Fidel Castro knew Kennedy would be assassinated

March 19, 2012 11:29

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Fidel Castro had prior knowledge that US President John F Kennedy was about to be killed, according to a new book by retired CIA analyst. Rumours about the Cuban leader's involvement in a plot to murder his fierce adversary have swirled for almost half a century since communist sympathiser Lee Harvey Oswald shot the US president during a trip to Dallas in November 1963.

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

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