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What Castro Knew About Lee Harvey Oswald
WSJ ^ | 11/17/2013 | Mary O'Grady

Posted on 11/18/2013 8:56:45 AM PST by mojito

In November 1963, Cuban intelligence officer Florentino Aspillaga was posted in a little hut near a Cuban beach where he operated listening equipment trained on Miami and CIA headquarters in Virginia. On the morning of Nov. 22, Mr. Aspillaga—who would defect to the U.S. in 1987—said that he was ordered "to stop all your CIA work, all your CIA work." He was instructed to "put all of my equipment to listen to any small detail from Texas. They told me Texas."

Did Castro know that Lee Harvey Oswald was about to assassinate President Kennedy? Brian Latell, a veteran CIA Cuba analyst who spent 15 hours interviewing Mr. Aspillaga for his newly revised "Castro's Secrets," (Palgrave MacMillan), makes a strong case that he did.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Cuba; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: castro; jfkassassination; kennedy; oswald
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Interesting. A must-read for JFK assassination buffs.
1 posted on 11/18/2013 8:56:45 AM PST by mojito
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To: mojito

You mean....Oliver Stone is full of horse-obama?


2 posted on 11/18/2013 9:01:07 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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Oswald went to the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City in the summer of 1963. The why or what happened you are not going to get from the communists.
3 posted on 11/18/2013 9:02:07 AM PST by AU72
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did oswald go to mexico city or someone who looked vaguely like oswald? if it is the latter, it would seem prudent to beware of deliberately seeded disinformation...


4 posted on 11/18/2013 9:07:27 AM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: AU72

Funny. They had both of those embassies under 24 hour surveillance and photographed everyone who went in or out of them, yet they could never produce a photo of Oswald.


5 posted on 11/18/2013 9:09:19 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: mojito

Every government file needs to be open.
I said that when all of it was sealed that I wanted to live to see everything opened.
I’m still hoping I will.


6 posted on 11/18/2013 9:10:43 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: mojito

How much to pay him to do some wet work?


7 posted on 11/18/2013 9:11:42 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: AU72

My question is how can a stock boy at a book depository have the money to visit Moscow and Mexico City?


8 posted on 11/18/2013 9:14:49 AM PST by skinndogNN
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To: skinndogNN

His wife was earning money teaching Russian lessons, and he took it all — giving her a small, weekly allowance.


9 posted on 11/18/2013 9:18:33 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: onyx

All ya need to know is LBJ.


10 posted on 11/18/2013 9:20:05 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: mojito

Oswald was an admirer of the USSR and Castro’s Cuba. He was a little commie leftist murderous tasbard. Not a far stretch to imply that Fidel was somehow involved-—either directly or indirectly via free rental space in LHO’s dark little heart. He earned his place in history and in hell too. Fidel will meet him soon enough.


11 posted on 11/18/2013 9:22:29 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: skinndogNN

According to some sources Oswald worked in a casino in Louisiana (maybe N.O.) that was owned by Carlos Marcella for a little bit before all the SHTF.


12 posted on 11/18/2013 9:22:51 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: onyx

They have never opened Lincolns file, I doubt you will live to see them open JFK’s.


13 posted on 11/18/2013 9:23:44 AM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: skinndogNN
My question is how can a stock boy at a book depository have the money to visit Moscow and Mexico City?

Pretty well covered in Posner's "Case Closed". Read it. One of the best ever written on the assassination.

14 posted on 11/18/2013 9:23:54 AM PST by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: mojito

Did the communists want LBJ? Because if they took out JFK, then that’s who takes over.


15 posted on 11/18/2013 9:24:47 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Ok, we have been told it was the Cubans, the KGB, LBJ, CIA, The Mob, did they leave out some husbands' of JFK's lovers?

So what happened? They all showed up at the same place and time to do the deed?

Is this why they cannot figure out who 'shot' Kennedy?

16 posted on 11/18/2013 9:25:00 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: X-spurt

I disagree.


17 posted on 11/18/2013 9:25:39 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Venturer

The sealed files have open dates in 2017 and others in 2025.


18 posted on 11/18/2013 9:26:55 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: mojito

Oswald did it. He was very screwed up. He’s exactly the kind of guy that would do it on his own. I doubt he had any help.


19 posted on 11/18/2013 9:27:01 AM PST by cookcounty (IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
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I have a hard time believing Castro would have had anything to do with it. The probability of US troops invading Cuba was what caused the rift between Che and Fidel.


20 posted on 11/18/2013 9:28:42 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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