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THE SECOND INVASION OF CUBA
by Gil Jesus
I submit to the reader that "the second invasion of Cuba" was the "codename" for the assassination of President Kennedy by right-wing forces in the United States.
During the first "Bay of Pigs" invasion, [Cuban Premier Fidel] Castro was to be murdered prior to the invasion. But this "invasion" was not an invasion at all. It simply co-opted a single ingredient of the original plan, which was the assassination, not of Castro this time, but of Kennedy.
This is why Richard Helms got so upset when Bob Haldeman mentioned "The Bay of Pigs" to him during the attempt to cover up the Watergate break-in. Certain people in the [President Richard] Nixon White House and the rest of the American Government knew what the "Bay of Pigs" meant--it was the SECOND Bay of Pigs, or as it was known at the time in 1963, "the second invasion of Cuba".
One of the locations from which the arming of this "second invasion" was coming from, was Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, where truckloads of weapons and.explosives were being stolen. Another was the Red River Arsenal in Texarkana, Texas. The Property Disposal Officer at Red River, Ray McKnight, was suspected of selling surplus Army weapons and parts as was a Captain George C. Nonte of Fort Hood, Texas.(1)
It is very likely that some of those surplus military materials included ammunition. Ammunition like the Western Cartridge Company's copper-jacketed bullets for the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, which it manufactured for the US Marine Corps in the 1950's. Some of this exact ammunition ended up in the.Dallas gunshop of John Thomas Masen, a reputed member of the Minutemen para-military organization and a man who looked remarkably like Lee Harvey Oswald.
In March 1964 the FBI searched gunshops in the Dallas area to see if any had the Mannlicher-Carcano ammunition without the copper jacket. It could find none save one--the shop of John Thomas Masen. "The owner, Mr. Masen, had purchased about "ten boxes..early 1963", and told the FBI that "some of the cartridges had been reloaded with a soft hunting bullet." (2) This revelation is significant because it says that there was a dealer (Masen) in the Dallas area, who had ammunition for the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle that were "reloads" and would fragment easily and stay inside a human body (like a hunting bullet),
rather than go through it.
It is precisely this type of bullet that reportedly was removed from his back during the President's autopsy in Dallas. The bullet was taken by Admiral Burkley, the President's physician, and given to the Secret Service, who had assisted the military and its Cuban-exiles in the execution of the President.
However, the evidence would end up in the hands of the FBI, who would eventually be in charge of the investigation. Receipts were passed as they are to maintain a "chain of possesssion' of the evidence, since Oswald was still alive and could face trial in Texas. But I believe that it was THIS bullet that prompted the FBI in March 1964 to start searching the gunshops in the Dallas area. Having confronted Masen and hearing his denial that he ever sold that type of ammunition to Oswald, the FBI shut it down. They never asked Masen if he ever sold that ammunition to ANYONE else, just Oswald.
This is truly one of the amazing aspects of this case. Here is the FBI, who insists that the ammunition that was used to kill the President was Western Cartridge Company ammunition for the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle. Western Cartridge only made copper-jacketed bullets for that rifle. But the bullet removed from the President's body was not copper-jacketed but an unjacketed, fragmenting bullet, definitely not made by Western and apparently a reload.
They investigate to see if anyone sells this type of bullet in the Dallas area and lo and behold they find Masen, who denies ever selling that ammunition to Oswald. So they drop the matter.
Why do they drop it? Because an investigation of Masen would lead to the gunrunning network involving the military's plan to arm the Cuban-exiles nationwide until someone, somewhere would kill the President.
It would eventually reveal the Secret Service's complicity in this case. . It would reveal the Secret Service's role to leave the President exposed and to give those who wished to kill him "unrestricted view" of him. It would reveal that changes were made in the Dallas motorcade on the morning of the assassination, that military people in the motorcade were moved out of harm's way; as were the motorcycle officers and the Secret Service men who were removed from the rear bumper. (Henry Rybka, who was left behind at Love Field much to his dismay) It would reveal that the newsmen had been moved to the rear of the motorcade (again, presumably for their own safety, and also to prevent them from photographing or filming the assassination) and that cars were rearranged.
It would reveal that when the shooting started, Agent John Ready started towards the President and was called back by Agent Emory Roberts. And it would reveal that Agent William Greer, the driver of the President's limousine, looked back and brought the car to nearly a complete stop, speeding up only when he was satisfied that the the President had had his brains blown out and was dead.
More importantly to the Bureau, it could have even led to the revelation of FBI's foreknowledge.
Millions of dollars worth of stolen weapons were leaving the bases and passing through Masen en route to groups like the Dallas Chapter of Alpha 66, located at 3126 Harlandale. The FBI knew it and did nothing because the "second invasion" served the purposes of its Director, J. Edgar Hoover.
In fact, Hoover's FBI and the112th Military Intelligence Group stationed at Fort Sam Houston in Sam Antonio, Texas did absolutely nothing about these thefts, and in fact inteferred with the investigation conducted by Frank Ellsworth, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. (ATF)
Hoover suppressed warnings and threats, and did everything that he could, to ensure the success of the operation. An FBI airtel dated November 1st, 1963 , indicated that the "second invasion of Cuba" was planned for the last week in November. (3)
With this airtel, the FBI now knew when the attempt would be made to execute the President for treason. How do I know this ? Because I believe that the source of this airtel was a letter that was sent to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on October 22, 1963 by Pfc. Eugene Dinkin assigned to the Army as a codebreaker in Metz, France. Dinkin alleged in this letter that "an attempt to assasinate President Kennedy would occur on November 28th and that if it were to succeed, blame would be placed upon a Communist or a Negro, who would be designated the assassin and that the conspiracy was being engineered by
elements of the military and that a military coup might ensue." When questioned later by a "Secret Service agent", Dinkin said that, "I knew of no exact date and gave November 28th was an approximate date." (4) Perhaps all he knew was, that it was planned for the last week in November.
Armed with the knowledge that the "second invasion of Cuba" was planned for the end of November, the FBI was extremely interested in finding out where it was going to occur. The Bureau knew for some time that the weapons were coming from Fort Hood and that Nonte was involved (5), but it didn't know where they were going. This same FBI document indicated that Masen had received information from a weapons buyer from the University of Miami (the CIA's JM/Wave station) named Martinez about the "second invasion of Cuba" and was willing to sell it. Masen and Nonte met and Masen implied that a lot of money could be made in the stock market by someone who had such information.
The FBI ordered its Dallas agent in charge of watching the right-wing subversives, James Hosty, to locate a man named George Perrel. Apparently the Bureau found out that "Perrel" was a key participant in precuring weapons for the "second invasion of Cuba" from Fort Hood. His real name was Fermin de Goicochea and he was the DRE "secretary for military affairs in Dallas. (6) He was also a student at the University of Dallas, whose President until 1962 had been a man named Robert Morris, a high raking member of the John Birch Society and personal friend of General Edwin A. Walker. In this capacity, it was "Perrel's" responsibility to secure weapons for the "second invasion of Cuba".
He purchased these weapons through the Dallas gun-shop owner John Thomas Masen. As we have seen, Masen's contact at Fort Hood was a man named George Nonte, a U.S. Army Captain with top-secret clearance and commanding officer of D Company, 123rd Maintenence Battalion. The weapons that "Perrel" purchased from Masen ended up in the hands of Manuel Rodriguez Orcaberro, (7) a man who, like David Ferrie, had expressed some violently anti-JFK remarks after the Bay of Pigs. So much so that he was visited by the Secret Service Protective Research Service (PRS) shortly after the assassination.
In September 1963, Rodriguez came to Dallas to head the Alpha 66 chapter there. September 1963 was also the month that "Perrel" came to Dallas to attend the University of Dallas. It was also the month that the President's Texas trip.was announced. And it was around this time that "second Oswalds" started showing up all around Dallas. One of the groups that Rodriguez worked close with was the Free Cuba Committee, the same group that Henry Wade mistakenly said that Oswald was a member of, before being corrected by Jack Ruby.
The ATF agent who was investigating this theft, Frank Ellsworth, nearly rained on this happy little parade. He was about to nail Nonte and Masen when his case was circumvented by the Dallas Police and the FBI, who arrested two of Jack Ruby's associates (Donnell Darius Whitter and Lawrence Reginald Miller) with the stolen weapons after a high-speed chase. Ellsworth blew his cover when he went to Fort Hood to inquire about the thefts from the FBI and th Army's Criminal Intelligence Division (CID). He asked about the thefts and implied that they were coming through a man named Nonte. From that point on, Ellsworth wasn't going to catch anyone with any weapons. The FBI men at Fort Hood gave Ellsworth up as an ATF agent to Nonte and advised him to tip off Masen. Why would they do this? Because the successful execution of the President directly depended on Nonte and Masen's ability to get the weapons into the hands of the Dallas exiles willing to pull the trigger. A five-page FBI teletype dated October 25, 1963 indicates that the FBI "interviewed Nonte and briefed him on the scope of discreet inquiry to be made of Masen on contact." (8)
As a result, when Ellsworth tried to set up a meeting place for the sale of the weapons, Masen gave him a bogus location. Meanwhile, a real transfer of weapons was going on at another location, this one under the watchful eyes of the DPD and the FBI. By taking the arrest of Whitter and Miller away from the.ATF, the FBI had prevented the ATF from stopping the flow of weapons from Fort Hood.
I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the informant on this arrest. His status as an FBI informant explains why he rented a room under an assumed name. If the conspirators had come to his rooming house looking for "Lee Oswald", they would.have come up empty. It also explains why he got angry when his wife called the rooming house and asked for him by name. He didn't want his landlady to know his real name for fear that she might reveal it to anybody who came looking for him.
It also explains why he told the Dallas Police that "now everyone will know who I am" when he was arrested. All of this indicates that Oswald was acting as.an FBI informant. And in this capacity, his contact in the FBI HAD to have been.the man whose responsibility it was to watch the right-wing extremists, James Hosty. Two days prior to the Whitter-Miller arrests, Oswald had visited the Dallas FBI office. Two days later, the motorcade route was decided on, with the turn from Main-Houston-Elm. On the evening before the President's arrival, in a meeting in the Dallas Police station, the final step in exposing the President
to his executioners was completed. Secret Service agent Winston Lawson told the.Dallas Police that the President did not want any motorcycles alongside his car.and reduced the number of them from four on each side to two on each side and moved them to the rear of the rear fender. (9)
But Lawson, under oath to the Warren Commission, had to admit that the President said no such thing and that it was his understanding that this was true. (10)
The on the morning of the assassination, Ellsworth, understandably, was upset that he had been compromised and called a meeting to discuss the continuing theft of weapons from Fort Hood and the possible involvement of the Minutemen.(of which Masen was a member) and supporters of General Walker. That meeting took place on the morning of the assassination and ended about 11:45 am, or.about 45 minutes before the President was executed. At the meeting with.Ellsworth was FBI agent James Hosty and Army Intelligence agent Ed J. Coyle of.the 112th Military Intelligence Group stationed at Fort Sam Houston in Sam Antonio, Texas. Coyle represented the Army's interest (or disinterest as the case may be) in solving the the theft from Fort Hood. The 112th was the same.group that, according to Col. Fletcher Prouty, was told to "stand down" that day. It was also the same group that had the Oswald/Hidell information from the.street brawl in New Orleans, and the same group that sent 8-12 of its members.(in plainclothes) to Dallas to provide security for the President's visit.
According to Col. Robert Jones, (who testified to the HSCA in executive session) one of those agents assigned to Presidential protection in Dallas that day was Ed J. Coyle.
We've seen the military-cuban exile link of Nonte-Masen-de Goicochia/Perrel-Rodriguez. The Military-Secret Service link could have gone through the Washington Secret Service agent who moved the motorcycles back and reduced their number, and removed the agents from the President's limo. That.agent, Winston Lawson, was a former Military Intelligence agent like Coyle and James Powell. (11)
If Lawson had a co-conspirator in the military-intelligence field in Dallas,.it may have been the Commander of the local Military Intelligence Unit, Lt. Col. George Whitmayer, who for some reason was in the motorcade, but safely away from the shooting. He rode in the motorcade "Pilot Car" about 1/4 mile in front of the President's limousine. (12)
Immediately after the assassination (according to Hosty), Coyle was transferred to Korea "so reporters couldn't get at him--since Korea is a combat zone." Hosty contends this is so because Coyle allegedly heard Dallas Police Lt. Jack.Revill say on November 21st that he didn't want to guard that "son of a bitch Kennedy tomorrow." That the Army would transfer one of its agents half way across the world to keep a lid on an indiscrete remark by a Dallas cop seems almost unbelieveable. I am more inclined to believe that Hosty is telling another of his "half-truths" here and that it was Coyle who made the remark, revealing the Army's sentiment towards the President and making them a prime suspect in his murder, especially in front of a Dallas cop. Coyle was the Military Intelligence agent in charge of investigating the thefts from Fort Hood and at the same time he was assigned to Presidential Protection in Dallas. He may have shed some light on the weapons theft and its role in the assassination. Perhaps he was transferred to Korea to prevent anyone from.questioning him at a later date.
NOTES
1. FBI document dated 11/26/63-NARA 180 100 781 0055
2. CE 694
3. FBI File No. 105-125147-7 pgs 3-4, dated 11/1/63
4. The Man Who Knew Too Much, Dick Russell, pg. 553-556
5. FBI document dated 10/28/63-NARA 180 100 781 0668
6. FBI File No. 105-133465-2 dated 9/18/64
7. Griffin memo to W. David Slawson-Apr. 16, 1964
8. FBI file # 105-125-147 dated 10/25/63
9. 4 H 171
10. 4 H 338
11. 4 H 313
12. High Treason, Groden and Livingstone, p.185; Crossfire, Jim Marrs, pg. 9
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Plead for the widow." Isaiah 1:17 (New King James Version)
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