There is some confusion since I pasted Escalante’s statement on the confession by the Cuban- Cuesta, and you reposted it here.
This footnote was my own FR personal observation:
My Note: While Escalante claimed to have a written statement from the confessor, Cuesta, he refused to produce a letter to substantiate this claim.”
And I figured, since he was blinded in 1966 from the grenade, Cuesta could not write and proofread his own confession of killing Kennedy in 1963? Since Fabian Escalante was the chief of Cuban Counter-Intel Ops. guy, he would have secured an authenticated taped or recorded confessional record as proof to his claim. Granted, Escalante was told this information in 1978 and did not reveal it until 1995.
*****Cuesta told Escalante that he had been involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
“He also named Herminio Diaz Garcia and Eladio del Valle as being involved in the conspiracy.....”
“......November 26, 1993, Escalante named the gunmen who killed John F. Kennedy as three Chicago mobsters (Lenny Patrick, David Yaras, and Richard Cain), and two Cuban exiles (Eladio del Valle and Herminio Diaz Garcia), but said that many in the CIA and elsewhere knew what was going to happen.....”
As to the other two accused Cubans besides the alleged confessor Cuesta;
Garcia was reportedly killed during the 1966 Monte Barreto raid in Cuba.
Del Valle per a synopsis of a 1967 (Miami) Dade County PD, Criminal Intelligence report:
One of the suspects in the killing of Eladio Del Valle on Feb 22, 1967 was Irma Collazo (aka Irma Battisti). She evaded authorities with the help of Dr. Santiago Rey Pernas. Pernas was the former Sec. of the Interior under Batista. Pernas was closely associated with Santo Trafficante Jr. and Federsbindo Bosque, a Cuban gangland figure with business ties to Norman Rothman and the Mannarino brothers. Pernas relocated to Miami and the D.R.
Okay, fair point.