Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Additionally, the CIA tried to assassinate Castro in the 1960s, using U.S. mobsters as hit men. There is also some slight circumstantial evidence for the theory. In September 1963 Oswald sought a visa to enter Cuba at the country's consulate in Mexico City. That same year, Oswald was arrested in New Orleans while passing out leaflets in support of a committee called Fair Play for Cuba...
...characterized by "Cooperation and competition" and will "blow hot and cold," Huntington said. Referring to Western economic strength in relations with Russia, he said Soviet trade with the West which benefits the Soviet economy will most likely continue to increase provided that the Soviets restrain their activities with Cuba in African countries such as Ethiopia and Angola and if they "modify the way in which they treat their own people...
Castro added that an invasion of Cuba by the United States is precisely "what I have tried to prevent for all these years, in every possible sense...
Speaking before House investigators and members of the House Assassinations Committee last April, the Cuban president said his involvement in any murder plot would have supplied the U.S. government with "the most perfect pretext" for an invasion of Cuba...
...testimony, Castro repeated his previous assertion that unspecified United States citizens deliberately tried to link him with Kennedy's death. Castro said accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's attempts to enter Cuba two months before the assassination were part of this plot...