Fidel Castro Quotes

Most Americans do not believe the official explanation of the Warren Commission that Oswald acted alone. However, Kerry was the first of very few high government officials who would express this opinion in public. The fact that Oswald himself was then assassinated in the Dallas Police Station denied any information from him. Then were many foul ups of the investigations that most analysts of the assassination believe were foul ups or cover-ups of other wrong doing. Examples were: Parts of Kennedy’s brain was missing and the autopsy notes were burned by the naval physician who did the autopsy before anyone could see them; the FBI and CIA both lied to the Warren Commission, President Johnson, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy; Both the FBI and the CIA had files on Oswald; the CIA had tried to assassinate Fidel Castro before including paying the Mafia to do it (The efforts were bungled and Castro found out about most; Oswald had w few weeks earlier tried to assassinate the right wing John Birch Society fanatic, General Edwin Walker and the CIA and FBI missed that.); Shortly before the assassination Walker and his fanatics printed and distributed a “Wanted for Treason” poster accusing President Kennedy of selling out America. (See {635732}.)

See {642341} for the CIA role in obstructing the Warren Commission investigation. The FBI also withheld evidence about their contacts with Oswald. The investigators for the Commission only came from the two agencies that had much to hide and who lied to the commission.

The CIA had attempted to employ the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro, the strongman of Cuba, and Castro found out about it. He then warned that U. S. leaders could be assassinated in retaliation. Although LBJ appointed the Warren Commission to investigate the JFK assassination and the commission concluded that Castro and Cuba had nothing to do with it—Oswald was a gunman acting alone. Johnson privately never believed that but only confided his believes to his closest confidants lest there would be public pressure to retaliate against Cuba and Johnson had no hard proof—just a suspicion.

This was the reason that the FBI withheld information from the Warren Commission investigating JFK’s assassination. J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI Director was concerned that some people might conclude that the FBI bore some of the responsibility for the assassination for losing track of him. The CIA also withheld information to the commission to cover some of their misdeeds.

Bundy had been a member of the same law firm as Hiss's brother. He, like other members of the firm, had made financial contributions to Hiss's legal defense. Bundy was completely cleared of any wrongdoing or disloyalty later.

The advice turned out to be essentially correct.

Disciplining agents for dereliction in the Oswald investigation would be seen as Early in 1962, the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, and the Immigration & Naturalization Service all had files on Oswald but none of them shared the information with any of the other agencies. Before the Kennedy murder, the FBI had gathered evidence that Oswald may have been a deranged Marxist who supported the Cuban Revolution. The Central Intelligence Agency knew that Oswald was working at the Texas Book Depository. If the Secret Service had been privy to these agency’s files or even one of them, the Kennedy Assassination might have been prevented. Also, to J. Edgar Hoover’s later distress, the FBI did not follow up and locate Oswald when they learned their facts. He disciplined several agents. See {634531}. No one was more careful to “protect” the image of the FBI than Hoover. He used his powers to classify documents as “Secret” and did so for all the documentation of the FBI negligence and the discipline until 2000 when it became public.

Nixon had lied to Ford as well as the American people. Ford, having been selected by Nixon as VP, felt it was his obligation to defend Nixon until he was about to become President himself. At that point he would have destroyed his presidential credibility on top of Nixon if he kept on with the Nixon lies.

Johnson tasked Clark with finding out what the FBI knew of this story. The story was true. Worse, the CIA had hired members of the Mafia to do the assassination. (The Mafia resented Castro as he ended the Gambling Mecca that Cuba had been when his revolution succeeded. Before the Castro revolution, he Mafia got a “piece” of the profits from each Cuban casino for “protection.”) It might have been that the Kennedy Assassination was retaliation by Castro. However, the CIA withheld this from the Warren Commission and Robert Kennedy never revealed it even though he was a member of the Commission and the Commission had security clearance. See {637465}.

See {637464} for the trigger for the FBI to write this report. It was the report that verified that the CIA had hired the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro which President Johnson had heard but the CIA never revealed it to Johnson or the Warren Commission investigations JFK’s assassination. The full document was kept secret and was not yet declassified in 2014 when this quotation was entered in the collection.

Oswald was the assassin of President John F. Kennedy.