‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

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[PDF file]: […] One consequence of this was that the Lough Erne corridor remained in use for fighter and reconnaissance flights into the Atlantic. As noted above, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Seán Lemass authorised searches of aircraft that stopped over at Shannon between Warsaw Pact countries and Cuba; and that same year (1962) went on record […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] dossier furore: Explosive leaked email claims that UN watchdog’s report into alleged poison gas attack by Assad was doctored so was it to justify British and American missile strikes on Syria?’10 The answer to the question in the headline appears to be ‘Yes’. The email – reproduced in full on the Mail site – […]

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[PDF file]: […] the reports I read of the shooting down by the Iranians of the Ukrainian airliner referred to the occasion in 1988 when the USS Vincennes, a guided- missile cruiser of the United States Navy, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing, 290 people. Which led to the Lockerbie bombing . . . . Not […]

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[PDF file]: […] sea blockade of Yemen’ ‘Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel trained in Britain as Yemen war continues’ ‘Exclusive: British government breaks inspection rules at Scottish missile factory supplying Saudi air war in Yemen – its fourth breach’ ‘Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to “kill” a United Nations ban on mercenaries’‘Revealed: UK government broke […]

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