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The Assassination of Kennedy Fifty Years Later: The Cuban Question Mark

| November 22, 2013

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A slightly different version of this essay appeared in French on October 9, 2013 in Questions internationales (No. 64, November–December 2013, 110–114).

The assassination of John F. Kennedy was intimately linked, if only in a subliminal fashion, to American actions against Cuba at the beginning of the 1960's, which in turn formed part of an aggressive and interventionist policy that marked the early phase of the Cold War.

The assassination itself was carried out by a sole killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, out of his admiration for Fidel Castro and his animosity toward the American Government and its President.

The question that remains open after fifty years gone by is whether Castro, who was perfectly aware of the Kennedy brothers' plots against him — thanks to a Cuban double agent who had proposed to the CIA that he assassinate Castro — had ordered his intelligence services to collaborate with Oswald in his action. Until now, nothing solid has emerged to support this thesis....

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