Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oswald, asked a notorious Teamster racketeer from Chicago, Barney Baker, to "straighten out" a troublesome union dispute at Ruby's Dallas night club. (The commision might have been more interested, of course, had the FBI disclosed that the CIA had recruited Chicago gangsters to kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.) There is no evidence that organized crime had anything to do with the Kennedy murder, but the commission's failure to investigate the possibility left a fertile field in which conspiracy theories have flourished...
...Cuban Connection. When CIA attempts to kill Castro became known in 1975, the news touched off speculation that Cubans had engineered Kennedy's murder in retaliation. The files reveal that this possibility had occurred to Hoover and caused him to anguish in private over his public declarations that Oswald had acted alone. But the Director seemed reassured when two letters linking Oswald to a Cuban agent turned out to have been hoaxes. Both letters - one addressed to Oswald but mailed after the assassination, the other sent to the Attorney General - indicated that a Pedro or Peter Charles of Havana...
...Defense of the Revolution (CDR's). Under the new Constitution adopted last year, these organizations form the basis of the "popular power." This power structure builds upwards from the mass organizations, through municipal and provincial assemblies to the national assembly and the council of state, of which Fidel Castro is president...
...psychological isolation that had constrained their activities and ambitions. They learned that many other middle-of-the-road , American-as-Mom's-apple-pie women shared with them a sense of second-class citizenship and a craving for greater social and economic equality. Said Ida Castro, an alternate delegate from New Jersey: "It was a total high to get together and discover so many people who agree on so many issues, and finding that I am not alone." Perhaps more important, many women also found out, as Sharon Talbot, a 19-year-old Smith College student and delegate from Maine...
...Prostitutes were recruited in 1961 to bait sex traps for the leaders of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a pro-Castro group. The FBI's New York office sent a memo to Hoover suggesting a scheme to have a committee leader "picked up on local charges in the event he places himself in a compromising position...