[PDF file]: […] carry out this mission is of interest. The B-26 would subsequently become first choice for the CIA in its many covert operations, seeing service in Indonesia 1958-1959, Cuba 1961, the Congo 1964 and Biafra 5 Kotschack’s films included a couple of popular dramas set on the Finnish front in the 40s. See the page […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* The times they might be a-changin’ One day in July I was reading ‘CIA has a long history of empowering monsters’ by the editor of Covert Action Magazine, Jeremy Kuzmarov. True, of course, […]
[…] peace conference wrecked by the U2 a year before. The authors’ reluctance to look at the m-i-c in action continues through their acount of the invasion of Cuba – they do not tell us that the CIA planned to force Kennedy into supporting the invasion when it foundered 7 – and into JFK’s assassination, […]
[…] nine page section about Operation Northwoods was noticed by the 9/11 sceptics. Northwoods was a 1962 Pentagon plan to commit a terrorist atrocity and blame it on Cuba, to provide the pretext for another invasion of the island.1 Subsequently, that short section has had a major influence on many of those studying the activities […]
[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]: […] the phenomenon really came to attention in 2017: . . . in connection with strange ailments affecting more than twenty CIA and State Department officials posted to Cuba in the wake of revivified diplomatic relations between the Obama administration and the government headed by Fidel Castro’s brother Raúl. The cases were recorded in Havana […]
[PDF file]: […] challenging it at several points: in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, in the Middle East (the intervention in Syria), and in Latin America (support not only for Cuba but also the beleaguered Bolivarist government in Venezuela). Russia has also established a Eurasian Economic Union in conjunction with the now independent republics of former Soviet […]
[…] the phenomenon really came to attention in 2017: . . . in connection with strange ailments affecting more than twenty CIA and State Department officials posted to Cuba in the wake of revivified diplomatic relations between the Obama administration and the government headed by Fidel Castro’s brother Raúl. The cases were recorded in Havana […]
[PDF file]: […] William B Reily Coffee Company in New Orleans. The eponymous Reily was a rabid anti-communist who gave financial support both to Sergio Arcacha Smith’s Crusade to Free Cuba Committee and Ed Butler’s partially CIA-funded propaganda outfit, the Information Council of the Americas (INCA). The Reily vice-president, William Monaghan, was a former FBI agent and […]
[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 […]
