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Matt Lawrence: Author, consultant, speaker & media personality, is president of Paratus International LLC; a firm dedicated to providing disaster preparedness, continuity of business and security planning for the public and private sectors.

Lawrence has been an invited speaker before members of Congress, conducted preparedness seminars at conferences sponsored by state and federal agencies and provided endorsements for various new life saving technologies marketed today.

His down-to-earth interview style has allowed him to share his insight in multiple regional and national television markets. He’s been featured on WOR-NY, FOX, CBS and NBC; as well as The Weather Channel series, “It Could Happen Tomorrow-Tampa Bay”.

A Florida native, Lawrence first witnessed the plight of Cuban refugees as a child in the early 1960s. Thirty years later, life would lead him to fly search and rescue missions with both Brothers to the Rescue and a similar group, Freedom Flight International where he served as both Director of Special Projects and Chief Mission Specialist.

Matt's co-author and editor, Thomas Van Hare is the former Chairman of Freedom Flight International and was previously operations director, mission director and command pilot for Brothers to the Rescue.

Van Hare has served with three Administrations in Washington. During the Reagan administration, he was with the United States Agency for International Development. Subsequently, he served President George H.W. Bush (Bush 41), as Special Assistant to then Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage and later to then Assistant Secretaries Dr. Harry Rowen and Ambassador James Lilly.

In 2004, Thomas Van Hare was requested to return to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and work with the Coalition Provisional Authority. Thereafter, he served as Director, Organizational Assessment, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Today, Van Hare is executive director of a company involved in the global development and direct commercial sales of sophisticated military aircraft.

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A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.

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On February 24, 1996, two U.S. civilian aircraft flying a rescue mission in international airspace off Cuba were shot down by MiG fighters. Four Americans, including three U.S. citizens, lost their lives. BETRAYAL recounts how back door politics, failed negotiations and a “mix-up” in communications at NORAD allowed Cuba to murder American citizens.

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"Matt Lawrence and Thomas Van Hare have written an important book detailing an infamous chapter in the history of the Castro dictatorship and a weak United States Administration. By documenting the Cuban regime's espionage activities and the calculated, cold-blooded murder of four humanitarian pilots, Betrayal: Clinton, Castro & The Cuban Five is a timely reminder that the United States must be vigilant against repeating the mistakes of the past. To anyone interested in gaining insight into the utter malevolence of the Cuban dictatorship and the hazards befalling U.S. Administrations who coddle it, I recommend this book." --- Cong. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL-21) "I wish I was a wealthy man. I would buy 300 million copies of BETRAYAL and provide a copy to every single American citizen, by way of warning: The men who murdered, with impunity and arrogance, three American citizens and one Permanent Resident Alien in the Straits of Florida on 24 February 1996, remain in power off the coast of Florida. BETRAYAL exposes their crime and holds them accountable. Read it." --- Scott W. Carmichael, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1591141001/historicwingscomA/">True Believer</a>and the man who captured Cuban spy, Ana Belen Montes "In gripping detail, Betrayal reminds readers that Cuba's 1996 shoot down of two civilian aircraft in international airspace was an act of international terrorism. Lawrence and Van Hare's well-researched account highlights the key role of Cuban spies and the Castro brothers in this premeditated murder of four search and rescue pilots. The authors also examine how a high-ranking Cuban spy in the U.S. Government shaped the Clinton administration's timid response and emboldened the Castro regime. The lesson learned by Havana was clear: in dealing with the U.S., you can get away with murder. Anyone looking for insights into the volatile relations between the U.S. and Cuba needs to read Betrayal." --- Chris Simmons founder of <a href="http://cubanintelligence.com/">The Cuban Intelligence Research Center</a> <table><tbody><tr><td> <div class="extended_bio"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="extended_bio"> </div>

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