The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

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[PDF file]: […] ‘Confessions of a Watergate Burglar’, True, August 1974, p. 74. Sturgis also said the team was looking for a Cuban memorandum on CIA and DIA operations against Cuba, including assassination plots, and information about O’Brien or other Democratic Party leaders profiting from kickbacks from concessionaires at the party convention. Presumably such information could be […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] in Dallas delivering handguns and fake IDs for what he believed was some kind of CIAorganised stunt which was intended to kibosh JFK’s desired rapprochement with Castro’s Cuba. Who might organise such a thing? Edward Lansdale is one obvious candidate. In a letter to Jim Garrison, Fletcher Prouty wrote: ‘Through 1962 and 1963, Mongoose […]

America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity by Campbell Caig and Frederick Logevall

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[PDF file]: […] peace conference wrecked by the U-2 a year before. The authors’ reluctance to look at the m-i-c in action continues through their account of the invasion of Cuba – they do not tell us that the CIA planned to force Kennedy into supporting the invasion when it foundered – and into JFK’s assassination, where […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] and the UK: essentially the beliefs that the Soviets were subverting Britain through the CPGB’s role in trade unions and were attempting to turn Ireland into another Cuba. If the CPGB’s role in trade unions was real, there is no evidence that it was being directed by the Soviets – had there been any […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] created the autopsy images; and decided which brain photos made it into the official collection, and which brain photos did not. Neither Khrushchev’s Soviet Union, nor Castro’s Cuba, nor the Mafia had access to any of this evidence.27 An explanation of all this was given by the late Billie Sol Estes. In his memoir […]

Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch

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[PDF file]: […] one of the pretexts for the US war with Spain in 1898 was revulsion at the brutal counterinsurgency methods used by the Spanish General Valeriano Weyler in Cuba. The methods which the Americans went on to use to suppress insurrection in the Philippines were so brutal that they ‘made Weyler seem like a pacifist’. […]

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