New JFK File: Spymaster Angleton Vetted Assassins in Late 1963
Top CIA official received polygraph tests of a Cuban hitman while reviewing FBI reports on an unknown ex-defector named Lee Harvey Oswald.
In October 1963, CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton was monitoring two men who would become notorious as assassins.
One was a hitman named Herminio Diaz Garcia, who emigrated from Cuba to Florida in the summer of 1963, according to a newly released CIA file.
The other was Lee Oswald, an ex-Marine, ex-defector to the Soviet Union, and supporter of the leftist Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC), which Angleton’s staff had illegally targeted for dirty tricks and destruction.
Angleton’s handling of intelligence reports on two would-be assassins, reported here for the first time, is the latest unknown chapter in the JFK assassination story to emerge from CIA files ordered released by President Donald Trump in January.
