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Marita: One Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Love and Espionage from Castro to Kennedy

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Marita Lorenz's story is amazing. She wrote this book (along with Ted Schwarz). A friend had recommended it, and I was completely taken aback by Marita's life. If you are interested in history or just want to her an exciting true story of a strong and determined woman, read this book.

This woman lived one wild life. Some of it may seem unbelieveable, but I don't think you can make this kind of stuff up. She survived WWII and a rape by a soldier, was a lover of Fidel Castro and was solicited by the CIA to kill him, trained with anti-Castro militias, married the ex-dictator of Venezuela, lived for six months with her child by the dictator with stone age Indians in the jungles of Venezuela, and was recruited for the assassination of JFK. Eventually she hit bottom and now lives poverty in NYC. You have to pity this woman for what she suffered yet admire her for her bravery. I'm glad she didn't kill Castro and it she puts Castro in a good light. Too bad she didn't stay in Cuba. Her life was ruined by the CIA.

Hoffentlich kann einer meine Sprache ich kann kaum Englisch. Wenn es jemand lesen kann, dann bitte ich um Hilfe ich suche dieses Buch seit 4 Jahren (evtl. auf Deutsch) und habe leider keinen Erfolg. Vielleicht kann mir jemand helfen Ted Schwarz oder Marita selber zu finden. Liane Simon aus Germany

This (few facts/lots of fiction) spy genre by now is easily recognizable for what it is: CIA/FBI misdirection and disinformation.

It is mostly many titillating and salacious but isolated facts strung together seemingly leading to a climax but then abruptly fading-out to nowhere. A new strain begins in the middle of nowhere and leads to another nowhere. Then it switches back to the previous nowhere, etc. etc., ad infinitum.

The astute reader cannot be fooled by this lurching nonsense. That Ms. Lorenz was a fine soldier of fortune--female style--and was a CIA/FBI mercenary who somehow managed to survive through some very turbulent times is a detail that no one can deny. But in the end this is only a detail, not a story.

The 64 thousand dollar question is if she did all of the things this book claims she did, how she managed to do so and still lives to tell about it? Now that is a story, but this book does not tell us that story. It opts for B-rated movie excitement version of a few isolated facts strung together instead.

She was Castro's lover and managed an assasination try on him; and was in the cabal with Lee Harvey Oswald, Frank Sturgis, Jack Ruby and E. Howard Hunt that led to JFK's assasination, yet managed to escape complicity in both assasinations, and then lived to write a book that tells us nothing about any of this? And saddest of all, she does not even give us the benefit of her speculation?

Somewhere there is an interesting story to be told about Martita Lorenz's life that will have the ring of truth, but this CIA redacted meleodrama, masquerading as a cheap unbelievable love story is not it.

Too bad that Marita does not realize that over the years of her experiences and the writing of this book, America has grown up--even if she hasn't. She continues to live out her life through the 50s and 60s spy games in her head. That is about all one will get out of this poorly written teenage-level spy novel.

In a way this is very, very sad. There is probably a lot she could have told us about the events of the past that would have made a difference to American and German history. But, alas she and her co-writer opted instead for an immature potential B-rated movie script instead.

Why did they opt to do this? Did Marita indeed have something to hide? Does she need money? In the end was she a double/triple agent like her mother was? Did Castro turn her? Maybe she was indeed part of a Castro revenge attempt on JFK's life? Who knows? This supposedly innocent love story raises more questions than it answers.

The only fact worth retaining from the book was mentioned as an aside early on (page 5). It is that Joe Kennedy hated and wanted to get Myer Lansky out of Cuba if not wanted him killed right after the Cuban revolution. They were bootlegging competitors. This fact alone lends independent credibility and corroboration to Micheal Collins Piper's Final Judgement theory about Lansky and JFK's assasination (See on AMAZON.COM Michael Collins Piper, Final Judgement).

Other than that this book is an empty shell. Thank God we readers are no longer stupid enough to go for this kind of pablum.