Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposition teams since July, reported few weaknesses. The Reds were stacked with powerful hitters, high-octane speed, superb defense and one of the best bullpens in the game. The Red Sox entered the Series with equally potent hitting, nearly flawless defense and a pitcher named Luis Tiant. The Cuban righthander, who claims to be 34 but is widely believed to be older, had won 76 games for Boston since it reclaimed him in 1971 from the minor leagues, where he had been abandoned as a washed-up fireballer. Cincinnati Scout Ray Shore warned his fellow Reds before the Series began...
...emigres in Dallas, Oswald then surfaced in New Orleans as the secretary of a pro-Castro organization called the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Not only was he the only known member of the organisation, out its literature was stamped with the address of an anti-Castro group of Cuban exiles directed by Howard Hunt, Watergate burglar and CIA political advisor to the Bay of Pigs invasion...
...American official to whom he renounced his citizenship in Moscow, the people who received him when he returned to the U.S., his associates in Dallas and New Orleans, and even his cousin can be traced to the CIA. Most crucially, Oswald travelled to Mexico City attempting to obtain a Cuban visa during precisely the two months in the summer of 1963 when Howard Hunt was CIA station chief there...
Hunt and Sturgis provide the key to the whole puzzle and the motive for the assassination. Leading CIA operatives and masterminds of the Bay of Pigs operation, Hunt and Sturgis were extremely angry at Kennedy for his role in the invasion's failure, as were most CIA agents and Cuban exiles. Kennedy refused to order a second air strike after the first one had been exposed--thus dooming the invasion force to defeat and capture--curtailed subsequent anti-Castro forays, and promised Khrushchev to end all invasion plans in return for removing Russian missiles...
...seen in two places at the same time. Canfield and Weberman contend that Oswald was earmarked by the CIA as a patsy for the assassination. Oswald, who thought he was involved in a plot to kill Castro, engaged in public pro-Castro activities to convince the Cubans to grant him a visa. The CIA plan was for Oswald to be apprehended with the visa in his pocket, tying Castro to the assassination and thus ensuring a full-scale invasion of Cuba. The authors trace the Oswald double to a para-military band of right-wing Cubans. Most interestingly, the face...