Castro Had Foreknowledge Of The JFK Assassination

[Walter Ego]

Castro’s Secrets: The CIA And Cuba’s Intelligence Machine, a new book by a CIA analyst Brian Latell to be released in April, reveals that Castro was aware before the JFK assassination that Oswald had visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico City and offered to kill JFK "for the [Cuban] revolution."

The media is treating this as "fresh meat for JFK assassination hounds," but the fact that Castro was briefed on Oswald's embassy visit and his threat against Kennedy has been known for years.

James Hosty, the Dallas FBI agent assigned to Oswald, revealed in a book published 1996 that Castro discussed Oswald's embassy visit with American Communist Party officials Jack and Morris Childs in Havana (the Child brothers, high officials in the CPUSA, were FBI informers) but Oswald's assassination offer was dismissed as "the rantings of a madman."

Investigative journalist and assassination researcher Gus Russo developed the Cuban angle further in two books, Live by the Sword, The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK published in 1998 and Brothers In Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder (written with Stephen Molton) published in 2008. Russo also collaborated with Wilfried Huismann, a German filmmaker, on Rendezvous with Death: JFK & the Cuban Connection, a television documentary shown in Europe in 2006 and in Canada but not in the U.S. (You can view it on You Tube here.)

Hosty believed that the Cubans may have had a role in the assassination. Russo goes much further. In Brothers he and his co-author claim that the KGB passed Oswald's file to Cuban Intelligence in July, 1962 (shortly after Oswald’s return to the U.S.), instructing the Cubans “to observe Oswald in the U.S.” and that Oswald was recruited as a "foreign collaborator" by the Cubans before his visit to Mexico City in September on 1963.

Intriguing as Russo's theory is he is honest enough to admit it cannot be conclusively proven and the the "full truth" may never be known. What is known is that the CIA is still withholding information about what they knew about Oswald's activities in Mexico City and that there was a government cover up by the CIA, FBI, LBJ, RFK and the Warren Commission to cut off speculation about Oswald's motive for killing JFK and terminate any further investigation of Oswald's Mexico City trip.

 

[Walter Ego]

From an article in Salon.com about the forthcoming Latell book.

“Castro and a small number of Cuban intelligence officers were complicit in Kennedy’s death but … their involvement fell short of an organized assassination plot,” [Latell] writes in “Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine,” a well-footnoted polemic about Cuba’s General Directorate of Intelligence to be published next month.

Latell says accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald told Cuban diplomats in Mexico City in September 1963 that he might kill JFK. Latell also speculates, without any direct evidence, that Oswald kept the Cubans apprised of his plans as he made his way to Dallas...

Latell’s most intriguing contribution is the testimony of Florentino Aspillaga, a career General Directorate of Intelligence officer who defected to the United States in 1987. Latell interviewed him extensively in 2007 and 2008, and found him unusually credible on the workings of the Cuban security forces. Aspillaga told Latell that on Nov. 22, 1963, he was manning a Cuban radio monitoring station that usually focused on Miami or Langley. His bosses, he said, made an unusual request that day: monitor the airwaves in Texas. Soon came the shocking news that JFK had been killed in Dallas. “Castro knew,” Aspillaga is quoted as saying. “They knew Kennedy would be killed.”

A prediction: Latell's book will be attacked or poo-pooed by leftists and conspiracy theorists of the JFK assassination (the two groups overlap of course) who would much rather believe the U.S. government killed Kennedy than believe a communist government under attack by the JFK administration would have had a motive to encourage Oswald to kill JFK.

Leftists who admire and adulate Castro (and also, bizarrely, at the same time JFK, the man who hated Castro and wanted him dead and was planning another invasion of Cuba when he was killed) do not want believe this. It is no coincidence that Oliver Stone, who, after making JFK, the biggest CT movie of all time, when on to make not one but two ass-kissing documentaries about Fidel for HBO.