When will Posada confess to complicity in Kennedy’s assassination?
• 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?
• 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?