The Invasion of Cuba: Never the Intention of JFK Hit Sponsors

[Paul Rigby]

As I read your Castro post Paul, the name that crept on to my lips was Muammar al-Gaddafi, the British equivalent of said bearded cigarillo.

Not many people know that Gaddafi was trained at the British Army Staff College and returned to Libya in 1966 as a commissioned officer in the British Army Signal Corps. Three years later he went on to stage a bloodless coup against King Idris 1 of Libya.

I agree. Question is, who ran Gaddafi? I assume it was Agency - with an assist from SIS - which kept him safe from the Reagan bombing attack.

My apologies for changing the subject, but I think the use of catspaws in global hegemonic power plays is more widespread than most of us generally consider possible.

Back to Cuba.

Apology refused - the notion is far too interesting, and well worthy of a thread of its own. Has anyone produced a list of such figures?

Paul