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 […]

Apocryphylia

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[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 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]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. 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 what […]

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

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[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 […]

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 […]

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

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[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 […]

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

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[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. […]

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