Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
Castro’s Secrets by retired CIA analyst Brian Latell claims Cuban dictator Fidel Castro knew of plans to assassinate John F. Kennedy, the Miami Herald reports.
Lee Harvey Oswald apparently warned Cuban intelligence officers in advance of his
plans to kill the president when he officials at the Cuban embassy in
Mexico City refused to give him a visa to travel to the island. He
promised to shoot Kennedy to prove his revolutionary credentials.
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