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Salon: Inside the plot to kill JFK: The secret story of the CIA and what really happened in Dallas
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The official narrative only gets more implausible, especially when you hear the stories of these secret super-spies<snip>
This was the story that Howard Hunt left behind. Sometime in 1963, Hunt said, he was invited to a meeting at one of the CIA safe houses in Miami by Frank Sturgis, a soldier of fortune who had worked under Hunt in the anti-Castro undergrounda man with whom Hunt would be forever linked when they were later arrested for the Watergate break-in. Also in attendance at the Miami meeting was David Morales, another CIA veteran of the anti-Castro campaign who was well known to Hunt. Moralesa big, intimidating man who had grown up in a poor Mexican American family in Phoenixdid not fit the polished CIA profile. But the agency found a use for El Indioas Morales, with his strong indigenous features, was known by his colleagues.
Dave Morales did dirty work for the agency, according to Wayne Smith, a diplomat who worked alongside Morales in the U.S. embassy in Havana before Castro took power. If he were in the mob, hed be called a hit man.
Thomas Clines, a colleague of Moraless in the CIAs Miami station, was more complimentary in his description, but it amounted to the same thing: We all admired the hell out of the guy. He drank like crazy, but he was bright as hell. He could fool people into thinking he was stupid by acting stupid, but he knew about cultural things all over the world. People were afraid of him. He was big and aggressive, and he had this mystique. Stories about him permeated the agency. If the agency needed someone action-oriented, he was at the top of the list. If the U.S. government as a matter of policy needed someone or something neutralized, Dave would do it, including things that were repugnant to a lot of people.
Ruben Carbajal, Moraless lifelong friend from their boyhood days on the streets of Phoenix, was even more blunt about Didithe man who was like a brother to him: When some asshole needed to be killed, Didi was the man to do it. . . . That was his job.
According to Moraless daughter, he was the CIAs peon. Her father was utterly devoted to the agency. He did whatever he was told. They gave him a lifestyle that he would never have had under any circumstances. . . . He did everything for the Company. His family wasnt his lifethe Company was his life.
At the secret Miami meeting, Morales told Hunt that he had been recruited for an off-the-board operation by Bill Harvey, with whom El Indio had worked closely on the ZR/Rifle project to kill Castro. The aim of this off-the-board operation, it soon became clear, was to assassinate President Kennedy. Morales and Sturgis referred to the presidents planned demise as the big event.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/11/22/inside_the_plot_to_kill_jfk_the_secret_story_of_the_cia_and_what_really_happened_in_dallas/
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