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Bonsal reveals 1960 shift in US Cuba policy and covert aims
Former ambassador to Cuba Philip Bonsal argues in his new book that the Eisenhower administration imposed economic sanctions in summer 1960 without State Department or Havana embassy knowledge. He says the measures complemented covert exile training to topple Castro, driven by oil and sugar interests, with agencies like Nixon's office, CIA, and Treasury coordinating from New York. Bonsal recalls policy disagreements, timing of sugar quota suspension, and his protest against actions he saw as undermining restraint.
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