JFK ‘was shot by Cuban spy’

A CUBAN double agent played a key role in the assassination of president John F Kennedy and may even have fired the fatal shot himself, according to a new book.

The diaries of douglas Bazata, an officer for the Us office of strategic services – the forerunner of the CIA – suggest that a Us spy, René Alexander dussaq, acting as a double agent for cuba, was the ‘primary organiser and plotter’ of the 1963 assassination in dallas.

The diaries, featured in a book published in the Us today, suggest Lee Harvey oswald, who is generally recognised as Kennedy’s assassin, was assigned to fire a dummy shot to distract onlookers. This allowed dussaq to fire a lethal shot from in front of Kennedy’s motorcade while a third gunman shot the president from the rear.

The book, Target: JFK, The spy Who Killed Kennedy? by Robert K Wilcox, claims that cuban authorities approved the plot.