Posted on 01/04/2006 3:16:45 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
CUBA lay behind the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald and its agents provided the gunman with money and support, an award-winning German director says in a new documentary film.
Wilfried Huismann spent three years researching Rendezvous with Death, based on interviews with former Cuban secret agents, US officials and a Russian intelligence source, and on research in Mexican security archives.
The film, shown to journalists in Berlin, says Oswald travelled to Mexico City by bus in September 1963, seven weeks before the Kennedy shooting, and met agents at the Cuban embassy there who paid him $US6500 ($8790).
Oscar Marino, a former Cuban agent and a key source for the documentary, told Huismann that Oswald himself had volunteered for the assassination mission and Havana had exploited him.
"Oswald was a dissident. He hated his country...Oswald offered to kill Kennedy," Marino said in the film.
"He was so full of hate, he had the idea. We used him...He was a tool."
He said he knew with certainty that the assassination was an operation of the Cuban secret service G-2, but would not say if it was ordered by President Fidel Castro.
Oswald was shot dead by Jack Ruby two days after killing Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
The film argues Cuba wanted to eliminate Kennedy as the chief enemy of its Communist revolution, and portrays him and Castro as duelling opponents each trying to assassinate the other first.
Former CIA official Sam Halpern told Huismann: "He (Castro) beat us. He bested us. He came out on top, and we lost." Laurence Keenan, an officer of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who was sent to Mexico City immediately after Kennedy's death to investigate a possible Cuban connection, said he was recalled after just three days and the probe was aborted.
"This was perhaps the worst investigation the FBI was ever involved in," Keenan said. "I realised that I was used. I felt ashamed. We missed a moment in history."
Weren't the Bulgarians laundering KGB money to have the Pope shot? As to Hinkley, I would think that that little rat was working on his own.
LOL
The speculation immediately after the assassination may have pointede in the direction of three assassins, but the speculation on 9/11 was that the State Department had been blown up. News last night was that 12 men trapped in a mine had survived. News during an event or in the immediate aftermath is rarely reliable.
I think that it was the CIA!!!!!!!
The Soviets, of course, wanted RR and the Pope dead, as being far more trouble to the USSR than they were worth. But not JFK. He was worth more alive than dead. Now, JFK was a patriotic American despite his faults. But the Soviets regarded him as manipulable.
Castro hated Kennedy enough to have him killed. Oswald was Castro's equally hate-filled triggerman. Recall Oswald was handing out `Hands off Cuba!' leaflets just weeks before he did his dastardly deed.
Castro is now on his tenth U.S. president.
Oswald travelled to Mexico City by bus in September 1963, seven weeks before the Kennedy shooting, and met agents at the Cuban embassy there who paid him $US6500 ($8790).
Show me the money!
Oswald was a lone nut(as was Ruby), and no nut making a documentary is going to change my mind.
Oswald was the only lone-nut assassin in US history who did not proudly claim his crime. He called himself a patsy. And of course, the proof of conspiracy (at least for me) was Jack Ruby, a long-time minor mob figure showing up at just the right moment in Oswald's transfer to kill him.
I still think it was a setup. And I still bet it was LBJ and Hoover.
Pleased to meet you, won't you guess my name?
Hildy, why was it never published?
Publisher was afraid of liability problems...she named too many names.
Assassination 101: "The assassin must also be killed."
Ridiculous on several levels. Not the least being that Kennedy's trip had not been announced when Oswald was in Mexico.
Oswald didn't need to be paid to shoot people. Just ask General Walker.
In earlier times, he, Oswald, had also talked about shooting Ike and even Richard Nixon.
Geez, and all this time I thought it was Bush's fault!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.