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Because of its innumerable textual and sourcing problems, Tye's book is neither worth reading nor buying, concludes Jim DiEugenio, who is prompted to muse:  "Why did the author write the book? Only he can answer that question".

Sunday, 11 December 2016 21:38

Castro’s death has revived a Castroite Oswald

leaderWriting of his gratuitous ignorance of the facts of the JFK case, Prof. Fernandez asserts that "[James] Piereson likes to walk among ghosts", and that he is joined in this by Regnery Publishing, which has muddied the Castro-did-it waters with the issue of Robert Wilcox's Target JFK.

 

Saturday, 26 November 2016 18:19

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies aged 90

By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta, At:  Reuters

Published in Obituaries

By Bryan Bender and Neil Swidey, originally run on November 24, 2013, At:  The Boston Globe

Published in News Items
Friday, 04 November 2016 23:17

CIA's Internal Investigation Of The Bay Of Pigs

Volume 5 of the Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation, by Jack B. Pfeiffer (18 April, 1984)

Published in News Items
Thursday, 18 February 2016 19:56

Obama to visit Cuba in March

by Alan Gomez and Gregory Korte

At:  USA Today

Published in News Items
Saturday, 09 January 2016 14:10

John Newman, Where Angels Tread Lightly, Volume 1

Where Angels Tread LightlyWhat the author is doing has three layers.  First, he is giving us a history of the Castro revolution.  At the same time he is showing how the USA reacted to that epochal turnover, stage by stage in its evolution. Third, he is tracing certain people and movements who will return to the stage in 1963, after Kennedy changes policy, and begins a détente attempt with Cuba.  Other authors have tried this before, but never on this scale or with this intricacy, writes Jim DiEugenio.

Wednesday, 04 November 2015 21:33

Shenon and the CIA’s Benign Cover-Up

Arnaldo follows up his original critique of Shenon's book with a reply to the article published in Politico on October 6, 2015.

Thursday, 26 March 2015 21:27

Philip Shenon's Crap Detector

None of the Shenon's sources brought a single quantum of proof for turning plausible his Castro hypothesis. Their suspicions, impressions, beliefs, admissions, second-hand tales, and suggestions are linked to long-ago debunked stories. For sticking with them along the substantiation of his hypothesis, Shenon must concoct [various] 'facts', writes Arnaldo Fernandez.

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