He was chief counsel of the US Congress's Assassinations Committee, the body set up in the late Seventies to re-examine the shootings of JFK and the civil rights leader Martin Luther King - and he had special access to classified information.
In 2007, out of the blue, he was contacted by a Cuban exile named Reinaldo Martnez. He was in his 80s, Martnez explained, and there was something he wanted to get off his chest before he died. Over two days with Blakey I listened to what Martnez had to say. He passed on what he said he had been told by anti-Castro leader Tony Cuesta, a celebrated hero to Cuban exiles in the US, when Cuesta was being treated in the infirmary at Cuba's La Cabana prison for terrible wounds received in an anti-Castro raid.
Cuesta said a comrade, Herminio Daz - a man he and Martnez both knew intimately - had admitted before his death in combat that he had "participated" in the assassination of President Kennedy. Daz was a known political assassin, a marksman and - before joining the struggle against Castro that so many exiles felt Kennedy had betrayed - had worked in one of Mafia boss Santo Trafficante's casinos in Cuba.
We found Martnez credible, what he told us plausible. Former chief counsel Blakey deems the new information "a breakthrough of historic importance". Its significance lies in the fact it undermines the Oswald did-it-alone theory of the official account of Kennedy's assassination 50 years ago, on November 22, 1963.
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In 2007, out of the blue, he was contacted by a Cuban exile named Reinaldo Martnez. He was in his 80s, Martnez explained, and there was something he wanted to get off his chest before he died. Over two days with Blakey I listened to what Martnez had to say. He passed on what he said he had been told by anti-Castro leader Tony Cuesta, a celebrated hero to Cuban exiles in the US, when Cuesta was being treated in the infirmary at Cuba's La Cabana prison for terrible wounds received in an anti-Castro raid.
Cuesta said a comrade, Herminio Daz - a man he and Martnez both knew intimately - had admitted before his death in combat that he had "participated" in the assassination of President Kennedy. Daz was a known political assassin, a marksman and - before joining the struggle against Castro that so many exiles felt Kennedy had betrayed - had worked in one of Mafia boss Santo Trafficante's casinos in Cuba.
We found Martnez credible, what he told us plausible. Former chief counsel Blakey deems the new information "a breakthrough of historic importance". Its significance lies in the fact it undermines the Oswald did-it-alone theory of the official account of Kennedy's assassination 50 years ago, on November 22, 1963.
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