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When
will Posada confess to complicity in Kennedy’s
assassination?
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A U.S. documentary presents new testimonies that
place Luis Posada Carriles, with several other
Cuban-American conspirators, in Dealey Square when
the U.S. president was fatally shot
BY
JEAN-GUY ALLARD -Special for Granma International-
ALWAYS ready and
willing to act as a self-apologist in front of the
Miami, Panamanian and Salvadoran reporters who
besiege his cell in El Renacer prison, international
terrorist Luis Posada Carriles also displays
impressive skill in omitting to mention the murkiest
chapters of his autobiography. One of them is
particularly shady: there are many researchers who
link him, either directly or indirectly, with the
assassination of President John Kennedy, a subject
on which he continues to maintain silence.
In an interview
with Granma International, Wim Dankbaar, a
Dutch businessman who has financed new
investigations into the Kennedy shooting - with the
collaboration of retired FBI agents - and who is
promoting a documentary on the subject, has shown
how one of the three individuals arrested by Dallas
police shortly after the crime placed Luis Posada
Carriles in Dealey Square in Dallas when the
assassination was carried out.
Dankbaar affirms
that Chauncey Holt, one of three alleged vagrants -
in truth, they were Mafia hitmen in disguise - who
were detained testified on the facts in a 2-hour
video recording made shortly before his death that
was never transmitted. “In this recording,” said
Dankbaar, ”Holt names a few Cuban-Americans, and
among them is Luis Posada Carriles.”
“He says that he
doesn’t know whether they were instructed to carry
out the assassination or just to create confusion.”
Chauncey Holt was
working under the orders of Meyer Lansky, notorious
chief of the Havana mafia during the 1950s, and Pete
Licavoli, another U.S. mafia leader.
Dankbaar pointed
out that mafia boss Sam Giancana’s biography -
edited by his brother - discloses the role played by
two buddies of former Havana chief Santos
Trafficante, one of which could perfectly be Posada,
according to the description given.
The research
financed by Dankbaar was led by retired detective
Zack Shelton, who worked for the FBI for 25 years,
principally in Chicago and Kansas City. The film
entitled JFK, the Proof presents the results
of his search for new information on the
controversial subject.
According to
Dankbaar, the presence in Dallas of several small
groups of individuals linked both to the
Cuban-American leadership of the Batista faction and
the Italian mafia could be explained by the CIA’s
compartmentalization of its operations.
As well as Posada,
the film shows that other known Cuban-American CIA
operatives, such as Frank Sturgis and Orlando Bosch,
were also present in Dealey Square.
SEVERAL RESEARCHERS
AGREE THAT THESE CUBAN-AMERICANS WERE IN DEALEY
SQUARE ON THE DAY OF THE CRIME
In a recent
interview with the www.cubadebate.cu
website, Fabián Escalante, former head of Cuban
intelligence, revealed how Posada Carriles and
Guillermo Novo Sampoll, both currently detained in
Panama, as well as Orlando Bosch - released by
President George Bush Snr. on July 20, 1990 - appear
on the list established by Cuban state security.
Escalante explains
Posada’s connection with the conspiracy by
recalling the complex history of a plot that brings
together leaders of the Cuban émigré community,
U.S. mafiosi and CIA officials.
He describes how in
April 1963, Cuban-American bosses from Florida and
New Jersey created an organization that was to
disappear strangely and suddenly, following Kennedy’s
death.
Named the Junta of
the Cuban Government in Exile (JCGE), this group was
led by Carlos Prio Socarrás, Felipe Rivero - a
known terrorist - and Paulino Sierra González, a
representative of the U.S. mafia.
The following month
the group held a meeting in Bimini, in the Bahamas
(very close to Miami), attended by Carlos Prío,
mafia boss John Rosselli, William Carr (Colonel King’s
assistant and head of the CIA’s Western
Hemispheric Division and Robert Rogers, the official
in charge of the plot. Information obtained by Cuban
intelligence agents shows that they then held
meetings for the same purpose attended by terrorists
such as Frank Sturgis, Howard Hunt, Orlando Piedra,
Antonio “Tony” Cuesta, Eladio de Valle, Joaquin
Sanjenis, Manuel Artime, Orlando Bosch, Antonio
Vencina and¼Luis
Posada Carriles.
According to the
former state security chief, by March or April 1963
Kennedy’s assassination had been decided and a
plan was underway to execute the crime.
Marita Laurens, a
German woman and former lover of Frank Sturgis, has
given an important testimony regarding the
activities of this cell of conspirators. She recalls
how she met Lee Harvey Oswald -Kennedy’s “acknowledged”
assassin - in Dallas, whilst in the company of
Sturgis, Bosch, Guillermo Novo Sampoll, his brother
Ignacio and other individuals.
U.S. researchers
investigating the Kennedy case, among them (and
perhaps the most important) Miami journalist Gaeton
Fonzi, agree that this group of CIA operatives were
present in Dallas on the day of the assassination; a
group who were always conspiring together in the
wake of the failed invasion Bay of Pigs invasion.
Members of Operation 40 - established by the U.S.
intelligence agency and trained in Fort Benning to
carry out terrorist operations in Cuba - these
mercenaries maintained constant contact with each
other in order to engage in acts of terrorism
against Cuba, not just on the island but in the
United States and other countries.
It is important to
note that this dangerous group included several
former collaborators of Batista’s police force and
old buddies of the Havana mafia, who had already
moved to the United States with their notorious
bosses, including Santos Trafficante.
In his luxurious
cell in the Panamanian prison of El Renacer, Luis
Posada Carriles constitutes one of the last living
“examples” of this CIA-linked mafia fauna; an
individual who found himself in Dallas on that
fateful day when the President of the United States
was murdered.
When will terrorist
Carriles finally confess his complicity in that
tragic event, as well as the horrific sabotage of a
Cubana passenger plane over Barbados and other
crimes that mark 40 years of terrorist activities?
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