Castro Ordered Kennedy's Assassination

"Castro Ordered Kennedy's Assassination"
A German documentary says Cuba orchestrated JFK's murder
German filmmaker Wilfried Huismann spent years digging into the
assassination of US President Kennedy. His documentary about Cuban leader
Castro's role in the murder is set to premiere Friday, on German public TV.
DW-WORLD: We know that Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy. But who
ordered his assassination and why?

Wilfried Huismann: We settled the question of why in three years of research
on this documentary in Mexico, USA and Cuba. Oswald had been an agent for
the Cuban intelligence services since November 1962. He was a political
fanatic and allowed himself to be used by the Cuban intelligence services to
kill John F. Kennedy. It was a Cuban reaction to the repeated attempts of
the Kennedy brothers, above all the younger Kennedy, Robert, to get rid of
Fidel Castro through political assassination -- a duel between the Kennedys
and the Castros, which, like in a Greek tragedy, left one of the duelists
dead.

DW-WORLD: One of the most important leads pointed to Mexico. Why do you
think the US didn't pursue it?
Bildunterschrift: Grossansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Kennedy
and Castro were out to kill each other, Huismann says
Huismann: After Kennedy's death on Nov. 22, 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson found
out that the US had a secret, illegal murder program focused on Fidel
Castro. He hadn't been informed before that. He knew that Castro knew, and
he was afraid that the discovery of these mutual assassination attempts
could force him to carry out an invasion of Cuba, which he believed could
result in a third -- nuclear -- world war. And as a conservative pragmatist,
he decided within a few hours, in agreement with Robert Kennedy, to drop the
whole thing and to ban FBI and CIA officials from pursuing the trail leading
to Cuba.

DW-WORLD: Could Castro now be prosecuted for his responsibility for
Kennedy's murder?

Huismann: In my opinion, even the conservative Bush government wouldn't take
any political or legal steps to avenge the crime. Then they'd also have to
put the American politicians on trial who were involved in assassinating
foreign statesmen. They include Alexander Haig, who testified as a witness
in my film, and others who are still alive.

It's history. Only people's awareness will change, the impression they have.
And it will provide an answer to the question that has very much upset many
million people over the years: Why did this horrible thing happen?

"Rendezvous mit dem Tod -- Warum Kennedy sterben m�sste" ("Rendezvous With
Death -- Why Kennedy Had to Die") will be shown on ARD on Friday at 9:45
p.m. CET.

Jose Ospina-Valencia interviewed Wilfried Huismann (ncy)
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