[PDF file]: […] intelligence officer was called before McCarthy’s subcommittee and testified that he had a conversation with a CIA officer who stated (‘flatly’) that it might become necessary to assassinate McCarthy ‘as happened with Huey Long’. This is a bit of a facer and it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that this was meant to be […]
[PDF file]: […] in 2014 by the Oxford historian Avi Shlaim as ‘a war of deception that failed to achieve any of its grandiose geopolitical objectives’.6 A terrorist attempt to assassinate the Israeli ambassador gave Sharon his opportunity for war. He blamed the PLO for the assassination attempt. But he got his facts wrong. The PLO were […]
[PDF file]: […] in 2014 by the Oxford historian Avi Shlaim as ‘a war of deception that failed to achieve any of its grandiose geopolitical objectives’.6 A terrorist attempt to assassinate the Israeli ambassador gave Sharon his opportunity for war. He blamed the PLO for the assassination attempt. But he got his facts wrong. The PLO were […]
[PDF file]: […] lawyer for the defence.’ This seems a bit less outrageous in light of the fact that Olmedo had in fact attempted to overthrow the Cuban government and assassinate Fidel Castro the previous year, in the unimaginatively-named August 30th Plot (Conspiración del 30 de Agosto). Olmedo was offered a reprieve if he would denounce the […]
