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Kimber, Stephen
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Political prisoners -- United States -- Biography.
Cubans -- United States
Espionage, Cuban -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century.
Terrorism -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century.
Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award.
Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba.
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Kimber, Stephen
Political prisoners -- United States -- Biography.
Cubans -- United States
Espionage, Cuban -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century.
Terrorism -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century.
Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award.
Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba.
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What lies across the water : the real story of the Cuban five / Stephen Kimber.
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Kimber, Stephen
Fernwood Publishing , 2013
Call #:
365
.45
K497w
Subjects
Political prisoners -- United States -- Biography.
Cubans -- United States
Espionage, Cuban -- Florida -- Miami -- History -- 20th century.
Terrorism -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century.
Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award.
Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba.
ISBN:
9781552665428
Description:
viii, 284p : 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Cast of Characters -- Prologue -- Building the Nest -- Rescuing the Brothers -- Shootdown -- Stinging the Wasp -- “Something serious” -- “This is really fierce” -- “A duty to prevent” -- The “Memphis Incident” -- Gabo’s Secret Mission -- “I sleep like a baby” -- “The very heart of our system” -- Aftermath -- Whatever happened to -- Acknowledgments -- End Notes -- Selected Bibliography
Summary:
"What Lies Across the Water recounts the events leading up to the arrest of the Cuban Five, five Cuban anti-terrorism agents wrongfully arrested and convicted of “conspiracy to commit” espionage against the United States. In response to decades of deadly attacks by Miami-based, anti-Cuban terrorist organizations, Cuba dispatched five agents — Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González — to Florida to infiltrate and report on the activities of these terrorist groups. Cuba even passed on information their agents learned about illegal activities to the FBI. But, instead of arresting the terrorists, the FBI arrested the Cuban Five on September 12, 1998. The five men would be illegally held in solitary confinement for seventeen months and sentenced to four life sentences in 2001. The terrorists these five men tried to stop remain free to this day. In light of America’s supposed post-9/11 zero tolerance policy toward countries harbouring terrorists, the story of the Cuban Five illustrates the injustice and hypocrisy of this case: why were these 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?"--Jacket
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Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction, 2014.
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