[…] took two years of shit from Congress, from the press, from everybody. Then in the Missile Crisis the idea was, originally, I think, that they would blockade Cuba to the point where the Cuban Government fell. In the end it was the Republicans who said ‘Hey, there’s been some kind of deal here, that […]
[…] plot against George Bush — and the subsequent strangling of its oil sales and starvation of its children? What are the connections between the recent provocations in Cuba and the anti-Castro Cubans (one of those groups, Brothers for Peace, has actually been characterised as pro-democratic, despite the fact that its leader, Jose Basulto, confesses […]
[…] Pentagon and the CIA, chiefly, which had serious vested interests in the Cold War. The centrepiece of Talbot’s account of this conflict with the US military, is Cuba. For the military it was straightforward: the US had the strategic nuclear advantage (the ‘missile gap’ had been forgotten) and thus could and should invade Cuba. […]
[…] we don’t know yet (she refused to name it), but it is known that some Central American countries were involved in putting out stories linking Oswald to Cuba. A Nicaraguan named Gilberto Alvarado claimed, a few days after the assassination, that he had seen Oswald at the Cuban Consulate receiving a large amount of […]
[…] to assume that he wanted to disclose his identity on his own terms and at a time and place he, not the authorities, chose, such as in Cuba or Russia.’(36) So, the idea here, the very special pleading of the attorney from Los Angeles, is that Oswald’s plan is to flee the scene of […]
Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984 Policing The Miners Up to May 30th. These are only brief references to the major elements. Magistrates setting restrictive bail conditions. Guardian 5th April Police trying to buy NUM badges Guardian 19th May Police changing their ID numbers for picket duty Tribune 25th May Pickets charged with conspiracy for […]
[…] the money. In the original Gordievsky article the Sunday Times used part of a front page of Tribune in 1961, the bit showing the headline ‘Hands Off Cuba’, to illustrate the Soviet influence on the paper (via money allegedly given to Michael Foot). Ross recounted how that Cuba story – his story – had […]
[…] Henry Wade press conference held in the Dallas PD on 23 November 1963, This was the occasion when Wade claimed Oswald was a member of the ‘Free Cuba movement or whatever’ and Ruby corrected him by stating that it was the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. The Free Cuba Movement was an anti-Castro movement […]
[…] Street. On July 19th Oswald was dimissed by the Reilly Co. for ‘poor working habits’. He then organized the New Orleans ‘chapter’ of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC), getting ‘Hands Off Cuba’ leaflets printed. While engaged in this pro-Castro activity he visited Carlos Bringuier, a Cuban refugee and prominent anti-Castro activist, told […]
[…] worked for the spooks – though which branch was not clear. ‘That doesn’t surprise me,’ I said, and described Mandelson’s 1978 Foreign Office (or SIS?)-funded trip to Cuba. ‘He was probably recruited then.’ The Mail on Sunday on 9 August did not run the story but two other papers that day were dropping big […]
