Does Anyone Know What Russo Is Talking About?

[Benjamin Cole]

https://www.americanheritage.com/did-castro-okay-kennedy-assassination

The above is an interesting article by Gy Russo.

Within the article Russo says this:


"When he (Russo's source, "Oscar Marino," a purported former G-2) was asked when the Cuban secret service first made contact with Oswald, Oscar flinched and gave a long pause, gazing out a window at the tops of some mimosa trees. “It was in the fall of 1962,” he finally said with certainty. He had seen Oswald's name on a foreign collaborators list. He had also been present during high-level discussions on how to make contact with Oswald. According to the KGB document, a Cuban operative met Oswald “repeatedly, several times,” with the first rendezvous at the end of 1962—exactly when Oscar Marino said it had been."

What KGB document?

I have been trying to locate a contact for Russo.

There is an earlier reference in the above article to a KGB file that chronicled LHO's doings in Minsk.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

https://www.americanheritage.com/did-castro-okay-kennedy-assassination

The above is an interesting article by Gy Russo.

Within the article Russo says this:


"When he (Russo's source, "Oscar Marino," a purported former G-2) was asked when the Cuban secret service first made contact with Oswald, Oscar flinched and gave a long pause, gazing out a window at the tops of some mimosa trees. “It was in the fall of 1962,” he finally said with certainty. He had seen Oswald's name on a foreign collaborators list. He had also been present during high-level discussions on how to make contact with Oswald. According to the KGB document, a Cuban operative met Oswald “repeatedly, several times,” with the first rendezvous at the end of 1962—exactly when Oscar Marino said it had been."

What KGB document?

I have been trying to locate a contact for Russo.

There is an earlier reference in the above article to a KGB file that chronicled LHO's doings in Minsk.

Russo goes over this in detail in his book "Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, Castros and Politics of Murder", pages 184 on.

In it Russo writes that a former KGB/FSB officer, Nikolai (no surname), told him that he saw a KGB file/document that indicated that Vladimir Kryuchkov, a then major general in the CCCP, cabled Havana in 1962 along with Oswald's KGB file and asked Cuban intelligence to "keep an eye" on Oswald. Kryuchkov told the Cubans that Oswald was "ideologically unsound and psychically unstable."

Nikolai also told Russo that other files he saw showed that Rolando Cubela, the Cuban figure that the CIA recruited to kill Castro (AMLASH), was the above mentioned Cuban operative who supposedly "repeatedly" met Oswald. He told Russo that he found a folder titled "Cubela" that reported that when Cubela was interrogated by Cuban intelligence after his arrest for plotting to kill Castro he allegedly admitted to meeting Oswald. Cubela, who was later released from prison by Castro, denied ever meeting Oswald.

[Tom Graves]

Russo details the claims in "Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, Castros and Politics of Murder", pages 184 on.

Briefly: A former KGB/FSB officer - Nikolai (no surname) - told Russo he saw a microfilm of a KGB file that made the claim. The document said that Vladimir Kryuchkov, a major general in the CCCP (who would later lead the attempted coup against Gorbachev), had sent a cable to Havana in 1962 asking Cuban intelligence to keep an eye on Oswald. Nikolai said that the file also mentioned that Rolando Cubela, the Cuban figure that the CIA recruited to kill Castro (AMLASH), was the Cuban operative who allegedly met Oswald.

It's a guess but that seems to be the document he is referring to in that piece.

Correction: The planned-to-fail coup against Gorbachev.

Read Masha Gessen's The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin.

[Benjamin Cole]

TG-

You appear very well read, and thanks for the links.

[Tom Graves]

TG-

You appear very well read, and thanks for the links.

Not really.

You're welcome.