Castro’s Secrets: The CIA And Cuba’s Intelligence Machine
- Brian Latell
- Palgrave Macmillan
- 288 pp.
- May 21, 2012
A consideration of alternative theories on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, including thoughts on what Castro and Cuban intelligence knew prior to November 22, 1963.
Reviewed by Ronald Goldfarb
The assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald in November 1963, a grim anniversary we will commemorate next year, was certainly the crime of the last century. An extensive body of literature chronicled, critiqued and analyzed that event, following the official Warren Commission Report that President Lyndon Baines Johnson ordered to document what happened. That report was flawed for reasons the Commission itself could not know. It acted quickly, as it had to, in order to assuage concerns about possible conspiracies and continuing dangers to the U.S. However flawed by the deceptions of officials in the FBI and CIA who knew facts they did not relate, and even secrets Robert F. Kennedy could not share, the Warren Commission’s basic conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was an erratic assassin who acted alone has withstood continuous barrages of criticism. Some of that criticism is foolish and insubstantial, some impressively persuasive. Today, the Warren Commission findings remain the accepted view of the assassination.
