Download or read book Cold War in South Florida Historic Resource Study CIA Cuba and Castro Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Radio Marti Arbenz Guatemala Everglades Counterinsurgency Technology Research written by National Park Service (NPS) and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic resource study by the National Park Service covers the Cold War and historic resources related to it located in south Florida. The study deals with Cold War-related activities and resources in four units of the National Park Services as well as nearby areas. Historians and preservationists are increasingly devoting their attention to the Cold War, which was the defining event in the history of the second half of the twentieth century. This study is a first step in understanding the unique role played by Florida and Florida National Parks in the history of the Cold War. Our hope is that it will serve as a catalyst for the preservation of Cold War-related resources throughout the State of Florida. The study has already resulted in a National Register of Historic Places nomination for the HM-69 Nike Missile Base within Everglades National Park. Topics and subjects covered include: CIA, Cuba and Castro, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Radio Marti, Arbenz, Guatemala, Everglades, Counterinsurgency Technology Research Section One: Brief Overview of the Cold War and Related Activities in South Florida * World War II, the Bomb, and the Origins of the Cold War * Eisenhower, Latin America, and Cold War Precedents for South Florida History * Building a Strategic Cold War Defense Infrastructure * The Cuban Revolution: South Florida Becomes "Ground Zero" in the Cold War * Counterinsurgency Technology and Florida's Role as an Open Air Research Lab * The End of the Secret War and the Legacy of Covert Activity in South Florida * Detente and a Reduction in Cold War Tensions * Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the Cuban Exile-Contra Connection * The End of the Cold War and the Legacy of the Battle * Section Two: South Florida Cold War Historic Resource List * Cold War Resources Located Within South Florida National Parks * Big Cypress National Preserve (Big Cypress NP) * Dade Collier Training Airport * CIA Arms Cache * Biscayne National Park (Biscayne NP) * Elliott Key * Dry Tortugas National Park (Dry Tortugas NP) * East Key * Garden Key * Hospital Key * Loggerhead Key * Other Possible Dry Tortugas NP Resources * Everglades National Park (Everglades NP) * Broad River * Cape Sable * Clive Key/Man of War Key/Sandy Key * East Everglades * Flamingo * Florida Bay * Ground Observer Corps Activities * Hole In the Donut * Long Pine Key * Palma Vista Hammock * Parachute Key Visitor Center * Pine Island * Pine Island Utility Area * Royal Palm Visitor Center * Seven Mile Road * Seven Mile Tower * Sisal Hammock * U.S. Department of State Activities * Other possible Everglades NP resources * Cold War Resources Located Near South Florida National Parks * Other Cold War-Related Resources in South Florida * Aerojet General Solid Rocket Booster Facility * Big Pine Key * Boca Chica Key * Card Sound Area * Coconut Grove * Coral Gables * Cudjoe Key * Florida City * Flo-Sun Sugar Corporation/Fanjul Family/Cuban Exile Sugar Growing Operations * Goulds * Homestead Air Force Base (Homestead AFB) * Homestead Area * Hutchinson Island * Key Biscayne * Key Largo * Key West * Lignum Vitae Key * Linderman Key * Marathon Key * Miami Area * Miami Beach * Naranja * No Name Key * Opa Locka * Palm Beach/Peanut Island * Port Everglades * Richmond * Sugarloaf Key * Useppa Island * Section Three: Notes on Sources and Suggestions for Further Research * Archives and Research Facilities Visited for this Report * Everglades NP Museum Archives * National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) I-Suitland, Maryland * National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) II-College Park, Maryland * National Security Archive-George Washington University, Washington, D.C * Naval Historical Center-Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C * Richter Library-University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida * U.S. Army Center for Military History (CMH)-Fort Myer, Washington, D.C * U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters (HQ USACE) Historical Archives
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Download or read book Cold War in South Florida written by National Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Florida was the location of many important events during the Cold War period 1945- 1989. Indeed, the region served as a forward command center for the projection of U.S. power into the Western Hemisphere throughout the conflict. The region's proximity to Latin America made it an operational center for both covert and overt activities as the United States pursued its policy of containing communism. From the 1950s until the end of the Cold War, government officials directed operations from south Florida military installations such as Homestead Air Force Base, Opa Locka Marine Air Station, and the various U.S. Navy facilities in Key West that affected events in Guatemala, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other nations throughout Latin America. From Miami to Key West, quiet residential neighborhoods were havens for undercover operatives while the swamps and forests served as training grounds. From south Florida the United States launched numerous operations: the overthrow of the Arbenz government of Guatemala in 1954; the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961; the military buildup necessitated by the Cuban missile crisis of 1962; surveillance, intelligence, and espionage activities against Cuba, Nicaragua, and other nations; and radio and television propaganda broadcasting to Cuba. All activities were justified under the U.S. foreign policy of containment. As the south Florida region helped shape these events, the events helped shape the region. In many cases, physical traces of these operations are still visible on the south Florida landscape. This Historic Resource Study (HRS) provides a historic context for, and identifies, sites in south Florida related to the Cold War and U.S. relations with Latin America. The report focuses on resources in and near the four national parks located in the region: Everglades National Park (Everglades NP), Biscayne National Park (Biscayne NP), Big Cypress National Preserve (Big Cypress NP), and Dry Tortugas National Park (Dry Tortugas NP). The study identifies structures, remains of structures, and landscapes where activities associated with the Cold War are reported to have taken place. This HRS pays particular attention to sites related to the events mentioned above as well as resources associated with the large Cuban exile population of south Florida. The historic context provides the basis for future nominations to the National Register of Historic Places.
Download or read book Cold War in South Florida Historic Resource Study written by Steve Hach and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Historic Resource Study (HRS) provides a historic context for, and identifies, sites in south Florida related to the Cold War and U.S. relations with Latin America. The report focuses on resources in and near the four national parks located in the region: Everglades National Park (Everglades NP), Biscayne National Park (Biscayne NP), Big Cypress National Preserve (Big Cypress NP), and Dry Tortugas National Park (Dry Tortugas NP). The study identifies structures, remains of structures, and landscapes where activities associated with the Cold War are reported to have taken place. This HRS pays particular attention to sites related to the events mentioned above as well as resources associated with the large Cuban exile population of south Florida. The historic context provides the basis for future nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. The HM- 69 Nike base within Everglades National Park was listed in the National Register in 2004.
Download or read book The Bay of Pigs written by Howard Jones and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Bay of Pigs, Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of the disastrous attempt to overthrow Castro in April 1961. Drawing on recently declassified CIA documents, Jones deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs.Ignoring warnings from the ambassador to Cuba, the Eisenhower administration put in motion an operation that proved nearly unstoppable even after the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. The CIA and Pentagon, meanwhile, both voiced confidence in the outcome of the invasion, especially after coordinating previous successful coups in Guatemala and Iran. And so the Kennedy administration launched the exile force toward its doom in Cochinos Bay on April 17, 1961. Jones gives a riveting account of the battle--and the confusion in the White House--before moving on to explore its implications. The Bay of Pigs, he writes, set the course of Kennedy's foreign policy. It was a humiliation for the administration that fueled fears of Communist domination and pushed Kennedy toward a hardline "cold warrior" stance. But at the same time, the failed attack left him deeply skeptical of CIA and military advisers and influenced his later actions during the Cuban missile crisis.
Download or read book Great Heroin Coup written by Henrik Krüger and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition of a cult classic, Henrik Krüger and Jerry Meldon have added new material and provided updates of the investigations Danish investigative author Henrik Krüger set out to write a book about Christian David, a French criminal with a colorful past, and wound up writing a book—originally published in 1980—that spans all continents and names names all the way up to Richard Nixon. The Nixon administration and CIA wanted to eliminate the old French Connection and replace it with heroin from the Golden Triangle, partly in order to help finance operations in Southeast Asia. The book delves into the relationships between French and U.S. intelligence services and organized crime probing into the netherworld of narcotics, espionage, and international terrorism. It uncovers the alliances between the Mafia, right-wing extremists, neo-fascist OAS and SAC veterans in France, and Miami-based Cuban exiles. It lifts the veil on the global networks of parafascist terrorists who so frequently plot and murder with impunity, thanks to their relationships and services to the intelligence agencies of the so-called "free world." In short, this updated edition tells a story which our own media have systematically failed to tell.
Download or read book Coup D tat in America written by Michael Canfield and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acetate overlay in pocket.Includes index. Bibliography: p. 307-308.
Download or read book Cuba and the U S Empire written by Jane Franklin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sections of this book were previously published as Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History by Ocean Press (1997)"
Download or read book Eisenhower and Latin America written by Stephen G. Rabe and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Rabe's timely book examines President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Latin American policy and assesses the president's actions in light of recent "Eisenhower revisionism." During his first term, Eisenhower paid little attention to Latin America but his objective there was clear: to prevent communism from gaining a foothold. The Eisenhower administration was prepared to cooperate with authoritarian military regimes, but not to fund developmental aid or vigorously promote political democracy. Two events in the second administration convinced Eisenhower that he had underestimated the extent of popular unrest_and thus the potential for Communist inroads: the stoning of Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in Caracas and the radicalization of the Cuban Revolution. He then began to support trade agreements, soft loans, and more strident measures that led to CIA involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion and plots to assassinate Fidel Castro and Rafael Trujillo. In portraying Eisenhower as a virulent anti-Communist and cold warrior, Rabe challenges the Eisenhower revisionists who view the president as a model of diplomatic restraint.
Download or read book Yvain written by Chretien de Troyes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Download or read book Vietnam and America written by Marvin E. Gettleman and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No single event since World War II has marked this country s foreign policy and national image as deeply as did the war in Vietnam. Vietnam and America is a complete history of the war, as documented in essays by leading experts and in original source material. With generous selections from the documentary records, the book dispels distortions and illuminates in depth the many facets of the war, from Vietnam s history before the war, to Washington s insider policy making, to troop perspectives, to the impact back on the home front. In essays introducing each major stage of the war, the editors elucidate the issues, foreign policy choices, and consequences of U.S. involvement. Substantial headnotes put each document in historical perspective. This comprehensive anthology is an invaluable reference for anyone who wants to understand the Vietnam War."
Download or read book History Wars written by Edward T. Linenthal and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest to teachers, historians, and museum curators. Everywhere now, history is increasingly being held hostage, but to what end and why? In History Wars, eight prominent historians consider the angry swirl of emotions that now surrounds public memory. Included are trenchant essays by Paul Boyer, John W. Dower, Tom Engelhardt, Richard H. Kohn, Edward Linenthal, Micahel S. Sherry, Marilyn B. Young, and Mike Wallace.
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Download or read book George F Kennan written by Walter L. Hixson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kennan embodied the contradictions of Cold War anti-communism and a distrust of democracy, particularly as expressed in American anti- communist hysteria. Kennan later moved toward a "realist" perspective, shedding ideology and addressing himself to the practical issues of detente and arms control. This intellectual biography will serve general readers as well as students and scholars. Excellent notes and bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Contesting Castro written by Thomas G. Paterson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Castro's insurrection from a 1955 fund raising trip to the United States to the Cuban Revolution.
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