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• catalog abstract "No true life story can possibly compare to the fantastic adventures of Marita Lorenz. From Fidel Castro's lover at age 19, to CIA spy, to human rights activist, Marita tells her own incredible story with all of the passion and force that it took to live it. In the spring of 1959, aboard her father's ship in Havana harbor, Marita fell under the spell of Fidel Castro and soon fled home and family in New York City to return to Cuba to be with him. Installed in a suite of. The Havana Hilton, she became Castro's lover, trusted advisor, and a lieutenant in his 26th of July movement. Within months, she was pregnant with his child. Despite or perhaps because of her close relationship with Fidel, she was betrayed by those nearest to him - kidnapped, drugged, and forcibly aborted of her child. Still heavily sedated and close to death, she was taken back to the United States where she was immediately embraced by National Security officials eager. To use her in their growing anti-Castro propaganda campaign. Soon this escalated into something far more sinister as government agents tried to program Marita into an assassin to kill Castro. Marita's adventures continue as a disillusioned young woman is turned into an accomplished but unwilling operative in the CIA by the likes of Frank Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt. The only woman in a man's world, she developed the skills and courage that made her an invaluable agent and. Gained her the nickname "Alemana Fria"--The "Cold German." Among her many assignments, perhaps the most harrowing is a mysterious gunrunning mission from Miami to Dallas with a strange character named "Ozzie" (Lee Harvey Oswald) just days before the JFK assassination. Never far from the center of controversy, Marita becomes involved with former Venezuelan dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez. Impulsively following him to Venezuela when he is deported from the U.S., she spends. A year abandoned with her baby daughter in the dense jungle with a tribe of Yanomano Indians. Once again, Marita's indomitable spirit empowers her with the will to survive and prevail. Overcoming every obstacle, Marita at heart has always maintained her love for Cuba. Ultimately, driven by her concern for the Marielitos, the Cuban boat people, she is able to return to Havana to meet with Castro and see, for the first time, the son she thought was dead. Marita's story is. One of high adventure, high romance, and high drama, made more vivid and poignant by the fact that it is all true.".
• catalog contributor b4940313.
• catalog contributor b4940314.
• catalog contributor b4940315.
• catalog coverage "Cuba Foreign relations United States.".
• catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations Cuba.".
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "A year abandoned with her baby daughter in the dense jungle with a tribe of Yanomano Indians. Once again, Marita's indomitable spirit empowers her with the will to survive and prevail. Overcoming every obstacle, Marita at heart has always maintained her love for Cuba. Ultimately, driven by her concern for the Marielitos, the Cuban boat people, she is able to return to Havana to meet with Castro and see, for the first time, the son she thought was dead. Marita's story is.".
• catalog description "Gained her the nickname "Alemana Fria"--The "Cold German." Among her many assignments, perhaps the most harrowing is a mysterious gunrunning mission from Miami to Dallas with a strange character named "Ozzie" (Lee Harvey Oswald) just days before the JFK assassination. Never far from the center of controversy, Marita becomes involved with former Venezuelan dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez. Impulsively following him to Venezuela when he is deported from the U.S., she spends.".
• catalog description "No true life story can possibly compare to the fantastic adventures of Marita Lorenz. From Fidel Castro's lover at age 19, to CIA spy, to human rights activist, Marita tells her own incredible story with all of the passion and force that it took to live it. In the spring of 1959, aboard her father's ship in Havana harbor, Marita fell under the spell of Fidel Castro and soon fled home and family in New York City to return to Cuba to be with him. Installed in a suite of.".
• catalog description "One of high adventure, high romance, and high drama, made more vivid and poignant by the fact that it is all true.".
• catalog description "The Havana Hilton, she became Castro's lover, trusted advisor, and a lieutenant in his 26th of July movement. Within months, she was pregnant with his child. Despite or perhaps because of her close relationship with Fidel, she was betrayed by those nearest to him - kidnapped, drugged, and forcibly aborted of her child. Still heavily sedated and close to death, she was taken back to the United States where she was immediately embraced by National Security officials eager.".
• catalog description "To use her in their growing anti-Castro propaganda campaign. Soon this escalated into something far more sinister as government agents tried to program Marita into an assassin to kill Castro. Marita's adventures continue as a disillusioned young woman is turned into an accomplished but unwilling operative in the CIA by the likes of Frank Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt. The only woman in a man's world, she developed the skills and courage that made her an invaluable agent and.".
• catalog extent "xii, 272 p., [8] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "1560250550 :".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ; Emeryville, CA : Distributed by Publishers Group West,".
• catalog spatial "Cuba Foreign relations United States.".
• catalog spatial "Cuba.".
• catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations Cuba.".
• catalog subject "327.1273/07291 20".
• catalog subject "Castro, Fidel, 1926- Friends and associates.".
• catalog subject "E183.8.C9 L66 1993".
• catalog subject "Espionage, American Cuba.".
• catalog subject "Lorenz, Marita, 1939-".
• catalog title "Marita : one woman's extraordinary tale of love and espionage from Castro to Kennedy / Marita Lorenz, with Ted Schwarz.".
• catalog type "text".