![]() ![]() During the two weeks or so that the Cuban Missile Crisis played out, a few years after Castro took power, Phillips found himself cooling his heels in Jacksonville, Florida – alongside, coincidentally I’m sure, the Mayport Naval Station. For the record, Phillips has claimed that he went to Havana as nothing more than a concerned private citizen, with the intention of – you’re going to love this one – “fighting for Castro.” Because, as I mentioned earlier, a lot of folks in those days traveled abroad to thwart CIA operations before taking up residence in Laurel Canyon and joining the ‘hippie’ generation. One such place was Havana, Cuba, where Phillips arrived at the very height of the Cuban Revolution. Before succeeding in his musical career, however, John did seem to find himself, quite innocently of course, in some rather unusual places. John Phillips, of course – though surrounded throughout his life by military/intelligence personnel – did not involve himself in such matters. Again, nothing unusual about that, I suppose. His son, meanwhile, prepped himself to become an icon of the peace & love crowd. ![]() The family later moved to Lancaster, California, near Edwards Air Force Base, where Francis Zappa continued to busy himself with doing classified work for the military/intelligence complex. Curiously enough, Frank Zappa literally grew up at the Edgewood Arsenal, having lived the first seven years of his life in military housing on the grounds of the facility. And it is probably safe to say that Frank’s dad also had little regard for the youth culture of the 1960s, given that Francis Zappa was, in case you were wondering, a chemical warfare specialist assigned to – where else? – the Edgewood Arsenal. Edgewood is, of course, the longtime home of America’s chemical warfare program, as well as a facility frequently cited as being deeply enmeshed in MK-ULTRA operations. military actions in Southeast Asia, it is perhaps not surprising that he would not feel a kinship with the youth movement that he helped nurture. Given that Zappa was, by numerous accounts, a rigidly authoritarian control-freak and a supporter of U.S. It is quite possible that when Vietnamese forces failed to respond as anticipated, Uncle Sam decided to just pretend as though they had.) The ships in question were on an intelligence mission and were operating in a decidedly provocative manner. (It is quite possible, however, that the intent was to provoke a defensive response, which could then be cast as an unprovoked attack on U.S ships. The entire incident, as has been all but officially acknowledged, was spun from whole cloth. No, what the Tonkin Gulf incident actually was, as it turns out, is an ‘attack’ that never took place at all. It was also not, as we have also seen on more than one occasion, an attack that was quite deliberately provoked. This was not, as we have seen so many times before, a ‘false flag’ operation (which is to say, an operation that involves Uncle Sam attacking himself and then pointing an accusatory finger at someone else). For the record, the Tonkin Gulf Incident appears to differ somewhat from other alleged provocations that have driven this country to war. ![]()
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