Born in Dominican Republic, moved to NYC in the mid-70s. Author of "BEAR Flight to Liberty", a novel about the defection of the crew of a Soviet Navy long-range reconnaissance aircraft TU-95 Bear D, from the USSR to Canada. Amateur historian especialized in the Cold War period. Has written, translated, and published several articles about the activities of the Soviet Armed Forces, among them about Viktor Belenko, the Soviet pilot who defected to Japan in a MiG-25 Foxbat jet fighter; activities of the Soviet Naval Aviation on the American Eastern Coast from bases in Cuba, and on the Central and Southern Atlantic Ocean from bases in Guinea, Africa, and a photographic collage of Soviet crew
Keywords
cold war period, ussr, russia, eastern europe, cuba, polyglot 6 languages,
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