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"9/11 and 11/22"
by
Joan Mellen
Part
2
In
my own study of the Kennedy assassination for my book, "A
Farewell to Justice," I discovered that parallel to these
secret efforts by the C.I.A., Robert F. Kennedy was organizing
his own clandestine plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. The
sources are the released minutes of the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board, the Church Committee papers,
and the Cubans who worked closely with the Attorney General.
Bobby's instruction to his special team was twofold. It was
to discover a means of ridding the Kennedy administration
of the Communist thorn in its side "ninety miles from
home." It was also to protect his brother from the murderous
impulses of an anti-Castro Cuban incensed by John F. Kennedy's
refusal to support the invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
Among
those closest to Bobby Kennedy was a man still living in Florida
today, Angelo Murgado, who, during the summer of 1963, traveled
on Bobby's behalf to New Orleans. Moving among, as he puts
it, "Castro's agents, double agents, and Cubans working
for the C.I.A., he hoped to "neutralize" a future
assassin.
In New Orleans, Mr. Murgado met Lee Harvey Oswald, who resided
there in the city of his birth from April to September 1963.
Hitherto unreported is that Bobby Kennedy became aware of
Oswald - before the assassination.
Bobby even discovered that Oswald was working for the F.B.I.,
a fact brought to the attention of the Warren Commission as
well, and subsequently confirmed for the House Select Committee
on Assassinations in the late 1970s by an F.B.I. employee,
William Walter, who viewed the Bureau's copious files on Oswald
at the New Orleans field office when Oswald was arrested that
August for a staged fracas on Canal Street where he was handing
out "Fair Play for Cuba" leaflets.
"If
the F.B.I. is controlling him," Bobby reasoned, according
to Mr. Murgado, "he's no problem." Operating alone,
covertly, suspecting a threat to his brother, Bobby underestimated
who Oswald was and ceased to make him a major target of his
concern. Bobby knew "something was cooking in New Orleans,"
Angel Murgado says, New Orleans that harlot city now destroyed
by flood in a catastrophe of Biblical proportion, New Orleans
that sin city where the Kennedy assassination incubated. But
Bobby held back. He urged "caution," and apparently
he did not share what he knew about Oswald with those who
should have been expected to help him protect the President.
Part
3
Part
1
A
version of this article appeared in the "Key West Citizen"
of September 2, 2005.
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