Håkan Karlsson is Full Professor in Archaeology at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Tomás Diez Acosta is Professor and Researcher at the Instituto de Historia de Cuba.

• Part I: Kennedy and the Anti-Cuban Policy After the October Crisis Introduction to Part I 1. Influential Factors of the U.S. Policy Towards Cuba in 1963 2. The New Governing Body for Anti-Cuban Subversion 3. Proposals from the Coordinator of Cuban Affairs 4. Soviet Troops in Cuba and the Political Debate in the U.S. 5. "Uncontrolled" Terrorist Acts of the Counterrevolution Part II: The "Multiple Path" Policy Introduction to Part II 6. The Internal Counterrevolutionary "Offensive" in the Beginning of 1963 7. The Standing Group and the Political Alternatives 8. The Integrated Covert Action Program 9. Operations and "Autonomous" Groups Part III: The Cuban-Soviet Dispute and the Reinforcement of the Cuban Defense Introduction to Part III 10. The Cuban-Soviet Dispute and the First Visit of Fidel Castro to the Soviet Union 11. Military Reinforcement of the FAR Between 1963 and 1964 12. The Confrontation with the Internal Counterrevolution 13. The Action Against the Internal Counterrevolution and Its Groups Part IV: The Ambivalence of the "Multiple Path" Policy Introduction to Part IV 14. The Negotiations of Lawyer James B. Donovan and the Ambivalent Policy Towards Cuba 15. Attempts to Approach the Cuban Government