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Revolution and Subversion in Latin America

August 4, 2011

The National Intelligence Council released this gem in late 2010: The 23 declassified National Intelligence Estimates and related documents in this volume on Subversion and Revolution in Latin America span the years 1947 to 1987. The documents in this collection of estimative products fall into three groups. The first three, written between April 1947 and December 1952, [...]

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Cold War in the Caribbean

July 27, 2011

The Financial Times’ Latin America editor John Paul Rathbone and author of the The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba’s Last Tycoon critiques British historian Alex von Tunzelmann’s recent book, Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean: “More pointedly, does the world really need to be [...]

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Considerable resistance

March 21, 2011

According to an early March, 2011 note on the Cuban military in CIA’s The World Factbook, “Cuba remains able to offer considerable resistance to any regional power.” The note further adds:

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Spooks’ world news database

March 7, 2011

The Wall Street Journal reports on an invaluable research database, World News Connection (WNC), which delivers the news online from 1,750 newspapers, broadcasts and blogs in 130 countries. WNC is an online offering from the CIA’s Open Source Center (OSC) (formerly the Foreign Broadcast Information Service – FBIS).

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Nothing more than a paid traitor

November 10, 2010

Robert Baer, author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism and a retired case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, has an excellent and telling piece in Foreign Policy on CIA turncoat Philip Agee, Havana’s man in Havana: The simple truth is that Agee was [...]

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Indifference to evil

May 14, 2010

Claire Berlinski in City Journal writes about the indifference throughout the world to documents proving Soviet atrocities committed under Communism: Nor is it widely acknowledged that Communism was responsible for the deaths of some 150 million human beings during the twentieth century. The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious about the deadliest ideology in history. For [...]

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