Two and half months before the assassination, Fidel Castro held a three-hour interview at the Brazilian Embassy in Cuba and warned that “United States leaders” (meaning President Kennedy) “will not be safe” if they give aid to anyone with “plans to eliminate Cuban leaders.”
Castro said he was prepared to “fight them and answer in kind.” In other words, Castro would eliminate President Kennedy if the United States continued to support anti-Castro Cubans and their plans to eliminate Castro.
On September 7, 1963, the day that Castro threatened “United States leaders,” one of his underlings went into action to make it seem like President Kennedy’s assassination would mean Castro had made good on his threat. President Ford’s National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft, wrote a memorandum stating that on September 7, 1963, a Cuban official named Rolando Cubela, who was “highly placed in the Castro government,” initiated a meeting with the CIA and claimed that he had a “specific plan” to “foment a coup against Castro.”
CIA documents state that Cubela told the CIA that the only possible way to “effect a coup” against Castro was through an “inside job,” and Cubela was “waiting for a plan of action from the United States Government.”
Cubela wanted “high-level assurances of support for a successful coup.” The high-level assurances, of course, could only come from “U.S. leaders” who “support” a coup against the Castro regime.
Scowcroft wrote that “at Cubela’s instigation,” the CIA “began to support” the coup plan, which included, “as a first step, the assassination of Fidel Castro.”
And while Cubela was instigating CIA support for a coup that would kill Castro, the U.S. Coordinating Committee for Cuban Affairs met on September 12, 1963, and “agreed unanimously that there was a strong likelihood Castro would retaliate in some way against the rash of covert activity in Cuba.”
“Within weeks” of the September 12 meeting, the CIA, under the leadership of KGB officer John McCone, “escalated the level of its covert operations” against Cuba and informed Cubela that the United States “supported” his plans for a coup.
On October 11, 1963, Rolando Cubela, described as “a high level Cuban government official,” told the CIA that he wanted “a meeting with a senior U.S. official, preferably Robert F. Kennedy, for assurance of ‘moral support’” for his coup plans, which included Castro’s assassination.
On October 29, 1963, fifty-two days after Castro threatened the safety of “United States leaders,” Desmond Fitzgerald, Chief of the CIA’s Special Affairs Staff, met with Cubela and told him that he was the “personal representative” of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
Fitzgerald also gave Cubela the task of assassinating Fidel Castro, telling him that “the United States is prepared to render all necessary assistance to any anti-communist Cuban group which succeeds in neutralizing the present Cuban leadership.” (Neutralize is a CIA code word for kill.)
The meeting took place “despite warnings from certain CIA staffers that the operation was poorly conceived and insecure.”
Two days later, a CIA document stated that if the coup against Castro were going to be “supportable” by the United States, those involved must “neutralize the top echelon of Cuban leadership.”
The document emphasized that “the situation in Cuba at the time of U.S. intervention” must be one in which “Fidel Castro, and possibly Raul Castro, President Dorticos, and Che Guevara” have been “neutralized by the insurgents.”
A CIA document on “Highly Sensitive Activities” states, “At the very moment President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, a CIA officer was meeting with a Cuban agent in Paris and giving him an assassination device for use against Castro.” The “Cuban agent” was Rolando Cubela, and prior to November 22, Cubela “spoke repeatedly of the need for an assassination weapon.”
CIA documents state that the Cubela episode began in March 1961 when he and another Cuban allegedly “wanted to defect” and “needed help” in escaping from Cuba, but no such defection took place because “Cuban police were aware” of Cubela’s “intention and plans.”
In August 1962, the CIA decided to use Cubela, the alleged defector, as an asset inside Cuba, but in a meeting with the CIA on August 20, 1962, Cubela “refused to be polygraphed.”
Nine days after refusing to take a lie detector test, Cubela flew back to Havana and “did not leave Cuba” again until September 1963, which resulted in the CIA having “no contact” with him from August 1962 until he initiated a meeting with the CIA on September 7, 1963, the very day that Fidel Castro threatened to retaliate against U.S. leaders if they gave aid to anyone trying to “eliminate Cuban leaders.”
The CIA finally terminated contact with Cubela in June 1965.
To summarize, then, Cubela claimed that he wanted to defect but never left Cuba, allegedly because the Cuban police knew he was a defector. And even though he was allegedly pegged as a traitor by Cuba, he was still “highly placed in the Castro government.”
A year and a half after his claim about wanting to defect, the CIA wanted to use him as an asset inside Cuba, but Cubela refused to take a lie detector test. He then had “no contact” with the CIA until the day that Castro threatened the safety of “United States leaders” if they gave aid to anyone with plans to “eliminate Cuban leaders,” at which time Cubela coincidentally initiated a meeting with the CIA and told them that he had a “specific plan” to “foment a coup against Castro.” He said he wanted “high-level assurances of support” as he waited for a “plan of action from the United States Government” that would result in Castro’s death.
Then, Cubela said he wanted to meet with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, another “United States leader,” so that Cubela could get “moral support” for his plan to assassinate Castro. A CIA official met with Cubela and told him that he was the “personal representative” of Robert F. Kennedy and that the United States would provide “all necessary assistance” to “any anti-communist Cuban group” that would kill Castro. Cubela then spoke repeatedly of needing “an assassination weapon,” and, coincidentally, at the very moment that President Kennedy was killed, a CIA officer was in Paris giving Cubela “an assassination device for use against Castro.”
Cubela, whose CIA code name was AMLASH, was nothing but a provocateur who, from the day Castro threatened the safety of “United States leaders,” enticed the CIA to actively plan Castro’s assassination.
When President Kennedy was assassinated, the assumption was that both Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban Premier Fidel Castro had made good on the threat to retaliate. and President Johnson feared that their involvement in the assassination could lead to “a nuclear war.”
Chief Justice Earl Warren was interviewed in December 1972 and stated that when he went to the White House on November 29, 1963, President Johnson “told me he felt conditions around the world were so bad at the moment that he thought it might even get us into a war; a nuclear war.”
Two hours before going to the White House, Earl Warren met with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, telling him that he “did not believe a Chief Justice should undertake non-judicial duties while sitting on the Supreme Court.”
But when he went to the White House, Johnson told Warren that he had “asked for a report from Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara for an estimate on how many Americans would be killed in a Soviet nuclear attack.”
Johnson was given a figure of 40 million, and the fear of a possible nuclear war caused Warren to “agree to head the inquiry.”
The simple fact is that no matter what the Warren Commission found out, they would abide by their instructions to tell the American public that there was no conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy.
When President Johnson called Senator Richard Russell on November 29 to enlist him for the Warren Commission, he told Russell about Chief Justice Warren refusing Bobby Kennedy’s request to serve on a Presidential Commission, stating, “Bobby and them went up to see him today and he turned them down cold and said, ‘No’ . . . . Two hours later I called him and ordered him down here, and he didn’t want to come. I insisted he come.”
Johnson told Senator Russell that Chief Justice Warren “came down here and told me no twice,” and President Johnson pointedly told Russell, “We’ve got to take this out of the arena where they’re testifying that Khrushchev and Castro did this and did that and chuck us into a war that can kill 40 million Americans in an hour.”
Warren met with the Commission staff on January 20, 1964, and a staff memorandum from the meeting states that Warren “discussed the circumstances under which he had accepted the chairmanship of the Commission.” Warren told the staff that “rumors” that were “circulating in this country and overseas” had to be “quenched,” or the rumors “could conceivably lead the country into a war which could cost 40 million lives. No one could refuse to do something which might help to prevent such a possibility.”
President Johnson clearly gave the Warren Commission a “no conspiracy” mandate due to his fear of Soviet and Cuban involvement and the possibility of “a nuclear war,” which explains why the Warren Commission made the case for Oswald being a Lone Assassin.
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