The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] most consistent with the available evidence.12 In that a faction within the CIA ran a phoney assassination attempt on JFK which they intended to attribute to Castro’s Cuba, via the role of public Castro-sympathiser Lee Harvey Oswald. This would provide the pretext for US action – another invasion perhaps. This was piggy-backed upon by […]

View from Bridge 87pdf

Lobster Issue

[…] most consistent with the available evidence.8 In that a faction within the CIA ran a phoney assassination attempt on JFK which they intended to attribute to Castro’s Cuba, via the role of public Castro-sympathiser Lee Harvey Oswald. This would provide the pretext for US action – another invasion perhaps. This was piggy-backed upon by […]

View from the Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] most consistent with the available evidence.8 In that a faction within the CIA ran a phoney assassination attempt on JFK which they intended to attribute to Castro’s Cuba, via the role of public Castro-sympathiser Lee Harvey Oswald. This would provide the pretext for US action – another invasion perhaps. This was piggy-backed upon by […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] accounting firms specialised in producing deceptive balance sheets to undervalue companies for tax purposes. This practice was especially common for US corporations operating in Latin America, e.g. Cuba and Guatemala.17 The fraud was only exposed when nationalist governments in those countries tried to enforce compensation for eminent domain actions based on tax returns that […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] ‘Confessions of a Watergate Burglar’, True, August 1974, p. 74. Sturgis also said the team was looking for a Cuban memorandum on CIA and DIA operations against Cuba, including assassination plots, and information about O’Brien or other Democratic Party leaders profiting from kickbacks from concessionaires at the party convention. Presumably such information could be […]

Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] and trying to stop Pablo Neruda winning the Nobel prize – with accounts of the Cuban revolution and its impact in South America, subsequent American actions against Cuba, Che’s death and the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Brazil. The CIA’s people in the literary field believed they were promoting the non-communist left (NCL to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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