The Liz Smith Column that first mentions the CIA-JCS use of plot to kill Hitler as a "role model" to get Castro.
Liz Smith
January 6, 2009
YEAH, I HAD the son
of a bitch killed. I'm glad I did. I'm sorry I couldn't have done it
myself!"
These were the words of Carlos
Marcello, the Mafia godfather of Louisiana and Texas. And he was talking about
the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Marcello's startling admission is in
uncensored FBI files at the National Archives, detailed for the first time in a
new encyclopedic book "Legacy of Secrecy." I have been referring to
this work off and on for years while the author, Lamar Waldron, completed
his investigation into the murders of John and Robert Kennedy and also into the
death of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Waldron's 848-page tome was
published in November. It caps 20 years of research that began in 1988 when he
didn't know that Marcello had confessed to JFK's murder back in 1985. The FBI
kept this fact a secret for more than two decades while "conspiracy
theorists" ranged all over the place. And . . . the Warren Commission
released its fairy-tale version of the death of JFK at the hands of a lone
assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
IN 1963, only weeks after JFK was
killed, the FBI questioned 14 Marcello mob associates. Yet the godfather's name
doesn't even appear in the Warren Report. This secrecy, it seems, was all
because of Cuba. (And that info is contained in Waldron's first incredible
book, "Ultimate Sacrifice.")
In their massive war against the
Mafia, President Kennedy and his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy were
never able to convict any members of the Marcello crime family. And Marcello
didn't make his admission of guilt until he was serving a long prison sentence
as a result of an FBI sting called BRILAB. The FBI also carried on a sting
against Marcello with the code name CAMTEX.
The FBI groomed an informant who
became Carlos Marcello's cellmate. These tapes have never been released but
they reveal the godfather standing in the prison yard, flying into a rage and
cussing the Kennedys.
Marcello confessed that he'd also
met Lee Harvey Oswald and brought him into the plot via that Louisiana
character David Ferrie, a person notably played by actor Joe
Pesci in Oliver
Stone's conspiracy movie "JFK." Marcello also admitted that it
was he who had set up Jack Ruby "in the bar business in Dallas." (As
we know, Ruby did his bit for the Marcello plot when he killed Lee Harvey
Oswald before he could implicate anyone else.)
There is now massive evidence,
compiled by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which concluded in
1979 that Marcello "had the motive, means and opportunity to have the
president assassinated."
YOU MAY WONDER why the FBI and CIA
withheld information from the committee. By the time of JFK's murder, dozens of
Marcello associates had infiltrated a CIA operation code-named AMWORLD, a
project started by JFK himself. Writer Waldron revealed this back in 2005. This
was the CIA's top-secret plan to cooperate with Cuba's army commander, Juan
Almeida, to stage a coup against Fidel
Castro on Dec. 1, 1963. That was 10 days after JFK's trip to Dallas.
(The CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff even referred to the World War II plot
to kill Hitler as their role model for getting rid of Castro. You can see that
story told by Tom Cruise in the new movie "Valkyrie.")
AMWORLD files show that these
conspirators wanted to shoot Castro while he was riding in an open jeep.
Marcello's men used that idea to kill JFK in an open car in Dallas. They then
planted phony evidence implicating Castro.
Commander Almeida is still high in
command in Cuba although he was under house arrest in the early '90s. Today, he
is the No. 3 official in Cuba. Yet shortly after JFK's death, Castro had Che
Guevara put under house arrest on suspicion of being the coup leader
against him. This triggered a series of events that would eventually lead to
the iconic revolutionary leader's death in Bolivia. (You can see that story in
the Steven Soderbergh movie "Che." The title role is
notably played by actor Benicio Del Toro.)
NOBODY SEEMS ever to have completely
solved the Mafia-type hit murders leveled at Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana and
the popular mob lieutenant Johnny Rosselli. But this indicates to me that these
mobsters, who were involved in JFK's plot to get rid of Castro, were rubbed out
by Marcello associates simply because they seemed to be helping the Kennedys.
The 50th anniversary of the Cuban
Revolution was Jan. 1. Commander Almeida again seems to escape Castro's revenge
and he is believed able even yet to play a role in resolving the impasse
between the US and Cuba.
Legacy of Secrecy at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Secrecy-Long-Shadow-Assassination/dp/1582434220/ref=pd_sim_b_img_2
Ultimate Sacrifice at Amazon: https://books.google.com/books?id=YOWNw_rmTKYC&pg=PA770&lpg=PA770&dq=legacy+of+secrecy+waldron&source=web&ots=j10OqMnBxB&sig=GfMJ9IXyzS-D7K1vlEjUntYzh8U
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