Artículos de Simon Wollers
Periodista inglés, colaborador de Cubadebate.
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On November 30, 1961, President John F Kennedy authorized a major new covert operation aimed at removing Fidel Castro and dismantling the Cuban Revolution: Operation Mongoose. Kennedy appointed Air Force Brig. Gen. Edward Lansdale - a renowned clandestine operative with 1950s experience in Vietnam and the Philippines - as the project's chief of operations in what was the biggest covert program initiated by the USA in the 1960s. As we approach the 42nd anniversary of the 1962 October Missile Crisis it is worth pondering Operation Mongoose and its historical ramifications.
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Last year a US Department of Justice FBI report dated August 16th, 1978 written by the Miami FBI station and directed to the Bureau’s Director was declassified. It indicated that US authorities were fully aware from the outset of terrorist actions by the Florida based organization CORU, run by international terrorist Dr Orlando Bosch. The document pertains to the US Neutrality Act that sought to prohibit the use of US territory as a base for violent, hostile actions against other nations with which the US was not formally at war. Simon Wollers reported on what this FBI document disclosed when »
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As more people in the United States wake up to the realities of the Patriot Act and previous supporters of Bush's evisceration of civil rights no longer eagerly wag their tails every time he bays for more retribution, we should remember COINTELPRO and, more ominously, we should remember its issue, FISA.