Fidel Castro may have known of Oswald plot to kill JFK, ex-CIA officer claims

[Adele Edisen]

On the morning of 22 November 1963, the day Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Castro ordered a senior intelligence officer in Havana to stop listening for non-specific CIA radio communications and to concentrate instead on "any little detail, any small detail from Texas", Latell claims in his book Castro's Secrets the CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine, due to be published next month.
Four hours later, came news that Kennedy was dead.

An alternate interpretation to Latell's attempt to frame Castro, is that Cuban intelligence knew that Dallas was a "hostile city" to JFK, and any assassination plot would likely first be known to CIA.

Castro therefore focused his intelligence service's efforts away from general monitoring of CIA channels, to specific monitoring of CIA communications in Dallas.

I find my alternate explanation of the evidence (assuming it exists) more convincing than Latell's version.

And many in the United States believed that Dallas was a "hostile city" to JFK. And some of them tried to keep John Kernnedy from going to Dallas, not because they knew he would be assassinated there, but because they feared some kinds of acts of possible violence or embarassment, such as that received by Adlai Stevenson, UN Ambassador, when he had been invited to speak in Dallas just weeks before the assassination. The city of Dallas did not vote for the Kennedy/Johnson ticket in 1960, and Lyndon Johnson and Mrs. Johnson were spat upon and hit when they campaigned in Dallas in 1960. Dallas was teeming with Minutemen and Minutewomen, Ku Klux Klan members, John Birch Society members with their leader, Gen. Edwin Walker, and rich oilmen who hated John Kennedy and his administration. Lyndon Johnson and his staff tried to convince John Kennedy and his staff to omit Dallas from the Texas trip. Henry B. Gonzales of the US House of Representatives from San Antonio, Texas, also advised Kennedy to drop Dallas from his schedule for the same reasons. It was a dangerous city. John Kennedy himself remarked to this wife, "We're in nut country now," on that fateful morning.

Even Castro understood that much about American people, their various politics and world views, and their political factions and enemies. He was no fool.

Adele