Rogue State and Globalize This!

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] do so. There is a very telling anecdote at the beginning of chapter 9. Blum rings up ‘the terrorism desk’ at the State Department and asks why Cuba has been included in a list of nations which ‘sponsor terrorism’. When told that Cuba ‘harbors terrorists’ he points out to the flak-catcher on the other […]

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JFK: The two Oswalds. One Hell of a Gamble

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] immediately to what are supposed to be Soviet intelligence files on the JFK hit. This is what I found. On November 25 1963, the Mexican ambassador to Cuba reported to his embassy’s political section that an ‘extensive conspiracy’ had been behind the assassination. This report likely came from Cuban intelligence. The leader of the […]

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Everything is going to change

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] Crisis. Douglass goes from there into great detail, not only on negotiations with the Russians, and the test-ban treaty, or on opening a back-channel of communication with Cuba, but also lesser-known steps toward peace in Africa and Southeast Asia, most notably the negotiated settlement with the Pathet Lao. Douglass spends a great deal of […]

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Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] Unclassified is back on form. Some interesting material in the Fall 97 issue, including an account of what looks like continuing U.S. covert ops (chemical warfare) against Cuba; an account of working with Coalition Missing, the group trying to bring to light the truth about Guatemalan death squads; a brief memoir from Ralph McGehee […]

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The KGB Lawsuits

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] round the broken down old movie actor in Washington. There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly with Soviet embassy personnel, supporting Cuba and the Sandinistas, quite unimpressed by the anti-Soviet propaganda offensive of the late 1970s and 80s. The Crozier research team showed, without great difficulty, that the […]

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PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] minor way; while Ferrie had been involved in operations surrounding the Bay of Pigs. Ferrie had known Oswald for a long time: Oswald had distributed Fairplay For Cuba leaflets outside Shaw’s International Trade Mart. (4). But that is almost all the evidence, and much of it only emerged after the Garrison enquiry. There is […]

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Plot elements in the Colosio Murder Mystery

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] Carlos Salinas de Gortari has been treated by the American and European press as a homeless, tragi-comic figure, sending mad faxes and popping up in Canada and Cuba. He is, in fact, one of the richest men in the world. His brother Raul sits in jail in Mexico, as yet untried. His second choice, […]

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Bacardi — The Hidden War

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] there has been a bloody war being fought clandestinely and more openly in the form of propaganda pumped from the USA seeking to undermine the government of Cuba. Bacardi have been at the forefront of these attempts, being linked to convicted terrorists and mainstream think tanks and educational foundations – all the while trying […]

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

McKinney/Africa/covert action Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand Red spiels The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted … Read more

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] 19. The unmarked jets failed to rendezvous with the bombers, however, because the CIA and the Pentagon were unaware of a time zone difference between Nicaragua and Cuba. Two B-26s were shot down and four Americans lost (emphasis added). OK bomb In early March there were several reports from the U.S. quoting Timothy McVeigh’s […]

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