Betrayal: Clinton, Castro & The Cuban Five - Softcover

Lawrence, Matt; Van Hare, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440118019 ISBN 13: 9781440118012

Publisher: iUniverse, 2009

Synopsis

On February 24, 1996, three Brothers to the Rescue aircraft took off from South Florida on a search and rescue mission meant to save the lives of Cuban balseros - yet their mission would end in death, with two planes shot down by Cuban MiG fighters.

Four aviators were lost - Carlos Costa, Mario de la Peña, Armando Alejandre and Pablo Morales. Their murders were perpetuated by La Red Avispa, the "Cuban Five" spy ring and a DIA analyst turned Cuban agent, Ana Belen Montes, Castro's Queen of Spies.

Betrayal: Clinton, Castro & The Cuban Five compiles extensive research, sworn testimony and fact. It reveals a cover up spanning the Florida Straits, from Havana to Washington D.C. It uncovers that senior Clinton Administration officials, including Sandy Berger, Bill Richardson, Richard Nuccio, retired Pentagon brass, U.S diplomats and even members of the U.S. media were forewarned by Castro of the shootdown, yet somehow did nothing to stop the murders.

Cuba declares them heroes, yet the "Cuban Five" are serving jail sentences for espionage and murder. Now, in an opening gesture toward improving relations with Havana, the Obama Administration contemplates their release - but will the USA have to go so far as to pardon murderers?

About this title

About the Author:

Matt Lawrence: Author, consultant, public speaker & media personality, is president of Paratus International LLC; a firm dedicated to providing disaster preparedness, continuity of business and security planning for the public and private sectors.

Lawrence has been an invited speaker before members of Congress, conducted preparedness seminars at conferences sponsored by state and federal agencies and provided endorsements for various new life saving technologies marketed today. 

A Florida native, Lawrence first witnessed the plight of Cuban refugees as a child in the early 1960s. Thirty years later, life would lead him to fly search and rescue missions with both Brothers to the Rescue and a similar group, Freedom Flight International where he served as both Director of Special Projects and Chief Mission Specialist. 

Matt's co-author and editor, Thomas Van Hare is the former Chairman of Freedom Flight International and was previously operations director, mission director and command pilot for Brothers to the Rescue. 

Van Hare has served with three Administrations in Washington. During the Reagan administration, he was with the United States Agency for International Development. He also served President George H.W. Bush (Bush 41), as Special Assistant to then Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage and later to then Assistant Secretaries Dr. Harry Rowen and Ambassador James Lilly. 

In 2004, Thomas Van Hare was requested to return to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and work with the Coalition Provisional Authority. Thereafter, he served as Director, Organizational Assessment, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. 

Thomas Van Hare is currently executive director of a company involved in the global development and direct commercial sales of sophisticated military aircraft.

Review:

"A major contribution to understanding American policy and U.S. confusion about Cuba's intentions."--- Dr. Jaime Suchlicki, University of Miami - Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies

"...detailed and well-documented... an extraordinary piece of investigative writing that was based on 13 years of investigation... reading Betrayal: Clinton, Castro & the Cuban Five has been one of the highpoints of the year so far..." --- Wes Vernon, Journalist

Matt Lawrence and Thomas Van Hare have written an important book.. BETRAYAL: Clinton, Castro & The Cuban Five is a timely reminder that the United States must be vigilant against repeating the mistakes of the past. I recommend this book."
--- Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL-21)

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1440118019
• ISBN 13: 9781440118012
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240