Reveal identity sniper who killed Kennedy: Mafioso, Cuba and the CIA

Herminio Díaz. Photo: The National Enquirer.

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• October 29th, 2013
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A report of the American tabloid The National Enquirer  revealed that the fatal shot that took the life of President John F. Kennedy fired a Cuban linked to the mafia and the CIA.

Exclusive,  The Enquirer  revealed that a Cuban sniper with ties to the Mafia and the CIA confessed to participating conspiracy to kill the 35th President of the United States.

The surprising new evidence was discovered by respected author Anthony Summers , who revealed the identity of the murderer in an update of his classic 1998 book on the Kennedy assassination, Not In Your Lifetime.

According to Summers, the second shooter was  Herminio Díaz , a hired murderer who had worked for the notorious Mafia boss Santo Trafficante Jr. in Cuba, during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Diaz committed at least 20 murders in his life, according to the publication.

Diaz came to the US in mid-1963, according to CIA documents, a few months before Kennedy was killed in Dealey Plaza on November 22 of that year.

"Diaz was a professional murderer with a record of political assassinations," Summers said.

"He had also worked for the head of the Trafficante Mafia as security director Casino Riviera Hotel Havana in Cuba.

"He was in the country (USA) at the right time and participated in the anti-Castro movement. Many people in the movement thought that President Kennedy had betrayed him during the invasion sponsored by the CIA Bay of Pigs in 1961 and during the missile crisis in Cuba in 1962, and had a motive to kill him, "said Summers told The Enquirer.

"Frankly, it all adds up"

According to Summers, Diaz revealed his role in the assassination of Kennedy to a friend named Tony Cuesta. The two men were heading to Cuba by boat in a terrorist raid on  May 29, 1966  to assassinate then President Osvaldo Dorticós, when Diaz told the details of the assassination plot. "Cuesta Diaz and spoke on the boat while waiting to touch Cuban soil , " Summers said.

"During their talks, Diaz admitted that he had taken part in the death of Kennedy. "

Diaz died in the attack on the Cuban coast in Monte Barreto, Miramar (north of the island). Then, a photo published in Granma newspaper was carrying a driver's license valid Florida and Social Security card, evidence that the attack had been organized in the US

Cuesta his friend was seriously injured in the attack, captured and imprisoned in the prison of La Cabaña in Havana. While being treated in the prison infirmary, Cuesta confessed the story of the murder of Diaz to another counterrevolutionary Cuban prisoner, Reinaldo Martínez. After his release from prison, Martinez fled to Miami, and in 2007 he contacted G. Robert Blakey, who was the chief adviser Select Committee on Assassinations  (US House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations).

"Martinez thought he was going to die and wanted to make things clear," Blakey said to Enquirer.

"I think he was telling the truth. Not only was  Lee Harvey Oswaldwho killed Kennedy. It was a conspiracy, and Herminio Diaz was the second shooter. " Summers also interviewed Martinez for two days in Miami.

In the famous Zapruder film showing the presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza, Kennedy is reached first from behind where Oswald is located in the Texas School Book Depository. After Kennedy was hit by the front at an angle that would indicate the presence of a handle on the "grassy knoll".

Another expert who is convinced that there was a second shooter is the world famous coroner  Cyril H. Wecht , who has spent decades studying the murder.

"Based on the medical, physical and photographic evidence available, all of which have examined several times, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was carried out by two men-not just Lee Harvey Oswald," said Wecht Enquirer. According to his analysis, Wecht said that two gunmen fired four shots, and one of the murderers stood at the front of the caravan.

"Given the trajectory back of the President's head after being hit by the bullet, I think a sniper operated from the front right of the vehicle, behind the fence on the grassy knoll," he said.

The grassy knoll of Dealey Plaza is a gentle hill located in the area of ​​the square where Kennedy was assassinated. This mound was higher than the position of the presidential motorcade and his right (west) during his assassination on November 22, 1963.

Front see the "grassy knoll"Photo by: Grassy Knoll

The testimonies corroborate this. "While the Warren Report deducts that scenario, several witnesses repeated the same story to the congressional committee between 1977 and 1979, according to Blakey.

"In our hearings, testimonies were plenty of warning of a shot from the grassy knoll shot," said Blakey told The Enquirer. "I think there were four shots. The first, second and fourth shot came from the Texas School Book Depository. The third shot from the grassy knoll.

"The committee had everything except the names of the people involved in the conspiracy. Martinez's story has filled the last pieces of the puzzle. There were two shooters. "

According to Summers and Blakey, Martinez approached the FBI to tell his story, but was told that the investigation into the murder was closed. Blakey has recognized that this discovery Diaz's role in the assassination is a "breakthrough of historic significance". "Summers's book deserves to be read and taken seriously by all those who care about truth and justice," he said.

Summers added: "I am totally convinced of the stories told by Reinaldo Martínez and Tony Cuesta on the role of Herminio Díaz in the assassination of President Kennedy."

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Two days before the assassination in Dallas were several Cubans with weapons and telescopic sights, including Eladio del Valle and Herminio Díaz two hired murderers and sharpshooters linked to the Mafia and Batista police. In turn, the physical characteristics of Del Valle and Diaz match the descriptions that various witnesses made to the Warren Commission of the two Cubans seen leaving the building moments after he killed the President. What is really curious is the final destination of both: Eladio del Valle was brutally murdered in Miami, as New Orleans prosecutor Jim Garrison began his investigation into the Kennedy assassination; Del Valle was dismembered and chopped into pieces with a machete; and even more interesting was the end of Herminio Díaz, who died off the coast of Havana in 1966,

To complete the mission that was sent, Diaz had to infiltrate full Cuban capital at a time when, due to an incident at the Guantanamo Naval Base *, the Cuban army was on combat alert and had reinforced the maximum air and coastal surveillance. In the eyes of experts, including Cuban security operation was a real suicide. The financial organizer and planner of such "special mission" was none other than Jorge Mas Canosa.

* The incident took place on May 21 and killed the soldier of the border battalion, Luis Ramirez Lopez and two others wounded by shots fired by American soldiers from Guantanamo Naval Base. (See Chronology of Terrorism 1966 / Granma )

The first shot is deflected by a tree and bounces off the cement that injures the witness James Tague. 3.5 seconds after the second shot reaches Kennedy and leaves behind his throat, also wounding the governor of Texas, John Connally occurs. President ceases to greet the public and his wife pulls him to lay him on the seat. The third trigger occurs 8.4 seconds after the first shot, just as the car passes in front of the concrete pergola. When the third shot hits squarely on the head right occipital Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, he lunges at the rear of the car, which includes a section of skull president. A citizen named Abraham Zapruder, who was filming the presidential motorcade, managed to capture in his film the moment Kennedy is hit by gunfire.

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