[…] political as a narcotics target: he and Chilean President Salvador Allende were the only heads of state to defy the CIA-enforced ban on friendly relations with Castro’s Cuba. Barker and Artime, as we have seen, had been allegedly dropped from the CIA for their involvement in criminal activities – the latter for smuggling activities […]
[…] and the collapse of detente in the late 1970s. Absolutely fascinating stuff. The long encounter between Alexander Haig and a Cuban minister, with Haig lecturing him on Cuba having no right to intervene in the affairs of other countries, is an absolutely priceless illustration of the mind-boggling hypocrisy of so much US foreign policy. […]
[…] of the U.S. state setting up phoney radical organisations – “pseudo gangs” in Lawrence’s sense. Think of Lee Harvey Oswald’s bogus branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. And Athan Theoharis’ recent paper on the FBI’s use of the American Legion membership as domestic informers is testimony to an informer network which I’m […]
[…] — that the French had used. And again, the American Mafia was involved through their Corsican contacts. From Tampa, Florida, Santos Trafficante ran the Marseilles connection in Cuba during the 1950s. In 1968 he visited Saigon to meet with Corsican syndicate leaders. After 1970, Asian heroin began showing up in the U.S. After the […]
[…] and Carter got screwed electorally by an alliance of spooks, the military and their intellectual flunkies who recreated the ‘Soviet threat’ (Team B, the ‘Soviet brigade’ on Cuba, etc.). The author’s analysis distinguishes him from others who see a neo-con cabal currently running things. He shows them merely fronting and generating rationales for the […]
[…] to the US curtailed. This was especially so in Mexico City where Beck went to handle double agent cases after the US spooks were thrown out of Cuba. He writes: “Any case officer contemplating a double agent operation assumes the opposition knows of his or her CIA connections and that he or she may […]
[…] with organised crime and/or CIA links – planned to kill JFK, and leave a dead Oswald framed as a pro-Castro, communist assassin, triggering another US invasion of Cuba and scuppering JFK’s plans to do a deal with Castro. This is terribly plausible, a good hypothesis, and Hancock handles the immensely detailed material very well; […]
[…] A Party at Kitty and Stud’s. Poundstone even tells you where you can get the video.) SCOTT, Peter Dale. Deep Politics II: Essays on Oswald, Mexico and Cuba: The New Revelations in US Government Files, 1994-95. Skokie (Illinois): Green Archive Publications, 1995. + 162 pps. Notes, index. Thirteen new essays by one of the […]
[…] Japan and works his way right through all the major events in the history of Pentagon: interservice rivalries; manipulation of intelligence and the creation of weapons ‘gaps’; Cuba, Vietnam; the second Cold War, ‘star wars’ and the collapse of the Soviet empire; the Clinton years, Iraq and ‘shock and awe’ – a history of […]
[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 […]
