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Backfire: The CIA's Biggest Burn
Edité par
Jose Marti Publishing House, Havana, Cuba, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0962497517
ISBN 13 : 9780962497513
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Wraps
Edition originale
Vendeur : Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Etats-Unis
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Wraps. Molto, Eduardo (Cover design) (illustrateur). 174 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliiography From KeyWIki: "Ron Ridenour is a U.S. born, Denmark based socialist. Ron Ridenour was born in the devil's own country, he rejected the American Dream and became a solidarity and revolutionary activist and writer nearly half-a-century ago. Ridenour has worked as a journalist-editor-author-translator for three decades. He worked for Cuba's Editorial José Martí and Prensa Latina for eight years, and has published five books about Cuba, as well as Yankee Sandinistas. Born in the devil s own country of a WASP military career father, I sought the American Dream until I entered the Air Force, in 1956, to fight the commies. Here, I witnessed approved segregated barracks in the Yankee base it established in Japan, and imposition of racism in Japanese establishments. I protested and was tortured by my white compatriots. This, and the fact that we had orders to shoot down any Soviet aircraft over our territory in Japan which never appeared while we flew spy planes over the Soviet Union daily, led me to question American morality. The first time I exercised my democratic right to demonstrate was in Los Angeles, where I protested with others the Yankee invasion of Cuba, at the Bay of Pigs. Cuba s revolution, and my hate for racism, led me to become a radical then a revolutionary. Ridenour worked closely with Dorothy Healey in 1960s California and was inspired to join the Communist Party USA. Dorothy was my first and most important mentor. More than anyone she brought me into the left movement for justice and equality. I met her following my first demonstration: on April 19, 1961, in front of the U.S. federal building in Los Angeles during the U.S. invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. In all the many discussions we had in her little home in central L.A. she never once asked me to join the Communist Party. But I did in 1964. I left following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Dorothy remained a sane critic and supporter for a few more years. Never did I consider Dorothy less than a comrade, a friend, a good listener and thus an excellent teacher. During the early 1960s, Ridenour was a college student and joined the budding student movement, the civil rights movement (Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964), the anti-Vietnam war movement, and supported liberation movements by blacks, browns, native Americans, and women, and revolutionary movements throughout Latin American and Africa. In the mid-70s, the Southeast Asians, aided by international solidarity movements, won its sovereignty. Soon thereafter, I obtained 1, 000 censored pages of dossiers various National Security Council intelligence agencies had on me. I began working as a reporter in 1967. I was fired from three dailies for failing to self-censor my reportage and for union organizing efforts, as well as support for the Black Panthers. FBI, CIA, Los Angeles Police Department's red squad all tailed and harrassed me, even to the point of forging tax return papers in an attempt to show the left and anti-war movement that I was one of their many spies. During the 1960s and 70s, Ridenour was jailed a dozen times, once for half-a-year, and spent a week in a Costa Rica prison for trying to travel to Cuba during the October 1962 missile crisis. In 1980, he moved to Denmark. Between 1982 and 1996, he traveled to and lived for several years in Nicaragua and Cuba, where he translated, wrote articles and edited copy. In Denmark, besides journalism, Ridenour has worked in ecological agricultural, lecturing in schools, social work with refugees, painting houses and other work." Good. Cover has flaps and some wear and soiling. Small item of related ephemera laid in. Presumed to be first edition/first printing. N° de réf. du vendeur 68102
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EUR 200,78
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Back Fire : The CIA's Biggest Burn (SIGNED)
Edité par
Jose Marti, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0962497517
ISBN 13 : 9780962497513
Ancien ou d'occasion
Soft cover
Edition originale
Signé
Vendeur : Sawgrass Books & Music, Decatur, GA, Etats-Unis
Évaluation du vendeur 5 sur 5 étoiles
Soft cover. Etat : Fair. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by Ron Ridenour. "To Keith , a comrade in struggle for justice Ron Ridenour". Amazing inside history "of the 25 Cubans who infiltrated the CIA for Cuba's Department of State Security and came out in unison in 1987".Testimonies of three of the double agents who led a triple life for 21 years.". Published in Cuba in English in 1991 by Cubans. RARE signature. Ridenour grew disenchanted with the US while serving in the segregated US AF in 1950s Japan and later became a foreign based journalist. He was a US defector to Cuba and was last heard living in Denmark as of 2023. Extremely Rare book. 174 pp. Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur 192504
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EUR 401,55
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