[…] there has been a bloody war being fought clandestinely and more openly in the form of propaganda pumped from the USA seeking to undermine the government of Cuba. Bacardi have been at the forefront of these attempts, being linked to convicted terrorists and mainstream think tanks and educational foundations – all the while trying […]
[…] do so. There is a very telling anecdote at the beginning of chapter 9. Blum rings up ‘the terrorism desk’ at the State Department and asks why Cuba has been included in a list of nations which ‘sponsor terrorism’. When told that Cuba ‘harbors terrorists’ he points out to the flak-catcher on the other […]
[…] immediately to what are supposed to be Soviet intelligence files on the JFK hit. This is what I found. On November 25 1963, the Mexican ambassador to Cuba reported to his embassy’s political section that an ‘extensive conspiracy’ had been behind the assassination. This report likely came from Cuban intelligence. The leader of the […]
[…] Crisis. Douglass goes from there into great detail, not only on negotiations with the Russians, and the test-ban treaty, or on opening a back-channel of communication with Cuba, but also lesser-known steps toward peace in Africa and Southeast Asia, most notably the negotiated settlement with the Pathet Lao. Douglass spends a great deal of […]
[…] Unclassified is back on form. Some interesting material in the Fall 97 issue, including an account of what looks like continuing U.S. covert ops (chemical warfare) against Cuba; an account of working with Coalition Missing, the group trying to bring to light the truth about Guatemalan death squads; a brief memoir from Ralph McGehee […]
[…] round the broken down old movie actor in Washington. There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly with Soviet embassy personnel, supporting Cuba and the Sandinistas, quite unimpressed by the anti-Soviet propaganda offensive of the late 1970s and 80s. The Crozier research team showed, without great difficulty, that the […]
[…] minor way; while Ferrie had been involved in operations surrounding the Bay of Pigs. Ferrie had known Oswald for a long time: Oswald had distributed Fairplay For Cuba leaflets outside Shaw’s International Trade Mart. (4). But that is almost all the evidence, and much of it only emerged after the Garrison enquiry. There is […]
[…] Carlos Salinas de Gortari has been treated by the American and European press as a homeless, tragi-comic figure, sending mad faxes and popping up in Canada and Cuba. He is, in fact, one of the richest men in the world. His brother Raul sits in jail in Mexico, as yet untried. His second choice, […]
[…] 1 George Thayer, The British Political Fringe (London: Anthony Blond, 1965), p. 55. 2. Del Valle became involved in intelligence work while serving under Admiral Freeman in Cuba in the 1930s. In the June 1961 Task Force, the journal of the DAC, del Valle said that in 1933-34, ‘I participated in the special service […]
[…] themselves. Someone gave them the wink. As I’ve said elsewhere, Davis, Scheim and Blakey have mistaken the monkey for the organ grinder. DiEugenio, James. Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba and the Garrison Case. New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1992. xxii and 423 pp. Illustrated, bibliography, index. A major reassessment of the Garrison case. DiEugenio makes […]
