Photostats from the newspaper "Revolución" related to the Cuban Revolution and the United States invasion in Cuba. (Oversized), 1963 October-November

The Andrew St. George Collection dates from 1944 to 1999. The materials include manuscripts, research notes, clippings, newspapers, photographs, books, flyers, and correspondence. The collection is useful to researchers interested in politics, history, and journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 20th Century.

The collection is arranged by topic in four series:

Series 1: Latin America - contains manuscripts, booklets, news clippings, magazines, articles, flyers, photographs, and notes related to political events in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Haiti, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.

The Latin America series is organized in sub-series by country. The Cuba sub-series is the most extensive and covers topics related to the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, anti-communist groups, and tourism in Cuba. It also includes materials about Ilona Marita Lorenz; a German spy who had a relationship with Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Fidel Castro and who was recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.

This series also contains documents related to Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship and the chief of the Military Intelligence Service Johnny Abbes García, the kidnapping and murder of Jesús de Galíndez, the Peace Corps in Chile during the 1960s, and the guerrillas in Bolivia. It includes materials related to François Duvalier’s "Papa Doc" dictatorship and documents regarding "Project Nassau"; a Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) documentary about the invasion of Haiti by Cubans, Haitians, and the United States. These documents also contain the hearings of the Special Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce House of Representatives to determine if CBS was financing revolutions. Additionally, it includes documents related to the biggest stock manipulators from the United States who fled to Brazil in the 1950s, such as Ben Jack Cage, Lowell Birrell, and Earl Belle.

Series 2: Ernesto Che Guevara Papers - contains manuscripts and story drafts about Che Guevara, guerrillas in Bolivia and Latin America. It also includes documents related to the death of Che in October 1967, a photocopy and transcriptions of the diary belonging to Che, and documents about "Tania", a spy who joined Che’s guerrilla group.

Series 3: Correspondence - contains letters about the stories Andrew St. George was covering in Latin America, personal and general correspondence with his family, and other journalists. Series 4: General Files - contains handwritten and typewritten notes related to journalism, spies, the theater, politicians, a manuscript about Palestine, a magazine and photographs related to Zappy Max; the host for the French radio show "Quitte ou Double", a fake passport issued to Andrew St. George by Raoul Wallenberg in 1944, and an ABC News Report titled "The Changing Face of Hungary."