Post by Admin on Nov 19, 2013 23:04:49 GMT
The startling new evidence was uncovered by respected author Anthony Summers, who revealed the assassin’s identity in an update to his classic 1998 book on Kennedy’s slaying, “Not In Your Lifetime.” According to Summers, the second rifleman was Herminio Diaz, a hired killer who worked for notorious Mafia boss Santo Trafficante Jr. in Cuba. Diaz executed a Cuban police chief in the late 1940s and likely committed 20 murders in his lifetime.
“Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone,” Summers told The ENQUIRER. “There was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy, and the same people who hired Lee Harvey Oswald – whether it was the CIA, the Mafia or Cubans opposed to Fidel Castro – also hired Herminio Diaz." Diaz arrived in the U.S. in mid-1963, according to CIA documents, just months before Kennedy was struck down in Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22 of that year. “Diaz was a professional hit man with a record of political assassinations,” Summers said. “He’d also worked for Mafia chief Trafficante as security director of the Hotel Habana Riviera casino in Cuba. He was in the country at the right time and was involved in the anti-Castro movement. Many people in that movement thought President Kennedy had betrayed them during the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and had a motive to kill him. Frankly, it all adds up.”
Author Anthony Summers said he spoke to another Cuban immigrant who heard that Diaz confessed to the assassination. The new details are an addition to his 1998 book, Not In Your Lifetime
According to Summers, Diaz revealed his role in the Kennedy assassination to a friend named Tony Cuesta. The two men were headed to Cuba by boat on an anti-Castro raid in 1966 when Diaz spilled the details on the murder plot. “Diaz and Cuesta talked on the boat while waiting to land in Cuba,” Summers said. “During their conversations, Diaz admitted to Cuesta that he’d taken part in Kennedy’s death.”
President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie Kennedy Onassis smile at the crowds lining their motorcade route in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963 minutes before he was shot
Diaz was killed in the raid. Afterward, a photo published in a Cuban Communist Party newspaper showed that he was carrying a valid Florida driver’s license and a Social Security card when he died, evidence that he had indeed been in the U.S. His buddy Cuesta was badly injured in the raid, captured and jailed at Cuba’s infamous La Cabana Prison. While being treated at the jail infirmary, Cuesta confided Diaz’s assassination story to another anti-Castro inmate, Cuban Reinaldo Martinez. After his release from prison, Martinez fled to Miami, and in 2007 he contacted G. Robert Blakey, who’d served as chief counsel of the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations.
“Martinez thought he was about to die and wanted to set the record straight,” Blakey told The ENQUIRER. “After speaking with him, I believe he was telling the truth. It wasn’t just Lee Harvey Oswald who killed Kennedy. It was a conspiracy, and Herminio Diaz was the second shooter.” Summers also interviewed Martinez for two days in Miami. “Martinez had nothing to gain by telling his story, except for setting the record straight,” Summers, who videotaped the interview, told The ENQUIRER. “He told me he was close to death and was telling the story because, ‘It is the truth – my truth.’”
“Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone,” Summers told The ENQUIRER. “There was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy, and the same people who hired Lee Harvey Oswald – whether it was the CIA, the Mafia or Cubans opposed to Fidel Castro – also hired Herminio Diaz." Diaz arrived in the U.S. in mid-1963, according to CIA documents, just months before Kennedy was struck down in Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22 of that year. “Diaz was a professional hit man with a record of political assassinations,” Summers said. “He’d also worked for Mafia chief Trafficante as security director of the Hotel Habana Riviera casino in Cuba. He was in the country at the right time and was involved in the anti-Castro movement. Many people in that movement thought President Kennedy had betrayed them during the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and had a motive to kill him. Frankly, it all adds up.”
Author Anthony Summers said he spoke to another Cuban immigrant who heard that Diaz confessed to the assassination. The new details are an addition to his 1998 book, Not In Your Lifetime
According to Summers, Diaz revealed his role in the Kennedy assassination to a friend named Tony Cuesta. The two men were headed to Cuba by boat on an anti-Castro raid in 1966 when Diaz spilled the details on the murder plot. “Diaz and Cuesta talked on the boat while waiting to land in Cuba,” Summers said. “During their conversations, Diaz admitted to Cuesta that he’d taken part in Kennedy’s death.”
President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie Kennedy Onassis smile at the crowds lining their motorcade route in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963 minutes before he was shot
Diaz was killed in the raid. Afterward, a photo published in a Cuban Communist Party newspaper showed that he was carrying a valid Florida driver’s license and a Social Security card when he died, evidence that he had indeed been in the U.S. His buddy Cuesta was badly injured in the raid, captured and jailed at Cuba’s infamous La Cabana Prison. While being treated at the jail infirmary, Cuesta confided Diaz’s assassination story to another anti-Castro inmate, Cuban Reinaldo Martinez. After his release from prison, Martinez fled to Miami, and in 2007 he contacted G. Robert Blakey, who’d served as chief counsel of the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations.
“Martinez thought he was about to die and wanted to set the record straight,” Blakey told The ENQUIRER. “After speaking with him, I believe he was telling the truth. It wasn’t just Lee Harvey Oswald who killed Kennedy. It was a conspiracy, and Herminio Diaz was the second shooter.” Summers also interviewed Martinez for two days in Miami. “Martinez had nothing to gain by telling his story, except for setting the record straight,” Summers, who videotaped the interview, told The ENQUIRER. “He told me he was close to death and was telling the story because, ‘It is the truth – my truth.’”