Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] and the UK: essentially the beliefs that the Soviets were subverting Britain through the CPGB’s role in trade unions and were attempting to turn Ireland into another Cuba. If the CPGB’s role in trade unions was real, there is no evidence that it was being directed by the Soviets – had there been any […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] had 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 […]

Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel by David Rubin

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[PDF file]: […] to fruition, probably in an even more nefarious and violent form than what was seen in the former Soviet Union or what we are seeing today in Cuba, in North Korea, or in Communist China’. (p 226) Indeed, ‘the thought police that Orwell warned us about are already here’. (p. 238) One essential prerequisite […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

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[PDF file]: […] nine page section about Operation Northwoods was noticed by the 9/11 sceptics. Northwoods was a 1962 Pentagon plan to commit a terrorist atrocity and blame it on Cuba, to provide the pretext for another invasion of the island.1 Subsequently, that short section has had a major influence on many of those studying the activities […]

Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch

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[PDF file]: […] one of the pretexts for the US war with Spain in 1898 was revulsion at the brutal counterinsurgency methods used by the Spanish General Valeriano Weyler in Cuba. The methods which the Americans went on to use to suppress insurrection in the Philippines were so brutal that they ‘made Weyler seem like a pacifist’. […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] these contacts had been misrepresented as much more substantial than they really were and that Kennedy was not, in fact, on the brink of normalising reactions with Cuba. This is all very interesting but in this version of the CIA-dunnit scenario – as in all the others I can remember – no CIA people […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] with the issue see or . 77 80 See . 79 <https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-group-names-uks-corbyn-top-anti-semite-of-2019/ 78 After JFK was assassinated a disinformation campaign began to tie Lee Harvey Oswald to Cuba and the KGB. His history as a defector to the USSR and his role as the one-man branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in […]

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[…] the phenomenon really came to attention in 2017: . . . in connection with strange ailments affecting more than twenty CIA and State Department officials posted to Cuba in the wake of revivified diplomatic relations between the Obama administration and the government headed by Fidel Castro’s brother Raúl. The cases were recorded in Havana […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Spain 19%, Australia 29%, Portugal 16%, Germany 18%, Japan 21% and Russia 22%. A study of major and/or western nations shows that only Montenegro, Pakistan, Eire, Swaziland, Cuba, Turkmenistan, Angola, Malawi, Libya and Iraq invest less in their own economies than the UK. The announcements now being made about a UK economic recovery (the […]

The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] just before the Cuban missile crisis how few intercontinental missiles the Soviets actually had. Thus the Americans knew the Soviets would back down when the blockade of Cuba was mounted.) Where the Angleton-Golitsyn nonsense did matter was in British domestic politics. Angleton’s delusions spread to MI5 and thence into the Conservative Party’s right-wing, parts […]

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