JFK Facts Podcast #112: Kennedy's Plans for Peace with Cuba

Peter Kornbluh of the nonprofit National Security Archive discusses what new JFK files reveal about President Kennedy's 'back channel' to Fidel Castro

May 28, 2025

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JFK Facts Editor Jefferson Morley talks with Peter Kornbluh, one of the leading historians of U.S. policy toward Cuba about the evolution of JFK’s plans for the CIA and his plans to make peace with Cuba. A Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C, Kornbluh is the editor of three collections of new JFK documents and commentary:

CIA Covert Ops: Kennedy Assassination Records Lift the Veil of Secrecy. (March 19, 2025) JFK Papers Reveal CIA “Family Jewels” Spying Operations in United States (March 28, 2025) JFK Files: Revelations from the Covert Operations High Command (April 7, 2025)