Operation Venceremos: Undercover in Cuba (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781662911347)

In the beginning of the Cuban Revolution the CIA sends JOHN MICHAELS to Havana as an undercover field officer. His assignment . . . find out what Fidel Castro is up to and where he is taking the country. John's cover is working for the Ministry of Culture as a leading dancer in the Cuban National Ballet Company. His covert mission is part of OPERATION VENCEREMOS, an ingenious plan designed to precipitate the collapse of international communism.

John takes readers through events prior to his arrival in Cuba, including his CIA recruitment; instruction in espionage tradecraft; black ops training; and undercover field-officer preparation at the Agency's top-secret facility in Virginia, and his unique world of classical ballet training and performance. While dancing in Hollywood, John falls in love with Margarita Guzman, a beautiful Cuban ballerina, and gets invited to join the Cuban National Ballet Company. This provides a perfect cover and a plausible reason for being in Cuba.

Readers will enjoy John's adventures in Cuba as he arranges the defection of a Russian collaborator, gathers critical intelligence confirming the arrival to Cuba of thousands of Soviet troops and vast quantities of sophisticated weaponry, and the daring escape across the Florida Straits with Margarita.