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		<title>What Lies Across the Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Speaking at the University of California Center in Washington. &#160; The following is an abridged version of a talk I gave about my forthcoming book, What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five, on April 18, 2012 at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C.. *** I am a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Me, the FBI and the documents&#8230; take 33</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David M. Hardy Section Chief Record Information Dissemination Section Records Management Division FBI Washington, DC Dear David M. Hardy, Imagine my excitement when I received your recent letter in which you informed me that those FBI files you had previously said didn't exist actually did. Four hundred and nine pages, to be exact, of which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cubanfive.ca/2012/04/me-the-fbi-and-the-documents-take-33</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Shootdown&#8221; ebook now available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Shootdown,” an excerpt from Stephen Kimber’s forthcoming book, What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five is now available as an ebook from Amazon. http://amzn.to/HWl12l The excerpt unfolds the critically important episode of the shootdown of two Brothers to the Rescue aircraft over the Straits of Florida in February 1996—from Brothers’ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cubanfive.ca/2012/04/shootdown-ebook-now-available</link>
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		<title>Court says René González can visit his dying brother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;"A major step in René González's struggle to return home to visit his ailing brother Roberto has been achieved! Judge Joan Lenard has issued an order granting permission to René to travel home for two weeks... More information.]]></description>
		<link>http://cubanfive.ca/2012/03/court-says-rene-gonzalez-can-visit-his-dying-brother</link>
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		<title>Alan Gross, the Cuban Five and common sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alan Gross is not exactly the humanitarian do-gooder the U.S. government would have you believe. And the Cuban Five are not exactly spies and murderers. Is there a pattern here? &#160; Alan Gross and wife Judy. The campaign to free Alan Gross is ramping up. Gross is the American arrested in 2009 for smuggling telecommunications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Intrigue Regarding the Cuban Five</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Center&#160; for International Policy Cuba Report By Wayne S. Smith Stephen Kimber’s forthcoming book “ What Lies Across the Water?” is perhaps the most complete account of the Cuban Five I’ve yet read – and I came away from reading it with a renewed sense of depression. No wonder! The case has long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cubanfive.ca/2012/01/more-intrigue-regarding-the-cuban-five</link>
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		<title>René González responds to Washington Post editorial on Alan Gross</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 31, 2011, the Washington Post published an editorial demanding the return of Alan Gross, an American government contractor sentenced to 15 years in Cuban prison for illegally bringing telecommunications equipment into the country. In the editorial, the Post claimed Cuba saw Gross as a "potential bargaining chip" to win the release of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cubanfive.ca/2012/01/rene-gonzalez-responds-to-washington-post-editorial-on-alan-gross</link>
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		<title>Welcome to America’s war on terrorism (fighters)… continued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, October 7, René González will become the first member of the Cuban Five to be released from an American prison. In 2001, the Five were convicted in Miami of spying for Cuba. Cuba insists they were—justifiably—trying to prevent anti-Castro exiles from launching terrorist attacks against their homeland. The Five have since become heroes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cubanfive.ca/2011/10/welcome-to-america%e2%80%99s-war-on-terrorism-fighters%e2%80%a6-continued</link>
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		<title>The material that didn&#8217;t exist does exist, but I still can&#8217;t see it&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For more than a year, I've been using American Freedom of Information legislation to try to obtain copies of "all reports, correspondence, memos, notes, emails and other records concerning a meeting between a delegation from the FBI and Cuban State Security in Havana in June 1998. My understanding is that the meeting itself took place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cubanfive.ca/2011/06/the-material-that-didnt-exist-does-exist-but-i-still-cant-see-it</link>
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		<title>Who was Orlando Bosch?</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Orlando Bosch, a prominent Cuban exile militant charged and then acquitted in the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976, died in Miami Wednesday." The Miami Herald, April 27, 2011. Orlando Bosch's release from a Miami jail in 1990 marked the beginning of a decade of renewed attacks on Cuba by exile militants. This excerpt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cubanfive.ca/2011/04/who-was-orlando-bosch</link>
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