Tag Archive for FIdel Castro

Assassination in the struggle for power in Cuba

April 10, 2013 Assassination 69 comments

Reader Photon asks:

Assassination was not his tactic.

“So ‘LBJ and crew’ murdered John Kennedy, but Fidel ‘most certainly was not [involved]‘? While I consider it unlikely that Oswald could have cooperated with anybody in a conspiracy his visit to the Cuban Embassy certainly is intriguing. It is not like Fidel had never sanctioned political assassination in the past. For 50 years he has gotten away with knocking off Camilo Cienfuegos after Huber Matos didn’t do it for him.”

The ensuing fast and furious debate in the comments section on this subject is reminder that the history of assassination as a political technique in the struggle for power in Cuba from say, 1955 to 1965, is relevant to any discussion of the assassination of JFK.

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If there was a JFK conspiracy, wouldn’t somebody have talked?

January 2, 2013 Assassination, Experts, Question 17 comments

Electronic security expert John Martino talked with friends and family about his foreknowledge of a JFK plot.

Somebody did talk. His name was John Martino.  In 1963 he was an anti-Castro militant who mixed with organized crime figures and CIA officers. His story is one of the clearest indicators that opponents of JFK’s Cuba policy had foreknowledge that President Kennedy might be assassinated in Dallas.

To put it another way, those who doubt there was a conspiracy, need to address John Martino’s story. It is corroborated in multiple ways.

Martino, a native of New Jersey, was a petty racketeer as a young man with arrests for gambling and loan sharking. In the 1950s, he developed an expertise in electronic equipment related to gambling. He gravitated to south Florida and then to Havana where his skills won him a  security job at the casino in the new Deauville Hotel in the Cuban capital. Havana was then dominated by organized crime syndicates who reaped big profits from gambling and related tourist attractions.

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From the Files: The Church Committee Report

November 4, 2012 From the Files, Presidency No comments

Want to read the original 1975 U.S. Senate report that blew the lid on CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders?

Don’t settle for lame theories. Get the facts. Click here: Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders Read more