[…] paramilitary operations.’ But where in this literature on the covert operations of the 46-52 period is this focus on ‘paramilitary operations’? The well known examples offered — Cuba, Guatemala, Vietnam — all fall outside this period. I am no expert on the literature of OPC/CIA but I am not even sure that there is […]
[…] with drug-runners; and has either ignored the drugs or helped the drug-runners ship their goods. Thus, further down the road, when the local crisis is over ( Cuba, Laos, Nicaragua, Afghanistan), the agency has become bound together with the drug-runners. In effect, some of the world’s major drug-dealers have become immune to serious prosecution […]
[…] it was entirely a lobby group for Taiwan, Leibman began in the China Lobby, went on to the Tshombe lobby (American Committee to Aid Katanga Freedom Fighters), Cuba lobby (Committee for the Monroe Doctrine), Chile Lobby (American-Chilean Council) etc.(7) When the Central African Federation, of which (Southern) Rhodesia was a component, began to unravel […]
[…] outfits. Unlike most terrorist groups like Orlando Bosch’s Omega 7 and the Falangist-inspired Movimiento Nacionalista Cubana (MNC), which operate primarily within the U.S. and other countries outside Cuba, Alpha 66 generally initiates sabotage and paramilitary raids on the island itself. See, e.g., McColm and Maier, p. 16. Union of International Associations, vol. 1, O337. […]
[…] and later Golke, through a pro-forma marriage to a KPD official upon her rise to prominence in the Berlin KPD. From those days until his death in Cuba – which Fischer attributed to the NKVD – just as she had succeeded in getting him a US visa, she was the common law wife of […]
[…] drew up plans to mount a bloody “terror campaign” in the United States…. and planned to blame it on Fidel Castro to justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba……’. This sounds strangely similar to what nearly happened in the first hours after the death of JFK but which was forestalled by the swift creation of […]
[…] today there is, and has been since the 1850s, an ‘Irish lobby’, after World War Two a ‘China lobby’, and, of course, there is also the ‘ Cuba lobby’.(7) An early example of US foreign policy being largely determined by expatriate and politically active migrants came in 1917-1918 when substantial communities of Slovaks and […]
[…] Tigre (Milan, Scheiwiller, 1961) Faenza. Roberto and Fini, Marco – Gli Americani in Italia (Milan, Feltrenelli, 1976) Faenza, Roberto – Il Malaffare: Dall’America di Kennedy all’Italia, a Cuba. a Vietnam (Milan, Mondadori, 1978) Falligot, Roger and Krop, Pascal – La Piscine: les Services Secrets Francais 1944-1984 (Paris, Scuil, 1985) Farago, Ladislas – Aftermath (New […]
[…] however, the protagonists of ‘Operation Dropshot’ were restrained by more rational voices in their aim to ‘reduce the Soviet Union to a smouldering, irradiated ruin.’ The 1962 Cuba missile crisis – during which US president Kennedy’s successful efforts to rein in the pre-emptive arguments of airforce chief (and ‘Dropshot’ author) Curtis LeMay were mirrored […]
[…] bases in West Germany (part 3 of the list raises the total named to 250), this issue names 30 CIA agents stationed in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Syria and Cuba, investigates the history of German involvement in Afghanistan and BND strategy for the area, and reports on the surveillance of the Berlin Alternative List. Two articles […]
