Introducing George Michael Evica's "A Certain Arrogance"

[Paul Rigby]

The following is my "Introduction" to A Certain Arrogance: U.S. Intelligence's Manipulation of Religious Groups and Individuals in Two World Wars and the Cold War -- and the Sacrificing of Lee Harvey Oswald (2006; The Iron Sites Press), by the late George Michael Evica, PhD... to muster the courage to ask questions and the strength to endure answers.

Within the pages of A Certain Arrogance, George Michael Evica leads by example.

I'm part way through this, and richly rewarding it has proved already.

The pages given over to the Noel Field affair/Operation Splinter Factor (OSF) are worth the price of admission in and of themselves. They go to the heart of the myth of "roll back" and shed revealing light on the true nature of US objectives, strategies and tactics.

In brief, OSF was designed to preserve and maintain the status quo in post-WWII Europe. The rhetoric of liberation was for suckers. The lessons for those seeking to comprehend US policy in late-1950s Cuba and beyond are direct and profound.

Evica might usefully have looked at Beria's programme of reform in the immediate post-Stalin era: OSF was in large measure designed to shape the post-Stalin succession to thwart those within the Soviet elite who realised the dead-end into which the Party and the Red Army had, under the curious figure of the grotesque Stalin, driven the colossus.

Paul