The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] to the hilt. Officials from the president on down mentioned it at every opportunity as proof of the Sandinistas’ immorality. “High level officials” of both Nicaragua and Cuba “have been personally implicated” in drug smuggling, Reagan said during the 1985 debates over contra aid (Reagan 1987:673–76). The State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy, which […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] created the autopsy images; and decided which brain photos made it into the official collection, and which brain photos did not. Neither Khrushchev’s Soviet Union, nor Castro’s Cuba, nor the Mafia had access to any of this evidence.26 An explanation of all this was given by the late Billie Sol Estes. In his memoir […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 25% stake in 1959. A variety of other interested parties arrived too, notably operators of large-scale casinos. These included Meyer Lansky, after his enforced 1961 exit from Cuba though, officially, Lansky ‘only gave advice on the staffing of the casinos’. Further assistance in attracting international investors to the freeport was provided by Hjalmar Schacht […]

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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 […]

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[…] they? But this is small beer compared to the late Chauncey Holt who was photographed with Oswald in New Orleans while Oswald was giving out ‘Hands off Cuba’ leaflets24 and photographed on Dealey Plaza two hours after the shooting in the company of mob hit man Charles Harrelson.25 What will it take to persuade […]

The Lone Star Speaks: Untold Texas Stories about the JFK Assassination by Sara Peterson and K. W. Zachry

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Texas School Book Depository. He was then supposed to leave immediately and rendezvous with agents who would help him escape to Mexico while a retaliatory invasion of Cuba was complete. Oswald was also told by Hunt that President Kennedy did not know anything about the “fake assassination,” but high-ranking members of his cabinet did. […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] certainly associates the real Bond with the CIA, and it comes as a surprise that Bond was hunting for birds at the remote Baya de Conchos in Cuba, a few weeks before it became better known as the Bay of Pigs. After Kim Philby showed up in Moscow, his book My Silent War was […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] certainly associates the real Bond with the CIA, and it comes as a surprise that Bond was hunting for birds at the remote Baya de Conchos in Cuba, a few weeks before it became better known as the Bay of Pigs. After Kim Philby showed up in Moscow, his book My Silent War was […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that only ends in 1976. Meanwhile Britain suppresses the Malaysian independence movement. Between 1960 and 1968, nationalist governments have been overthrown in Indonesia, Congo, Ghana, and Brazil. Cuba is the great surprise amidst the literally hundreds of nationalist, anti-colonial movements and governments suppressed by the US. William Blum has catalogued the enormous number of […]

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[…] they? But this is small beer compared to the late Chauncey Holt who was photographed with Oswald in New Orleans while Oswald was giving out ‘Hands off Cuba’ leaflets5 and photographed on Dealey Plaza two hours after the shooting in the company of mob hit man Charles Harrelson.6 What will it take to persuade […]

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