[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[PDF file]: […] masthead of The Cuban Report, as it appeared in Summer 1963. June 1963 was a pivotal month in the history of covert US action against Fidel Castro’s Cuba. On June 19th, US President John Kennedy signed the executive version of a blank cheque, by approving covert CIA funding for what were referred to opaquely […]
[PDF file]: […] Castro’, which the CIA’s Western Hemisphere division chief first officially advocated in December 1959.2 7 Also proposing assassination was the CIA’s chief political action officer for the Cuba invasion, Howard Hunt.2 8 CIA Director Allen Dulles almost certainly approved – but never told President Eisenhower or President Kennedy.29 Nor, for that matter, did 26 […]
[PDF file]: […] of that month. Baldrige warned: ‘I think he’s unhappy about some of the things Time has been publishing.’30 As Clare discovered, the subject occupying Kennedy’s mind was Cuba. Face-to-face with Kennedy, Clare told him that she could not understand why communism in Vietnam was such a pressing problem for his administration, when communism 90 […]
[PDF file]: […] gambling and criminal elements”.33 A third member was almost certainly Eugenio Martinez who, back in 1957, had been part of an anti-Batista assassination plot funded by former Cuba president Carlos Prio Socarras. In November 1963 Martinez skippered the ill-fated Rex mission from Florida against Cuba, a mission involving the Somoza family of Nicaragua. To […]
[PDF file]: […] operations.10 Rogovin did not mention that he had been trusted with helping to negotiate the release of prisoners after the CIA’s disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. In 1975-76, during the most intense Congressional review of intelligence abuses, Rogovin would serve as special counsel to the CIA. For his various services […]
[PDF file]: […] Havana on 7 September 1963. Picking up on the AP wire feed, the New Orleans newspaper The Times-Picayune ran a page 7 story, ‘Castro Blasts Raids on Cuba – Says U.S. Leaders Imperilled by Aid to Rebels’.6 Shenon also promotes a CIA report to the Rockefeller Commission on possible Cuban connections to the assassination […]
