Mickey's Story

About the Book

This book is for the benefit of my children and grand children, and every other person that knows me, including members of the NYPD that worked along with me many years. This is so they understand the role of the US in Puerto Rico´s political history. The death of leader Pedro Albizu Campos in the year 1965 triggered a new combination of struggles, open, open illegal and clandestine from the pro independence groups, that couldn’t wait any longer.. Their new struggle coincided with my arrival in the USA in 1967, when they were hitting USA with bombs, incendiary and explosive. I was appointed undercover May 16, 1969 to infiltrate and inform the activities of the groups involved in the underground struggle to free Puerto Rico. In the book I relate the problems and discrimination that I faced performing the job and after.

About the Author

Born and raised in Puerto Rico Miguel Puig migrated to the City of New York on September 23, 1967, ironically the commemoration of the Lares Uprising in the year 1868, an effort to regain control of Puerto Rico from Spanish dominion. His participation at age sixteen in the US Amy National Guard sparked in him a dream of being a police officer. Unable to find employment in his native island Miguel managed to enter the NYC Police and was appointed to the Intelligence Division as an anti-terrorism infiltrator. This book about his memoirs relate year after year his deeds against terrorism.