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What the curious case of Richard Gibson tells us about Lee Harvey Oswald

Jefferson Morley May 16, 2018

I was on BBC 3 Radio yesterday talking about the curious case of Richard Gibson, co-founder of the leftist Fair Play for Cuba Committee and, it turns out, a longtime CIA spy.

The larger context of Gibson’s story, which I broke in Newsweek, tells us a lot about the CIA’s surveillance of Lee Oswald in 1963. …

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Mystery solved: Gunnar Beckman, the Mexico City covert operator

Jefferson Morley May 15, 2018

The efficient miracle of crowdsourcing has answered my question: who was running covert operations in the CIA’s Mexico City station in 1963?

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Obama nixed CIA regime change plan

Jefferson Morley April 4, 2016

We have a prudent commander in chief in President Obama. …

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Is it time to abolish the CIA?

Jefferson Morley December 22, 2014

The NYTimes.com asks: “Would the security needs of the United States be better served if the agency were dismantled?”

Three responses are especially apt. All of them note that CIA abuses of power are deeply rooted in the agency’s history, going back to the Kennedy presidency.

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Truman v. CIA

Jefferson Morley December 22, 2014

A small data dump from the Harry S Truman Library, courtesy of a regular reader. …

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From the Bay of Pigs to the ‘Bay of Tweets’

Jefferson Morley May 21, 2014

In the wake of a federal appellate court’s obtuse decision saving the CIA from embarrassment over ancient report on the agency’s epic fail at the Bay of Pigs 50 years ago, it is worth recalling the U.S. government’s latest botched covert action in Cuba.

From the Bay of Pigs to the ‘Bay of Tweets’ | Sarah Stephens.

‘Shadow Warfare’ coming in March

Jefferson Morley February 20, 2014

Larry Hancock’s new book, co-authored with Stuart Wexler, is called “Shadow Warfare: The History of America’s Undeclared Wars” and will be published by Counterpoint in March.

I just got my copy and am looking forward to sharing it with my students in my History of the CIA course at the University of California in the District of Columbia. Hancock is author of “Somebody Would Have Talked” about JFK’s assassination.

You can pre-order “Shadow Warfare” on Amazon.

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