[…] in Father’s relationship with his followers, but also in America’s relationship with its Negroe citizens. This would be the shame of America’ (emphasis added). Jones goes to Cuba In January 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista dictatorship, and seized power in Cuba. Land reforms followed within a few months of the coup, alienating foreign […]
[…] were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. When the Magdeburg rolled over and sank, one of Britain’s biggest ever vehicle […]
[…] to safeguard until he retrieved it. Veciana has always said he worked with “Bishop” on a “program that resulted in the destabilisation of the Cuban currency’. In Cuba, Fabiola decided not to ask awkward questions. Politically, she sympathized with him, and later – in exile – collaborated actively when Veciana became leader of Alpha […]
[…] Kennedys – Bobby in particular. Notable here is the revelation of Bobby’s own CIA liaison – Charles Ford – seconded from the Task Force W (the Agency’s Cuba task force) to keep in direct contact with the Mafia (p. 286), in the belief, apparently, that mob intelligence on Cuba was better than the CIA’s. […]
[…] and 70.10. It is also worth noting that there is a glaring error in 70.3: Resorts International had not been formed when the Mafia were expelled from Cuba. However, overall the affidavit is worth getting: $10.00 (US) from The Christic Institute, 1324 North Capitol St. N.W., Washington DC 20002, USA. * * * The […]
[…] two different pre-assassination operations involving Oswald. The first was an authorized intelligence operation (involving Oswald’s request for a visa), which aimed to discredit the Fair Play for Cuba Committee by linking Oswald to the American Communist Party. The second, which may have been part of the assassination plot, involved a simulated meeting between an […]
[…] pages of this, in the first 250 or so of which the authors demonstrate that there was a Kennedy brothers plan to create an internal coup in Cuba, which was set to go on 1 December 1963. They offer a sequence in which, having rejected Lansdale’s Northwoods proposal (1) to fabricate a Cuban ‘outrage’ […]
[…] allies) agreed and wanted the FBI’s initial reports released to the press to silence ‘speculations’ that there was a conspiracy. These ‘speculations’ concerned links between Oswald and Cuba. It was the fear of what anti-Castro forces within the US could do with such ‘speculations’ which was the initial specific motivation for the cover-up. (This […]
[…] seen frequently during that year at the offices of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. It was suggested that in either late ’67 or early ’68 he travelled to Cuba and was trained as was ‘Carlos’ during the same period. Certainly Cuba held a Tri-Continental conference at that time involving many third world and Latin American […]
[…] of the new information on this epsiode in Summers’ book is important and fascinating). All the constructed biographies of Oswald were in place – – Communist, pro- Cuba, defector to the USSR etc. — but their power and influence on events was diluted by his survival. One can only surmise at what might have […]
