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A landmark in historical research, tying the Mafia and Cuba to the assassination of JFKupdated to reveal the role of Cuban Commander Juan Almeida.
Recent revelations by the U.S. government point to Cubas former number three officialCommander Juan Almeidaas secretly working with President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 to overthrow Fidel Castro. This updated edition of Ultimate Sacrifice tells the full story for the first timecomplete with new photos and documents. The authors obtained the story from almost two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, starting in 1990 with JFKs Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Their accounts are supported by thousands of newly released files at the National Archives.
A palace coup, set for December 1, 1963, was to be backed up by U.S. forces invited in by Commander Almeida, then Chief of the Cuban Army. However, three Mafia bosses being targeted by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used several CIA assets to infiltrate the secret plot and murder JFK. The new edition explains why Almeida was not a double agent, why Fidel suspected Almeidas ally Che Guevara, and what Fidel did in 1990 when he finally found out about Almeidas work for JFK.
How well do the authors make their case? With a relentless accumulation of detail, a very thorough knowledge of every political and forensic detail and the broad perspective of historians rather than assassination theorists. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
At last, the mysteries surrounding JFKs death are fully explained by the startling revelations in this book. William W. Turner, former FBI agent and author of Deadly Secrets
Recent revelations by the U.S. government point to Cubas former number three officialCommander Juan Almeidaas secretly working with President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 to overthrow Fidel Castro. This updated edition of Ultimate Sacrifice tells the full story for the first timecomplete with new photos and documents. The authors obtained the story from almost two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, starting in 1990 with JFKs Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Their accounts are supported by thousands of newly released files at the National Archives.
A palace coup, set for December 1, 1963, was to be backed up by U.S. forces invited in by Commander Almeida, then Chief of the Cuban Army. However, three Mafia bosses being targeted by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used several CIA assets to infiltrate the secret plot and murder JFK. The new edition explains why Almeida was not a double agent, why Fidel suspected Almeidas ally Che Guevara, and what Fidel did in 1990 when he finally found out about Almeidas work for JFK.
How well do the authors make their case? With a relentless accumulation of detail, a very thorough knowledge of every political and forensic detail and the broad perspective of historians rather than assassination theorists. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
At last, the mysteries surrounding JFKs death are fully explained by the startling revelations in this book. William W. Turner, former FBI agent and author of Deadly Secrets
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To my wonderful parents.
To Bill, Mary, Paul, Gary,
and the many others whose
decades of hard work paved the way.
and the many others whose
decades of hard work paved the way.
INTRODUCTION
The Final Piece of the Puzzle: New Revelations and Overview
NOVEMBER 22, 1963, 12:29 PM DALLAS, TEXAS: Films show a sunny blue sky on a crisp November day, the sidewalks mobbed with cheering throngs hailing their President and First Lady as they near Dealey Plaza. At that momentmore than a year after the Cuban Missile CrisisCuba was far from the minds of those in the crowd. The same was true for the rest of the American public. Yet John F. Kennedy had a secret plan for Cuba in the fall of 1963nearing a critical juncture on November 22that would play a key role in his death, and be a major reason so much would be covered up for so long. The hardcover edition of Ultimate Sacrifice revealed this plan for the first time, transforming the history of the Kennedy years and providing crucial new information that cast JFKs assassination in a whole new light. This new, revised edition of Ultimate Sacrifice can now provide the final piece of the JFK puzzle, the rest of the story that America and the world have waited over forty years to hear.
Eighteen years ago, Thom Hartmann and I began writing a book about the battles of President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, against the Mafia and Fidel Castro. In 2005, using new information from almost two dozen people who worked with John and Robert Kennedybacked up by thousands of files at the National Archiveswe exposed for the first time JFKs top-secret plan to overthrow Castro and invade Cuba on December 1, 1963. The Plan for a Coup in Cuba (as it was titled in a memo for the Joint Chiefs of Staff) would include a palace coup to eliminate Castro, allowing a new Cuban Provisional Government to step into the power vacuum. The coup would be supported by a full-scale invasion of Cuba by the US military, if necessary.
However, even as JFKs secret plan was nearing its final stage, he had two emissaries making last-ditch attempts to avoid a potentially bloody coup and invasion by trying to jump-start secret negotiations with Fidel Castro. One long-secret November 1963 memo about those negotiations states that there was a rift between Castro and the (Che) Guevara ... Almeida group on the question of Cubas future course.
In this new edition, we can now reveal for the first time that Almeida wasnt just allied with Che against Castro in November of 1963: Almeida was also allied with President Kennedy. In 1963, Juan Almeida was the powerful Commander of the Cuban Army, one of the most famous heroes of the Revolutionand he was going to lead JFKs palace coup against Fidel. Commander Almeida had been in direct contact with John and Robert Kennedys top Cuban exile aide since May of 1963, and both men would be part of Cubas new, post-coup Provisional Government. By the morning of November 22, 1963, Almeida had even received a large cash payment authorized by the Kennedys, and the CIA had placed his family under US protection in a foreign country.
The Plan for a Coup in Cuba was fully authorized by JFK and personally run by Robert Kennedy. Only about a dozen people in the US government knew the full scope of the plan, all of whom worked for the military or the CIA, or reported directly to Robert. The Kennedys plan was prepared primarily by the US military, with the CIA playing a major supporting role. Input was also obtained from key officials in a few other agencies, but most of those who worked on the plan knew only about carefully compartmentalized aspects, believing it to be a theoretical exercise in case a Cuban official volunteered to depose Fidel.
The CIAs code name for their part of the coup plan has never surfaced in any book, article, or government report. Officially declassified in 1999, AMWORLD is the cryptonym the CIA used for the plan in their top-secret, internal documents. Like the rest of the Kennedy coup plan, AMWORLD was withheld from Congressincluding at least five Congressional investigations for decades. Congress was fully informed about AMWORLD only on March 14, 2006, when Rep. Christopher Shayss National Security subcommittee accepted for the record a six-page report from us detailing AMWORLD and JFKs coup plan.
Not only is JFKs coup plan/AMWORLD different from any previously disclosed US operation to eliminate Castro, it was far more advanced. As head of the Cuban Army, Commander Almeida controlled thousands of troops and was far more powerful than any other Cuban official the CIA had managed to enlist. The CIA had only recruited a disgruntled mid-level official named Rolando Cubela (codenamed AMLASH), while the CIAs AMTRUNK program tried without much success to recruit from the ranks of the Cuban military Those plans were still in their early stages and having little successunlike the Kennedys coup plan, which was beginning the ten-day countdown to its December 1, 1963 coup on the day JFK died.
The Kennedys coup plan/AMWORLD was undoubtedly one of the most secret covert operations in United States history. In its secrecy, however, lay tragedy. Even though the Kennedys coup plan never came to fruition, three powerful Mafia donsCarlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, and Johnny Rossellilearned of AMWORLD though their work for the CIA in other anti-Castro plots. The Mafia bosses realized that high government officials would go to any lengths to avoid revealing it to the public. With that knowledge, the three mob bosses were able to assassinate JFK in a way that forced the truth to be buried for over forty years.
They did so by infiltrating key parts of AMWORLD, even though the Kennedys had barred the Mafia from any involvement in the coup plan or in post-coup Cuba (where the Mafia would not be allowed to reopen their casinos). The Mafia chiefs linked aspects of JFKs death to AMWORLD, while planting evidence to make it appear as if Castro had been behind the assassination. They knew this would prevent a full investigation of JFKs murderin order to protect the coup planand might even prompt a US invasion of Cuba. But their main goal was the death of JFK, so they had to act before December 1, 1963 in order to use the extreme secrecy surrounding the coup to shield their actions.
Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli undertook this extraordinary act of vengeance in order to halt the Kennedy administrations unrelenting prosecution of them and their allies. The Kennedy Justice Department had vigorously pursued Marcello, even subjecting him to a brief, nightmarish deportation. Once he returned, Marcello hated the Kennedy brothers with a deep and vengeful passion. The two other Mafia bosses suffered similar pursuit, and eventually Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli decided their only way to avoid prison or deportation was to kill JFK. Our investigation has produced clear evidence that the crime bosses arranged the assassination so that any thorough investigation would expose the Kennedys coup plan. They were confident that any such exposure could push America to the brink of war with Cuba and the Soviet Union, meaning that they could assassinate JFK with relative impunity.
Each of the three Mafia chiefs later confessed their roles in JFKs death to close associates, as did several of their men who had infiltrated the Kennedys coup plan. The Mob bosses did not carry out the murder of JFK themselves, but used trusted associates and unwitting proxies. The most widely known are Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald, who were both in contact with associates of Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli in the months before the assassination. Reports in government files show that Oswald and Ruby knew about parts of the Kennedys plan and even discussed it with others.
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