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Search results for "University of Miami" ...
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University Alert System Fails
An armed robbery taking place just feet off of the University of Miami campus failed to trigger a system-wide emergency notification. The text messages and e-mails meant to alert students and faculty of the danger were never sent out. CBS4 uncovers the failure.
Tags: armed robbery; University of Miami; alert; system; fail; students; crime; gunmen; e-mails; text messages; emergency;
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Revelation 1963
New Times tells "the previously unknown story of George Joannides, the chief of CIA psychological welfare operations in Miami in 1963, whose student agents surveilled and collected intelligence on Lee Harvey Oswald three months before the assassination of President Kennedy..." The article finds a relationship between Oswald and the CIA's psychological warfare operations aimed at overthrowing the Cuban government. The investigation documents the covert operation involving an anti-Castro student group and its connection with Oswald.
Tags: CIA; JFK Assassination Records Review Board; Revolutionary Student Directorate; University of Miami; Cuban Missile Crisis; Bay of Pigs; Cuban exiles; politics