[…] certainly associates the real Bond with the CIA, and it comes as a surprise that Bond was hunting for birds at the remote Baya de Conchos in Cuba, a few weeks before it became better known as the Bay of Pigs. After Kim Philby showed up in Moscow, his book My Silent War was […]
[PDF file]: […] Iranian homosexuals are executed or forced to undergo a sex change. 19 A somewhat curious designation: Freedom House places Iran in the company of China, Russia, Zimbabwe, Cuba and Libya when it comes to political freedoms and civil liberties (democracy is famously not only about voting). Page 37 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 mean there […]
[PDF file]: […] player Len Bias.29 This public alarm was directed against Noriega by an unusual pair of allies: the right-wing Senator Jesse Helms, who hated Panama’s cozy relations with Cuba and Central American insurgent groups, and the liberal Senator John Kerry, who deplored Panama’s human rights 26 Kempe (see note 6) pp. 3-4. Washington Post, November […]
[PDF file]: […] Independent and The Independent on Sunday. He has conducted radio and television investigations into the fate of Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, CIA sabotage of Leyland exports to Cuba, corruption in ammunition supply at the Ministry of Defence, breaking UN sanctions in Serbia for Marks and Spencer, the Owen Oyston Affair and pre-war Royal Navy […]
[PDF file]: […] much the same way as those seen in the US SF chopper in Afghanistan – i.e. to buy help. For more details see and the section on Cuba at . 26 See or . 27 The term ‘cheesy quaver’ is modern Cockney Rhyming Slang for ‘raver’ – i.e. a fan of ‘banging’ electronic dance […]
[…] had accepted that detente with the Soviet bloc was established and the ‘hot’ Cold War of previous decades was over. (Arguably it had been over since the Cuba missile crisis.) In this context IRD was a Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace […]
[PDF file]: […] accounting firms specialised in producing deceptive balance sheets to undervalue companies for tax purposes. This practice was especially common for US corporations operating in Latin America, e.g. Cuba and Guatemala.17 The fraud was only exposed when nationalist governments in those countries tried to enforce compensation for eminent domain actions based on tax returns that […]
[…] most consistent with the available evidence.12 In that a faction within the CIA ran a phoney assassination attempt on JFK which they intended to attribute to Castro’s Cuba, via the role of public Castro-sympathiser Lee Harvey Oswald. This would provide the pretext for US action – another invasion perhaps. This was piggy-backed upon by […]
[PDF file]: […] nationalists. It is not simply the carnage that made Korea a staging ground for Vietnam. Dean Rusk, a major player in the US war against Vietnam and Cuba, was an intelligence officer (spy) in Korea. He even claims credit for fixing the line dividing Korea against itself and for the benefit of the US […]
[…] most consistent with the available evidence.8 In that a faction within the CIA ran a phoney assassination attempt on JFK which they intended to attribute to Castro’s Cuba, via the role of public Castro-sympathiser Lee Harvey Oswald. This would provide the pretext for US action – another invasion perhaps. This was piggy-backed upon by […]
