[…] Japan and works his way right through all the major events in the history of Pentagon: interservice rivalries; manipulation of intelligence and the creation of weapons ‘gaps’; Cuba, Vietnam; the second Cold War, ‘star wars’ and the collapse of the Soviet empire; the Clinton years, Iraq and ‘shock and awe’ – a history of […]
[…] mistakes made by the United States and CIA in the past. The usual CIA mode of undermining foreign governments it does not like — from Russia to Cuba to Iran — has been to organize and train their opponents in criminal activities, including sabotage and smuggling. But time and again this strategy backfires. The […]
[…] there are precedents for the American state faking a causa belli: the sinking of the USS Maine to provide the pretext for the war with Spain over Cuba; the Gulf of Tonkin; and we could add a vast array of examples of smaller psy-ops. But I cannot imagine any such group deciding that this […]
[…] ‘a rare flash of skepticism,’ decided that ‘his denial cannot be credited.’ Oswald had earlier used the alias ‘Osborne’ in New Orleans when ordering Fair Play for Cuba literature. And there are other intriguing connections and coincidences.Eddowes thought that Osborne was either a freelance or Soviet intelligence agent, The Oswald File, op cit, p. […]
[…] the promotion of favoured opposition groups; and then ii) through pre-planned direct military intervention: in most cases, the threat will be enough; some naughty countries (such as Cuba and North Korea) who might put up a bit of a fight will now just be by-passed, contained or left at the subversion stage until nature […]
[…] C. Wright Mills, Allen Ginsberg, and most guaranteed to upset the American establishment Alger Hiss. Tynan was also a signatory to the ‘Fair Play For Cuba’ advertisement placed in the New York Times in April 1960. An appearance before the SISS therefore came as no surprise. In the event, chief counsel J. […]
[…] Chinese nationalists and the South Vietnamese establishment were producing much of America’s heroin. The other main heroin producer, Iran, was also an American ally. In later years Cuba and then Nicaragua were both described as prime movers in the Caribbean cocaine trade when it is obvious now, and was fairly clear then, that Cuban […]
[…] crises than appeared at the time. In the Cuban missile crisis, for example, it now appears that the Soviet Union already had some tactical nuclear weapons in Cuba before the crisis erupted, so an attempted US invasion could have resulted in nuclear use. Furthermore, during the crisis, US fighters were airborne from bases in […]
[…] decision to withdraw from Vietnam was….. also part of a larger strategy, of a sequence that included the Laos and Berlin settlements in 1961, the non-invasion of Cuba in 1962, the Test Ban Treaty in 1963. Kennedy subordinated the timing of these events to politics: he was quite prepared to leave soldiers in harm’s […]
[…] countries for research. Although it is unclear to what use they were put, AEC documents show isotopes were sent to Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, the UK and Uraguay. In response to my inquiry, […]
