Castro's Ploy: America's Dilemma

In the summer of 1980, more than 125,000 Cubans abandoned their homes and possessions and emigrated to the United States. When what began as a stream of dissidents became a torrent of refugees, the United States was caught short. Cuban Premier Fidel Castro was able to use the 1980 exodus for his own political objectives and, in the process, overwhelmed US immigration capacity. In this definitive study of what happened during those six months of 1980, Captain Alex Larzelere (US Coast Guard, Retir