Posted on 01/03/2006 6:06:27 PM PST by saquin
The Cuban secret service was behind the assassination of President John F Kennedy, according to evidence presented in a new television documentary.
Rendezvous with Death, to be shown on German television on Friday, offers the most convincing evidence that Fidel Castro's regime was behind the most talked-about murder of the 20th century.
A former agent of the Cuban secret service G2 talks for the first time about how Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin, was, he claims, pointed out to the Cubans by the KGB.
Oscar Marino, who fell out with the Castro regime, said the Cubans were desperate to eliminate Kennedy, an opponent of the revolution who wanted to kill Castro.
"You ask why we took Oswald?" he said to the German film maker Wilfried Huismann. "Oswald was a dissident: he hated his country. He possessed certain characteristics.
"There wasn't anyone else. You take what you can get. . . Oswald volunteered to kill Kennedy."
Oswald was a Communist who spent three years in the Soviet Union and shot Kennedy in Dallas. He was killed by Jack Ruby after his arrest, leaving his motives shrouded in mystery.
Huismann spent three years persuading people to break their silence about Oswald's alleged Cuba connections. His film is based on testimony by former US, Cuban and Russian agents, KGB files and Mexican archives.
One of the main witnesses is a retired FBI agent, Lawrence Keenan, now in his eighties. Keenan was sent after the assassination to trace Oswald's footsteps in Mexico.
The evidence he found - linking the Cubans with the murder - prompted the FBI head, J Edgar Hoover, on the orders of President Lyndon Johnson, to withdraw Keenan after three days.
"This was perhaps the worst investigation the FBI was ever involved in," said Keenan.
"I realised that I was used. I felt ashamed. We missed a moment in history."
Mexico City was considered a "Pandora's Box" by the Johnson administration, which feared a war with Cuba were the truth to be revealed to the American people.
"They were afraid of what will happen. They didn't want to. . . know the truth for fear it would mean we go to war. Johnson sincerely feared for his own life." It was convenient therefore for the administration to paint Oswald as a loner.
Alexander Haig, a military adviser to Kennedy and Johnson who became secretary of state in 1981, said in the film that Johnson was terrified his people would learn the truth.
"He [Johnson] said 'we simply must not allow the American people to believe that Fidel Castro could have killed our president'.
"And the reason was that there would be a Right-wing uprising in America, which would keep the Democratic party out of power for two generations."
Mr Haig added: "He [Johnson] was convinced Castro killed Kennedy, and he took it to his grave."
Huismann's interviews and documents he found show the extent of the secret war, involving murder and sabotage plots, between Castro and the Kennedy brothers.
Without the knowledge of Congress or the American public, John and Robert Kennedy allegedly planned eight assassination attempts on Castro, all of which failed.
Huismann's explanation for the failures is a Cuban who fought alongside Castro but who later fell out with him.
The film-maker claims that this man was "contracted" by Robert Kennedy to murder the "Maximo Lider", and was provided by the CIA with pistols disguised as fountain pens and powerful poison to carry out the task.
But Castro always found out about the plots in advance, leading to suspicions of a double agent.
The film claims that in November 1963 the Cuban took his last order from Robert Kennedy to murder Castro. The act, involving poison and the fountain pen, was to be carried out on Nov 22, the very day Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
"Unfortunately, Castro was better than us," said a CIA agent in the film who is not identified.
Marino said Oswald was recruited to the secret service organisation by the same agent who had been recruited to kill Castro, a year before the Kennedy assassination.
"In other words the very man Robert Kennedy recruited to kill Fidel Castro hired his brother's murderer," Huismann said.
KGB files released in Moscow document a meeting between Oswald and the Cuban, who is now a retired surgeon living in Madrid.
Interviewed for the film, however, he denied any connection to Oswald, calling it an "outrageous lie".
Marino did not want to answer the question as to whether Castro had direct knowledge of the Oswald assassination plan.
Huismann wrote his film with Gus Russo, author of the 1998 book on the Castro-JFK rivalry, Live by the Sword.
Again, shouldn't we be comparing Oswald with the general populace here instead of with other Marines? He may have been at the bottom of the barrel in the Marines, but was he not arguably a better shot than the average Joe Schmoe walking the streets in Dallas, Texas, that day? And does the fact that he didn't measure up as a shot compared to other Marines make it metaphysically impossible for him to, starting out with one cartridge already chambered ... that is another fact that a lot of people overlook; people think he had to work the bolt three times during those few seconds, but it was really only two ... hit a completely open, slow-moving target three times (although he missed the first shot; that's another fact people don't consider when pooh-poohing the single bullet theory) at a range of between 170 and 265 feet with a rifle equipped with a 4X scope?
I agree with your husband. Actually I wouldn't quite go that far, but definitely unlikely.
Kennedy's demise benefited so many people...Castro, the mob, LBJ, the military-industrial complex, Ari Onassis....we should have them all summarily executed and then take them out for drinks.
First shot missed. It hit the curb and some fragments peppered the face of a guy named Tague who was standing there. Connolly always said he heard a shot and turned to look behind him. He went to his grave saying there were three separate shots. When he turned, he was ... the show ABC put on using modern scientific methods and graphics presented very compelling evidence, even though it was from the MSM, to this effect ... absolutely in perfect alignment for the second bullet to hit both JFK and him and inflict the wounds that were credited to "the magic bullet." Third shot took out JFK's brain.
The same reason The 'Toon covered up the TWA 800 shoot down.
Yeah, well.........watch the Zapruder film and any intelligent analysis of it, then tell me how that s**tbag pulled it off with a single-shot rifle.
Bulls**t.
I would say typical accuracy at that range would be in the neighborhood of 3 inches. That of course would be bench rested. Most people would have trouble hitting a head-sized target at 85 yards mcuh less one moving.
You telling me he couldn't aim three times, work the bolt twice ... again, that's the thing that people don't stop to realize, he didn't have to work the bolt three times, just twice ... and pull the trigger three times in six seconds at a slow moving, completely exposed target less than 100 yards away?
I've always thought the mafia was involved because of Ruby knocking off Oswald. The rest of it is speculation, and so many dogs have run over that trail, nobody will ever know what really happened.
There was a pretty good sniper's perch set up in that window. There was a box for a rest that had a crease in it from the rifle. Plus Oswald ... and again, I call him the shooter, if anyone disagrees, c'est la vie, we can just agree to disagree ... apparently learned something about the concept of ambush in the Marines. He could've emptied the clip into Kennedy's face as he came up Houston Street, but he'd have been absolutely exposed to the Secret Service. Once the car turned onto Elm, it was caught in an ambush situation that it couldn't get out of, because every foot the car traveled made it a more wide-open target.
My pet theory was that Ted Kennedy killed JFK so he could be the number one Kennedy.
WHAT!?! Something wrong with my tin-foil hat???
One more thing ... is it beyond the realm of possibility that on 11/22/63, the stars and planets just happened to be aligned enough to where this piece of debris, who may have been a poor shot for a Marine but, as I've contended, was a better shot than probably most people walking the streets of Dallas that day ... I don't know if "got lucky" is the right way to put it, but maybe he just happened to have "a good day at the range," so to speak.
Getting off three shots in that time is not hard, but making good shots is, especially if you are not a real skilled shooter, by that, I mean skilled at working the bolt without moving it from the cheek as well as hitting.
Nearly every person will shoot, take the gun from the shouler, work the action, then re aquire a spot weld aim and shoot. This can be done in that time but not with accuracy.
A skilled rifleman will work the action with the rifle still at the cheek. I would bet Oswald was not that skilled.
If there was a second shooter, I would think he was right there or at least next door to Oswald.
I've been to Dealey Plaza and have been up in the book depository building. I've looked out the window where supposedly Oswald shot the President.
How anybody could have leaned out that window and shot at a moving car is beyond me. It's not like the car went under that window. Maybe Oswald was a contortionist.
LOL.........you try it, then tell me, friend.
[...can you say "not a chance in holy hell?? I knew you could.........]
I'd love a chance to try, although it's not likely to ever happen. Are there any Carcanos even floating around today? Can you still get ammo for them?
He didn't lean out the window. He was braced up against some boxes inside the window. And while he couldn't have gotten a shot off at JFK as the car turned right under the window, again, as the car traveled on down Elm, past the Stemmons Freeway sign and that one tree, it became a completely exposed target.
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