Resource Type: Microfilm
Agencia de Informaciones Periodisticas. Cuba: Terror y Muerte. Miami, FL: 1964.
This is an interesting testimonial document that presents data on prison conditions for Cuban political prisoners in 1964. It includes photos, estimates on executions, and personal accounts. It can be found in the Florida International University Pamphlet Collection & The University of Miami or through SOLINET/ASERL Cooperative Microfilming Project (NEH PS-20317) ; SOL MN03011.14 FQG

Department, U.S. State. Diplomatic Correspondence of the U.S. State Department: Cuba 1960. Lanham, MD: 1960-1963.
These microfilm reels contain correspondence between the U.S. Embassy in Havana and the State Department. They contain many significant documents relating to U.S. diplomats' opinion about various opposition groups as well as primary documents on information and opinions supplied by moderate leaders. Some of the documents have been digitized at: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/%

Library of Congress. Latin American and Iberian Pamphlets II, 1802-1992. Washington, DC: 1993.
Within the 333 reels and over 6,000 pamphlets in this microfilm collection there are approximately 20 reels containing pamphlets about Cuba. The Cuba material is grouped under the following headings; Cuban Bibliographies and Catalogs, Economic Conditions and Foreign Relations, Political Parties, Social Conditions, History 1900s. Each reel contains a guide to its contents at the start of the reel. Some items that drew my attention include: a treatise entitled, Las bases programaticas del Autenticismo written by Miguel Angel Olba Benito; the third volume, 1963, of Cuba Nueva, a pamphlet of the Revolutionay Council of Cuba which was organized by the CIA under the direction of Jose Miro Cardona. It contains articles on Cuban exile unity and speeches of Tony Varona; tribunal records and articles about the trial of Huber Matos; there is quite a bit of early human rights movement material with various articles and lists of political prisoners and of 'plantados.'

NACLA. Archive of Latin Americana. Wilmington, DE: 1998.
This collection contains 24 reels of Cuban materials although only the 1960-1965 period of this bibliography is covered. It contains a wide range of documentation from 1960-1980, with its principal strength in primary sources such as serials, reports, fliers, pamphlets, posters, manuscripts, and correspondence. The publications generally provide the ideological perspective of the left wing.

Princeton University Library. Princeton University Latin American Pamphlet Collection. Princeton, N.J. Wilmington, Del.: 1989.
Though not indexed, the organization of the Princeton Collection allows researchers to narrow selection to pertinent reels generally related to a topic. The Collection is arranged by country and then is sub-divided into ten topics or sections, only eight of which are represented in the reels on Cuba, with no material under the topics of Human and civil rights and Racial groups. The following topics are included, Politics; Government; Socioeconomic conditions; Agriculture; Constitutions, laws and codes; Women and gender issues; Culture; and Church and religion. Each of these is then organized chronologically with the oldest material first and with undated materials at the end of a topic. Dates range from the late 1800s to the 1980s but most are from the 1950s onward.

The excellent guide to the Collection further provides a subject list to each of the ten topics as an additional aide in locating desired materials. Most titles in the collections can be found in databases such as WorldCat making bibliographic citation easier.

While the form of the Collection is admirable, those seeking content on moderate politics will not find extensive documentation here. The emphasis is on the leadership of the 26th of July Movement and on Revolutionary government publications after 1959. Nonetheless some materials on moderate politics and some demographic sources are contained in the sections on Politics (5 reels), Government (18 reels) and Socioeconomic conditions (28 reels). Although documents may have been hard to find at the time they were collected, many are now easily available in more convenient form (e.g., the speeches of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Raul Roa's U.N. speeches, a national statistical yearbook, a Cuban phone directory, sample editions of Revolucion newpaper).

There are however some items such as materials from the U.S. based Fair Play for Cuba Committee that make critical assessments of the moderate political forces in Cuba during the early 1960s, early editions of Revolucion giving information about infiltration by exile action groups, unsigned transcripts of early Radio Rebelde transmissions regarding coalitions of insurrectionary groups, copies of El Cubano Libre, the M-26-7's newletter from the Sierra and materials from the DRE published in the 1960s.

United States Depaartment of State. Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Cuba, 1950-1954: internal affairs, decimal numbers 737, 837, and 937 and foreign affairs, decimal numbers 637 and 611.37. Frederick, MD: 1986.
This is a selection of the document traffic from Washington to Havana and has many interesting and important assessments and analyses.

United States. Department of State. Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Cuba, 1955-1959: internal affairs, decimal numbers 737, 837, and 937 and foreign affairs, decimal numbers 637 and 611.37. Frederick, MD: 1987.
This is a selection of the document traffic from Washington to Havana and has many interesting and important assessments and analyses.

United States. Department of State. Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Cuba, 1960- January 1963, foreign affairs: decimal numbers 637 and 611.37. Bethesda, MD: 1999.
This is a selection of the document traffic from Washington to Havana and has many interesting and important assessments and analyses

United States. Department of State. Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Cuba, 1960-January 1963: internal affairs, decimal numbers 737, 837 and 937. Bethesda, MD: 2000.
This is a selection of the document traffic from Washington to Havana and has many interesting and important assessments and analyses.

Yale University Library. The Cuban Connection: A Potpourri of Revolutionary Ephemera, 1957-1978.. New Haven: 1982.
This little known but valuable collection of ephemera contains four reels of microfilm. The editors have included primary sources that have not been widely collected and some that are totally unavailable elsewhere. Especially useful are issues of newspapers containing moderate columnists and/or editors. Among the 22 items included in Reel 1 are issues of the exile edition of 'Chispa,' a well known journal of political humor that was continued in exile by Silvio Fontanilla; 'Cuba Nueva,' the official publication of the Consejo Revolucionario de Cuba, a U.S. sponsored group that contained both moderate and conservative organizations; and 'La Quincena,' a progressive Franciscan Catholic publication and a copy of one edition of 'El Avance Criollo.' Reel 2 continues with more editions of 'El Avance Criollo' and revolutionary publications such as 12 issues of 'La calle, el diario de la Revolucion Cubana' which contains Fidel's critique of moderate leaders such as Manuel Artime Buesa, and newspaper owners such as Alfredo Zayas. Reel 3 includes editions of the Havana daily 'La Prensa Libre' from 1957 with editorials by future exile leader Sergio Carbo, a discussion of Ortodoxo party unity (the party to which Castro subscribed in his University years), the political effects of the March 13, 1957 assault on the Presidential Palace and articles by future exile leaders Antonio Varona and Jose Pardo Llada. Reel 4 contains both revolutionary and resistance publications with editions of 'Sierra Maestra' (an official publication of Castro's 26th of July Movement) and 'Replica' an exile publication directed by Max Lesnick, former head of the Ortodoxo party's youth sector. The microfilm is held in several University collections and should be obtainable through Inter-library Loan.

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