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Post by Paul Ernst on Mar 20, 2020 17:49:18 GMT -5
March 9, 1961:
A CIA officer assigned to the Mexico City Station meets in Mexico City with Rolando Cubela to sound out Cubela on his views pertaining to the Cuban situation.
Although this meeting proves inconclusive, it leads to other meetings out of which will grow Project AMLASH.
Cubela will repeatedly insist that the essential first step in overthrowing the regime is the elimination of Fidel Castro himself, which Cubela claims he is prepared to accomplish.
Note:
Rolando Cubela Secades, a Cuban doctor and official who was recruited in 1963 for an assassination attempt on Castro. Suspicion remains that Cubela may have been acting as a dangle to the CIA by Castro; that is fueled by his lenient treatment after being exposed and convicted of treason.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Mar 20, 2020 17:51:56 GMT -5
March 10, 1961:
The University of Michigan Band stops for three days in Minsk during its tour of the Soviet Union and is given a reception at the Minsk Polytechnical Institute.
Katherine Mallory, a flutist, happens to meet Lee Harvey Oswald in a surging crowd of wellwishers. He offers to interpret for her.
He manages to volunteer that he is “an ex-Marine who despised the United States and hopes to spend the rest of his life in Minsk.”
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Post by Paul Ernst on Mar 24, 2020 12:00:25 GMT -5
March 11, 1961:
Richard Bissell and Allen Dulles meet with JFK, the National Security Council, and several others, including Schlesinger. Both CIA officials argue strongly for prompt action against Cuba.
Bissell advocates a landing at the South Central coastal town of Trinidad, a target favored by the Joint Chiefs. Of the Bay of Pigs invasion, General S. L. A. Marshall will later write: “The Joint Chiefs were never asked to approve any plan; they were not besought to analyze that final plan that became operative. They were figuratively put in a corner and given to understand they should not interfere or pass judgment.”
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Post by Paul Ernst on Mar 24, 2020 12:06:17 GMT -5
March 14, 1961:
Santos Trafficante, Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli meet in the Fontainbleau.
They have contracted a Cuban hit-man to kill Fidel Castro. Bob Maheu brings cash for paying the hit-man and poison to do the job with.
The hit-man may have been a cook in a restaurant frequented by Castro who was willing to poison the Premier’s meal. A few days later, Castro is reported to be ill. Maheu says: “Castro’s ill. He’s going to be sick two, three days.
Wow, we got him.” But, Castro recovers. As Sheffield Edwards later reports: “Castro stopped visiting the restaurant where the “asset” was employed.” The CIA will eventually tell the Church Committee that it was involved in nine Castro assassination plots in all, including those with the Mafia.
Castro himself will later produce a detailed list of 24 plots against his life involving the CIA. What is significant is that both the CIA and Castro agree on when the plans began.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Mar 30, 2020 19:04:35 GMT -5
March 15, 1961:
Cuba’s foreign minister tells the United Nations that the United States is guilty of illegal, perfidious and premeditated” aggressions.
He accuses JFK by name of encouraging “preparations for the invasion of Cuba, ” an invasion, he says a few days lat er, that is imminent.”
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Post by Paul Ernst on Mar 30, 2020 19:06:08 GMT -5
March 17, 1961:
Nineteen year old Marina Nikolaevna Pruskakova first meets Lee Harvey Oswald at a dance at the
Palace of Culture for Professional Workers in Minsk. They will meet again a week later at another dance and will be together for much of the evening.
Oswald’s Diary: March 17:
I and Erich went to trade union dance. Boring but at the last hour I am introduced to a girl with a French hair do and red dress with white slipper I dance with her. than ask to show her home I do, along with 5 other admirares. Her name is Marina. We like each other right away. she gives me her phone number and departs home with an not so new freiend in a taxi, I walked home.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 2, 2020 18:24:37 GMT -5
March 18, 1961:
Oswald’s Diary:
We walk, I talk a little about myself she talks alot about herself.
Her name is Marina N. Prosakoba.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 2, 2020 18:28:06 GMT -5
March 20, 1961:
A letter posted on March 5th, reaches the American Embassy innMoscow.
From Lee Harvey Oswald regarding his desire to return to the USA.
It reiterates that he is unable to leave Minsk without official permission.
Oswald asks that preliminary inquiries be put in the form of a questionnaire and sent to him.
Note: That is very quick is it after he learned Marina shortly!
That's a 3 day time span only.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 3, 2020 22:33:28 GMT -5
March 22, 1961:
An asset of the CIA’s Miami Station reports that Rolando Cubela and Juan Orta want to defect and need help in escaping from Cuba.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 3, 2020 22:36:06 GMT -5
March 22, 1961:
les a last minute appointment with JFK just before Hoover arrives.
Hoover brings with him a folder detailing Judith Campbell’s telephone calls to the White House.
The folder also details her relationship with Sam Giancana.
When Hoover leaves, JFK says to Kenny O’Donnell: “Get rid of that bastard. He’s the biggest bore.”
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