Fidel Castro Speech od November 23, 1963

[Jan Klimkowski]

Adele, Phil - thank you.

Firstly, it is amazing how much information Cuban intelligence had so soon after the assassination, how open and forthcoming Castro is in his speech, and how acutely insightful his analysis is.

I will excerpt this one single passage, quoting early news wires:

"According to reports, he told the Embassy officials: I am a
Marxist.' The Federal Bureau of Investigations confirmed that
Oswald went to Russia and requested Soviet citizenship.


"Oswald told the Embassy officials that he intended to
disclose to the Soviet authorities everything he knew from the
three years he had been in the Marine Corps."


Listen to that: "Oswald told the Embassy officials that he
intended to disclose to the Soviet authorities everything he knew
from three years he had been in the U.S. Marine Corps. The
Embassy officials said that Russia never granted Oswald the
citizenship he requested."


Already they have in their hands a guilty person- true or
false? They have already produced someone who is guilty. They
have him. And now look: you will see the whole course followed
by this campaign.


" … He told the officials that he intended to disclose all the
secrets he knew." Well, later I will refer to that again.


In February, 1962 Oswald apparently changed his mind and
returned to the United States. He had in the meantime married
a Russian, Marina, had a child. This man, who is charged with
something more than desertion, with being a spy, with confessing
that he is going to disclose military secrets, simply returned
peacefully to the United States- according to them.


It says: "The Embassy officials went over the case and since
he had not been granted Soviet citizenship, they decided to give
him a passport for the United States … "


Can anyone who has said that he will disclose military secrets
return to the United Sates without being arrested, tried, without
being sent to jail?


It says: "Government records show that he left Moscow with
485 dollars for expenses, which the United States Government
gave to him.


"This year Oswald requested another passport. He told the State
Department that he wanted to visit England, France, ,Germany, the
Netherlands, Finland, Italy, and the Soviet Union; he said he
planned to make a trip in October or December 1963,o r in January
of 1964. The passport was issued in New Orleans on June 25th;
however, it is not known whether Oswald returned the money that
was loaned to him for the first return trip to the United States.

Yes. To reiterate:


Can anyone who has said that he will disclose military secrets
return to the United Sates without being arrested, tried, without
being sent to jail?

A fundamental question asked by Castro on November 23, 1963.

The answer to that question, then and now, is emphatically NO.