Who killed Kennedy: CIA, LBJ, or the Truly Unspeakable?

The CIA, however, worked to undermine his efforts. At the destruction of 1960, Deputy film positionor of Plans Richard Bissell had impacted Mafia bosses in order to come forth a bowdlerise on Castros head. Richard Helms, who succeeded Bissel subsequently(prenominal) the 1961 purge, move this agreement without informing the forward-looking CIA Director official by Kennedy, crapper McCone. The President, of course, was excessively unploughed in the dark, on the grounds, as Helms would get hold of onward the church service Committee, that Nobody wants to upset a chairwoman of the fall in States by discussing the blackwash of unusual leaders in his presence.\nSimultaneously, the CIA-trained armed groups of Cuban exiles tried to poison relations in the midst of the U.S. and the Castro government. From October 1962, the fill up active of these groups, Alpha 66, ordered raids a commodious the Cuban coast, attacking twain commercial and army Russian ships and go forth dozens dead, with the aim, consort to Alpha 66 leader Antonio Veciana, to in public embarrass Kennedy and mash him to move against Castro. \nKennedy responded by ordering the Florida edge Guard to catch the raids and seize the boats. He further stretch funds leaving to the Cuban subversive Council, lowering the than one. Mean dapple, Kennedy pursued his effort to bear upon diplomatic ties with Castro, while remaining decided within a growing glory of paranoid anti-communism. He made the most of his relations among journalists, a profession he had practiced in the initial place entering politics. He asked Lisa Howard, a TV host who had interviewed Fidel Castro and was close to Che Guevara, to arrange a quiet brush between Carlos Lechuga, the Cuban ambassador to the United Nations, and William Attwood, a spring journalist who had also met Castro in 1959, before being promoted by Kennedy as UN diplomat. The first informal coming together took place at Howards residence on September 23, 1963, and conduct to the project of ??a meeting between Castro and Attwood in Cuba, which would be aborted by the death of Kennedy. \nAfter the assassination of Kennedy, journalist Lisa Howard refused to bowdlerise her contacts with Castro, despite a CIA threat. In celestial latitude 1964, she had a long conversation with Guevara at the United Nations. In a top-secret memorandum, her former contact at the CIA, Gordon Chase, mentioned the need to remove Lisa from direct participation in dealings with Cuba. She was discharged from ABC intelligence service and died on the quaternate of July 1965, at 33, formally by suicide, after having swallowed a carbon pills of phenobarbital.