He pushed for more information about Oswald's Mexico City sojourn. only in intelligence circles."įor Mann, it was too convenient that Oswald landed at that hotel. When Warren Commission staff asked Ambassador Mann about the Hotel Comercio's reputation as "a headquarters for pro-Castro activities," Mann answered: "it was not known generally at all. an American communist who had secretly been working for the FBI-Castro let it slip that he knew of Oswald's outburst while at the embassy in Mexico City and said that the ex-Marine had threatened to kill the U.S. Latell, during his Mexico City stay Oswald twice visited the Soviet consulate where he met with "an officer of the notorious Department 13, responsible for assassination and sabotage operations." The KGB was training Cuban intelligence at the time, and "it seems certain that intelligence file in Havana was thickening."Ĭastro's claim about Oswald-in a speech 30 hours after Kennedy was shot-that "we never in our life heard of him" was a lie. When his visa was not forthcoming, witnesses said he went on a rant at the embassy, slammed the door and stormed off.Īccording to Mr. He had a fling with an embassy employee and probably spent time with others who were intelligence agents. He tried to get a visa from the Cuban embassy to travel to Havana. 27, 1963, Oswald checked into the Hotel Comercio in Mexico City for a five-night stay. Oswald was enamored of the Cuban Revolution, and he had made contact with the Cuban consulate in Los Angeles. Latell, that Cuba had "opened a dossier" on Oswald in 1959, while he was stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, in Southern California. It is "known with near certainty," writes Mr. on notice that "aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders" would mean that "they themselves will not be safe."Ĭastro didn't need to look far for a willing partner to back up those words. 7, just after Cubela agreed to help the Americans, Castro gave an interview to an AP reporter in which he put the U.S. Latell also presents strong evidence that the Johnson administration and higher-ups in the FBI and the CIA ensured those details were kept from the Warren Commission.īut Cubela was a double agent. In the process he uncovers startling details that suggest that Cuba fueled Oswald's maniacal desire to prove himself worthy of Castro's revolution during the American's visit to Mexico City in the fall of 1963. Latell set out to tell the story of Cuba's "intelligence machine," which outmaneuvered the U.S. ambassador to Mexico in 1963, who had reason to suspect an Oswald-Cuba connection. Aspillaga "the most knowledgeable Cuban defector ever to change sides." He also pored over thousands of pages of declassified CIA documents and gained access to the unpublished memoir of Latell takes readers through a half-century of Cuban espionage by interviewing a dozen high-ranking Cuban defectors and numerous former CIA officers. 23, 1963 file photo, Lee Harvey Oswald is led down a corridor of the Dallas police station for another round of questioning in connection with the assassination of U.S, President John F.
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