Who Killed JFK ? (A Book)

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There is, however, the possibility that Castro had known of Oswald’s intent to kill Kennedy when Oswald visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City in September 1963.Castro may have been told it was the rantings of a lunatic and because of the adversarial relationship between the U.S. and Cuba the Cuban leader did not pass on the information to the American government. Castro had given a speech on November 27th. 1963 and mentioned that Oswald had made a "provocative statement" when the assassin had visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City the previous September. Castro related his story to Jack Childs (FBI code name SOLO), who according to ex-FBI agent James P. Hosty, was historically one of the most important and reliable sources the FBI ever had. Childs, who was employed as the U.S. Communist Party’s financial advisor, met with Castro and confirmed the Cuban leader had known that Oswald had threatened to kill Kennedy.

The FBI "Airtel" memo which related Child’s information was dated 12.6.64,. It stated, in part :

Fidel Castro was not under the influence of liquor at the time he made the statements. Castro does not drink nor did he partake of any stimulants whatsoever......he treated the question as a very serious matter......It was the impression of (SOLO) that Castro received the information about Oswald’s appearance at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico in an oral report from ‘his people’ in the Embassy, because he, Castro, was told about it immediately. (SOLO) does not know the identities of the individuals who told Castro.(SOLO) advised that Castro said, ‘I was told this by my people in the Embassy - exactly how he (Oswald) stalked in and walked in and ran out. ….he acted like a real madman and started yelling and shouting and yelled on his way out, ‘I’m going to kill that bastard, I’m going to kill Kennedy’. …..Castro was neither engaging in dramatics nor oratory but was speaking on the basis of facts given to him by his embassy personnel who dealt with Oswald …..(SOLO) is of the opinion that Castro had nothing to do with the assassination........

Another related scenario has suggested Castro’s agents may have given tacit encouragement to Oswald during his trip to Mexico City. Such a sequence of events would have Kennedy shot in Dallas and Oswald fleeing to Mexico where he would have received safe haven by the Cubans and immediate departure for Cuba. Credible witnesses have said that Oswald met with not only KGB agents but with Castro agents as well (specifically Cuban Intelligence agents Luisa Calderon, the only person Castro would not let the HSCA speak with, Manuel Vega Perez and Rogelio Rodriguez Lopez) but they may not have taken him seriously.

Authors Gus Russo (Live By The Sword, 1998, ex-FBI agent James P.Hosty (Assignment: Oswald, 1996) and former counsel to the Warren Commission David Belin (Final Disclosure, 1988 believed in the possibility that Oswald had been encouraged by these Cuban intelligence agents in Mexico City.

Russo wrote, “Certainly to the Soviets, and to the Americans, Oswald seemed an inconsequential figure before the assassination. Neither of these sophisticated countries had much use for him, and repeatedly marginalized him. Cuban diplomats, likewise fearing accusations of involvement, may have steered clear of Oswald as well.....Given what has been reported about his contacts and surroundings though, Cuban intelligence agents may have challenged Oswald to be the man of action he apparently vowed to be..Logic dictates that, with Castro’s regime and very life being threatened by the Kennedys, a quick fix in the form of a bullet would not have been unwelcomed in certain Cuban circles.”

David Belin wrote, “Were it not for Oswald’s lies about his trip to Mexico, I would state unequivocably that there was no conspiratorial complicity between Oswald and anyone else.I would suggest that the actions of Oswald were those of a loner and that he was not conspiratorially involved with any pro-Castro agents in Mexico.”

James Hosty wrote, “...there is the dramatic, but insufficient, evidence that would directly implicate the Soviets or Cubans in the president’s death.....it is abundantly clear [however] why Oswald killed the president. Whether or not he was a KGB sleeper agent, Oswald was without question a Communist and Castro loyalist.”

The paid-agent theory has a fundamental weakness. The claim that Oswald was paid $6,500 by the Cuban agents raises a number of questions. If Oswald had been paid this money we would not have seen a virtually penniless Oswald trying to make ends meet in the two months prior to the assassination. Warren Commission investigators researched all of Oswald’s financial transactions in the years prior to the assassination and discovered no large sums of money. His wife Marina confirms these facts. Furthermore, a scenario which had Oswald leave the Book Depository with a handful of dollars then catching a bus makes some kind of assistance in the assassination unlikely. And of course, Cuban intelligence agents would have had no way of knowing about the President’s trip to Dallas, nor would they have known about the lucky chance of Oswald being given a job in a building on the motorcade route, a job which had been arranged by Marina’s friend, Ruth Paine.

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The 904 page book with 2,700 footnotes is the product of 17 years of research and interviews. The book could not have been written, the authors say, without access to thousands of documents made available by the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act, which was passed into law after the public outcry surrounding Oliver Stone's 1991 pro-conspiracy movie, JFK.

The book's central thesis is that three Mafia chieftains -- Santos Trafficante of Tampa, Carlos Marcello of New Orleans and John Rosselli of Chicago -- conspired to kill the president in retaliation for JFK’s crackdown on the mob. This isn’t new.

What is new is the book's main disclosure that the Mafia believed it could get away with the president's assassination because it had inside CIA knowledge of a purported "Kennedy secret" – the alleged Dec. 1, 1963 plan to overthrow Fidel Castro in a violent coup (C-Day, they call it) then replace him with a pro-U.S., puppet regime.

The authors argue that killing JFK would leave the Mafia protected because the government could not implicate the mob without revealing the invasion plans. If the plans had been revealed the United States would have risked another Cuban Missile Crisis.

However, the authors are far from proving their thesis. They rely for much of their conclusions on interviews with former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, no friend of Bobby Kennedy’s, and Enrique "Harry" Ruiz-Williams, a veteran of the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle. Mr. Ruiz-Williams was believed to be Robert Kennedy's closest friend and ally in the Cuban exile community. Despite the collaboration of these distinguished "witnesses" the authors fail to convince. Ruiz’s statements to the authors can be characterized as wishful thinking and Rusk has provided no concrete proof that an invasion was pending. All the authors have succeeded in doing is presenting the reader with evidence that a contingency plan, not an actual plan, had been presented for JFK’s perusal. JFK’s Defense Secretary, Robert S. McNamara, has given recent interviews claiming not to know of any such plot and rejecting the idea that such plans were in the works. Anyone who has viewed McNamara’s honest and forthright statements in the documentary Fog Of War will soon realize that he is capable of telling the whole truth. Furthermore, there is a great deal of evidence to show that JFK was moving towards an accommodation with Castro at the time of his visit to Dallas and that plans for an invasion and/or assassination of Castro had been abandoned.

Another weakness with this book is the contention that the Mafia wanted to return to their lucrative Cuban casinos following Castro’s elimination. The coup would have let the purported conspirators, Marcello, Trafficante and Rosselli, in on the start to regain control of organized crime in Cuba. But killing Kennedy would guarantee that the purported plans would be dropped.

The book’s attempts to resurrect old myths about gunmen on the Grassy knoll and magic bullets is an exercise in repeating every controversy connected to the Dealey Plaza shooting. The authors rely mostly on previously debunked theories about second shooters and purported photographs of gunmen which have been thoroughly denbunked by the House Assassinations Committee, ballistics experts and leading researchers in the scientific community. For example, the authors quote former Kennedy aide Kenneth O'Donnell, who was in the motorcade and who told Tip O'Neill, former speaker of the House, in 1968 that "he had heard two shots" from the grassy knoll. They also quote former Kennedy aide Dave Powers, who was in the motorcade and who spoke to the authors before his death in 1998, that he felt they were "riding into an ambush" because of shots from the grassy knoll. But this is nothing new – many witnesses were confused as to the direction of the shots but this does not prove that more than one shooter was present in Dealey Plaza.The reader should be directed, instead, to the work of real experts like Larry Sturdivan who decisively relegates the myths about the shooting to the dustbin of history. (See Larry Sturdivan’s The JFK Myths – A Scientific Investigation of The Kennedy Assassination.)

The true facts about JFK’s assassination cannot now be established with absolute precision. Too many false leads have been sown, too many witnesses have died, the evidence can be misinterpreted by anyone who wishes to construct a false story - and time has a way of eroding the truth. Furthermore, the volume of material pertaining to the case can overwhelm the most erudite and conscientious researcher. However, despite attempts by JFK conspiracy advocates to present what they believe is compelling evidence of a conspiracy to kill JFK the simple truths remain – there is no smoking gun which would alter the fundamental conclusions of the Warren Commission Report that Lee Harvey Oswald alone fired the shots that killed President Kennedy.

[donsaeid]

Some says fidel! some says CIA! Some says Soviets!

i personaly dont know but i think he was looked at by Hauks of US as a weak but popular president and they didnt want him any longer!

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I have always heard CIA alway but who knows.