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Cuban Espionage — The Saga of Florentino Aspillaga and the Assassination of JFK

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In the book, Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine (2012), author Brian Latell, a professor, scholar, and retired CIA officer who had been active in foreign intelligence for 35 years, relies extensively on information provided by half a dozen Cuban defectors and several retired CIA officers. However, the most intriguing and reliable revelations […]

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Stalin and the Atomic Bomb

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Robert B. Farquhar, an anti-nuclear activist from Georgia, who has written a book on the subject titled Duck and Cover, asserts that, “In 1946 the U.S. had about 7 atomic bombs, none completely assembled; by 1956, 5,000, all assembled; Russia had about 150.” (1) And yet, Stalin and Beria estimated that the number of atomic bombs

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World War II (Part II) — Deception, Espionage, and Total War

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Operation Barbarossa — A Re-Enactment 70 Years Later SPECIAL BULLETIN — from Radio Berlin a Special Report!June 22, 2011 7:00 AM We are sorry to interrupt your programming. It is the German Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, speaking: “…At this moment a march is taking place that for its extent, compares with the greatest the world

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World War II (Part I) — The German Strategic Plan

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Fortunately for the United States, the Japanese strategic plan for World War II was flawed in that the Japanese High Command decided to take on a sleeping giant in order to gain control of the Pacific basin, rather than attack the USSR. There was no way for the Japanese to beat the U.S., even with

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Hitler’s Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich by Louis C. Kilzer

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This is a great book, and once again I must disagree respectfully with the average reviewer in the case of one of Louis Kilzer’s books! Incidentally, I don’t know Mr. Kilzer personally, but I do know of his journalistic accomplishments and salute him for this and for writing yet another very remarkable book, Churchill’s Deception:

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Churchill’s Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany by Louis C. Kilzer

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This a great book for history buffs and World War II aficionados. The author, Louis C. Kilzer, a respected journalist who has twice earned a Pulitzer Prize, has written an intriguing book. I must respectfully disagree with the unfavorable Amazon book reviews that have been posted so far in this forum, and so I am

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Cuban Espionage — The Saga of Florentino Aspillaga and the Assassination of JFK

Stalin and the Atomic Bomb

World War II (Part II) — Deception, Espionage, and Total War

World War II (Part I) — The German Strategic Plan

Hitler’s Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich by Louis C. Kilzer

Churchill’s Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany by Louis C. Kilzer

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