Behind Islands in the Stream: Hemingway, Cuba, the FBI and the crook factory

Behind Islands in the Stream: Hemingway, Cuba, the FBI and the crook factory

by Thomas Fensch
Behind Islands in the Stream: Hemingway, Cuba, the FBI and the crook factory

Behind Islands in the Stream: Hemingway, Cuba, the FBI and the crook factory

by Thomas Fensch

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Overview

Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for 20 years--1940-1960. After the Spanish Civil War, thousands of Spanish Falange (Spanish fascists) immigrated to Cuba. They were thought to be a threat to Cuba and to the U.S. With the blessing of, and financing by, the American Embassy in Havava, Hemingway recuited a ragtag band to spy on the Falange. He called them the "crook factory." The FBI became enraged that he was poaching on their territory. Later some of them worked as crew members on his yacht, the Pilar, when he hunted Nazi submarines in the Caribbean. Those adventures became the last segment of his novel, "Islands in the Stream," published in 1970. The FBI, under J. Edgar Hoover, never forgave nor forgot Hemingway.The FBI followed him for the rest of his life. He knew it but couldn't prove it; many of his friends simpy thought him paranoid.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780999549667
Publisher: New Century Books
Publication date: 06/05/2019
Pages: 172
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)

Table of Contents

Chronology: Key Dates in the life of Ernest Hemingway

Introduction: Hemingway, Cuba, the FBI and the crook factory

1). The FBI Files on Ernest Hemingway

A selection of the original files

2). Islands in the Stream

Denouement

Suggestion for Further Reading

About the Author

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