Furiati,C. ZR Rifle. 1994
Furiati, Claudia. ZR Rifle: The Plot to Kill Kennedy and Castro.
Melbourne, Australia: Ocean Press, 1994. 164 pages.
Claudia Furiati is a Brazilian journalist and filmmaker with good
connections in Cuba. After seeing Oliver Stone's movie "JFK," she began
wondering what she could find out from Cuban intelligence about their
reading of Dallas. She was introduced to Gen. Fabian Escalante Font, who
was head of Cuban counterintelligence from 1976-1982. He spent almost a
year digging through secret archives with Furiati. The result is this book,
which represents the first authorized look at Dallas as seen from Cuban
intelligence. Another six months were wasted dealing with U.S. agents and
publishers who expressed interest in the book, all of whom backed down.
This book isn't exactly a smoking gun. Rather, it provides filler
to the connections between the plots against Castro and the plot against
Kennedy. In a Cuban television documentary broadcast on November 26, 1993,
Escalante said that the JFK plot was far-reaching. He named the triggermen
as three Chicago mobsters (Lenny Patrick, David Yaras, and Richard Cain),
and two Cuban exiles (Eladio del Valle and Herminio Diaz Garcia), but said
that many in the CIA and elsewhere knew what was going to happen. In 1995,
Escalante and other Cuban officials met with researchers from the U.S., at
conferences in Rio de Janeiro and Nassau, to further discuss the evidence.
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