Cuban secret service plotted JFK's death, new film claims
By Kate Connolly in Berlin
January 5, 2006
THE Cuban secret service was behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, according to evidence presented in a new documentary.
Rendezvous with Death, to be shown on German television tomorrow, offers convincing evidence that Fidel Castro's regime was behind the most-talked-about murder of the 20th century.
A former agent of the Cuban secret service, G2, claims Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin, was pointed out to the Cubans by the KGB.
Oscar Marino, 61, who fell out with the Castro regime, said the Cubans were desperate to eliminate Kennedy, an opponent of the revolution who wanted to kill Castro.
"You ask why we took Oswald?" he asked the German filmmaker Wilfried Huismann. "Oswald was a dissident: he hated his country. Oswald volunteered to kill Kennedy."
Oswald was a communist who spent three years in the Soviet Union and shot Kennedy in Dallas. He was killed after his arrest, leaving his motives shrouded in mystery.
Huismann spent three years persuading people to break their silence about Oswald's alleged Cuba connections. His film is based on testimony by former US, Cuban and Russian agents, KGB files and Mexican archives.
One witness is a retired FBI agent, Lawrence Keenan, now in his 80s. After the assassination, Keenan was sent to trace Oswald's footsteps in Mexico.
The evidence he found - linking the Cubans to the murder - prompted the FBI head, J. Edgar Hoover, on the orders of then president Lyndon Johnson, to withdraw Keenan after three days. "I realised that I was used," Keenan said. "I felt ashamed."
Mexico City was considered a "Pandora's box" by the Johnson administration, which feared a war with Cuba if the truth was revealed.
Alexander Haig, a military adviser to Kennedy and Johnson who became secretary of state in 1981, said in the film that Johnson was "convinced Castro killed Kennedy, and he took it to his grave".
Huismann's interviews and the documents he found show the extent of the secret war, involving murder and sabotage, between Castro and the Kennedy brothers, who allegedly planned eight assassination attempts on the Cuban leader, all of which failed.
By Kate Connolly in Berlin
January 5, 2006
THE Cuban secret service was behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, according to evidence presented in a new documentary.
Rendezvous with Death, to be shown on German television tomorrow, offers convincing evidence that Fidel Castro's regime was behind the most-talked-about murder of the 20th century.
A former agent of the Cuban secret service, G2, claims Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin, was pointed out to the Cubans by the KGB.
Oscar Marino, 61, who fell out with the Castro regime, said the Cubans were desperate to eliminate Kennedy, an opponent of the revolution who wanted to kill Castro.
"You ask why we took Oswald?" he asked the German filmmaker Wilfried Huismann. "Oswald was a dissident: he hated his country. Oswald volunteered to kill Kennedy."
Oswald was a communist who spent three years in the Soviet Union and shot Kennedy in Dallas. He was killed after his arrest, leaving his motives shrouded in mystery.
Huismann spent three years persuading people to break their silence about Oswald's alleged Cuba connections. His film is based on testimony by former US, Cuban and Russian agents, KGB files and Mexican archives.
One witness is a retired FBI agent, Lawrence Keenan, now in his 80s. After the assassination, Keenan was sent to trace Oswald's footsteps in Mexico.
The evidence he found - linking the Cubans to the murder - prompted the FBI head, J. Edgar Hoover, on the orders of then president Lyndon Johnson, to withdraw Keenan after three days. "I realised that I was used," Keenan said. "I felt ashamed."
Mexico City was considered a "Pandora's box" by the Johnson administration, which feared a war with Cuba if the truth was revealed.
Alexander Haig, a military adviser to Kennedy and Johnson who became secretary of state in 1981, said in the film that Johnson was "convinced Castro killed Kennedy, and he took it to his grave".
Huismann's interviews and the documents he found show the extent of the secret war, involving murder and sabotage, between Castro and the Kennedy brothers, who allegedly planned eight assassination attempts on the Cuban leader, all of which failed.
Telegraph, London
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