Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy by Jonathan Marshall

Author:Jonathan Marshall [Marshall, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781538142509
Google: F30WEAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 55405066
Published: 2021-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

The Most Dangerous Question: Who Killed JFK?

The CIA could not have known in 1963—and likely still does not know today—whether its murder plots against Castro in some way rebounded against JFK in Dallas.55 Some agency officials suspected that Castro had recruited Lee Harvey Oswald to retaliate against Kennedy, tit for tat. It was also conceivable that one or more of the CIA’s own agents, who hated President Kennedy for failing to back the Bay of Pigs invasion with American air and naval power, had killed the president. (Within hours of the assassination, Bobby Kennedy reportedly told one anti-Castro Cuban leader, “One of your guys did it.”56) Oswald, the reputed Dallas assassin, had enough murky relationships with the CIA, FBI, naval intelligence, pro-Castro, and anti-Castro Cuban exile organizations to fill dozens of subsequent conspiracy books. The man who silenced Oswald, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, maintained close ties to Giancana’s Outfit as late as 1963, knew Rosselli, and likely met with Trafficante in Cuba in 1959.57 Thorough investigation of any of these leads might expose some of the CIA’s darkest secrets, including its dirty alliance with the Mafia. The agency, not surprisingly, went into full cover-up mode. It kept its own assassination schemes secret from the Warren Commission and offered few details to the FBI.58

The House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in 1979 that Trafficante and his Louisiana ally, Carlos Marcello, “had the motive, means, and opportunity to assassinate President Kennedy” but admitted it had no proof of their involvement. Years later, Trafficante’s attorney claimed that the mob boss admitted on his deathbed to being part of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy, apparently at the behest of Jimmy Hoffa. That alleged confession, like others in the case, is still highly controversial.59 But a respected Cuban exile leader did testify before Congress about a chilling meeting with Trafficante one year before the JFK assassination to discuss a large Teamster pension fund loan. Trafficante was “very much upset” about “the way the President was getting into Hoffa” and predicted that Kennedy would not serve a second term. When the exile leader questioned his political prediction, Trafficante allegedly replied, “you don’t understand me, he is going to be hit.”60

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