Required readings:

Gleijeses, Peiro. "Havana's Policy in Africa, 1959-1976: New Evidence from Cuban Archives" from the Cold War International History Project Virtual Archive (Washinton, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2003)

Westad, Odd Arne. "Moscoow and the Angolan Crisis, 1974-1976: A New Pattern of Intervention" from the Cold War International History Project Virtual Archive (Washinton, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2003)

Select bibliography:

Gleijese, Piero. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

_____. Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954.  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991.

_____.  "The first ambassadors: Cuba's contribution to Guinea-Bissau's war of independence,"  Journal of Latin American Studies 29:1 (Feb 1997)

_____. "Cuba's first venture in Africa: Algeria, 1961-1965," Journal of Latin American Studies 28:1  (Feb. 1996)

_____. "Ships in the night: The CIA, the White House and the Bay of Pigs," Journal of Latin American Studies 27:1 ( Feb. 1995).