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CIA Accused of Sabotage against Cuba in Thames
The US’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was responsible for an attack against a freighter carrying British buses bound for Cuba in 1964, The Observer news daily revealed on Sunday.
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The US’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was responsible for an attack against a freighter carrying British buses bound for Cuba in 1964,
The Observer news daily revealed on Sunday.
In an article entitled ‘CIA Accused of Sabotage in Thames’, The Observer explains that the target of the attack was an East German freighter, the MV Magdeburg, which was carrying 42 Leyland buses bound for Cuba.
Citing the article published by The Observer, Granma news daily adds that the study includes statements by people involved in the event, when a Japanese ship, the Yamashiro Maru, ploughed into the MV Magdeburg at more than 10 knots, holing her below the waterline and pushing her across the river.
Although it was regarded as an accident, historian John McGarry, quoted by The Observer, says he has now found evidence given by Gordon Greenfield, the British pilot of the Magdeburg, stating that the Japanese ship broke international law by navigating the wrong way and giving misleading signals.
According to the news daily, McGarry believes a crime was committed.
The Observer recalls that in 1975, Washington Post reporters Jack Anderson and Les Whitten cited sources who claimed that a British intelligence wiretap on Cuban offices in London gave the CIA the Magdeburg’s movements.
The British news daily also recalls that, in 1962, the British freighter Newlane was machine-gunned loading Cuban sugar and that the CIA poisoned 14,135 bags of Cuban sugar on the British ship Streatham Hill in Puerto Rico.
The Observer news daily revealed on Sunday.
In an article entitled ‘CIA Accused of Sabotage in Thames’, The Observer explains that the target of the attack was an East German freighter, the MV Magdeburg, which was carrying 42 Leyland buses bound for Cuba.
Citing the article published by The Observer, Granma news daily adds that the study includes statements by people involved in the event, when a Japanese ship, the Yamashiro Maru, ploughed into the MV Magdeburg at more than 10 knots, holing her below the waterline and pushing her across the river.
Although it was regarded as an accident, historian John McGarry, quoted by The Observer, says he has now found evidence given by Gordon Greenfield, the British pilot of the Magdeburg, stating that the Japanese ship broke international law by navigating the wrong way and giving misleading signals.
According to the news daily, McGarry believes a crime was committed.
The Observer recalls that in 1975, Washington Post reporters Jack Anderson and Les Whitten cited sources who claimed that a British intelligence wiretap on Cuban offices in London gave the CIA the Magdeburg’s movements.
The British news daily also recalls that, in 1962, the British freighter Newlane was machine-gunned loading Cuban sugar and that the CIA poisoned 14,135 bags of Cuban sugar on the British ship Streatham Hill in Puerto Rico.