Carlos José Bringuier

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Carlos José Bringuier Expósito (born June 22, 1934 in Cuba ) is a Cuban-American lawyer and political activist. He is best known for his brief connection with Lee Oswald , who was suspected of murdering US President John F. Kennedy .

Life

Carlos Bringuier, son of Judge Julio Bringuier Laredo, the Catholic private school Colegio de Belén in Havana attended from 1941 - the year in which Fidel Castro there earned his high school - until graduation in 1952. He then studied at the University of Havana Law , where he was Member of the anti-communist student organization Cruzada Renovadora Universitaria . He completed his studies in 1957 with a doctorate , which was followed by admission to the bar . He then worked as an employee of the Havana Criminal Court.

After Fidel Castro came to power in 1960, Bringuier left his homeland like hundreds of thousands of Cubans because he did not agree to the establishment of a communist dictatorship based on the Soviet model. He first emigrated to Guatemala , later to Argentina , before finally settling in New Orleans in February 1961 . There Bringuier ran the clothing store Casa Roca and became the spokesman and point of contact for local Castro opponents. His brother Juan was a participant in the CIA- supported Cuban exile invasion of the Bay of Pigs in April 1961 , in which he was captured, from which he was ransomed together with the other fighters in December 1962.

Bringuier joined the Cuban exile organization Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE, German: “Student Revolutions Directorate”, English: Cuban Student Directory CSD), of which he was the only member in New Orleans at the time. The DRE was founded in February 1960 by Catholic students from the University of Havana who protested against the pro-Soviet course of the Cuban revolutionary government and were expelled from the university shortly afterwards. Many of the members subsequently went into exile in the United States, from where they represented the political and military struggle against Fidel Castro's one-party rule. Bringuier was entrusted with the responsibility for political public relations within the DRE. For example, in April 1963, two years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, he made public calls to President Kennedy on behalf of his organization to protest against his policy of curbing the activities of militant Cubans in exile on US territory the deal with the Soviet Union to settle the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.

Encounters with Lee Oswald

On August 5, 1963, Lee Oswald appeared in Bringuier's shop, told Bringuier and two others present that he was against Fidel Castro and against communism. In addition, he had been with the US Marine Corps , was trained there in guerrilla warfare and is now willing to train Cubans to fight Castro and to fight against Castro himself. Bringuier rejected this offer and explained to Oswald that he had nothing to do with military action. The following day, Oswald left his Marines training manual in the clothing store for Bringuier.

On August 9, 1963, Oswald distributed on behalf of the organization Fair Play for Cuba Committee (German: "Committee for a fair deal with Cuba") in a busy street of New Orleans leaflets protesting against the Cuba policy of the United States advertised Fidel Castro with a sign. After Bringuier was made aware of the action by two other Cubans in exile and he and them had searched for and found Oswald, he confronted him there with his previous statements to the contrary and a violent argument ensued between the four people, which led to a smaller crowd led. The police interrupted the argument, temporarily arrested and interrogated the four main participants. On August 12, 1963, the case was heard by a local judge who charged Oswald with a fine of $ 10 for disturbing public order.

A few days later, Bringuier and Oswald were invited by a local radio journalist to his talk show to explain their conflicting points of view to the audience. Bringuier subsequently issued a press release warning the American public against Oswald as an agent of Soviet and Cuban communism and calling for a public inquiry by Congress. In the text "The Black and Red Revolution in the USA - A Call for a Congressional Investigation into the" Technicians "behind Racial Rioting" he made a connection between the civil rights movement against racial discrimination in the USA and the overthrow efforts carried out by communist agents.

After the Kennedy assassination

After the assassination attempt on President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Bringuier gave detailed information about his encounters with Oswald to the press, the FBI, the Warren Commission and prosecutor Jim Garrison . The information disseminated by Bringuier and other DRE members immediately after the attack about Oswald's pro-Castro activities and their allegations of Castro's authorship attracted widespread attention from the US public. The reference to Oswald's commitment to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was already on the front page of the New York Times the day after the attack .

In the mid-1960s, Bringuier gave lectures at Christian Crusade Anti-Communist Youth University by Protestant preacher Billy James Hargis, including his eight-page article "Oswald: A Castro Agent in the United States" published by Christian Crusade . In 1966 the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil officially dissolved. In 1969 Bringuier published his experiences and his view of Fidel Castro's involvement in the assassination in the book Red Friday, Nov. 22nd, 1963 . He devoted himself to the same topic in his 1993 novel Operación Judas . As a character of Oswald's Cuban exile opponent, Bringuier also appears in the 1991 fictional film " JFK - Tatort Dallas " in a supporting role played by Tony Plana .

In 2011, Bringuier sold signed copies of his books through an Internet auction house as well as information leaflets he had written in the 1960s. In articles circulated on the Internet, he occasionally expresses himself on political issues with a Cuban and US American connection. He lives in Spring, Texas .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Carlos Bringuier: Carta Abierta a un Traidor of April 4, 2011, accessed on November 10, 2011 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Carlos Bringuier: Colegio de Belén on Gentiuno.com of March 29, 2009, accessed via Google Cache on November 10, 2011 (Spanish)
  3. ^ A b c Warren Committee, April 7-8, 1964 Testimony Of Carlos Bringuier
  4. ^ A b Jefferson Morley: Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE). Cuban Student Directorate originally in Washington Post January 2000, retrieved from Cuban Information Archive on November 10, 2011
  5. ↑ Exile Unit Hits Kennedy Order. To Continue Liberation Efforts - Spokesman and JFK is Reminded of 'Bay of Pigs' two reports from New Orleans Times-Picayune from April 1963, quoted from the Jerry P. Shinley Archive, accessed November 10, 2011 (English)
  6. ↑ Transcript of the discussion on 'Fair Play For Cuba Committee' on the WDSU broadcaster, accessed on November 10, 2011 (English)
  7. ↑ Tom Wicker: Kennedy Is Killed By Sniper As He Rides In Car In Dallas; Johnson Sworn In On Plane ( September 7, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ), New York Times, November 23, 1963, accessed from Manus Hand's website on November 11, 2011.
  8. ↑ Cuba / JFK-Assasination: Oswald: A Castro Agent in the US offered leaflets by the user 'nicepapi' on eBay (offer no. 190598085816), accessed on November 10, 2011 (English)
  9. ↑ Carlos Bringuier: Sultan Barack I of February 3, 2011, accessed on November 10, 2011 (English)
  10. ↑ Carlos Bringuier: Terror, from the Fair Play for Cuba Committee to al-Qaeda of June 4, 2011, accessed on November 10, 2011 (English)
  11. ↑ Carlos Bringuier: El Cartel de La Habana of October 17, 2011, accessed on November 10, 2011 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Bringuier, Carlos José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bringuier Expósito, Carlos José (full name); Bringuier, Carlos José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban-American lawyer and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuba