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In the book, Castros Secrets: The CIA and Cubas Intelligence Machine, is the first substantial study of Fidel Castros intelligence operations. Based on interviews with Cuban spies who defected as well as declassified documents from the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon and other national security organs, it contains a good deal of material likely to stir controversy, including accounts of how Castros spies have carried out political murders, penetrated the U.S. government and generally outwitted their American counterparts.
But nothing is more potentially explosive than Latells claim that Kennedys assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, warned Cuban intelligence officers in advance of his plans to kill the president. Latell writes that Oswald, a belligerent Castro supporter, grew frustrated when officials at the Cuban embassy in Mexico City refused to give him a visa to travel to the island, and promised to shoot Kennedy to prove his revolutionary credentials.
Fidel knew of Oswalds intentions and did nothing to deter the act, the book declares.
Even so, Latell maintains his work is sober and even reserved. Everything I write is backed up by documents and on-the-record sources, he told The Miami Herald. Theres virtually no speculation. I dont say Fidel Castro ordered the assassination, I dont say Oswald was under his control. He might have been, but I dont argue that, because I was unable to find any evidence for that.
But did Fidel want Kennedy dead? Yes. He feared Kennedy. And he knew Kennedy was gunning for him. In Fidels mind, he was probably acting in self-defense.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/17/2700186/the-kennedy-assassination-did.html#storylink=cpy
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Get out ,LAME script writing at best.Of course Castro feared and hated JFK ,doesn't have a damn thing to do with the assassination.
saras
(6,670 posts)...some people think that, better than anything, is evidence of real tampering by someone.
Others just point out that no one ever said real life had to follow the rules of detective fiction.
Loudmxr
(1,405 posts)However there is more metal in the rotting corpse of John Connaly than was ever in the "magic bullet"
I have been to Dealy Plaza and I have been to the grassey knol.
I will not have a piece of scum like Rick Santorum disgrace MY PRESIDENT!!!
FU Ricky.
BTW I voted for JFK... in kindergarten. In some ways I believe my parents voted for JFK because it would have broken their only son's heart.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)that enlisted the aid of the likes of Johnson, Warren and Specter. (For the record, I think it was a necessary deep cover story and I don't buy it.)
And if 9/11 didn't happen, it was going to "revealed" a while back.
But a "yeah we lied, but really, we needed to" reveal like that would now beg too may questions.
Bombtrack
(9,523 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)DiverDave
(4,877 posts)he was a patsy.
Garrison was on the right track.
It was a Coup d'état
And now the screamers will arrive...3.2.1.
EOTE
(13,409 posts)If one does any serious reading on the JFK assassination, one quickly comes to the conclusion that Oswald was a patsy. I don't doubt that he HAD contacted Castro to warn him of the assassination, but I'm quite certain that Oswald did not fire the shot that killed Kennedy.
arthritisR_US
(7,269 posts)the physics descriptions and mannerisms were off. The Mexico trip was the start to setting Oswald up as the patsy and trying to implicate Cuba in the assassination, imo.
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)stopbush
(24,378 posts)in a tall building. Nobody could stop it."
Those words were spoken by a high-ranking government official on the morning of the JFK assassination, and yet the person who spoke those words was never even interviewed by any government/law enforcement agency after JFK was killed.
Ask yourself why.