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[…] war did not scuttle détente, it nevertheless brought the United States closer to a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis. The American military airlift to Israel, moreover, had led Arab oil producers to embargo oil shipments to the United States and some Western European countries, […]

[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 102 or 103 33 Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to cover the subject through many subsequent […]

[…] to serve his sentence. We had not seen each other since Dorothy’s funeral. We dined at Yenching Palace, a well-known Chinese restaurant in Washington where the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was settled by an agreement reached there over dinner by the American and Russian representatives. I asked Hunt at dinner what was the […]

[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 85 or 86 28 Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to cover the subject through many subsequent […]

[…] sectors, with factories in the east of Ukraine supplying Russia with hardware such as helicopter engines (produced in Zaporizhia), ICBMs (designed and made in Dnepropetrovsk), and a missile guidance system (from Kharkiv).35 A Ukrainian pivot to the West would not only deprive Russia of a key market, it would threaten its links with what […]

[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 72 or 73 25 contact with Colin Wallace. Because the scandal has never been properly examined officially, the story keeps cropping-up. The latest instalment is […]