Fifty-six years after John F. Kennedy's murder, unsealed government files detail dangerous intrigues about Cuba. This CIA spy was deeply involved.
The World War II veteran with the top-secret job hid a lot from his 12-year-old daughter. But on this day, he opened up about how suspicious it seemed: The accused assassin of John F. Kennedy getting shot and killed on live TV, during a transfer between jails.
The spy was Ross Lester Crozier, who died in obscurity in 2000. Details of his role in history remained buried in 944 pages of classified Central Intelligence Agency documents until their release, bit by bit, starting two years ago.In those files, reinforced by recollections of his daughter and of former operatives who worked under him, Crozier emerges as a real-life James Bond.
HOW A SPY IS MADE“Humanoid,” “Hydropathic,” Arthur G. Vaivada, Harold R. Noemayr, Mr. Vicks, Roger Fox, James Fedder – Crozier used all these aliases during his CIA service. The DeKalb, Illinois, native had served in WWII as an Air Force intelligence and operations specialist in the China-Burma region and in Panama.
Crozier’s specialty in his early years was infiltrating communist groups in Central America and Cuba. An era of extreme violence followed. Batista systematically eliminated his opponents, even claiming at one point that his troops had killed Castro in an ambush. Three weeks later, armed student revolutionaries stormed the Presidential Palace. Amid a hail of bullets from Batista’s guards, their assassination attempt failed. JUNGLE VISIT WITH FIDEL CASTRO, CHE GUEVARA Cuba was an increasingly dangerous place. For Crozier this meant risking his life as never before in a daring mission.
In March 1958, Crozier spent two weeks there, meeting with Castro and Guevara and snapping pictures. He encountered a strong anti-U.S. sentiment, according to an internal CIA history document. But that didn’t stop Castro from entertaining Crozier’s offer of a $25,000 helicopter from the U.S. to which Crozier pretended to have access.
But then she pauses. Was this story instead about his time as a soldier in Burma during World War II? The volume of newly public documents about her father have brought back a flood of memories that are at times overwhelming, especially since Moore had not seen them until contacted by USA TODAY. Times officials said they didn't know what the paper's freelance policies were then. Asked about publishing photos that turned out to be from a CIA spy, both of the officials — Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Danielle Rhoades Ha, vice president of communications — offered no explanation.ASSASSINATION MISSION? NOT ACCOMPLISHEDCrozier was at the top of his game, using circumstances to his advantage.
Crozier had told bosses earlier he would “welcome ... being asked to hit a well-chosen target.” But whatever his mission, it was a bust. On Jan. 1, 1959, just 36 hours after he landed in Havana, Batista fled. Castro, surrounded by well-armed guards and adoring crowds, entered the capital days later as Cuba’s new leader.
The CIA took some of them on as agents, and in late August, Crozier moved to Miami to mentor and guide them. With the student group, his alias would be Roger Fox. Lanuza recalled that it took three tries to get a contingent into Cuba. Crozier wasn’t among the crew on that successful February 1961 mission, Lanuza said, but he was dockside for their midday departure.“Not before September,” he remembers Crozier replying. They embraced. The crew – which Lanuza said included CIA’s Rolando Eugenio Martinez, another future Watergate burglar – shoved off from Marathon Key.
FIDEL-HATER ‘ROVER BOYS’President Kennedy began to escalate the secret war as Cuba embraced communism and became a Soviet satellite. As part of that, Crozier worked with exiles in Miami to develop and distribute anti-Castro propaganda throughout Latin America. On their own they mounted a fundraising effort and bought and equipped a boat, Lanuza said and CIA reports indicate.
Crozier in later years complained to a JFK assassination researcher that his relaying of this news to Washington “was like pouring water down a rat hole.” Fernandez-Rocha balked. With a U.S. blockade in effect, Cuban patrols were protecting the coast as never before, he protested. Exiles could volunteer, he said, but only if they fully understood the risk.
A new case officer would replace Crozier with, unlike him, a direct link to headquarters. This officer, George Joannides, would go on to become one of the most mysterious spies of the Kennedy-assassination era. A former Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald burst onto the scene in New Orleans. He seemed to be playing both sides. First, he pitched his skills to a DRE representative there but received no answer. Then, he handed out pro-Castro flyers on a city street, was arrested, and divulged in a radio debate over U.S.-Cuban relations that he had defected to the Soviet Union for three years.On Nov.
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