President John F. Kennedy was assasinated by a double-agent working for Cuba, explosive new book claims
A COLD War spy has claimed a Cuban assassin helped plot the killing of US President John F Kennedy.
The dairies of Douglas Bazata allege Rene Dussaq, the son of a Cuban diplomat, was one of the assassination's "primary organisers".
Bazata even suggests Dussaq could have fired the fatal "shot or shots" that killed the 35th US president on November 22, 1963.
The claims have been made in an explosive new book by Robert K Wilcox called "Target: JFK, The Spy Who Killed Kennedy?"
He writes: "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".
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Bazata wrote in his diaries that he met Dussaq in Havana, Cuba, during the early 1930s when he was a US marine.
Bazata had been given his first mission as hitman, which was to assassinate a Cuban revolutionary.
The mission failed but the pair developed a close bond.
The relationship was made stronger in 1944 when both men were part of Operation Jedburgh in World War Two.
More than 250 US and allied paratroopers jumped behind enemy lines across France, Holland, and Belgium to fight against German occupation.
Dussaq was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but was educated in Geneva and Cuba.
He became a naturalised US citizen in 1942 and was the son of a Cuban diplomat.
After joining the army he quickly rose through the ranks and became a lieutenant instructor for the elite 101st Airborne Division the "Screaming Eagles".
A top-ranked OSS official told his counterparts in London that Dussaq, who spoke six languages, was a master of "unusual and hazardous work of a physical nature".
The official wrote: "He is keen, adaptable, intelligent, and a dirty fighter conversant with jujitsu and the commando type of close combat fighting".
After the war Bazata became a spy and underground operative working for the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
Dussaq took a job as a Prudential insurance agent in Los Angeles,
According to the findings of a Freedom of Information request Dussaq then began infiltrating community groups in Hollywood and Mexico.
Bazata wrote the Dussaq began growing increasing angry with the United States' dominance and exploitation of America.
He is said to have launched the assassination plot to make a point to the US about is manipulation of smaller countries.
Dussaq is then said to have designated Bazata his historian.
Wilcox writes: "He delegated Bazata, when the times 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".
He finally put his plot into motion after continued attempts by Kennedy's administration to kill Fidel Castro.
Wilcox was given Bazata's diaries in 1999 and it consisted of several thousand handwritten pages.
They are said to clearly indicate Dussaq was a double agent working for Cuba.
Bazata would later begin plotting and rehearsing Kennedy's assassination, it is claimed.
Dallas in Texas was selected the location for the assassination as far back in 1961.
Wilcox claims Dussaq worked alongside Lee Harvey Oswald and an assassin code-named Piatorgorsky.
The Warren Commission found that Oswald acted alone but the United States House of Representatives later found a "high probability" two gunmen fired at Kennedy.
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