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chance to explain why he was yelling to reporters that he was a
"patsy."
ON THE TRAIL OF THE ASSASSINS: My Investigation
One connection links the CIA elements who planned the Bay of Pigs
and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy
invasion with the mayor's office in Dallas: the Cabell brothers.
By Jim Garrison
During the Bay of Pigs, Charles Cabell, then acting chief of the CIA,
343 pages. New York: Sheridan Square Press, $19.95
"beseeched" Kennedy to provide U.S. air support, which was
refused. Kennedy replaced Charies Cabell in early 1962. Earle
Ever since November 22, 1963, efforts have been made to pin the as-
Cabell, Charles' brother, was mayor of Dallas when the Kennedy
sassination of President John F. Kennedy on Fidel Castro. Within
motorcade's route was changed at the last minute to take him on a
hours of the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald on that Friday afternoon
slow detour past the Texas School Book Depository and the grassy
in Dallas, radio and television were telling the nation that the assas-
knoll.
sin was a "pro-Castro Marxist" who worked with the Fair Play for
Cuba Committee in New Orleans. Under this media barrage, who
When a Senate committee investigated the CIA in 1975-76, it
would dare speculate that the president had fallen in a rightwing
turned out that Kennedy had approved Operation Mongoose and
coup?
other CIA plans to assassinate Fidel Castro. This led to a twist on
blaming the victim: Castro must have killed Kennedy because Ken-
Into this plot stepped New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison-
nedy was trying to kill him. Garrison wryly notes that Castro would
World War II combat pilot, ex-FBI, National Guard, orthodox
hardly have preferred Lyndon Johnson.
believer in U.S. political and legal structures. When he launched an
investigation of Oswald's New Orleans connection, Garrison was
In fact, Castro had reason to hope for better relations with the
just doing his job. On the Trail of the Assassins explains how this in-
United States in late 1963 when Kennedy was being called "soft on
vestigation transformed his view of the FBI, the CIA, and the
Cuba." Kennedy sent a messenger, French journalist Jean Daniel, to
government.
find out how Castro would respond to the idea of a dialogue with
the United States. Daniel was in Cuba with Castro when they heard
Garrison found out that Oswald's leafleting for the Fair Play for
that Kennedy was shot.
Cuba Committee on the streets of New Orleans was "sheepdipping"
to make him appear "pro-Castro." "Nobody," writes Garrison, "has
Garrison is now a judge in the Louisiana Court of Appeals for the
ever succeeded in locating a genuine New Orleans chapter of Fair
Fourth Circuit, reelected in 1987 to his second ten-year term. His
Play for Cuba.' Yet, he continues, "Following the assassination, Os-
belief that there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy is now shared by
wald was immediately branded a communist, with his leafleting ac-
many experts. Even the House Select Committee on Assassinations
tivity in New Orleans cited as the prime evidence."
concluded in 1979 that more than one person was shooting at Ken-
nedy and that there probably had been a conspiracy.
The trail Garrison followed did indeed lead to a Cuban connection:
an anti-Castro connection. For example, the man in charge of shap-
On the Trail of the Assassins expands Garrison's Heritage of Stone,
ing Oswald's image in the summer of 1963 was Guy Banister,
bringing the pursuit of who killed Kennedy up to the present when
former head of the FBI in Chicago and trainer of anti-Castro
the forces involved in the so-called Secret Government are no
Cubans north of Lake Pontchartrain in 1963. David Ferrie, another
longer so secret. It is essential reading for those who want to under-
of Oswaid's close associates that summer, worked for the CIA as a
stand how the Kennedy assassination fits into Cuba-U.S. relations.
trainer of anti-Castro Cubans for the Bay of Pigs invasion.
-Jane Franklin
Far from being a Marxist, Oswald was carrying out "his ill-fated as-
signment as an agent provocateur" and would find out too late that
from the maji media of the U.S.
Here is a fairly representation revior of the book, which I relested as and
good example of a review who read it with a clear understanding
who a writen with equal insigle and clarity.
Curronisty which even surfaced Apparently stuck with their empty headed
enough, there are Almost no reveause - me way on the
rust other to - juidgment to ratefy the Waram Common And government's
the faving
10 Cuba tab, Update they Summer are 1989 Rather than admit they mere wrong they uncorsinated, any from
not free now to archmoroldge that they supported look a hi
the mirm held understand up to grade them and the assustination pretend that a success Kennedy - menes is a was dangerously under- rated-
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