Last Resort Beyond Last Resort
The JFK Assassination, The Need to Protect West Berlin, and Why a Second Invasion of Cuba Never Happened
The Latest from the Author of It Did Not Start With JFK
“PLEASE DON’T OVERLOOK THIS BOOK. A MASTERFUL JOB.”
- J. Gary Shaw, senior author (with Brian K. Edwards) of Admitted Assassin
John F. Kennedy was an embattled president consistently at odds with the Joint Chiefs, the CIA, the radical-right, and Fascist groups in America and Western Europe who considered him too weak to contain the spread of communism.
After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the animosity for the young President grew as JFK prevented right-wing Cuban exile groups in America from running sabotage raids against the Cuban mainland.
Confusion reigned, for at the same time, Robert Kennedy was building a coalition of left-wing Cuban exiles to launch a second invasion of Cuba at the end of 1963. Meanwhile, a right-wing Cuban exile group sought to assassinate JFK as a catalyst to compel the United States to retaliate with a military invasion of Cuba.
The plan could have worked because of Lee Harvey Oswald, whose history as Marxist and Castro supporter made him the perfect patsy to to justify a second invasion of Cuba.
So, why didn't the United States invade Cuba after the JFK assassination?
The answer is West Berlin, the gateway to Western Europe and a city President Kennedy was determined to protect even if it meant sacrificing Cuba to the Communists. A second invasion of Cuba placed Berlin in jeopardy, so it could not be allowed to happen.
Another group came together in the spring of 1963, made up of CIA right-wing Cold War veterans who had fought the Nazis during World War but came to consider them the lesser of two evils compared to the Soviet Union once the war was over.
Hell-bent on keeping communism out of Europe, for over a decade leading up to JFK's presidency they had collaborated with ex-Nazis, European Monarchists, and French military Fascists.
It was no surprise they all came together to assassinate President Kennedy – not to justify an invasion of Cuba, but to prevent it from occurring. They knew that if a second invasion of Cuba were to happen, the Soviets would take West Berlin, which would almost certainly lead to World War III.
As a Last Resort Beyond Last Resort, this group inevitably concluded their only choice was to remove JFK from power before it was too late.
Mixed up in the middle of it all was Lee Harvey Oswald.
“…NAMES THE NAMES… RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY…”
- Jeffrey L. Meek, renowned researcher and author of five JFK assassination publications, including The JFK Files: Pieces of the Assassination Puzzle, Volume II
