JFK Files: Newly released documents link Chicago mob bosses to Cuban militiamen
By Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel and Ross Weidner via WLS logo
Thursday, December 15, 2022 7:17PM
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The public has been waiting for years to see the remaining records from the JFK assassination file. They've now been released, and Chicago names are popping up in the fine print.
On Thursday the National Archives made public nearly 1,500 documents related to the federal investigation into the 1963 shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
When the shots killed President Kennedy in a car in Dallas, Texas, the investigation that followed produced hundreds of thousands of records, transcripts, cables, pictures and films. The long-awaited and long-locked up documents were ordered released by the White House. In the files are expected details of Lee Harvey Oswald's connections to the Soviet Union and Cuba. Also in the document dump are new details about Chicago as a training ground for Cuban militiamen.
As the I-Team has reported over the years, Outfit bosses recruited crooked lawmen to train Cuban rebels with the goal of protecting their homeland from Fidel Castro, who was about to douse the mob's lucrative gambling mecca in the tropics.
At least nine files refer to Chicago circa 1963 and several individuals linked to the Outfit. Most notably among them are former Chicago police officer and Cook County Deputy Sheriff Richard Cain. Cain had deep connections to Chicago organized crime according to investigators, especially ruthless mob boss Sam "Momo" Giancana.
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His incursion into Cuba's air space cancelled the early steps Bill Clinton had been taking to thaw relatirons with Cuba, and instantly re-ignited the Cold War, kicking off even worse sanctions than were already in place.
Jimmy Carter's American Interests Section head in Havana, Wayne Smith, said that Basulto's "Brothers to the Rescue" used to fly so low over Havana that he could stand in front of their building and read the insignias on the wings of the airplanes. Futhermore, Basulto and company used to throw medallions out of their planes, and people on the ground feared getting clobbered by those pieces of metal falling on their heads.
Ask the US American Interests Section head for Pres. Carter if Basulto was engaged in humanitarian actions. He would no doubt laugh, loudly. Smith once said that mentioning Cuba is the same to US politicians as the sight of the full moon is to a wolf!
Thanks for the link on Jose Basulto. He's a truly treacherous person, just like any other terrorist.
Got a street named for him in Miami, just like mass murderer/bomber Orlando Bosch
Bosch, with fellow bomber/mass murderer/terrorist Luis Posada Carilles.