Douglas Bazata, a decorated officer for the United States Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, diary names a Cuban spy, that he knew well as the plotter who was in charge of the Assassination of JFK. Bazata named René Alexander Dussaq as the mastermind of the assassination. According to the diary, Lee Harvey Oswald was to fire a shot to distract agents, while Dussaq was set up in front of the motorcade with a third gunman located behind the motorcade, where he would shoot from.
Bazata met Dussaq back in the 30s when Bazata was assigned to kill a Cuban revolutionary. The plot failed but Bazata and Dussaq became close friends with Dussaq at one point saving Bazata’s life. According to the diary, because of that friendship, Dussaq entrusted Bazata to reveal that it was Cuba that was behind the plot.
Bazata wrote that he met Dussaq in Havana, Cuba, during the early 1930s, when he was on his first mission to assassinate a Cuban revolutionary.
The mission failed but the two men became friends after Dussaq saved Bazata’s life.
They were also both involved in WWII’s Operation Jedburgh where more than 250 American and Allied paratroopers went behind enemy lines.
It was here that Dussaq earned the nickname ‘Captain Bazooka’ for demonstrating the Army’s anti-tank rocket launchers to the French resistance guerrillas. He is also credited with helping to capture 500 Nazis by falsely convincing a German general into believing he was surrounded by American troops.
The son of a Cuban diplomat, Dussaq, a US Marine, tried to enlist after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor but was deemed a potential security risk.
Robert K Wilcox, who wrote the forthcoming book based on Bazata’s diary said:
“Douglas Bazata was deeply embedded in the world of secrets, especially those surrounding JFK’s death. He was there at the birth of the CIA as an early and major player in that murkiest of worlds … He was an insider.”
“He delegated Bazata, when the time was right — after the assassination’s shock had dissipated — to tell the public the truth about what happened in hopes America’s leaders would change and allow sovereign nations like Cuba to decide their own fate rather than have America decide it for them.”
It is believed that The Bay of Pigs operation failed because Dussaq informed Cuban authorities of the plot. Dussaq was angry at the way the United States ordered Cuba and other countries what to do rather than to allow them to decide their own fate. That’s why he wanted it revealed that Cuba was behind the plot. Bazata probably informed his superiors who wanted to keep the lid on it.
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There were also a number of backup shooters, body doubles for Oswald and random pointers designed to confuse police and witnesses.
Oswald shot first, from above, behind the motorcade. But Dussaq never wanted Oswald involved and only gave him blanks, according to the diary.
Authorities would then discover that Oswald was nothing more than a patsy.
But Oswald figured out that something was amiss and swapped out the duds for real bullets.
Oswald was initially believed to have been working alone in the shooting. But the House’ Select Committee on Assassinations later found a ‘high probability’ that two gunmen fired at Kennedy.
Meanwhile, Bazata was in Europe when Kennedy was killed.
Wilcox said Bazata gave him the diaries, shortly before the Marine’s death during a series of interviews for his book on Gen. George Patton.
He was then able to track down Dussaq’s widow who had a box of the former spy’s secret documents including an unpublished autobiography.
‘Target: JFK, The Spy Who Killed Kennedy?’ by Robert K. Wilcox will be available Nov. 14.
Did the Cubans kill Kennedy? We’ll never know.