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America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity by Campbell Caig and Frederick Logevall

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] peace conference wrecked by the U-2 a year before. The authors’ reluctance to look at the m-i-c in action continues through their account of the invasion of Cuba – they do not tell us that the CIA planned to force Kennedy into supporting the invasion when it foundered – and into JFK’s assassination, where […]

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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 […]

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[…] in Dallas delivering handguns and fake IDs for what he believed was some kind of CIAorganised stunt which was intended to kibosh JFK’s desired rapprochement with Castro’s Cuba. Who might organise such a thing? Edward Lansdale is one obvious candidate. In a letter to Jim Garrison, Fletcher Prouty wrote: ‘Through 1962 and 1963, Mongoose […]

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Kelly Bond 007 text

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[…] certainly associates the real Bond with the CIA, and it comes as a surprise that Bond was hunting for birds at the remote Baya de Conchos in Cuba, a few weeks before it became better known as the Bay of Pigs. After Kim Philby showed up in Moscow, his book My Silent War was […]

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[PDF file]: […] created the autopsy images; and decided which brain photos made it into the official collection, and which brain photos did not. Neither Khrushchev’s Soviet Union, nor Castro’s Cuba, nor the Mafia had access to any of this evidence.27 An explanation of all this was given by the late Billie Sol Estes. In his memoir […]

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Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] in Dallas delivering handguns and fake IDs for what he believed was some kind of CIA-organised stunt which was intended to kibosh JFK’s desired rapprochement with Castro’s Cuba. Who might organise such a thing? Edward Lansdale is one obvious candidate. In a letter to Jim Garrison, Fletcher Prouty wrote: ‘Through 1962 and 1963, Mongoose […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] 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 […]

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[PDF file]: […] these contacts had been misrepresented as much more substantial than they really were and that Kennedy was not, in fact, on the brink of normalising reactions with Cuba. This is all very interesting but in this version of the CIA-dunnit scenario – as in all the others I can remember – no CIA people […]