -- Contents -- Epigraph -- Timeline -- Introduction -- 1. Texans -- 2. A Man of Good Character -- 3. "He Must Be a Real Leader" -- 4. Lyndon Johnson Betrays Richard M. Kleberg and George Parr Works His Magic -- 5. Senator Lyndon Johnson -- 6. Mac Wallace Goes to Washington Under the Auspices of Lyndon Johnson -- 7. The Killing of John Douglas Kinser -- 8. Texas Justice -- 9. Two Faustian Bargains: Little Lyndon and Billie Sol -- 10. Enter the Office of Naval Intelligence -- 11. Some Faustian Bargains Come Due: The Falls of Billie Sol Estes and Bobby Baker -- 12. Mac Wallace in California -- 13. Lyndon Johnson as President, Part I -- 14. Lyndon Johnson and the USS Liberty: Lyndon Johnson as President, Part II -- 15. Downward Spirals -- 16. Billie Sol Estes Creates an Urban Legend -- 17. The Fingerprint -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Evaluation and Comparison of Fingerprints -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A Note on the Author -- Plates -- Copyright.