

He saw him, he saw the name tag, but he did not know him because he was not famous yet, but later when my father sees him he realizes that he is the same person." Morales Jr. When he saw the photo of Lee Harvey Oswald he realized that this was the same character he had seen on the CIA training field. "When my old man was training in a CIA camp - he did not tell me where - he was helping to train snipers: other Cubans, Latin Americans, and there were a few American.

Morales told his sons he had met Lee Harvey Oswald. In these kinds of conspiracies and these big things, nobody knows what the other is doing." He knew Kennedy was coming to Dallas, so he imagines something is going to happen, but he doesn't know the plan. We were the cleaning crew just in case something bad had to be done. Kennedy?" and his answer was, "I didn't do it but I was in Dallas two days before waiting for orders. Morales' son, said that in 1981 that his brother asked him "Who killed John F. But after the tragic events, they were ordered to go back to Miami without learning what the mission was about." "Morales told his two sons that two days before the assassination, his CIA handler told him and his "clean-up" team to go to Dallas for a mission. gave an interview to the Miami Herald where he talked about his father's whereabouts in November 1963. It has been argued that members of Operation 40, including Ricardo Morales Navarrete might have been involved in the assassination of John F.


Other anti-Castro Cubans who became members of Operation 40 included Antonio Veciana, Luis Posada, Orlando Bosch, Rafael Quintero, Roland Masferrer, Eladio del Valle, Guillermo Novo, Rafael Villaverde, Carlos Bringuier, Eugenio Martinez, Antonio Cuesta, Hermino Diaz Garcia, Barry Seal, Felix Rodriguez, Juan Manuel Salvat, Isidro Borjas, Virgilio Paz, Jose Dionisio Suarez, Felipe Rivero, Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo, Nazario Sargent, Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, Jose Basulto, and Paulino Sierra. We were concentrating strictly in Cuba at that particular time." One member, Frank Sturgis, claimed "this assassination group (Operation 40) would upon orders, naturally, assassinate either members of the military or the political parties of the foreign country that you were going to infiltrate, and if necessary some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign agents. Soon after arriving in Miami, Ricardo Morales Navarrete joined Operation 40. After going into hiding he took refuge in the Brazilian Embassy before eventually escaping to the United States. Navarrete became disillusioned with Castro's government and left in July, 1960. He was initially a supporter of Fidel Castro and in September, 1959, joined G2, the political police. Ricardo Morales Navarrete was born in Havana, Cuba on 14th June, 1939. ▼ Primary Sources ▼ Ricardo Morales Navarrete
