Back in November 1962, funds for Cuban exiles were “reduced or cut off,” and “people were instructed to go out and seek employment.”
In January 1963, two months after the Cuban exiles were told to go out and get jobs and three months after the Cuban missile crisis, a group of exiles planned to use “dynamite” to blow up “cars and buildings in NY and Miami” and blame it on Castro, believing it would “compel” the United States to take “action against Cuba.”
It would have been relatively easy to manipulate Cuban exiles into using dynamite to blow up “cars and buildings” in New York and Miami. One of the keys to manipulating assets is to let them think that the action they take is their idea. KGB officers inside the CIA could simply let Cuban exiles overhear them say that the real problem is Castro’s inaction and that Castro has simply not given the United States a reason to invade Cuba.
First KGB officer: “It’s been three months since Castro tried to put Soviet missiles in Cuba. I can’t believe Kennedy let that slide without invading Cuba. It would be nice if someone could pull off something big and horrendous inside the United States and work it so that Castro would be blamed for it. The United States would then have to invade Cuba.”
Second KGB officer: “Yes, but it would have to be really big, otherwise, no U.S. invasion.”
Third KGB officer: “Seeing as how the exiles had to go out and get actual jobs, I’m sure they’d be interested in a ‘job’ that would result in Castro being blamed for some horrific action inside the United States. Maybe we should ask them if they’d like a job like that. They’d probably do it for free.”
Fourth KGB officer: “We’d be in big trouble if we told the Cuban exiles to do something like that, but since some of our most loyal exiles are standing a few feet away, listening and smiling, maybe they’ll think of it on their own. I’m sure they can’t hear us, because like I said, whatever they do has to be their own idea. We can’t tell them what to do.”
A CIA Memorandum for the Record states that an anti-Castro Cuban named Dr. Jose La Saga met with a CIA officer from November 7 through November 10, 1963, just two weeks before President Kennedy’s assassination, and according to the CIA, “It was La Saga’s firm position that while President Kennedy was in power, it would be impossible to defeat Castro.”
KGB officers inside the CIA had no problem manipulating anti-Castro Cubans into actively planning President Kennedy’s murder with a hope that Castro would be implicated in the assassination, and the Cuban government took decisive action that would lead the CIA to look for President Kennedy’s killers among the Cuban exiles.
As noted in the previous chapter, a letter from Havana, Cuba on November 29, 1962, almost a year before the assassination, told the recipient of the necessity to “kill President Kennedy” and that it would be a “great success” for Castro.
The intended recipient was also told to “continue demonstrating yourself as anti-Communist, more specifically anti-Castro . . . . You have played your role very well, and you have been successful in completely deceiving the FBI.
The letter telling the intended recipient to “kill President Kennedy” and “continue demonstrating yourself as anti-Communist, more specifically anti-Castro,” means the CIA and the Warren Commission would have been grossly negligent in not looking for President Kennedy’s assassins among the anti-Castro Cuban exiles.
Even more important, on November 26, 1963, a Cuban exile named Tony Cuesta told the FBI that someone had attempted to entice Cuban exiles into assassinating President Kennedy in order to put Vice President Lyndon Johnson into the Presidency. Cuesta was the military leader in the “exile attack” on a “Soviet vessel” back on March 27 in the “waters of the Atlantic.”
Cuesta told the FBI that a few weeks after the March 27 attack, he received an anonymous letter from Texas dated April 18, 1963, stating: “To Tony Cuesta, active, ardent, and audacious Cuban patriot and his group . . . . Only through one development will you Cuban patriots ever live again in your homeland as freemen, responsible, as must be the most capable, for the guidance and welfare of the Cuban people: namely, if an inspired act of God should place in the White House within weeks a Texan known to be a friend of all Latin Americans.”
The letter then states that Vice President Johnson, “under present conditions,” cannot help the exiles, but if “an Act of God” would “suddenly elevate him into the top position,” the exiles would get their much-needed support in their efforts to defeat Castro.
It concludes by telling Cuesta, “There are sharks in the waters of the Atlantic. Perhaps one of them, or a group, may free you of the Kennedy-Khrushchev frustrations, which now deny you your right to restore your homeland to control of the Cuban people and their own loyal and rightful rulers.”
The FBI report states that Cuesta told them he thought the letter was “the work of a ‘crackpot’” and “attached no importance to it.” But for some reason, Cuesta “kept it in his possession” for more than seven months and kept the envelope in which the letter had been sent, “postmarked April 18, 1963, Arlington, Texas.” After the assassination, Cuesta “reflected back upon this letter and felt that it might have more significance than he had at first attached to it.”
Tony Cuesta, an anti-Castro Cuban exile carrying out raids against Cuba, presented the FBI with documentation on November 26 that served to definitively implicate anti-Castro Cubans in the assassination. Recall that November 26 was the day that the FBI “substantially completed” its investigation, which means the CIA would be investigating Cuesta’s information.
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