(16 Apr 2025)
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Havana, Cuba – 08 April 2025
1. Various of Fabian Escalante, former head of Cuban State Security, arriving at museum
2. Escalante looking at gun displaye
3. Digital images of Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban revolution
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fabian Escalante former head of Cuban State Security:
“It is not a question of knowing if the shooter was Juan Smith or John Perez, because that is irrelevant, a murderer or several murderers. In this case, what it is about is to know what the causes were, who was in real power, and why. What were the reasons for the execution of (John F.) Kennedy?”
5. Various of Escalante showing some of his books
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fabian Escalante former head of Cuban State Security:
“The Cuban Security Services, both intelligence and counterintelligence, have relied on the people because that is the organized people.”
7. Escalante during interview
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fabian Escalante former head of Cuban State Security:
“Counterintelligence is a war, and war is logistics. You have to be clear about who your enemy is.”
9. People at museum
STORYLINE:
Fabian Escalante Font was the head of the powerful State Security, the agency that, according to the late former President Fidel Castro, thwarted more than 600 attempts on his life.
He is now 84 years old and retired with the rank of Major General.
Regarded as an expert in Cuba on the Cold War, Escalante spoke to The Associated Press this week about the 63,000-page documents on the assassination that have been recently declassified by order of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The former official stood by the conclusion he reached in several of the books he wrote about the assassination of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
Escalante believes that Kennedy’s assassination was a plot in which, among others, Cuban exiles trained by U.S. intelligence, linked to the mafia in Florida as revenge for the lack of support during and after the failed invasion of Cuba through Playa Girón in 1961.
"It is not a question of knowing if the shooter’s name was Juan Smith or John Pérez, …It is about who was behind it.” said Escalante
The interview took place at the Memorial de la Denuncia, a museum that displays pieces from many of the operations uncovered by State Security during Escalante’s active period.
Although he said the years weigh on him, Escalante continues to be a gatherer of information through an inseparable tablet.
“Counterintelligence is a war, and war is logistics. You have to be clear about who your enemy is,” said Escalante.
AP Video shot by Ariel Fernández and Milexsy Durán
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