Apr 6, 1977 - MIAMI BEACH, April 5—Carlos Prio Socarrás, President of Cuba from 1948 to 1952, ... powers until 1959, when he was overthrown by Fidel Castro. ... with the young revolutionary, who had arrived surreptitiously from Mexico.
Carlos Prio was a knowledgeable man. Jose Perdomo, the commander of Operation 40, the man who recruited most Cuban exiles for CIA Operation 40 had been police chief in Havana and head of the secret service at the Presidential Palace in the Carlos Prio government
When veteran CIA agent Frank Sturgis joined Fidel Castro's guerrilla in 1958 through CIA at the US Consulate in Santiago de Cuba, the CIA appointed Jose Perdomo, the Chief of Police of Carlos Prio, as the CIA contact officer for Frank Sturgis Pictured, Frank Sturgis with Che Guevara in the Sierra Maestra, 1958f
President Carlos Prio had direct personal knowledge of Cuban exiles, leading members of Operation 40.
Leading Cuban exiles used to approach Carlos Prio requesting funding for political projects and organizations. In the mid-50s, Carlos Prio had a bank account in Miami of about $ 250 million in cash, and when the authorities began to suspect that Carlos Prio was financing war adventures, in Miami the rumor that he was broke began to circulate.
Did Carlos Prio help finance the killing of President John F Kennedy?
Well, most of Operation 40 members were Cubans, and Carlos Prio used to financially support some of those Cubans. Most of the Cuban members of Operation 40 were members and leaders of Cuban political organizations, and perhaps the authorities could have verified that any Cuban present in Dallas, at some point has received a check from Carlos Prio for his Cuban political organization
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Sep 3, 2006 - ... a "wetback" - by swimming the Rio Grande from Mexico to the United States. ... Now heset up a meeting with exiled former Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarras, the ... Castro believed Prio should put back some of the money he had ...
Feb 24, 2012 - HAVANA, Cuba — Fidel Castro was 28 years old and fresh out of prison ... was a trip to the US-Mexico border at McAllen, Texas, where Castro swam ... illegally to meet with disgraced former Cuban President Carlos Prio ...
Carlos Prio Socarrás was born in Bahía Honda, Cuba on 14th July 1903. Prio became involved in politics while a law student at the University of Havana. He spent two years in prison for his anti-government activities. After his release he took part in the coup that deposed Gerardo Machado's dictatorship in 1933 and helped organize the Partido Revolucionario Cubano Auténtico.
In 1944 President Ramón Grau appointed him as his Minister of Labour. He became a popular minister and in 1948 he replaced Grau as president. However, he never kept his promise of removing the Mafia from Cuba. He also appeared to acquire considerable wealth during his period in government.
In 1952 elections the Cuban People's Party was expected to form the new government. During the election campaign General Fulgencio Batista, with the support of the armed forces, ousted Prio and took control of the country. Prio fled to the United States.
In 1953, Fidel Castro, with an armed group of 123 men and women, attacked the Moncada army barracks. The plan to overthrow Batista ended in disaster and although only eight were killed in the fighting, another eighty were murdered by the army after they were captured. Castro was lucky that the lieutenant who arrested him ignored orders to have him executed and instead delivered him to the nearest civilian prison.
Following considerable pressure from the Cuban population, Fulgencio Batista decided to release Fidel Castro after he had served only two years of his sentence. Batista also promised elections but when it became clear that they would not take place, Castro left for Mexico where he began to plan another attempt to overthrow the Cuban government. Prio used some of the money to support the efforts of Castro against the Batista regime. However, he broke with Castro after he gained power in 1959.
Prio worked as a property developer and businessman in Miami. It was claimed that Prio was involved in the Bay of Pigs operation. It was also suggested that he had information on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He was also linked in testimony with Jack Ruby and Frank Sturgis
This photograph was taken in a nightclub in Mexico City on 22nd January, 1963. It has been argued by Daniel Hopsicker that the men in the photograph are all members of Operation 40. Hopsicker suggests that the man closest to the camera on the left is Felix Rodriguez, next to him is Porter Goss and Barry Seal.Hopsicker adds that Frank Sturgis is attempting to hide his face with his coat. It has been claimed that in the picture are Albertao 'Loco' Blanco (3rd right) and Jorgo Robreno (4th right).
Operation 40 was the code name for a Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored counterintelligence group composed mostly by Cuban exiles. It was approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in March 1960, after the January 1959 Cuban Revolution. The group was presided over by Richard Nixon and included Admiral Arleigh Burke, Livingston Merchant of the State Department, National Security Adviser Gordon Gray, and Allen Dulles of the CIA. CIA assembled virtually the same team that was involved in the removal of Arbenz: Tracey Barnes, Richard Bissell, David Morales, David Atlee Phillips, E. Howard Hunt, Rip Robertson and Henry Hecksher. Added to this list were several agents who had been involved in undercover operations in Germany: Ted Shackley, Tom Clines and William Harvey. Tracy Barnes functioned as head of the Cuban Task Force. He called a meeting on January 18, 1960, in his office in Quarters Eyes, near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, which the navy had lent while new buildings were being constructed in Langley. Those who gathered there included Howard Hunt, future head of the Watergate team and a writer of crime novels; Frank Bender, a friend of Trujillo; Jack Esterline, who had come straight from Venezuela where he directed a CIA group; psychological warfare expert David A. Phillips, and others. Vice-President Richard Nixon was the Cuban "case officer," and had assembled an important group of businessmen headed by George Bush Sr and Jack Crichton, both Texas oilmen, as fundraisers. Operation 40, Mexico-City-1963. Special operation allegedly charged with assasinating Fidel Castro (killed a bunch of other people instead),
It seems that Operation 40, created to remove Fidel Castro, had been redirected to kill Kennedy, as part of a freelance operation. David Atlee Phillips in the unpublished manuscript entitled The AMLASH Legacy wrote: "I was one of those officers who handled Lee Harvey Oswald... We gave him the mission of killing Fidel Castro in Cuba... I don't know why he killed Kennedy. But I do know he used precisely the plan we had devised against Castro. Thus the CIA did not anticipate the president's assassination, but it was responsible for it. I share that guilt." And Frank Sturgis stated that "this assassination group (Operation 40) would upon orders, naturally, assassinate either members of the military or the political parties of the foreign country that you were going to infiltrate, and if necessary some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign agents."
RICHARD NIXON, THE CASE MANAGER OIF OPERATION 40November 21, 1963 - Richard M. Nixon in Dallas, Texas
Rivhard M Nixon appointed Colonel John Alston "Jack" Crichton, U.S. Army Special Agent OSS in Europe, Second World War.in Operation , which Warren Hinckle and William Turner described in Deadly Secrets, as the “assassins-for-hire” organization. Jack Crichton was the commanding officer of the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment.\
488th Military Intelligence Detachment
In 1956 Jack Alston Crichton started up his own spy unit, the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment in Dallas. Crichton served as the unit's commander under Lieutenant Colonel George Whitmeyer, who was in overall command of all Army Reserve units in East Texas. In an interview Crichton claimed that there were "about a hundred men in that unit and about forty or fifty of them were from the Dallas Police Department."
In November 1963 Jack Alston Crichton was involved in the arrangements of the visit that President John F. Kennedy made to Dallas. His close friend, Deputy Police Chief George L. Lumpkin, and a fellow member of the the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment, drove the pilot car of Kennedy's motorcade. Also in the car was Lieutenant Colonel George Whitmeyer, commander of all Army Reserve units in East Texas. The pilot car stopped briefly in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where Lumpkin spoke to a policeman controlling traffic at the corner of Houston and Elm.
As Russ Baker points out in Family of Secrets (2008) Crichton served as the "intelligence unit's only commander... until he retired from the 488th in 1967".
The Dallas Police preparing for the visit of President Kennedy ...
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