A new book by a former CIA agent who worked as an intelligence officer with the Pentagon from 1990-1994 says that Fidel Castro, the former president of Cuba, knew when and how John F. Kennedy would be killed in 1963.

The author, Brian Latell, says that "Fidel knew there would be a shooting in Texas." He writes that hours before the shots were fired by the killer Lee Harvey Oswald, a Cuban intelligence officer got an order to direct all his energy and vigilance to Texas.

In a Fox news story, Latell is reported as saying that Florentino Aspillaga, the agent, got the following message: "Suspend all your efforts against the CIA and focus all your equipment, antennas and attention on Texas." Latell interviewed Aspillaga after he defected from Cuba in 1987.  He was recrutied as a spy at age 16 and worked with Cuba's intelligence department for 25 years. 

Latell who had been observing Cuba since the 1960 says that JFK's murderer Oswald was a Communist sympathizer who had visited Cuba and met with Fidel Castro in September 1963.