[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] book reworks in extraordinary detail a number of the incidents in Oswald’s career as a CIA agent? asset? – which isn’t clear. The Angels book is about Cuba and the beginnings of the CIA’s attempts to overthrow Fidel Castro. It has no bearing I can see on the Kennedy assassination. Dr. Newman represents one […]
