Official website of Author and Temple University Professor Joan Mellen. Her twenty-four books, most recently "Blood in the Water", include "A Farewell To Justice," "Our Man In Haiti" and "The Great Game in Cuba," explore the history of the Central Intelligence Agency and its role in the planning and cover-up of the Kennedy assassination.
Joan Mellen on WLRN’s Topical Currents
Joan Mellen Discusses “The Great Game in Cuba: How the CIA Sabotaged Its Own Plot to Unseat Fidel Castro”
From the WLRN website: 04/15/13 – Monday’s Topical Currents is with Temple University professor and investigative author Joan Mellen. She’s written THE GREAT GAME IN CUBA: How the CIA Sabotaged Its Own Plot to Unseat Fidel Castro. Her story revolves around Texas ranch-tycoon Robert Kleberg, and his loss of a huge Cuban satellite property to Fidel Castro’s land grab. Shady CIA dealings included those of its Director, Allen Dulles, and then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.