SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[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

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] so big when the same effect on public opinion could have been Northwoods was a proposal to run ‘false flag’ operations to provide a pretext for invading Cuba. The original documents are at . 64 Nick Must commented: This petered out when it became clear that NORAD, the U.S. air defence radar system, had […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] microwaves was the most plausible explanation The mystery ailment that has afflicted U.S. embassy staff and CIA officers off and on over the last four years in Cuba, China, Russia and other countries appears to have been caused by high-power microwaves, according to a report released by the National Academies.26 A committee of 19 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] a second invasion; and that the pretext for the invasion would be the obvious one: a (phoney) assassination attempt on JFK which would be blamed on Castro’s Cuba. In his new book Uncovering Popov’s Mole. See the extract at or . 20 Paul Bleau, ‘The Three Failed Plots to Kill JFK: The Historians’ Guide […]

View from the bridge

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[…] a second invasion; and that the pretext for the invasion would be the obvious one: a (phoney) assassination attempt on JFK which would be blamed on Castro’s Cuba. *new* More on Starmer The essential Declassified UK reported that Keir Starmer, while a member of Paul Bleau, ‘The Three Failed Plots to Kill JFK: The […]

The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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. […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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)

[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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