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New book claims Fidel Castro knew about Kennedy assassination plot beforehand
NY Daily News ^ | March 18, 2012 | Philip Caulfield

Posted on 03/18/2012 11:59:30 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

A new book by an ex-CIA spook claims that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro knew about Lee Harvey Oswald's plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy and did nothing to stop it.

Author Brian Latell was the agency's former national intelligence officer for Latin America and is now a senior research associate in Cuban American studies at the University of Miami.

In the upcoming volume, "Castro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine," Latell writes that on Nov. 22 1963, Castro ordered his intelligence officers in Havana to drop their normal responsibilities and pay close attention to communications coming out of Texas — "any little detail small detail from Texas," The Miami Herald reported.

Latell also writes that Oswald became frustrated after Cuban embassy officials denied his attempts to travel there, and told Cuban intelligence officials he would kill Kennedy to prove his allegiance to Castro and the communists.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brianlatell; carlosmarcello; castro; cuba; fidelcastro; jfk; johnfkennedy; kennedyassassination; leeharveyoswald; miamiherald; texas
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1 posted on 03/18/2012 11:59:35 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The cops in Dallas knew about it beforehand, also. What’s new?


2 posted on 03/18/2012 12:03:05 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
except that Oswald was just a patsy who was put in place by the people in our government who actually had Kennedy killed

I am a physicist by training after watching the zapruder film there is no way you can convince me the head shot did not come from the grassy knoll

3 posted on 03/18/2012 12:08:27 PM PDT by Mr. K (If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in PALIN)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
What’s new?

Something new might be the bizarre and off-the-wall notion, which I have always believed, that Oswald pulled the trigger, that he acted alone, and that he was not part of any conspiracy.

However, if there was some sort of conspiracy, I have long thought that Manuel Piñeiro, Castro's spy chief during the early 1960's may have at least known something about it.

4 posted on 03/18/2012 12:13:28 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: Fiji Hill

The best marksmen in the world couldn’t make the shots that Oswald supposedly made on Kennedy. That was proven long ago. Plus Oswald was using a POS Mannlicher-Carcano rifle isn’t that accurate.

Even the PBS TV program “Nova” that looked into the assassination they determined that the audio evidence shows that there was more than one shooter.

One of the pieces of evidence that was ignored was a shot through the windshield of Kennedy’s car. Now where did that come from?


5 posted on 03/18/2012 12:18:40 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
...Cuban dictator Fidel Castro knew about Lee Harvey Oswald's plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy and did nothing to stop it.

If you consider someone an enemy, why would you even consider stopping their assassination? Unless, of course you are a committed Christian.

6 posted on 03/18/2012 12:21:41 PM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Did you see any of the motorcycle cops running along side or in front of Kennedy’s car?

Why was the Secret Service agents that stood on the back of Kennedy’s car were told to stand down?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY02Qkuc_f8


7 posted on 03/18/2012 12:22:00 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wow, this is going to drive the libs crazy, they worship JFK and Fidel, how will they possible deal with this?


8 posted on 03/18/2012 12:23:50 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The ‘Bay of Pigs’ plays into this somehow.. Retaliation for..


9 posted on 03/18/2012 12:24:18 PM PDT by FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
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To: Jack Hydrazine

“The best marksmen in the world couldn’t make the shots that Oswald supposedly made on Kennedy. That was proven long ago. Plus Oswald was using a POS Mannlicher-Carcano rifle isn’t that accurate.”

I’ve stood under the Sixth floor window and then looked down the street at the place where JFK was first hit — it’s an easy shot, and even easier with a scope. Have you even been there?

Sheesh.


10 posted on 03/18/2012 12:24:24 PM PDT by Nabber
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To: Jack Hydrazine

The best marksmen in the world couldn’t make the shots that Oswald supposedly made on Kennedy.

I’ve seen a documentary that did just exactly that. The shots on the motorcade were not long range at all.My beliefs on the assassination have changed over time and I tend to agree with the Warren Commission more than I disagree


11 posted on 03/18/2012 12:29:36 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So did alot of other people.


12 posted on 03/18/2012 12:34:33 PM PDT by Paperdoll (On the cutting edge)
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To: Nabber

That shot with a rifle, and a scope, and sitting with the rifle resting, and a short distance, and a “stationary target” (target moving AWAY FROM or TOWARD YOU, as opposed to left to right) I could do with no hands and no feet. I trained on the exact same range as did Lee, so I know he could do it too.


13 posted on 03/18/2012 12:37:21 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains (If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
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To: Nabber

That shot with a rifle, and a scope, and sitting with the rifle resting, and a short distance, and a “stationary target” (target moving AWAY FROM or TOWARD YOU, as opposed to left to right) I could do with no hands and no feet. I trained on the exact same range as did Lee, so I know he could do it too.


14 posted on 03/18/2012 12:37:39 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains (If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
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To: Figment

I used to believe a conspiracy when I was younger. But then 3 things happened.

I grew up and saw how the real world works. The “men in black” don’t appear very often, and never in anything like what is allegted in the Kennedy killing.

I read books about things like Watergate and the Clinton/Lewinsky cover-up. If a person doesn’t know how those incidents can inform you about the Kennedy killing, then said person is hopeless.

I read “Case Closed”

Also, let’s not be dumb-ass dupes for liberal filth. Kennedy was killed by a LIBERAL, COMMIE-LOVING, LEFTIST!!!!!! Therefore, the liberal world instantly sprang into action to point the finger of blame on the mil-indus complex. Anything or anybody other than a liberal.


15 posted on 03/18/2012 12:43:22 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains (If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
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To: Figment

I always wondered why Kennedy’s head went backwards if the shot came from behind? Then I saw a TV recreation with a skilled marksman, same model rifle and a ‘modified skull’ in a near re-creation of the asassination scene and sure enough the shot from behind caused the skull to move backwards too.


16 posted on 03/18/2012 12:44:20 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

JFK and RFK were plotting Castro’s assassination. I’d call this self-defense.


17 posted on 03/18/2012 12:45:46 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1153 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: Jack Hydrazine; Mr. K; Free ThinkerNY
I am a physicist by training after watching the zapruder film there is no way you can convince me the head shot did not come from the grassy knoll.

The best marksmen in the world couldn’t make the shots that Oswald supposedly made on Kennedy.

Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK, A ballistics expert's astonishing discovery of the fatal bullet that Oswald did not fire

18 posted on 03/18/2012 12:45:50 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Once again...I hate to burst anyone’s balloon...but Oswald did not fire a shot on that day.

Many....many....many books by honest citizen journalists have overwhelmingly demonstrated LBJ’s hand in the assassination...Mac Wallace, a man who murdered people at the behest of Senator Johnson for years....was one shooter, his fingerprints have been IDed in the Book Depository...too much info to go into here.

Read Douglass’s JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABE, also Barr McClellan’s BLOOD, MONEY, AND POLITICS.


19 posted on 03/18/2012 12:48:09 PM PDT by kjo (+)
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To: Mr. K

I’m a physicist by training and by vocation too, and if you have even been to Dallas, and seen where the deed was done..... It was like shooting fish in a barrel. Oswald couldn’t miss if he had any skills. They didn’t need to be very developed. Just a rudimentary ability to aim and squeeze the trigger.

Oswald could easily have gotten off three shots in the time allotted.

It’s one of those things that the Zapruter film just doesn’t give, the sense of how small the area really is. You watch the film and you think it was a conspiracy. Then you go there and you look at the area, and you realize; how is it possible for him to even miss.


20 posted on 03/18/2012 12:48:42 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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