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mfcorey1

(10,998 posts)
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 07:37 AM Mar 2012

The Kennedy assassination: Did Castro know in advance?

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In the book, Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine, is the first substantial study of Fidel Castro’s 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 Castro’s spies have carried out political murders, penetrated the U.S. government and generally outwitted their American counterparts.

But nothing is more potentially explosive than Latell’s claim that Kennedy’s 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 Oswald’s 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. “There’s virtually no speculation. I don’t say Fidel Castro ordered the assassination, I don’t say Oswald was under his control. He might have been, but I don’t 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 Fidel’s 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

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orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
1. Did he know about the ' Magic Bullet ' ?
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 08:00 AM
Mar 2012

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)
2. The problem is, the "on-the-record" documents support ten or twelve contradictory stories...
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 09:25 AM
Mar 2012

...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)
3. Hard to say. There is a good argument for one shooter
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 10:07 AM
Mar 2012

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)
4. I've always said "Castro did it" was going to be revealed as the "Big Secret" ....
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 10:18 AM
Mar 2012

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.

DiverDave

(4,877 posts)
7. I'm pretty well convinced
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 10:30 AM
Mar 2012

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)
8. No arguments from me here.
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 10:37 AM
Mar 2012

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)
10. I don't think he ever was in Mexico,
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 10:52 AM
Mar 2012

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.

stopbush

(24,378 posts)
11. "All it would take to kill the president would be a person with a high-powered rifle
Sun Mar 18, 2012, 01:03 PM
Mar 2012

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.

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