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The Cuban Affair is Nelson DeMille's 20th novel. [1] [2] DeMille had earlier novels win a place on the New York Times bestseller list. [3] According to Publishers Weekly, Simon & Schuster had scheduled its release for September 17, 2017. On June 2, 2017, Publishers Weekly published a profile of DeMille, focused around The Cuban Affair. [4]
DeMille is the author of By the Rivers of Babylon, Cathedral, The Talbot Odyssey, Word of Honor, The Charm School, The Gold Coast, The General's Daughter, Spencerville, Plum Island, The Lion’s Game, Up Country, Night Fall, Wild Fire, The Gate House, The Lion, The Panther, The Quest, Radiant Angel, and The Cuban Affair.
The CIA in 1962 considered a plan called "Operation Bounty", which would have involved dropping leaflets over Cuba offering financial rewards to the Cuban population for the assassination of various individuals, including $5,000 to $20,000 for informants, $57,000 for department heads, $97,000 for foreign Communists operating in Cuba, up to $1 ...
His other novels included Cathedral (1981), The Gold Coast (1990) and The Cuban Affair (2017). His 1992 novel The General’s Daughter was adapted into a 1999 film starring John Travolta, ...
The operation proposed creating public support for a war against Cuba by blaming the Cuban government for terrorist acts that would be perpetrated by the U.S. government. [1] To this end, Operation Northwoods proposals recommended hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of false evidence that would implicate the Cuban government ...
From Castro’s Cuba to DeSantis’ Florida, a Miami Film Festival documentary on the infamous “Padilla Affair” packs a free-speech punch, says columnist.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos, sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the United States of America and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting ...
Almost six decades after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination while he was riding in a motorcade in downtown Dallas, questions linger about who else, besides Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused ...