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  1. patrickroberts says

    September 21, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    i love to see the cold war videos

  2. Lisa Reynolds Wolfe says

    September 21, 2015 at 1:24 pm

    Thanks. I’ll be adding more to the Cold War Studies You Tube channel in a couple of weeks.

  3. John Driscoll says

    April 12, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    Lisa, can you give me a reference for your sentence: “Dulles and Wisner try to enlist Americans to parachute into Communist China.”

    Thanks,

    John Driscoll

  4. Lisa Reynolds Wolfe says

    April 13, 2016 at 7:16 am

    Hi John — The sentence is based on information found in Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner, top of page 59. Thanks for your interest.

  5. Patricio Iglesias says

    April 25, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    Lisa do you have info about the 1955-56 CIA Station in Mexico City in relation with Castro. I undrestad that his movements came to a surprise to veryone…afterwards! He went 2 times legaly and not to the US in those days.

  6. Lisa Reynolds Wolfe says

    April 26, 2016 at 11:16 am

    I don’t have any specific info on this topic Patricio. I think I may have come across something in bios of Che quite a long time ago. Nothing specific I can refer though. Let me know if you come across anything. Sorry I can’t be of help.

  7. David Painter says

    October 31, 2016 at 1:08 pm

    I recently came across your posting: Cold War Libya: All About Oil,” in which you state that “In 1969, its [Libya’s] output actually exceeded that of Saudi Arabia.”

    What source are you using for oil production figures? I checked the BP Statistical Review of World Energy and DeGolyer and MacNaughton, Twentieth Century Petroleum Statistics, and both put Saudi production in 1969 higher than Libyan production.

  8. Lisa Reynolds Wolfe says

    November 4, 2016 at 6:59 am

    Thanks for your comment David. I’ll have to go through my files and see if I can come up with the source. As always though, sources do differ. Meanwhile, I’m happy to post the alternative perspective.

  9. Lisa Reynolds Wolfe says

    December 17, 2016 at 9:05 am

    Found the citation David. It’s from Daniel Yergin’s The Prize (2009 edition), page 511.

  10. ZJR says

    January 28, 2023 at 9:43 am

    Please provide citations on timelines

  11. Lisa Reynolds Wolfe says

    January 28, 2023 at 11:17 am

    Thanks much for your suggestion.

  12. Mark says

    December 27, 2025 at 11:09 am

    Regarding your post about My Lai, specifically your “10 facts about My Lai”, you state that Captain Ernest Medina stayed outside of the area, and no evidence placed him at any of the group killings. Lawrence Colburn, one of the crew members in the helicopter Hugh Thompson flew, reported seeing Medina less than 10 meters away, shoot and kill an injured woman in My Lai. That is eyewitness evidence.

  13. Lisa Reynolds Wolfe says

    December 27, 2025 at 11:19 am

    Thanks much for your comment. As stated in the post, the facts were drawn from an essay titled My Lai: An American Tragedy written by William George Eckhardt, a Chief Prosecutor in the My Lai Cases.

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