[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* The times they might be a-changin’ One day in July I was reading ‘CIA has a long history of empowering monsters’ by the editor of Covert Action Magazine, Jeremy Kuzmarov. True, of course, […]
[PDF file]: […] had accepted that detente with the Soviet bloc was established and the ‘hot’ Cold War of previous decades was over. (Arguably it had been over since the Cuba missile crisis.) In this context IRD was a Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace […]
[PDF file]: […] one of the pretexts for the US war with Spain in 1898 was revulsion at the brutal counterinsurgency methods used by the Spanish General Valeriano Weyler in Cuba. The methods which the Americans went on to use to suppress insurrection in the Philippines were so brutal that they ‘made Weyler seem like a pacifist’. […]
[PDF file]: […] to fruition, probably in an even more nefarious and violent form than what was seen in the former Soviet Union or what we are seeing today in Cuba, in North Korea, or in Communist China’. (p 226) Indeed, ‘the thought police that Orwell warned us about are already here’. (p. 238) One essential prerequisite […]
[PDF file]: […] the phenomenon really came to attention in 2017: . . . in connection with strange ailments affecting more than twenty CIA and State Department officials posted to Cuba in the wake of revivified diplomatic relations between the Obama administration and the government headed by Fidel Castro’s brother Raúl. The cases were recorded in Havana […]
[…] the phenomenon really came to attention in 2017: . . . in connection with strange ailments affecting more than twenty CIA and State Department officials posted to Cuba in the wake of revivified diplomatic relations between the Obama administration and the government headed by Fidel Castro’s brother Raúl. The cases were recorded in Havana […]
