Washington Post Chases My Cubela Story
No credit given, alas.
if you want a demonstration of the value of JFK Facts, Substack edition, look no further than my story yesterday on the passing of Rolando Cubela, the would-be CIA assassin at the heart of the JFK assassination saga.
My obituary, first published in SpyTalk, with a longer version appearing in JFK Facts, noted that the Post had yet to report the death of a man whose deeds roiled two governments and made headlines worldwide. Within hours, the Post published an obituary of Cubela, 48 days after his death, while carefully avoiding any mention of where the paper’s editors learned of Cubela’s passing.
The lack of credit is annoying but instructive.
How much would it cost the Post to mention they got the story from a loyal reader and former employee (me) publishing on a Web site (SpyTalk), edited by another loyal reader and former employee (Jeff Stein)? Common courtesy would have cost them nothing.
But the Post didn’t—couldn’t!—give credit to us precisely because we beat them to a good story th…
