"The truth is that Fidel Castro had President John F. Kennedy killed."

[mia]

This is a remarkable article published today on a very conservative Cuban Blog. It seems to be an attempt to harden our hearts against Castro, but maybe there is some truth to it. I follow Babalu Blog to get a sense of the views of my Cuban neighbors. Normally, Cuban dissidents express nothing but contempt for President Kennedy...

http://babalublog.com/2013/11/10/the-assassination-of-president-kennedy-the-kgb-and-the-cuban-dgi-an-alternate-version/#more-140813

"The Assassination of President Kennedy, the KGB, and the Cuban DGI: An alternate version

Diego Trinidad, Ph.D. October 20, 2013

Next month, it will be half a century since President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Almost from that terrible day, the greatest cover up in the history of the United States began to be implemented. This was not by chance. It was a deliberate decision of new President Lyndon Johnson. Combined with what was called Operation Dragon, the disinformation masterpiece orchestrated by the KGB from Moscow and aided by the Cuban DGI (Dirección General de Inteligencia), a falsified version of the assassination of President Kennedy emerged. It has been unchallenged in almost 50 years. It is time to finally reject that Great Lie. It is time to offer an alternate version of what most probably really happened in Dallas that fateful November 22, 1963. What follows is an attempt to begin a new search for the truth....

There are three upcoming events that may shed some new light on the assassination. The first is a conference at the University of Miami in late November. Brian Latell, Miami Herald writer Glenn Garvin and others will participate. I expect to be able to express my views and y alternate version at the conference. Perhaps, at least, a new discussion of the Kennedy assassination will ensue. The second is a documentary to be shown by NBC on November 22, the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s death. Perhaps something different, if not new, will come out, especially from Carlos Bringuier, who was interviewed for the program. Finally, there is a new book written by Carlos Bringuier that will be published in December of this year. I have been in touch with Bringuier lately and in response to a number of my questions, he sent me the following comments: ”Oswald killed Kennedy following Castro’s instructions. Fabián Escalante waited for Oswald to take him to Cuba at an airport in Dallas. Upon learning that Oswald was arrested, he left for Cuba via Mexico. Oswald thought he would be received in Cuba as a hero, but I believe he might have been dumped in the Gulf of Mexico on the way to Cuba. Other members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee from Tampa were involved. Rolando Cubela was a double agent. Santos Trafficante, when he was released from jail in Havana in 1959 by Cubela, became a Castro agent and used his friend Jack Ruby to silence Oswald. The CIA was infiltrated to its highest levels by pro communist Castro sympathizers. Fidel Castro ordered Kennedy’s assassination since 1960 and infiltrated many assassins to liquidate him, as detailed in CIA memos to the Secret Service and the FBI that were never delivered to the Warren Commission and never saw the public light until 1998”. The title of Bringuier’s book is revealing: Crime Without Punishment: How Fidel Castro Assassinated President Kennedy And Got Away With It.

When I first wrote this article in Spanish a month ago, one of my purposes was to stimulate a new discussion on a matter shamefully covered up for half a century by the U.S. government. My other purpose was to try to cleanse the reputation of Cuban exiles, unjustly saddled with at least some of the responsibility for Kennedy’s murder. But I must admit I was never particularly interested in the subject and have never read any of the multiple “conspiracy books” on the assassination. Until I read General Pacepa’s and Joseph Trento’s books a few months ago, I generally believed there was a conspiracy to kill the president and it was made up of the CIA, the Mafia, some Cuban exiles and some Texas oilmen. As a professional historian, I have spent 45 years researching the two seminal events of President Kennedy’s short-lived administration: the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis of October-December 1962. That research has helped enormously in my new understanding of what happened and why. I know a great deal about Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev. Because of all that, I now know that I have been wrong to accept the monstrous cover-up designed by Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, J. Edgard Hoover and Helms and Dulles at the CIA. I now know about Operation Dragon and its success. Any historical work should always strive to seek the truth. I hope I can do something to correct the historical record and to help some others to change their minds and to see different, alternate aspects of the assassination. The final truth may never be known, but the truth is definitely NOT what we have been led to believe for half a century. The truth is that Fidel Castro had President John F. Kennedy killed.

[Cicada]

1. After JFK tried 5 times to kill Castro, Castro reacted?

Seems logical.

[HooptieWagon]

2. Lost me on the "Trafficante became a Castro agent" statement.

That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Trafficante hated Castro until his dying breath. Yea, he hated Kennedy too (esp Bobby), but not enough to become a pro-Castro agent.

[stopbush]

3. Happens every November - the money-grubbing ghouls come out from under the rocks

to make a buck off the death of JFK.

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. The TRUTH is that that Fidel was a third world thug who amounted to a hill 'o beans.

His people are still suffering because of it.

[Bolo Boffin]

5. My personal opinion: Oswald did it to get into Cuba.

The way I see it, Oswald was infiltrating the anti-Castro Cuban exiles to gather information on them and use that as a tradeoff to getting into Cuba. But when that didn't work, he went back to Dallas to stew until he opened the paper at work one day and saw that Kennedy was going to drive right past where he worked. And so he went and got his rifle. And the rest is history.

[SidDithers]

6. Awesome...nt

Sid

[mia]

8. Thank you, Sid!

I agree.

[SidDithers]

7. Kick...

best one yet.

Sid