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Lee Harvey Oswald Was No “Patsy”
Townhall.com ^ | November 8, 2013 | Humberto Fontova

Posted on 11/08/2013 2:07:30 PM PST by Kaslin

Of all the people I interviewed in New Orleans regarding the Kennedy assassination, Carlos Bringuier was the one I trusted most. I could see in his eyes he was always telling me the complete truth.” (Oriana Fallaci, L, Europeo, 1969.)

"The skinny guy walked into my store and started looking around," recalls Carlos Bringuier about the afternoon of August 5, 1963. "But I could sense he wasn't a shopper. Sure enough, after a few minutes of browsing he came up and extended his hand. "Good afternoon," he said. "I'm Lee Harvey Oswald."

In 1963 the CIA regarded the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) “the most militant and deeply motivated of all the Cuban exile organizations seeking to oust Castro." Carlos Bringuier was their representative in New Orleans. It was DRE agents who infiltrated Cuba and brought out the first reports of Soviet missile installations--to the scoffs of the White House's Best and Brightest. It took two months for anyone to finally take them seriously. A U-2 flight then confirmed every last detail of what the DRE boys had been risking their lives for months to report.

“Oswald approached me because my name was so often linked to anti-Castro activities in the local (New Orleans) news,” recalls Bringuier. “He even jammed his hand in his pocket and pulled out a roll of bills, offering to contribute to the anti-Castro cause. I was suspicious and declined, but he kept blasting Castro and Communism in very colorful terms the whole time he was in the store. He returned the next day, snarled out a few more anti-Castroisms and dropped off his training manual for the anti-Castro fight, Guidebook for Marines.”

Two days later Bringuier was astounded to spot Oswald a few blocks away from his store distributing Fair Pay for Cuba pamphlets. Carlos approached, accepted a pamphlet, ripped it to pieces and a scuffle ensued. The cops arrived, the scuffle made the news, and a few days later Bringuier and Oswald debated on New Orleans radio and TV.

Dozens of books, movies, articles and TV specials depict these events. What they DON’T depict is how, between their scuffle and debate, Bringuier and a friend Carlos Quiroga turned the tables on Oswald. Posing as a Castro-sympathizer eager to join Oswald’s Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Quiroga (who had not been in the store or involved in the scuffle) visited Oswald at his home and they commiserated for hours. “You read everyplace that Oswald was dumb, a flake, a patsy, a set-up,” says Bringuier. “Nonsense. He was a smooth operator and spoke fluent Russian.”

Quiroga noticed that Oswald’s living room was filled with Fair Pay For Cuba Committee literature. From one stack Oswald pulled an application to join the Committee and offered it to Quiroga. Yet during the Warren Commission circus The Fair Play for Cuba Committee repeatedly denied that Oswald had any links with them.

Among the things that caught Quiroga's eye during his visit was Oswald speaking Russian with his wife and daughter. "Its good practice," explained Oswald. "I'm studying foreign languages at Tulane University." He was lying. Also keep in mind the date: this was 3 months before the assassination. Oswald’s stint in Russia was virtually unknown at the time.

On the very night of Nov. 22rd 1963 Carlos Bringuier went public on American radio and TV: “We don’t know yet if Lee Harvey Oswald is President Kennedy’s assassin. But if he is, then Fidel Castro’s hand is involved in this assassination."

Fidel Castro immediately called a press conference to denounce Carlos Bringuier by name and kick off the media disinformation campaign that finally peaked as high comedy with Oliver Stone’s JFK.

“For 15 years of my life at the top of the Soviet bloc intelligence community, I was involved in a world-wide disinformation effort aimed at diverting attention away from the KGB’s involvement with Lee Harvey Oswald. The Kennedy assassination conspiracy was born—and it never died.”(Ion Pacepa, the highest ranking intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet bloc.)

But Carlos Bringuier was on to the disinformation campaign from its very birthday.

“Oliver Stone interviewed me for hours while researching for his movie JFK” recalls Bringuier. “This was almost 30 years ago. Stone’s loony–left credentials weren’t yet blatant. I figured he was after the truth. So I went along, telling him everything. Well, his movie comes out --and turns out I’M involved in the conspiracy to kill JFK!” Bringuier laughs. “For fifty years the media has either ignored or turned everything I’ve told them upside down,” says Bringuier. “Finally I got sick of it so when a couple years back 60 Minutes asked me for an interview, I told them: “sure. I’ll do an interview—but this time it has to be LIVE, no editing.” That ended whatever relationship I had with CBS producers.”

"U.S leaders who plan on eliminating Cuban leaders should not think that they are themselves safe!" warned Castro on Sept 7, 1963. "We are prepared to answer in kind!"

For 34 years Markus Wolf was the chief of East Germany's foreign intelligence service, a branch of the STASI with many contacts and operations in Castro's Cuba. It was the STASI rather than the KGB that undertook the training of Castro's police and intelligence services. Wolf's autobiography is titled, "Man Without a Face" and subtitled, "The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster." Most intelligence experts agree that the subtitle fits. Wolf was once asked about the Kennedy assassination and quickly replied. "Don't ask me – ask Fidel Castro.”


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KEYWORDS: jfk; jfkassassination; oswald
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To: laplata

“Traveled in open car”—In those days Presidents traveled in OPEN cars to be “close to the people”. See old films of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower- They all “paraded” that way. Kennedy when walking, would walk up to the barriers and shake the crowds hands.


41 posted on 11/09/2013 9:43:21 AM PST by capt B
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To: ArmstedFragg

Read Ion Pacepa’s last 2 books- Cover’s Oswald and assassination


42 posted on 11/09/2013 9:46:43 AM PST by capt B
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To: Kaslin
That "Smoking Gun" theory makes sense, I watched the "Missing Bullet", you know that one 15 year old kid Amos Euins initially pointed out the 6th floor to the Police who moved on it. Still a lot of interesting stuff. A Marine doesn't generally shoot his Prez. Is their any reason to think the below is faked?
43 posted on 11/09/2013 10:28:22 AM PST by BeadCounter (The night they drove O'BamaCare down...)
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To: slumber1

Great point. But good luck getting all the conspiracy nuts (even on FR) to even consider it.


44 posted on 11/09/2013 10:33:52 AM PST by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: ladyjane

Jack Ruby didn’t shoot JFK.


45 posted on 11/09/2013 10:42:49 AM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: safeasthebanks

Or the Lone Nutters on FR to believe in it. Glad you call over 70% of the American Public consistent in this view and in fact, Assassination Witness James Tague who was injured as well in the assassination nuts. Your logic is very rational.


46 posted on 11/09/2013 10:57:36 AM PST by BeadCounter (The night they drove O'BamaCare down...)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

JFK certainly did push his luck, 1960 election stolen, all those affairs. He didn’t deserve it but he seemed to push his luck alright.


47 posted on 11/09/2013 10:58:50 AM PST by BeadCounter (The night they drove O'BamaCare down...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Kaslin.
"Good afternoon," he said. "I'm Lee Harvey Oswald."
Yeah, right. He was introduced as "Lee Oswald", and went by Lee; the "Harvey" middle name has been attached since his arrest and murder in 1963 in order to avoid litigation for libel against news sources, by any other "Lee Oswalds" living in the US.


48 posted on 11/09/2013 11:08:11 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: musicman

:’) Well chosen!


49 posted on 11/09/2013 11:09:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: BeadCounter

In the name of fair play, it appears this document is dismissed largely as a forgery, fraud.

However, at the same time, the House Select Committee on Assassination in the ‘70s still checked out possible ties of Oswald to the CIA.

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/report/html/HSCA_Report_0114b.htm


50 posted on 11/09/2013 11:46:21 AM PST by BeadCounter (The night they drove O'BamaCare down...)
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To: BeadCounter

And of course he almost got us in a nuclear exchange with Russia.
Most people don’t realize how close that was.


51 posted on 11/09/2013 11:49:20 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Under the Democrats; the Lincoln Memorial is closed; but the southern border is open)
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To: Gluteus Maximus

And of course, Gary Powers(?) U-2 went down and people were unsure why.


52 posted on 11/09/2013 12:05:51 PM PST by BeadCounter (The night they drove O'BamaCare down...)
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To: capt B

“Traveled in open car”—In those days Presidents traveled in OPEN cars to be “close to the people”. See old films of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower- They all “paraded” that way. Kennedy when walking, would walk up to the barriers and shake the crowds hands.


And the odds caught up with JFK.

There was a lot of hostility in Dallas and Texas for Kennedy. They were tempting fate and JFK lost.


53 posted on 11/09/2013 12:13:06 PM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: laplata

A trip to Chicago by JFK was cancelled only weeks before.

The Omen in Chicago: the I-Team has discovered not just one, but two plots to cut down JFK in Chicago in early November, 1963, and an intriguing backstory of bungling by the government agencies protecting him.

....

An hour later, the White House scrubbed JFK’S trip.

“Since the president’s life was in such severe danger, that was the reason he cancelled the trip to Chicago— the assassination threat,” said Bolden. “

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?id=9315215


54 posted on 11/09/2013 2:18:40 PM PST by BeadCounter (The night they drove O'BamaCare down...)
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To: SunkenCiv

(Thanks!)


55 posted on 11/09/2013 2:23:22 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: BeadCounter

The Chicago plan didn’t work out so they simply waited until Dallas.

Thanks, BeadCounter.

I wonder if Oswald knew the Marine shooter in Chicago? LOL


56 posted on 11/09/2013 2:38:08 PM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: capt B

Please see post 53.


57 posted on 11/09/2013 2:57:50 PM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
History: Castro was supported by the Eisenhower State Department and the reigning despot, Fulgencio Batista, was forced to flee. The US welcomed Castro as a nationalist, which he posed as one, hiding his communism until he had consolidated power.

Castro's Communist background was well known even to our ambassador to Cuba at the time, Earl E. T. Smith. Smith tried to warn the Eisenhower State Dept about Castro but was totally ignored. Personnel sent to Cuba during this period weren't even debriefed by our own ambassador but instead were sent to Castro sympathizer NYT reporter Herbert L. Matthews.

Ambassador Smith revealed this entire sordid story in his book The Fourth Floor: An Account of the Castro Communist Revolution (1962).

The Castro revolution was manufactured right here is the good old USA by Eisenhower and his State Dept.

58 posted on 11/09/2013 3:04:52 PM PST by Robwin
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To: safeasthebanks

Wow! You are a real intellectual, Ha Ha Ha Ha. Is that the best you got !! Ho Ho


60 posted on 11/10/2013 7:44:28 AM PST by BeadCounter (The night they drove O'BamaCare down...)
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