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Psywar on Cuba : The Declassified History of U.S. Anti-Castro Propaganda
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by Jon Elliston
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Cover Type: Paperback with 300 pages
Published by: Ocean Press July 1, 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1876175095
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1876175092
Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 7.7 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Product Review
PSYWAR ON CUBA In Psywar on Cuba, Jon Elliston provides an great overview of the whole sad story of U.S. efforts to use radio broadcasting and now TV against the Castro government -- efforts which are simply part of a deceitful and utterly counterproductive policy. Now having been moved to Miami in violation of its original mandate, Radio Marti, as Elliston points out, has become little more than another strident exile radio station, though in this case paid for by the U.S. taxpayer. As for TV Marti, it is never seen nor heard, but year after year the taxpayer is forced to fork over more millions of dollars to keep it operating, the argument now being that to terminate its transmissions would be "a victory for Castro." And in terms of their positive effect in Cuba, the sum total of both operations has been zero. One cannot read Elliston's book without groaning and asking, "How could we be so stupid?" -- Dr. Wayne S. Smith, Former State Department Cuba Expert
PSYWAR ON CUBA Psywar on Cuba is an absolutely fascinating recounting of U.S. government chicanery, incompetence, and malfeasance in its dealings not only with Cuba but also the American people. Author and compiler Jon Elliston weaves together insightful background and interpretation with a wealth of revealing declassified documents to produce the single most important history of this notorious propaganda campaign. Although the book is specifically about Cuba, it is must reading for all those interested in U.S. international communication policy and propaganda in any part of the world. -- Dr. John S. Nichols, Pennsylvania State University College of Communications
PSYWAR ON CUBA Newly declassified CIA and U.S. government documents are reproduced here for the first time, exposing a 40-year campaign by Washington to use psychological warfare and propaganda to destabilize Cuba and undermine its revolution.
The Cuban people have been the target for one of the largest psychological warfare campaigns ever waged by one country against another. This book details the U.S. psywar efforts, overt and covert, which have included rumor campaigns, posters, newspapers, books, comics, newsreels, leaflet drops, and radio and TV broadcasts from airplanes, blimps, boats, submarines, secluded islands and the U.S. mainland.
As a comprehensive record of the political, legal and strategic aspects of this four-decade long, multi-million dollar propaganda barrage, the book will serve as a valuable case study and reference for teachers and students of political science, Cold War history, media studies and international communication.
Hundreds of pages of previously secret documents are included in this unique and stunning contribution to the literature on U.S. foreign policy and anti-Castro covert operations. -- The publisher, ocean_press@msn.com.au , December 31, 1998
Reader Reviews
The US state's 40-year war against Cuba has included an unprecedented campaign of psychological warfare. This extremely useful book presents hundreds of newly declassified US Government documents detailing this psywar. The US Joint Chiefs of Staff defined psywar as "Planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, or individuals." But the US state also targeted the American people. The campaign included rumour campaigns, posters, newspapers, books, comics, newsreels, leaflet drops, forgeries and radio and TV broadcasts. The usual US Government message was `Castro betrayed the revolution'. In March 1960, President Eisenhower approved a plan to overthrow Cuba's Government `in such a manner as to avoid any appearance of US intervention.' Government representatives would describe any `alleged CIA personnel' as `soldiers of fortune working on their own'. The attack was based on `the Guatemala scenario' when the CIA overthrew Arbenz's democratically elected Government in 1954. The American people opposed a US armed intervention in Cuba by 65-24%. Nonetheless in November President Kennedy approved the attack, the `top priority in the US government'. Jacqueline Kennedy visited refugee camps `to demonstrate concern for civilian refugees, particularly parentless children'. The Joint Chiefs of Staff produced a paper bluntly titled `Pretexts to Justify United States Military Intervention in Cuba'. They planned a fabricated attack on the Guantanamo Bay base (like a fake attack triggering the invasion of Yugoslavia?). Also, "We could sink a boatload of Cubans enroute to Florida." We could "create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civilian airliner enroute from the United States." In response, Cuba accepted Soviet weapons to defend itself; which Kennedy unblushingly called `offensive'. The US Government now uses these methods all over the world: never believe anything it, or NATO, says!
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