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Kennedy, conspiracy in Hamburg

BY GABRIEL MOLINA

ONE of the collateral objectives of the assassination of President John F. 
Kennedy was that of liquidating the Cuban Revolution. But this aim was not 
achieved and that is the underlying reason that 45 years afterwards, the 
conspiracy continues. The latest machination has rebounded from Germany: 
"Hamburg, Jan 3 (DPA).-A TV documentary from the German public TV ARD has 
charged the Cuban Secret Service with the assassination of the U.S. president, 
John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.

Wilfried Huismann, the documentary's director, is the current instrument to 
affirm, according to the German agency: "It was Castro's revenge for the CIA 
attempt to assassinate him with a poisoned pen."

It is not an accusation to be underestimated. The shocking assassination had 
such an impact on the world that even today, when it is evoked, somebody will 
remember where they were at the time.

For my part, on November 22, 1963, I was in the picturesque La Percherie 
restaurant in the port of Algiers, anticipating the house's excellent snails 
with Helen Klein, the U.S. press chief of President Ahmed Ben Bella. We 
suddenly received the terrible news.

"President Kennedy has been assassinated!" Now they are going to blame Cuba," I 
immediately said to her.

"Don't exaggerate," she answered.

We quickly went to the Prensa Latina agency on 26, Rue Claude Debussy, where I 
was working as a correspondent, for more information. There I learned how the 
radio stations were repeating that the Cuban government was responsible for the 
assassination. Surprised, Helen asked me how I had guessed it.

"I'm not a fortune teller," I explained, "But for the United States Cuba is the 
cause of all evil. A little bit of it because of hysteria and another little 
but because they are looking for a pretext to try and crush us."

However, a few hours later, the accusation vanished into the air with the same 
speed that it had entered. At that point everything was shrouded in mystery.

Fifteen years later, in Washington, the same charge was floating in the air for 
the umpteenth time. The Special Committee investigating the assassinations of 
John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert and Martin Luther King, was handling many 
theories on the assassination of the president of the United States. Once again 
the attempt to raise suspicions as to the Cuban government's involvement was 
being floated in the media. 

A Washington journalist with close links to the FBI, revealed to me in 
confidence that the version originally came from the CIA, which distributed a 
note stating that Oswald had committed the murder on behalf of the Cuban 
government. He added that the FBI forced the media to withdraw the accusation.

When I asked the veteran journalist why the FBI had taken the trouble to 
de-authorize the CIA, he explained that they considered the initiative an 
irresponsibility that could have unleashed incalculable consequences, such as a 
third world war. 

The first significant investigation into the assassination was undertaken by 
the Warren Commission, which considered that theory and discounted it by 
stating that there was no such conspiracy.

However, starting in 1967, the Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson column once again 
raised identical accusations. The media lifted the tone by pointing to Cuba 
every time new evidence involving the establishment arose that Oswald did not 
act alone. It should be noted that during his career Anderson had at least been 
very close to the CIA. There was so much evidence that Congress decided to 
create its own Special Committee, headed by African-American Congressman Louis 
F. Stokes, to investigate the assassinations of John F. and Robert Kennedy and 
Martin Luther King. After more than one year of arduous investigations the 
Stokes Committee arrived at interesting conclusions.

Among its findings Appendix C, Paragraph 2 states that on the basis of the 
available evidence the Cuban government was not involved in the assassination 
of President Kennedy.

After enquiries in the United States and in Cuba as to the motives for the 
assassination, President Kennedy's intention to normalize relations with Cuba 
emerged, in addition to other no less significant reasons within internal 
politics.

IMMORAL CIA-MAFIA COLLUSION

The Special Committee reached the conclusion that Carlo Marcello, the capo of 
New Orleans and part of Texas; Santo Trafficante of Florida; and James Hoffa, 
president of the truck drivers' trade union, had the motives, means and 
opportunity to assassinate President Kennedy. 

Trafficante was a vital target in the Kennedy administration's battle against 
organized crime. His name was among the 10 principal subjects to investigate 
and combat.

When Robert Kennedy found out about the CIA's immoral collusion with the Mafia, 
he prohibited the officials involved from having recourse to such associations 
without informing him. But they continued doing so under the direction of 
Richard Helms.

The Committee report stated that Trafficante's position in organized crime and 
drug trafficking and his role as the principal mafia link with criminal figures 
within the exile Cuban community, all furnished him with the capacity of 
organizing a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy, as he did previously 
in the case of Fidel Castro.

The Committee established that there was a possible connection between 
Trafficante and Jack Ruby, particularly in Havana in 1959, when Ruby was in 
fact acting as a courier in the interests of the Cosa Nostra for transferring 
funds from the Cuban capital to Miami. Cuba supplied the evidence of that. 

However, the Committee was unable to find any direct evidence as to 
Trafficante's or Marcello's involvement in the assassination of the president. 
New Orleans, the imperial capital of the latter, had turned into a significant 
scenario of the terrorist conspiracies. Characters of the ilk of Orlando Bosch, 
Luis Posada Carriles, the Guillermo brothers and Ignacio Novo Sampoll, Eladio 
del Valle, Jorge Mas Canosa, Hermino Díaz and others used to go there.

The Special Committee also confirmed the theory that these terrorists of Cuban 
origin conspired as individuals for the commission of the crime. The same men 
who plotted to assassinate Fidel Castro did so to assassinate Kennedy. Shortly 
before being killed, John Roselli told columnist Jack Anderson that Cubans in 
Trafficante's gang had taken part in the assassination.

The report concedes that the anti-Castroites were frustrated, embittered and 
angry and that their resentments were focused on Kennedy who, just before his 
death, had directed William Atwood to discuss the possibility of normalizing 
relations with Cuban representatives. The Cuban delegate to those talks was 
Carlos Lechuga, at that time UN ambassador. McGeorge Bundy, Kennedy's security 
adviser, stated that the president wanted a report on the progress of the talks 
for when he returned from Dallas. Even after the death of his brother, Robert 
Kennedy also tried to suppress the anti-Cuba measures, but the new president, 
Lyndon Johnson, prevented it. 

The Stokes Committee confirmed that Oswald's contacts in the United States were 
counterrevolutionaries of Cuban origin and opted to openly look into these 
aspects, which had not been investigated by the CIA, closely involved with the 
Cuban-Americans. It decided to rigorously examine the groups that, apart from 
the motivation, had the capacity and the resources to be mixed up in the 
assassination.

There were many terrorist organizations in the period between the triumph of 
the Cuban Revolution and the assassination of Kennedy. But it was determined 
that there could have been a connection between Oswald and two of them: Alpha 
66 and the Cuban Revolutionary Junta (JURE).

The Stokes Committee heard the testimony of Marita Lorenz, a beautiful spy 
recruited by Frank Sturgis, who recounted a meeting that she attended in Miami 
at the house of Orlando Bosch in which Pedro Luis Díaz Lanz and Oswald planned 
a visit to Dallas. She added that on November 15 she traveled to that city in a 
two-car caravan with Bosch, Sturgis, Díaz Lanz, Oswald, Gerry Hemmings and the 
Novo Sampoll brothers. There were various guns in the hotel rooms in which they 
stayed and they had a visit from Jack Ruby, subsequently Oswald's executioner. 
More recently Lorenz stated that there Howard Hunt (Eduardo to the Cubans) 
handed money over to Sturgis on November 21 for an operation in an unstated 
locale and returned to Miami two or three hours after the assassination. 

PHILLIPS, HANDLED THE DIRTY WORK

Antonio Veciano, the founder of Alpha 66, told the Committee that in the 
context of his activities against the Cuban government, he met on many 
occasions with a CIA official who gave his name as Bishop. And that in August 
1963, in Dallas, Texas, the latter made contact with him in an office building, 
accompanied by a person whom he identified after the death of Kennedy as Lee 
Harvey Oswald.

Later Veciana confided to writer Gaeton Fonzi that Bishop's real name was David 
Atlee Phillips who worked for the CIA in Havana under the cover of a 
businessman living in Apartment 502, 106, Humboldt Street.

From 1960, Atlee Phillips-Bishop was the Miami chief of propaganda for the '61 
invasion of Cuba, together with Howard H. Hunt, the principal organizer of 
Watergate. In 1954, both of them succeeded in bringing down the Arbenz 
government in Guatemala. Cuban Security confirmed the identity of this CIA 
official, who organized the Cuban-American terrorist groups who, as late as 
2003 were pressuring the Bush government to secure the release of Posada 
Carriles and his accomplices.

One of the members of the JURE group, Silvia Odio, testified in 1964 before the 
Warren Commission that a man whom she identified via the media as the Oswald 
who killed Kennedy, visited her apartment in Dallas in September 1963 with two 
other men of Latino appearance. She added that the two Spanish speakers told 
her that they were members of JURE.

One of them gave his name as Leopoldo and had a Cuban accent. The other, 
Angelo, seemed to be Mexican. The third introduced himself as León Oswald and 
was, for her, Lee Harvey Oswald. Cuban Security identified the other two as the 
Novo brothers, responsible for a long list of assassinations and other acts of 
terrorism.

Silvia gave the same testimony to the FBI and added that two days later, 
Leopoldo called her again and told that, according to León, they should have 
killed Kennedy after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Two months later 
Kennedy was assassinated.

The conclusions of the report were that Silvia's statement is still credible 
and all the more so given that she insistently maintained the same arguments 15 
years later.

That same day Nicholas Katzenbach, former justice secretary under the Johnson 
administration gave evidence and made allusion to internal fights and poor 
relations between the FBI and the CIA during the period of the investigation.

RICHARD HELMS ADMITTED THAT THE CIA ASSASSINATIONS WERE POLITCAL ACTIONS

The following day, September 22, Richard Helms, the former CIA director, 
provoked indignation among certain congress members and shock among the 
majority by appearing for seven hours before the Select Committee to respond to 
inquiries into the effectiveness of the CIA investigation after the 
assassination and if he had supplied the relevant information he possessed to 
others. At the time of Kennedy's assassination Helms was head of the CIA 
clandestine service and President Johnson appointed him deputy director of the 
CIA one year later. And director in 1966.

Congressman Christopher J. Dodd asked whether the Warren Commission was 
informed of the attempts on the life of Fidel Castro and revealed his anger at 
the contacts between organized crime and the agency.

Helms replied that he had only informed the Warren Commission on the matters he 
was asked to.

At the insistence of congress members, he stated that activities against the 
Cuban Revolution included attempts to sabotage electricity plants and sugar 
refineries, burn cane fields and multiple types of terrorist actions. He added 
that this was a political action that could not solely be blamed on the agency, 
as the president, the Pentagon, the Justice Department, the Defense Department, 
State Department and the National Security Council were fully aware of the 
plans and had approved them.

A tall man with graying receding hair and cultivated manners, with his well-cut 
dark suit, Helms confronted his interrogators with great aplomb and traces of 
good humor. His distinguished aspect did not make it easy to envisage the man 
who gave orders to assassinate from his office desk. Coldly, with asepsis, he 
spoke of criminal attempts in complicity with mafia killers.

OSWALD'S CONTACTS WITH THE CIA DATE BACK TO 1960

Another of the documents on which he was interrogated referred to the CIA's 
first contacts with Oswald; even though he informed the Warren Commission that 
there were none, they dated back to 1960. One of the CIA memos presented stated 
that Allan Dulles, despite being a member of the Commission, lectured his 
subordinates on how to conceal the CIA's relations with Oswald.

Helms responded to these questions evasively.

Three days previously, Thomas J. Kelly and James J. Rowley, inspector and 
chief, respectively, of the Secret Service responsible for the president's 
protection, shocked the whole of America by stating that despite the CIA and 
the FBI possessing information on Oswald, the Secret Service was not informed 
of it.

"Otherwise we would have known what we were doing on the day of the death of 
President Kennedy," stated Kelley and Rowley to the members of the Select 
Committee.

These and other findings made the Committee reach the conclusion that there was 
a lack of cooperation and coordination among the distinct government agencies; 
that the secret service was deficient in protecting the president and in 
analyzing the information that it possessed. Moreover, it lacked the personnel 
for his adequate protection.

In Paragraph 5 it is affirmed that neither the Secret Service (of the 
presidency), nor the FBI nor the CIA were involved. But it criticized them for 
not having adequately analyzed, investigated, utilized or inter-exchanged 
information that they possessed on the threats surrounding Kennedy's visit to 
Dallas.

The report recommended that the Justice Department should continue the 
investigation, because they had found evidence of a conspiracy in which 
elements of the Italian-American mafia had participated and Cuban-American 
Mafiosi groups. It was not stated that these had historically been handled by 
the CIA, but it was insinuated. It confirmed that it was not possible to reach 
definitive conclusions as the CIA had refused to decode certain information. At 
the same time the CIA was criticized for not having rigorously investigated 
these groups of Cuban origin resident in Miami.

The decision to ask the Justice Department to investigate further also took 
into account the fact that the filmed and acoustic evidence analyzed 
demonstrated the possibility of a second individual on the floor from which 
Oswald supposedly fired and that there was probably more than one sniper.

The report also emphasized that neither did the FBI investigate the possibility 
of a conspiracy after the assassination and that the CIA was deficient, both 
before and after the killing.

Moreover, the Dallas police, like the entire population of Texas subjected at 
that time to an anti-Kennedy barrage of propaganda, likewise demonstrated 
themselves to be incapable of protecting him. The anti-Kennedy atmosphere there 
reached such an extreme that in the morning of that fateful November 22, 1963 
pamphlets were distributed against the president.

The most aggressive was published in a Dallas daily as a full-page paid 
advertisement and bore a photo of Kennedy and the following provocative text: 
"Sought for treason: This man is sought for acts of treason against the United 
States.

Even after the assassination there was serious neglect over the transfer of 
Oswald. The photograph of his two guards looking the other way while Ruby 
approaches with impunity to shoot the accused is an eloquent one. Thus the most 
appropriate person in terms of revealing the motives and complexities of the 
case was silenced. Nevertheless, the officers on duty that day were not 
dismissed but subsequently promoted.

It wasn't only Veciano who mentioned CIA intentions to implicate the Cuban 
government into the case. It was suspicious for all the world that for a long 
time before the attempt the CIA had tried to identify Oswald with the island 
and even put pressure on a Mexican employee at the Cuban Consulate in Mexico to 
corroborate that version.

The accusations against Cuba remained alive until the Stokes Committee ruled 
them out in 1978 after making investigations in Mexico and Havana, where they 
met with President Fidel Castro. Mr. Azcue, the Cuban consul in Mexico who 
refused Oswald a visa a few weeks before the assassination, in spite of his 
agitated insistence, testified before the sessions.

This session made us wonder exactly what President Kennedy wanted to say when 
he confided to his collaborator Clark Gifford shortly after the Bay of Pigs 
invasion: Something very bad is going on within the CIA and I want to know what 
it is. I want to shred the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the 
four winds.

In its final report the Stokes Committee noted that the CIA refused to 
declassify certain important documents. When Frank Carlucci, deputy director of 
the CIA in 1978 and President Reagan's national security advisor in 1987, was 
interrogated in one of the hearings, he stated that they came from highly 
sensitive sources and had to be protected.

One of the most important and worrying pieces of evidence found by the Stokes 
Committee was the tape recording found in the Dallas police station in which 
four shots can be heard and not three as the Warren Commission established. 
This finding was strengthened by the statement of the wife of Governor Connally 
that a second shot was fired at him and not the one that wounded the president 
in the throat.

GUILTY MASTERMINDS AND MATERIAL ASSASSINS

General Fabian Escalante, one of those investigating the case on the Cuban 
side, has stated that based on information from the State Security files, 
certain testimonies and an analysis of the facts and antecedents, Havana has 
reached conclusions as to the identity of the guilty parties that are similar 
to those of other investigators: the CIA, the Mafia and Cuban 
counterrevolutionaries planned and executed the assassination. He added that 
having studied the descriptions of witnesses to the crime, especially those 
expounded by former Judge Garrison, it is presumed that the sharpshooters of 
Cuban origin Eladio del Valle and Hermino Díaz were those ordered to fire, 
subsequently escaping in a Nash Rambler truck. And that the attempt was 
organized by two groups, one under the control of Jack Ruby and the other by 
Frank Sturgis, later chief of the Watergate plumbers.

The mafia participants, Escalante continued, were Santos Trafficante, Sam 
Giancana, John Roselli and, to a lesser degree, Carlos Marcelo and Jimmy Hoffa.

Among the CIA plotters he also mentioned David Atlee Phillips and Richard 
Helms, supervisor of anti-Cuban operations; General Cabell, former deputy chief 
of the CIA; Gerry Hemmings and other high-ranking officials.

The scandal, picked up by the press worldwide, led to the committee instructing 
the CIA executive to declassify the majority of the documents, which succeeded 
in hushing the protests. But doing so would have been to incriminate itself.

Unable to continue its investigations, on fulfilling the Congress mandate in 
December 1978, the Committee made the noteworthy suggestion that the Justice 
Department should continue the investigative line to resolve the mystery.

It is for that reason that Carter could not be allowed to win a second mandate. 
That had to be prevented by provocations such as the assault on the embassies 
that resulted in the Mariel exodus from Cuba. For that reason, 27 years after 
the investigation and 42 years after the assassination, the administrations of 
Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush Jr., which should have picked up the glove, have 
not lifted a finger to assume that task.

The most important documentation on the Dallas shooting has been retained as 
secret in a vault in the archives of the CIA, the FBI and the Pentagon, and 
Hill not be classified until 2013.

In the years after the assassination more than 22 people involved in the case 
have died in more or less mysterious form, among them the main protagonists: 
Oswald and Ruby. 

The list has been growing since 1963. At that rate, it is unlikely that anyone 
will be alive to testify. And what is worse, none of those guilty will be 
alive. Today the shady secret is transparent to everyone apart from those to 
whom it should be. Because the principal protagonists have acquired a terrible 
ascendancy over the U.S. government. German Wildried Husimann is no more than 
another pawn in this chess game. For that reason he is maliciously ignoring 
these sources. That conspiracy in Hamburg seeks to distract media attention 
from Luis Posada Carriles in order to release him. Because if Carriles should 
fulfill his threat to spill everything that he knows, Nixon's Watergate will 
appear like a scratch on the surface of the perversity that is being concealed.
 


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