[…] with press freedom, it is part funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (bit of a clue there!) and is part of the US attempts to destabilise Cuba and Venezuela. See Salim Lamrani, ‘The deceit of Reporters Without Borders’,(7) and Michael Barker’s ‘Media Watchdog as Democracy Manipulator’.(8) PhD student Barker has interesting essays in […]
[…] of the U.S. state setting up phoney radical organisations – “pseudo gangs” in Lawrence’s sense. Think of Lee Harvey Oswald’s bogus branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. And Athan Theoharis’ recent paper on the FBI’s use of the American Legion membership as domestic informers is testimony to an informer network which I’m […]
[…] (sic), I believe someone sent me a review of the book some months ago that I found in a large pile of mail after three months in Cuba. I read it and put it aside without action as I’ve done for some years on those kinds of allegations. I used to go through them […]
[…] to the US curtailed. This was especially so in Mexico City where Beck went to handle double agent cases after the US spooks were thrown out of Cuba. He writes: “Any case officer contemplating a double agent operation assumes the opposition knows of his or her CIA connections and that he or she may […]
[PDF file]: […] masthead of The Cuban Report, as it appeared in Summer 1963. June 1963 was a pivotal month in the history of covert US action against Fidel Castro’s Cuba. On June 19th, US President John Kennedy signed the executive version of a blank cheque, by approving covert CIA funding for what were referred to opaquely […]
[PDF file]: […] Castro’, which the CIA’s Western Hemisphere division chief first officially advocated in December 1959.2 7 Also proposing assassination was the CIA’s chief political action officer for the Cuba invasion, Howard Hunt.2 8 CIA Director Allen Dulles almost certainly approved – but never told President Eisenhower or President Kennedy.29 Nor, for that matter, did 26 […]
[PDF file]: […] of that month. Baldrige warned: ‘I think he’s unhappy about some of the things Time has been publishing.’30 As Clare discovered, the subject occupying Kennedy’s mind was Cuba. Face-to-face with Kennedy, Clare told him that she could not understand why communism in Vietnam was such a pressing problem for his administration, when communism 90 […]
[PDF file]: […] gambling and criminal elements”.33 A third member was almost certainly Eugenio Martinez who, back in 1957, had been part of an anti-Batista assassination plot funded by former Cuba president Carlos Prio Socarras. In November 1963 Martinez skippered the ill-fated Rex mission from Florida against Cuba, a mission involving the Somoza family of Nicaragua. To […]
[PDF file]: […] operations.10 Rogovin did not mention that he had been trusted with helping to negotiate the release of prisoners after the CIA’s disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. In 1975-76, during the most intense Congressional review of intelligence abuses, Rogovin would serve as special counsel to the CIA. For his various services […]
[PDF file]: […] was associated with the Hidell alias while in New Orleans, giving the name and PO Box number out as contact details on some of his ‘Hands off Cuba!’ recruitment leaflets. But he never gave his own name as Hidell, not even to his landlord on Magazine Street. Coupled with the missing part three of […]
