Add this copy of Backfire: the Cia's Biggest Burn to cart. $225.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Jose Marti Publishing House.
Edition:
Presumed to be first edition/first printing
Publisher:
Infoservicios
Published:
1991
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13469936910
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Seller's Description:
Molto, Eduardo (Cover design) Good. Cover has flaps and some wear and soiling. Small item of related ephemera laid in. 174 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliiography From KeyWIki: "Ron Ridenour is a U.S. born, Denmark based socialist. Ron Ridenour was born in the devil's own country, he rejected the American Dream and became a solidarity and revolutionary activist and writer nearly half-a-century ago. Ridenour has worked as a journalist-editor-author-translator for three decades. He worked for Cuba's Editorial José Martí and Prensa Latina for eight years, and has published five books about Cuba, as well as Yankee Sandinistas. Born in the devil s own country of a WASP military career father, I sought the American Dream until I entered the Air Force, in 1956, to fight the commies. Here, I witnessed approved segregated barracks in the Yankee base it established in Japan, and imposition of racism in Japanese establishments. I protested and was tortured by my white compatriots. This, and the fact that we had orders to shoot down any Soviet aircraft over our territory in Japan which never appeared while we flew spy planes over the Soviet Union daily, led me to question American morality. The first time I exercised my democratic right to demonstrate was in Los Angeles, where I protested with others the Yankee invasion of Cuba, at the Bay of Pigs. Cuba s revolution, and my hate for racism, led me to become a radical then a revolutionary. Ridenour worked closely with Dorothy Healey in 1960s California and was inspired to join the Communist Party USA. Dorothy was my first and most important mentor. More than anyone she brought me into the left movement for justice and equality. I met her following my first demonstration: on April 19, 1961, in front of the U.S. federal building in Los Angeles during the U.S. invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. In all the many discussions we had in her little home in central L.A. she never once asked me to join the Communist Party. But I did in 1964. I left following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Dorothy remained a sane critic and supporter for a few more years. Never did I consider Dorothy less than a comrade, a friend, a good listener and thus an excellent teacher. During the early 1960s, Ridenour was a college student and joined the budding student movement, the civil rights movement (Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964), the anti-Vietnam war movement, and supported liberation movements by blacks, browns, native Americans, and women, and revolutionary movements throughout Latin American and Africa. In the mid-70s, the Southeast Asians, aided by international solidarity movements, won its sovereignty. Soon thereafter, I obtained 1, 000 censored pages of dossiers various National Security Council intelligence agencies had on me. I began working as a reporter in 1967. I was fired from three dailies for failing to self-censor my reportage and for union organizing efforts, as well as support for the Black Panthers. FBI, CIA, Los Angeles Police Department's red squad all tailed and harrassed me, even to the point of forging tax return papers in an attempt to show the left and anti-war movement that I was one of their many spies. During the 1960s and 70s, Ridenour was jailed a dozen times, once for half-a-year, and spent a week in a Costa Rica prison for trying to travel to Cuba during the October 1962 missile crisis. In 1980, he moved to Denmark. Between 1982 and 1996, he traveled to and lived for several years in Nicaragua and Cuba, where he translated, wrote articles and edited copy. In Denmark, besides journalism, Ridenour has worked in ecological agricultural, lecturing in schools, social work with refugees, painting houses and other work."
