[…] are essential for national survival. As supplies of oil become increasingly difficult to access, Britain may find it more useful to look to the recent experience of Cuba than to put its faith in the free-market generosity of other countries. The political results of these exigencies remain to be seen – in practice.(32) Philip […]
[…] the primary originator of the basic US foreign policy move of accusing your enemies of running drugs into the otherwise innocent bodies of the US citizenry (China, Cuba, Nicaragua), while allowing your political allies (KMT, anti-Castro Cubans, Contras) to fund-raise by dope-dealing. This essay focuses on Anslinger as manipulator of Congress, media and the […]
[…] 20th anniversary edition, with essays by Edward S. Herman, Philip Agee looking back on the 20 years, Michael Parenti and Ramsey Clark; a collection of essays on Cuba; and a couple on the demonization of Serbia, one of them by Diana Johnstone, formerly of In These Times. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue NW #732, Washington, DC […]
[…] it circulate) material about the ‘Soviet threat’ within the British labour movement; and how this nonsense came to be inserted into the conflict in Northern Ireland (‘Britain’s Cuba’ as IRD christened it ). For that – what little hasn’t been weeded – we will have to wait for the equivalent account of the next […]
[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]: […] was associated with the Hidell alias while in New Orleans, giving the name and PO Box number out as contact details on some of his ‘Hands off Cuba!’ recruitment leaflets. But he never gave his own name as Hidell, not even to his landlord on Magazine Street. Coupled with the missing part three of […]
