[…] offering them a terrorist organisation to join. (Lee Harvey Oswald was probably doing something similar for the FBI in New Orleans with his one-man Fair Play for Cuba Committee.) Or informants, paid by results, elaborate, expand and exaggerate their activities. (Bits of all of this seems to have been happening in Wales over the […]
[…] or the testing of such weapons, and the use of powerful herbicides, all causing terrible effects to the people and environments of China, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Panama, Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia and elsewhere. Encouragement of drug trafficking in various parts of the world when it served the CIA’s purposes. Supporting death squads, especially in […]
[…] themselves. Someone gave them the wink. As I’ve said elsewhere, Davis, Scheim and Blakey have mistaken the monkey for the organ grinder. DiEugenio, James. Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba and the Garrison Case. New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1992. xxii and 423 pp. Illustrated, bibliography, index. A major reassessment of the Garrison case. DiEugenio makes […]
[…] 1 George Thayer, The British Political Fringe (London: Anthony Blond, 1965), p. 55. 2. Del Valle became involved in intelligence work while serving under Admiral Freeman in Cuba in the 1930s. In the June 1961 Task Force, the journal of the DAC, del Valle said that in 1933-34, ‘I participated in the special service […]
[…] me in the conspiracists’ camp? Perhaps because my article is conspiratorial in tone. That is, it retraces an extended and suspect hegira that Jones took to Mexico, Cuba and South America during the early 1960s. In the course of that trip, Jones is found to have met with CIA officers (in Brazil), and to […]
[…] A US president, a former Commander-in-Chief, warns America about the power of the military-industrial complex? On network television? Then Kennedy had to face down the military over Cuba. No wonder Kennedy let John Frankenheimer use the White House to shoot his movie about a military coup, 7 Days in May. Finally: readers of a […]
[…] was the only reason. By 1978 I was living on the other side of the lake, and Newton was still considered politically correct as he returned from Cuba to stand trial for the shooting death of a prostitute and something about pistol-whipping his tailor. ‘Wait a minute’, I hesitated from my one-room dump, ‘I’ve […]
McKinney/Africa/covert action Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand Red spiels The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] 19. The unmarked jets failed to rendezvous with the bombers, however, because the CIA and the Pentagon were unaware of a time zone difference between Nicaragua and Cuba. Two B-26s were shot down and four Americans lost (emphasis added). OK bomb In early March there were several reports from the U.S. quoting Timothy McVeigh’s […]
