$100,000 to kill Fidel Castro
A 1964 FBI memo describes a meeting in which Cuban exiles tried to set a price on the heads of Fidel Castro, Raul Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. “It was felt that the $150,000.00 to assassinate FIDEL CASTRO plus $5,000 expense money was too high,” the memo noted. At a subsequent meeting, they settled on more modest sums: $100,000 for Fidel, $20,000 for Raul and $20,000 for Che.
Sex parties
A 1960 FBI memo described a “high-priced Hollywood call girl” who was approached by Fred Otash, a well known Los Angeles private investigator, seeking information about sex parties involving then Sen. John F. Kennedy, his brother-in-law actor Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. “She told the agents that she was unaware of any indiscretions,” the memo said.
In search of a stripper named Kitty
An FBI file contains information on the bureau’s attempt to locate a stripper named “Kitty,” last name unknown.
According to the file, another stripper named Candy Cane said Kitty had been an associate of Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963. Leon Cornman, business agent with the American Guild of Variety Artists in New Orleans, told the FBI that “the only stripper he knew by the name of Kitty who worked in New Orleans was Kitty Raville.”
“He advised (that) Raville committed suicide in New Orleans in August or September 1963,” the report states.
Assassinating JFK ‘not worth it’ for Cuba
A draft report by the House Select Committee on Assassinations found it unlikely that Cuba would kill Kennedy as retaliation for CIA’s attempts on Castro’s life. “The Committee does not believe Castro would have assassinated President Kennedy, because such an act, if discovered, would have afforded the United States the excuse to destroy Cuba,” the draft states. “The risk would not have been worth it.”
Was LBJ in the KKK?
In
an internal FBI report from May 1964, an informant told the FBI that the Ku Klux Klan said it “had documented proof that President Lyndon B, Johnson was formerly a member of the Klan in Texas during the early days of his political career.” The “documented proof” was not provided.
Fulgencio Batista and the plot to bribe a U.S. congressman
An
internal FBI memo dated Jan. 22, 1960 discusses an alleged plot to bribe a U.S. congressman and bring deposed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista to the United States. The memo, citing information provided by a Miami arms dealer, says that in exchange for securing entry into the United States for Batista, $150,000 would be split between U.S. Rep. Abraham Multer of New York, a Miami Beach attorney, and two Batista “adherents” in Miami. According to the memo, the FBI took the alleged plot seriously enough to investigate but Batista himself “turned down the proposition.”
Jack Ruby and Officer Tippitt
An
April 1964 memo from J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to check out a report that Jack Ruby and Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippitt — fatally shot by Oswald shortly after Oswald killed Kennedy — had met at Ruby’s strip club, the Carousel Club, sometime prior to the assassination. Hoover seemed skeptical.