Castro knew of JFK hit - CIA agent

Fidel Castro had advance knowledge that John F Kennedy was going to be assassinated, claims a retired CIA agent.

Rumours about the Cuban dictator’s involvement in a plot to murder US President Kennedy, his bitter enemy, have circulated since the shooting in 1963 by communist sympathiser Lee Harvey Oswald.

Now author Brian Latell, who in the 1960s was a CIA analyst on Cuban affairs and later became the agency’s chief intelligence officer for Latin America, says he is certain Castro knew the attack was going to happen.

On the morning of November 22, 1963, the day Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas, Mr Latell claims Castro ordered a senior intelligence officer in Havana to stop listening for general CIA radio communications and concentrate on “any little detail, any small detail from Texas”.

Four hours later, the airwaves came alive with news that Kennedy was dead.

Mr Latell also claims Castro was aware that Oswald had been denied a visa to visit Cuba and had told embassy staff he was going to murder Kennedy to prove his allegiance to the communist cause.

“Fidel knew of Oswald’s intentions and did nothing to deter the act,” Mr Latell writes in his book, Castro’s Secrets - The CIA And Cuba’s Intelligence Machine.

Investigations into Kennedy’s assassination looked at Castro’s possible involvement but concluded that Oswald acted independently. - Daily Mail