[…] 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 […]
[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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Simon says Regular contributor to these columns, Simon Matthews, has a new book out. Looking for a New England, the sequel to his Psychedelic Celluloid, is published on 28 January 2021. Details of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] income taxes were actually higher than in Sweden. Erlander handed over to Palme, Prime Minister 1969-1976 and 1982-1986. Palme was more obviously of the left. He visited Cuba (the first western leader to do so), criticised the US bombing of Hanoi and supported the PLO and ANC. He introduced a constitution that greatly diminished […]
[…] intentions in 1947-1948 and the instigation (and continuation) of the Cold War; the decision to undermine the 1954 Geneva Peace Agreement on Vietnam; the absurd blockade of Cuba; and the unprecedented support for and identification with Israel. Why does the US behave like this? Is there a common thread here? Is its detached geographical […]
