[…] used by American military command to target bombing strikes over the north. Together with NSA stations in Thailand and the Philippines, it also monitored North Vietnamese surface-to-air missile sites, enabling warnings to be relayed to bomber crews in mid-flight, allowing them to chose the safest air corridors to their targets. Such help by the […]
On the 12th February 1967, Rosemary James of the New Orleans States-Item newspaper discovered that Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, had spent more than $8,000 on his own investigation of the assassination of John Kennedy. (The story appeared on the front page on February 20th.) Two weeks later the DA’s office announced the … Read more
[…] 800 which suggested that the crash was not the result of an explosion in a fuel tank but the result of the plane being hit by a missile, probably from a US naval ship below it. As per usual the US state had not taken kindly to investigation of its error and persecuted those […]
[…] the Cold War International History Project is out. Issues 8-9 is 400 plus A4 pages with archive material on a wide range of subjects including: the Cuban missile crisis; the 1956 Polish and Hungarian crises; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Cuans in Southern Africa, and the collapse of detente in the late 1970s. […]
[…] Cold War as at best irrelevant and at worst, in the right’s version, as a terrible mistake. In the other way of looking at it, the Cuban Missile Crisis had demonstrated that the Cold War had become so dangerous it had to be managed; and detente was that management. Detente had two major American […]
[PDF file]: […] sole discretion of the Cuban exiles – but it would be launched from outside the US and directed at Cuban targets only. The near-apocalypse of the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962) had made the Kennedy White House shy of taking any more potshots at the Soviet troops stationed 90 miles off Florida. On the […]
[…] Thanks to Roger Steer for bringing to my attention an interesting piece in the London Review of Books, a review of two new books about the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.71 The books show in some detail that much of the received version of that event in the West – brave JFK stood up […]
[PDF file]: […] Thanks to Roger Steer for bringing to my attention an interesting piece in the London Review of Books, a review of two new books about the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.72 The books show in some detail that much of the received version of that event in the West – brave JFK stood up […]
[PDF file]: […] the President that he must recognise that to accept a communist Cuba would raise ‘the question not only of American prestige but of American survival’.32 The Cuban Missile Crisis began its most dangerous phase later that month, with the Joint Chiefs of Staff echoing Clare’s invasion policy.33 After the Cuban crisis had receded, Allen […]
[…] 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 was […]
