These primary source documents each contribute a perspective on the fluctuating state of U.S.-Cuba relations in the past sixty years. They contain a variety of viewpoints, from political leaders to civilian journalists, and they address what both countries did to exacerbate the conflict for so long, while also offering a glimpse of the present as relations look better than ever before.
- Herbert L. Matthews, The Cuban Story in the New York Times (1957)
- Department of State, Memorandum of a Conversation (1959)
- Fidel Castro, Castro Calls on Cubans to Resist the Counterrevolution (1959)
- Edward Lansdale, Operation Mongoose (1962)
- Roger Hilsman, Soviet Military Shipments to Cuba (1962)
- John F. Kennedy, Offensive Missiles on That Imprisoned Island (1962)
- Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, The Assassination Plots (1975)
- José Ángel Rodríguez López, “Francis, Obama, and Raúl” (2014)
- Tracey Eaton and WikiLeaks, “Spies, Counterspies, and Dissidents” (2016)
- Rafael Hernández, Obama and Us (2016)