The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] If the CIA had released documents about Joannides which showed – as some JFK researchers believe67 – that the CIA was using Oswald in some operation regarding Cuba, the entire lone-nut explanation of Kennedy’s shooting might collapse. If it did, those in the CIA and elsewhere who had defended it for over half a […]

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 […]

‘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, […]

The View from the Bridge

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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 […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

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[PDF file]: […] substitute for armed force in resisting Communist inroads in the Third World.’ 1 This ultimately led to complacency in tactics and methods, and the subsequent failure in Cuba in 1961. Guatemalan politics was also transformed, but not along the path of ‘success’ – as the CIA operation was codenamed – and democracy but one […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] a profile of Holt by Bill Kelly when he first appeared in the early 90s. ‘Driving to New Orleans, Holt, Belcher and Young delivered Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets to Guy Bannister’s Camp Street office. Holt had made the leaflets in California. “These were professionally done, and not the leaflets with the 544 […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

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[PDF file]: […] 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 Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron

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[PDF file]: […] largely a rehashing and enlargement of the previous two.1 He has earlier argued for a secret Kennedy venture known as CDay that planned for a coup in Cuba to be carried out by the Pentagon and the CIA which would be synced with the assassination of Castro by an undercover operator on the island. […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

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[PDF file]: […] (Australia was!). That is why it can (and should) be argued that the US invaded Vietnam just as it had invaded Korea (and Mexico as well as Cuba in the 19th century) not by mistake, not because of a misunderstanding, or because of some communist threat, but because ‘invading’ other people’s territory is how […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] shot Kennedy. In his memoir1 4 he says that he believed that some kind of stunt was being staged in Dallas by the CIA, which would embarrass Cuba and nobble JFK’s attempts at détente with Castro. Either he was duped, or it was need-to-know as is usual in such operations and he didn’t need […]

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