[…] been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence officer Penkofsky about the actual accuracy of Soviet missiles did appear to play a major role in the […]
[PDF file]: […] President Eisenhower threatened to use them in Korea, and offered them to the French in Vietnam. President Kennedy practised nuclear brinksmanship twice: the authors discuss the Cuban missile crisis, but not the equally serious crisis over NATO access to Berlin, for which the Pentagon offered a slate of nuclear options. Lyndon Johnson differentiated himself […]
[…] been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence officer Penkofsky about the actual accuracy of Soviet missiles did appear to play a major role in the […]
[…] generates weapons sales for (mostly American) weapons corporations. Reuters reported recently that NATO member Poland was about buy the Patriot missiles: ‘Poland strike deals for US Patriot missile systems that could be worth up to $8 billion’ was the subheading to the story.3 9 To sell weapons, ‘threats’ need to be created and thus […]
[PDF file]: […] Douglas-Walter Mattheu (then) contemporary western, Lonely Are the Brave; * Kennedy meeting with the Joint Chiefs to discuss military budgets and apparently dissenting from the American nuclear missile targeting strategy of mass civilian deaths; * Kennedy touring nuclear missile bunkers in Omaha; * a black church being bombed in Alabama; * Kennedy meeting black […]
[PDF file]: […] made on 16 March, the date on which the theatre was destroyed. The attack on the theatre is presumed by Western leaders to have been a Russian missile strike, as the Ukrainian government announced soon after the incident. Russia claims that the theatre was blown up by Ukrainian troops in a ‘false flag’ attack. […]
[…] apart and giving rise to an independent Kosovo, now home to a major NATO base in the Balkans. In 2002, the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the U.S. and NATO allies repudiated the United Nations Security Council by going to war in Iraq on false […]
[…] Washington Post reported on 15 March: ‘The Pentagon announced Friday that it would strengthen the country’s defenses against a possible attack by nuclear-equipped North Korea, fielding additional missile systems to protect the West Coast at a time of growing concern about the Stalinist regime.’ 38 Even though North Korea does not have a missile […]
[…] attempt to put their nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962. These are recounted in ‘Blundering on the Brink: The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis’ by Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok. This is their summary of what the documents tell us. But the declassified Soviet documents make some important corrections […]
[PDF file]: […] E-Mails Published’, Huffington Post, 27 February 2012. 10 Nick Hopkins, ‘Exclusive: MoD Prepares to take part in US Strike against Iran: UK Steps up Plans for Possible Missile Strikes Amid Fresh Nuclear Fears’, The Guardian, 3 November 2011. 11 Israeli Project, Washington, ‘EU Levels New Sanctions Against Iran’, 23 January 2012. See also ‘European […]
