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Ilona Marita Lorenz (18 August 1939 – 31 August 2019) was a German woman who had an affair with Fidel Castro in 1959 and in January 1960 was involved in an assassination attempt by the CIA on Castro's life.
Nov 1, 1993 · In May 1960, Alice Lorenz and Rorke wrote a maudlin, sensationalized version of Marita’s story entitled “Fidel Castro Raped My Teenage Daughter” and sold it to Confidential magazine. “My ...
Block wrote KILLING CASTRO on a commission, paid by a publisher who was gambling on Castro being assassinated in real life, in which case sales of the book would have skyrocketed once the public came to regard it as being prescient and topical.
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Apr 25, 2018 · Killing Castro (1961) is another pseudonymous early book that Block wrote at an editor’s request: Chris Heckelmann of Monarch Books wanted a title featuring a crew of Americans who travel into Cuba to assassinate its dictator. Heckelmann had anticipated Castro’s imminent demise and wanted Block to rush a product to take advantage.
Oct 23, 2007 · In early 1971, Jack Anderson wrote a column for The Washington Post detailing the operation, naming Maheu, Roselli, Jim O'Connell, and William Harvey. Maheu thinks Roselli leaked the...
This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis under a pen name Lawrence Block never used before or since, is the rarest of Block’s books – and still a work of chilling relevance all these years later, with Castro and Cuba once again commanding headlines.
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This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis under a pen name Lawrence Block never used before or since, is the rarest of Block’s books—and still a work of chilling relevance all these years later, with Castro and Cuba once again commanding headlines.
