Live by the Sword

Author:Gus Russo [Russo, Gus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bancroft Press

The air traffic controller at Redbird on November 22, 1963 was Louis D. Gaudin. He told the author (and the FBI) that on the day of the shooting, he saw a green and white Comanche-type aircraft being serviced at the airport’s Texair facility. Gaudin spoke with the plane’s three well-dressed occupants. “They said they were headed southbound,” recalled Gaudin in 1994. “The plane took off between 2:30 and 3 o’clock. Forty minutes later, it returned with only two occupants. It was met by a part-time employee who was moonlighting from the Dallas Police Department. The plane then took off again.”8

Texair’s owner, Merritt Gobel, is reluctant (and apparently frightened) to discuss the matter. In 1994, he said, “[The flight] was common knowledge. That’s all I can say.”9

The Redbird allegations, if true, correspond neatly to what Senate investigators later referred to as “The Cubana Airlines Incident.” According to CIA documents released in 1977, two Cuban men (on the night of JFK’s murder) arrived at the Mexico City airport from Dallas, via Tijuana, on a twin-engine aircraft. The CIA received “highly reliable” information that the men were met at the Mexico airport by Cuban diplomatic personnel from the Cuban embassy. One of the men boarded either a FAR (Revolutionary Armed Forces) or Cubana Airlines plane, avoiding customs, and traveled to Cuba in the cockpit to avoid mixing with the passengers.10

Congressional investigators concluded that the Cubana schedule made available to them eliminated that airline as the culprit in the transfer. However, the FAR flight remains a possibility.

The passenger on-board was identified as Miguel Casas Sayez (“Miguelito”), a well-known Cuban gangster. Further investigation revealed that Casas was an agent of the G-2 (Cuban Intelligence). Casas’ background was that of an ardent revolutionary who idolized Raul Castro. Known as a strong-arm himself, he often “went beyond what was required of him to get the job done.” A source close to Casas reported:

Miguelito has just arrived from the U.S. He was in Dallas on the day of the assassination of Kennedy, but managed to leave through the frontier of Laredo; already in Mexico a FAR plane brought him to Cuba. You know that he is one of Raul’s men [referring to Raul Castro]. Miguelito is very brave, very brave!11

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