The JFKA and Gilberto Policarpo Lopez

[Tom Graves]

On another thread, Steve M. Galbraith posted an excerpt from a Gus Russo book that mentions Gilberto Policarpo Lopez and the fact that his possible involvement in the JFKA wasn't adequately investigated by the FBI.

FWIW, Gilberto Policarpo Lopez's estranged daughter contacted me here about five years ago and we exchanged emails. She sent me two photos of him, one of which as a young man. It's kinda sepia colored and I put on the Internet. The other is much more recent, and she asked me to not make it public until he'd passed away.

She said he was violently pro-Castro ("his brother fought for Castro in the Congo"), that he was very good at faking epileptic seizures, that he'd never been sick a day in his life, that he sometimes bragged about the big empty airplane that flew him from Mexico City to Havana a couple of days after the assassination, and that, yes, like the "Oswald" that Roger Craig claimed to watch run down the slope from the general direction of the TSBD and get into a Rambler Station wagon on Elm Street about ten minutes after the assassination, he could whistle very loudly -- "he did it all the time when I was young."

[Benjamin Cole]

When LBJ and Hoover settled on the LN narrative, they intentionally closed off investigation into possible LHO links to G2, Cuban and KGB assets.

Including KGB assets within the CIA, or G2 plants in the Cuban exile community.

No one wanted WWIII.

[Tom Graves]

When LBJ and Hoover settled on the LN narrative, they intentionally closed off investigation into possible LHO links to G2, Cuban and KGB assets.

Including KGB assets within the CIA, or G2 plants in the Cuban exile community.

No one wanted WWIII.

Do you think Gilberto Policarpo Lopez helped Oswald kill JFK?

[Benjamin Cole]

The AI version:

Gilberto Policarpo Lopez was a Cuban-American man investigated by the FBI and CIA in connection with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy due to his proximity to events and travel patterns that eerily paralleled those of Lee Harvey Oswald, leading some researchers to suspect he was a potential second shooter or a "patsy" in a potential conspiracy.
 
Key Points of Connection

JFK Assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald is officially recognized by the Warren Commission as the lone assassin of President Kennedy. Gilberto Policarpo Lopez is a figure from declassified documents who some conspiracy theorists and authors believe may have been involved in a larger plot.

Travel and Timing: Lopez traveled from Tampa to Texas shortly before the assassination and crossed into Mexico just after Kennedy was shot. He then boarded a plane to Cuba and effectively disappeared.

Pro-Castro Sympathies: Both men sought favor from the Fidel Castro regime and had applied for Cuban visas (though both were reportedly denied). Lopez was identified as being present at a Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) gathering in Tampa in November 1963.

Physical Similarities (Debated): While some sources note they appeared nothing alike, others describe parallels in their situations. Both were living alone after fighting with their wives around the time of the assassination.

FBI/CIA Investigation: The FBI and CIA actively investigated Lopez to determine his movements, potential association with Oswald (no information definitively tied them together in the investigation), and whether he had permission for travel to Cuba.

"Patsy" Theory: One book, "Ultimate Sacrifice," suggests Lopez was a "patsy" in a separate, aborted assassination plot in Tampa just before the Dallas one, a plot that allegedly resembled the Dallas assassination in its design.

The official conclusion of the Warren Commission and subsequent FBI investigations was that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. However, newly available information from declassified CIA files and other documents continues to fuel fresh disagreement and conspiracy theories about potential Cuban-inspired plots or the involvement of additional individuals like Gilberto Policarpo Lopez. You can access many of these declassified records via the National Archives JFK Assassination Records website.

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Getting into Cuba was a trick in 1963.

Was Lopez involved with LHO?

Maybe. The trail is dead-cold by now.

[Tom Graves]

Physical Similarities (Debated): While some sources note they appeared nothing alike, others describe parallels in their situations. Both were living alone after fighting with their wives around the time of the assassination.

Scroll all the way down to the large, sepia-tinted photo of him that his daughter sent to me via email.

(I didn't post it on JFK Boards; somebody else did.)

https://jfk.boards.net/thread/121/erasing-past-protect-fairytale?page=23&scrollTo=2110

For other photos of him, google "Gilberto Policarpo Lopez" and "click" on Images.

The one in which he's wearing sunglasses was taken by Mexican authorities on the night of November 27, 1963, at the Mexico City airport.

[Benjamin Cole]

TG-

Thanks for the info.

I would not say Lopez is an LHO lookalike. But they are not poles apart, such a portly black guy and a tall Swede.

[Fred Litwin]

I have looked extensively at the Gilberto Policarpo Lopez stuff and I believe he had nothing to do with anything.

Basically, he had an american mother and he came to the united States in the early  1960s. He did not know english and could only get menial jobs. He got married, but he
developed epilepsy and had to be hospitalized. His marriage fell apart and he decided to go back to Cuba where his family could take care of him. His bad luck - he started his
trip back to Cuba during the weekend of the assassination. He flew to Havana on a cargo plane which is why he was the only passenger.

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/jfk-destiny-betrayed-misleads-on-supposed-tampa-patsy


https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/was-gilberto-policarpo-lopez-an-assassin-or-a-patsy