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• John Crisp: Old school guidance about new Cold War

  - 2008-08-27

  RUSSIA'S INVASION OF Georgia coincided with my reading of a couple of books that turned out to be instructive about that event: "When Presidents Lie," by Eric Alterman; and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner's "Legacy of Ashes," a history of the Central Intelligence Agency. These books...

  Tags: CIA, Cuba, Georgia, Leadership, missile, Russia, SECURITY

• When Philip Agee died in early January, Reuters called him a "whistleblower."

  - 2008-02-11

  When Philip Agee died in early January, Reuters called him a "whistleblower." Oh, is that what he was? Agee was a CIA agent who turned against his employer, and his country, and published Inside the Company: CIA Diary. The year was 1975. Agee's book exposed CIA agents around the world,...

  Tags: agent, CIA, Cuba, Thomson Reuters Corp.

• Castro's head worth US $150,000 to CIA.(CUBA)

  - 2007-08-01

  The US Central Intelligence Agency CIA offered US$150,000 to Mafia figures to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, just one of several CIA plots against foreign leaders detailed in 693 pages of classified US documents recently released, reports AFP (June 27, 2007): Other CIA targets,...

  Tags: agency, CIA, Cuba, leader, Leadership, MARKETING

• Castro accuses U.S. of hypocrisy, lack of ethics

  - 2007-07-09

  HAVANA -- Fidel Castro decried Washington's "hypocrisy" and "total lack of ethics" in a rambling essay published Sunday that analyzes the early years of his 1959 revolution and repeated U.S. attempts to assassinate him. Cuba's recuperating 80-year-old "Maximum Leader" saluted America's "attractive Declaration of Independence of 1776" but...

  Tags: CIA, Cuba, ethics, Government, Leadership, SOFTWARE

• Tangle at UN over alleged plane bomber.(CUBA)(Brief article)

  - 2007-07-01

  Cuba and Venezuela clashed with the United States in the UN Security Council over the release by a US judge of an anti-Castro militant wanted for bomb attacks against Cuba, reports Reuters (May 23, 2007). Cuban charge d'affaires Ileana Nunez Mordoche accused Washington of a bid...

  Tags: CIA, Cuba, SECURITY, Venezuela

• FBI probing Posada's alleged links to Havana bombing

  - 2007-05-03

  MIAMI AFP — US authorities are reportedly probing a 1997 bombing that killed an Italian tourist in Havana to determine whether it involved former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles. The Miami Herald said FBI agents recently traveled to the communist country to gather evidence on the attack, one of...

  Tags: CIA, Cuba, FBI, Government, Miami

• US seeks to bar anti-Castro extremist to speak of CIA ties

  - 2007-04-30

  MIAMI AFP — The US government is seeking to bar former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles, who is wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for the downing of an airliner, from talking about his links with the agency when he goes on trial in May. In a nine-page motion filed...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, Cuba, Government, MARKETING, Venezuela

• Iran FM accuses US of supporting terrorism

  - 2007-04-23

  HAVANA AFP — Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Monday claimed in Havana that Washington supported terrorism in various parts of the world, criticizing last week's release of a former CIA operative convicted in the deadly 1976 downing of a Cuban airliner. The Iranian diplomat, who was on a...

  Tags: CIA, Cuba, Government, Iran, terrorism, U.S., Venezuela

• US frees convicted bomber wanted by Cuba, Venezuela

  - 2007-04-19

  EL PASO, United States AFP — Former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles, wanted by Cuba and Venezuela for the deadly downing of a Cuban jet, has been freed on bond in Texas, police said Thursday. "He was out of here this morning," Jerry Payan, a police officer in charge...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, Cuba, El Paso Corp., FINANCE, Investment, Venezuela

• Release of bomber spotlights US double standard on terror: Cuba

  - 2007-04-07

  HAVANA AFP — Cuba on Saturday slammed what it said was the US double standard on terrorism after a US federal judge ordered the release of an anti-Castro activist convicted in the deadly downing of a Cuban jet. "The court ruling is yet another confirmation of the George W....

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, Cuba, Government, ICE, terror, Venezuela