[…] of a Cold Warrior (New Haven, 1996). He writes that ‘the Mafia seemed a reasonable partner. Since the Mafia had controlled the gambling casinos that thrived in Cuba under Batista, (we) assumed that Sam Giancana and others would have a powerful motive for overthrowing Castro, as well as the contacts for carrying out such […]
Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba and the Garrison Case James DiEugenio Sheridan Square Press, New York, 1992 Scott Newton The JFK industry continues to flourish. One of its most recent as well as more interesting products is DiEugenio’s study of the assassination and the Garrison Commission. The book has its flaws and recycles a good […]
[…] fact that they knew of Oswald but had not kept tabs on him; or, worse, that he was working for them in the phoney Fair Play for Cuba Committee branch he was running. The CIA had to conceal their prior use of Oswald in their phoney defector programme; and his activities with the anti-Castro […]
[PDF file]: If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything (Malcolm X) Do Americans really want a genuine US policy that respects an independent Cuba? Dr. T. P. Wilkinson Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow Gerald Horne New York: Monthly Review Press, 2014 N o later than the […]
[PDF file]: Gangsterismo The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 Jack Colhoun London and New York: OR books, 2013, £17.00 (UK), p/b As academic historians are wont to say: this is not my field. Like other JFK assassination buffs, I have acquired most of what little I know about this subject while reading […]
[PDF file]: Destiny Betrayed JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case James DiEugenio New York: Skyhorse, 2012, $16.95, paperback This is the second edition of DiEugenio’s book. The first edition is among the hundreds of JFK assassination books I have not read. DiEugenio is very good indeed, as a quick perusal of some of his writing at […]
Web update Jane Affleck Thanks to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Comments and details of interesting websites are welcome: my email address is 101521.3515 @compuserve.com Freedom Of Information Campaign for Freedom of Information http://www.cfoi.org.uk ‘The Campaign for Freedom of Information campaigns against unnecessary secrecy and for greater public access to official and other […]
[…] had been recently prohibited by the State Department.. the next day, in Havana, a captured exile confessed that he had landed with a boatload of arms in Cuba from a motor launch of the Rex, and that “the CIA organised all arms shipments.” (NYT 3 November 1963 (Peter Dale Scott, Dallas Conspiracy ch 8 […]
[…] ZR Rifle: The Plot to Kill Kennedy and Castro Claudia Furiati Ocean Press, Australia, 1994 Ocean Press, the page of publication details tells us, is based in Cuba, the book’s subtitle is ‘Cuba Opens Secret Files’, and the conclusion seems to be that this is a piece of propaganda by the Cuban Government. And […]
[…] published in the UK in the course of a year which tell the truth about the American Right, American imperialism and the media, present good news about Cuba (which, whatever its faults, has resisted the beast only 90 miles away for 50 years) and are generally on the side of the good guys? Not […]
