The Shadow Warriors Bradley F. Smith (Andre Deutsch, London 1983) The network of close personal connections established in O.S.S. (the fore-runner of the CIA) “helped bridge some of the widest gaps in American society and could be called upon in cases of need long after the war ended. For example, when in 1964 former British … Read more
The Imperial War Museum book of Modern Warfare: British and Commonwealth Forces at War 1945-2000 Edited by Major General Julian Thompson London: Pan Books, 2003, £8.99 This is the paperback edition of the book published by Sidgwick and Jackson a year ago. It contains 15 essays on conflicts that have involved British armed forces … Read more
[…] section of the superb Federation of American Scientists website. Includes What’s New; Hot Documents; Intelligence Reform Project; Intelligence Agencies and Budgets; Intelligence Threat Assessments such as CBW, missile proliferation, terrorism, crime, narcotics, environment, cybersecurity GAO and Congressional reports, eg Information Security: Computer Attacks at DoD Pose Increasing Risks (GAO/AIMD-96-84)). Web Resources: huge resource of […]
[…] in the repeated bombing of Iraq and the wars in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan.’ As a vivid example, Curtis reminds us of Blair’s support for the 1998 US missile attack on the Al Shifa plant in Sudan where 90 per cent of that very poor country’s pharmaceuticals were made. In words to be almost exactly […]
[…] copy be destroyed. The report was obtained after a 2 year FOIA effort by the National Security Archive. The report is at: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/latin_america/cuba/ig_report/index.html On-line version: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/latin_america/cuba/ig_report/images/Cuban_Operation.htm Cuban Missile Crisis http://oyez.nwu.edu/history-out-loud/jfk/cuban/ Includes audiofiles documenting the crisis between Oct 18-29 1962, including JFK’s conversations with staff. David Turner’s Homepage http://www.canterbury.u-net.com/ Website of David Turner, a phd […]
[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 […]
[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 1962.74 The books show in some detail that much of the received version of that event in the West – brave JFK stood up […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
