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Spy for Fidel, by Orlando Castro Hidalgo (E. A. Seemann, 120 pp., $5.95)

In August 1968, to the astonishment and dismay of most of his foreign admirers, Fidel Castro gave his endorsement to the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Soviet-Cuban relations, which had appeared to be severely strained only six month before, began to improve so rapidly that many of those admirers, ranging from the French journalist K. S. Karol to the Venezuelan “Castroite” guerrilla Douglas Bravo, soon concluded that Fidel had sold out to the Russians.

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William E. Ratliff

Spy for Fidel, by Orlando Castro Hidalgo (E. A. Seemann, 120 pp., $5.95)

In August 1968, to the astonishment and dismay of most of his foreign admirers, Fidel Castro gave his endorsement to the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Soviet-Cuban relations, which had appeared to be severely strained only six month before, began to improve so rapidly that many of those admirers, ranging from the French journalist K. S. Karol to the Venezuelan “Castroite” guerrilla Douglas Bravo, soon concluded that Fidel had sold out to the Russians.