Did Fidel Castro Kill JFK?

The Rest Is Classified

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🗓️ 31 October 2025

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*Declassified Club exclusive: ⁠⁠SUBSCRIBE⁠⁠⁠⁠ to listen to the full series* Were the Cubans plotting to kill John F. Kennedy? Did Castro have it out for his American adversary? Or did they simply not have the resources to take on the US establishment? Listen as David and Gordon conclude their exclusive mini-series on who was truly behind the assassination of JFK. ------------------- Join The Declassified Club: Start your free trial at⁠ ⁠⁠therestisclassified.com⁠⁠⁠ - go deeper into the world of espionage with exclusive Q&As, interviews with top intelligence insiders, quarterly livestreams, ad-free listening, early access to episodes and live show tickets, and weekly deep dives into original spy stories. Members also get curated reading lists, special book discounts, prize draws, and access to our private chat community. To sign up to the free newsletter, go to: ⁠⁠https://mailchi.mp/goalhanger.com/tric-free-newsletter-sign-up⁠ ⁠ ------------------- Order a signed edition of Gordon's latest book, The Spy in the Archive, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via this link.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Order a signed edition of David's latest book, The Seventh Floor, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via this link.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠------------------- Email: [email protected] Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@triclassified⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Social Producer: Emma Jackson Producer: Becki Hills Head of History: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For exclusive interviews, bonus episodes, ad-free listening, early access to series,
0:09.0	first look at live show tickets, a weekly newsletter, and discounted books,
0:13.1	join the Declassified Club at the rest is classified.com.
0:17.3	Music The Cubans at the embassy must have first thought Oswald was a CIA provocateur.
0:29.6	Thus they would need to do considerable checking with headquarters, the KGB, fraternal organizations and intelligence services, even radical groups influenced by them, but perhaps
0:40.3	not under their control. But they would also have given him a good dose of their
0:44.5	Trabago politico, that is plenty of propaganda and indoctrination in Cuban revolutionary
0:50.0	policies and concerns. That would have undoubtedly included denunciations of the CIA and the
0:55.9	attempts to kill Castro. They would have encouraged him to go back to Texas and get busy on their
1:00.4	behalf by supporting their positions, but they would not have enlisted him in an assassination plot.
1:06.1	They, however, would have planted the seed in him. The Trebejo Politico would have agitated him,
1:12.7	given him new even violent impulses. This, I think, is where Oswald got the idea for the assassination.
1:21.4	Well, welcome, members new and old. To the rest is classified, declassified club. I'm Gordon Carrera.
1:27.2	And I'm David McCloskey.
1:28.3	And this is the third and final part of our special series just for you members.
1:34.1	Welcome new members especially, as well as older secret squirrels,
1:38.5	where we've been looking on the back of our six-part series on the CIA and JFK
1:43.6	at the theories around the assassination of President Kennedy.
1:48.6	And we are keen to hear from your ideas
1:51.9	and hear your theories about what might have been behind it.
1:55.4	Once we get to the end today of our kind of look at three of the big theories,
2:00.4	we just heard from the mooch challenging
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