One CIA document (declassified in 1997, and then declassified all over again in 2012, but with more, not fewer, redactions than in the 1997 version) gives an accounting of American-sponsored acts of violence in Cuba between October 1960 and April 1961. “Approximately 300,000 tons of sugar cane destroyed in 800 separate fires” was one achievement.

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 61