January 04, 2006
Castro killed Kennedy?
That's what a new German TV documentary alleges:
The Cuban secret service was behind the assassination of President John F Kennedy, according to evidence presented in a new television documentary.
Rendezvous with Death, to be shown on German television on Friday, offers the most 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 talks for the first time about how Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin, was, he claims, pointed out to the Cubans by the KGB.
Oscar Marino, 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 said to the German film maker Wilfried Huismann. "Oswald was a dissident: he hated his country. He possessed certain characteristics.
"There wasn't anyone else. You take what you can get. . . Oswald volunteered to kill Kennedy."
Personally, I remain firmly in the "Oswald acted alone" camp. But considering Oswald's personal history, this theory certainly makes more sense than the Oliver Stone version of events, which alleges that Oswald was the patsy for gay right-wing commie-haters, or something. (I wonder if Stone will bring this up next time he hangs out with Castro?)
Posted by damian at January 4, 2006 07:17 AM | TrackBack