Still thinking about Dallas

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[PDF file]: […] CIA documents about the Kennedy assassination are some in which CIA officers wondered if Oswald hadn’t done the deed for Castro, or out of sympathy for Castro’s Cuba. In a piece for Politico.com1 journalist Philip Shenon and historian Larry Sabato discussed both the documents and how such speculation was suppressed in favour of the […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] CIA documents about the Kennedy assassination are some in which CIA officers wondered if Oswald hadn’t done the deed for Castro, or out of sympathy for Castro’s Cuba. In a piece for Politico.com1 journalist Philip Shenon and historian Larry Sabato discussed both the documents and how such speculation was suppressed in favour of the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] describes in detail how JFK tried to shift American foreign policy away from its Cold War positions. His attempt to change US policy towards the Soviet Union, Cuba and Vietnam, against the wishes of the military, the CIA and most of his foreign service, was breathtakingly ambitious and dangerous. Douglass shows the pre-assassination workings […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] describes in detail how JFK tried to shift American foreign policy away from its Cold War positions. His attempt to change US policy towards the Soviet Union, Cuba and Vietnam, against the wishes of the military, the CIA and most of his foreign service, was breathtakingly ambitious and dangerous. Douglass shows the pre-assassination workings […]

View from Bridge

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[…] something invisible. And this began almost 10 years ago. Yet this is the official US position as of 2023. Since US officials first reported AHIs in Havana, Cuba in late 2016, the IC has sought to understand whether these events can be attributed to a foreign actor and a deliberate external mechanism. The IC […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] describes in detail how JFK tried to shift American foreign policy away from its Cold War positions. His attempt to change US policy towards the Soviet Union, Cuba and Vietnam, against the wishes of the military, the CIA and most of his foreign service, was breathtakingly ambitious and dangerous. Douglass shows the pre-assassination workings […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] running radio stations. He was a key figure in setting up The Voice of Liberation, which broadcast into Guatemala in 1954, and Radio Swan, which transmitted into Cuba from 1961. Both these stations were modelled on the format that McLendon had pioneered at KLIF Texas: popular music punctuated by breezy news bulletins from a […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] describes in detail how JFK tried to shift American foreign policy away from its Cold War positions. His attempt to change US policy towards the Soviet Union, Cuba and Vietnam, against the wishes of the military, the CIA and most of his foreign service, was or 16 Reviewed by Michael Carlson in Lobster 56 […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

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[PDF file]: […] that Irish officials were searching aircraft from the eastern bloc that were bound for Havana via Shannon Airport, presumably to monitor who was travelling to and from Cuba, and what they were carrying with them. Paragraph 19 has Lemass asking Kennedy about Cuba itself, with Kennedy replying that Soviet troops were down to 5000, […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] describes in detail how JFK tried to shift American foreign policy away from its Cold War positions. His attempt to change US policy towards the Soviet Union, Cuba and Vietnam, against the wishes of the military, the CIA and most of his foreign service, was breathtakingly ambitious and dangerous. Douglass shows the pre-assassination workings […]

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