In February of 1959, just weeks after the end of the Cuban Revolution, Marita Lorenz traveled with her father from Germany to Havana where she met Fidel Castro. Though Marita was only 19 at the time, the 32-year-old leader of the Communist Party in Cuba took a liking to her. The pair lived together for several months before she became pregnant and left Cuba to join anti-Castro activists in Florida. It was there Marita was recruited by the CIA to assassinate her former lover…but she couldn’t do it.
Her stunning life story, which includes JFK conspiracy allegations, her dalliance with Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and her work for the FBI, is chronicled in Marita: The Spy Who Loved Castro—soon to be a movie starring Jennifer Lawrence. Together with Pegasus Books, The Archive is giving away five copies of this fascinating autobiography.
