The island of Cuba occupies a big place in the imagination and politics of the United States. The powerful anti-Castro lobby has greatly influenced U.S. policy toward the Caribbean nation. The landscape of U.S./Cuba relations is dotted with the missile crisis, blockades, embargoes and boat refugees. Few know the details of the extensive CIA operations against Cuba. They range from sabotage to invasion to biological warfare to assassination plots. At one time, the Miami-based CIA station was the largest outside of HQs in Langley, Virginia.

Philip Agee was a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who served in Latin America. Since resigning from the CIA he has lectured and written widely on the Agency's clandestine activities. He is the author of Inside the Company: CIA Diary and On the Run. His activities have not gone unnoticed. Ex-CIA Director and later President Bush the first called Agee "a traitor to our country."