Podcast Interviewer Coached By Daniel Sheehan About How To Interview JFK Assassin Felix Rodriguez, But February 2024 Interview Results In No Confessions

[Keven Hofeling]

An intriguing coincidence occurred before this February 2024 podcast interview with Felix Rodriguez. The interviewer, Danny Jones, was speaking with constitutional law professor and lawyer Danny Sheehan, who was discussing the S-Force - the paramilitary unit involved in JFK's assassination - and mentioned "Operation 40." This led Danny Jones to inquire, "Do you know who Felix Rodriguez is?" Sheehan responded, "Felix Rodriguez was a shooter; he was one of the individuals involved in the President's assassination." Surprised, Danny Jones mentioned that he was set to interview Felix Rodriguez the next day. Sheehan then spent the next 45 minutes recounting the S-Force story and advising Danny Jones on how to conduct the upcoming interview with Rodriguez to potentially elicit new information.

Here is a link to the Sheehan interview, with the relevant segment already queued up for your convenience:

 

 

During the final half-hour of the Felix Rodriguez interview, Danny Jones attempted to ask questions aimed at uncovering Rodriguez's cover stories, but without success. Rodriguez's cover stories, however, revealed some information. When questioned about the JFK assassination, Rodriguez stuck to the standard CIA narrative implicating Fidel Castro as the mastermind behind the event. He even suggested that Castro's intelligence chief, Fabian Escalante, was the one who pulled the trigger. This is intriguing as a retaliation ploy by Rodriguez, given that Escalante on numerous occasions fingered Rodriguez as a potential participant in the assassination in his books and interviews.

 

Felix Rodriguez also denied other unpopular personal achievements of his, such as his participation as a CIA interrogator in the the 1985 death of DEA Agent Kiki Camerena, and although he did admit his involvement in the assassination of Che Guevara, he tried very hard to minimize the brutality involved in the affair.

 

The following is the link to the Rodriguez interview queued for you to the relevant segment in advance:

 

 

[Keven Hofeling]

SANTO TRAFFICANTE REVEALED MUCH IN CONFIDENCE TO HIS LAWYERS...

Listen to this video about Santo Trafficante confidentially providing the details about the origin of the S-Force to his legal counsel under the protection of attorney/client privilege. Trafficante did not do so to seek publicity or sell books. He only did so in the utmost confidentiality, expecting that it would never be divulged to anybody. I've queued the video to the relevant segment for you.
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RE: THE S-FORCE

In 1960, once VP Richard Nixon came to believe he was going to win the presidential election and decided to send a hit squad after Castro, he called upon Howard Hughes on whose behalf Robert Mayheu contacted Johnny Roselli who contacted Santo Trafficante (because Trafficante was the Don over Cuba). Trafficante insisted upon proof that VP Nixon was authorizing it, so Nixon sent the CIA Chief of Security to a meeting with Trafficante and Roselli to confirm. They then assembled a 15-man team made up of anti-Castro Cuban mercenaries, Italian organized crime assassins (who had worked for Trafficante in Cuba), CIA operatives (such as Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker, Frank Sturgis, David Morales, etc.) and special forces operators. This "S-Force" was funded by a skim off Las Vegas casinos, and was trained on U.S. military bases and Clint Murchison's ranch in Mexico to conduct triangulated crossfire ambush assassinations, and they were deployed to conduct such an operation against the President of the United States during the weekend of November 22, 1963.

This information is primarily derived from what attorney Daniel Sheehan has divulged about the attorney/client privileged communications between James McCord and Santo Trafficante and F. Lee Bailey while Bailey was representing them on CIA retainer during the period of the Watergate Hearings.

Video is queued to 45:39 where Professor Sheehan describes Santo Trafficante's confidential attorney-client privileged explanation of the relationship between Operation 40 and the "S-Force" which was originally constituted under the auspices of VP Nixon to off Castro, but was instead ultimately deployed to assassinate President Kennedy:

Also see detailed account of the origins of the S-Force as presented in Daniel Sheehan's autobiography via the following link: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/politicalassassinationsresearchgroup/posts/6787297377992940/

 

Edited February 27 by Keven Hofeling

[Robert Morrow]

44 minutes ago, Keven Hofeling said:

An intriguing coincidence occurred before this February 2024 podcast interview with Felix Rodriguez. The interviewer, Danny Jones, was speaking with constitutional law professor and lawyer Danny Sheehan, who was discussing the S-Force - the paramilitary unit involved in JFK's assassination - and mentioned "Operation 40." This led Danny Jones to inquire, "Do you know who Felix Rodriguez is?" Sheehan responded, "Felix Rodriguez was a shooter; he was one of the individuals involved in the President's assassination." Surprised, Danny Jones mentioned that he was set to interview Felix Rodriguez the next day. Sheehan then spent the next 45 minutes recounting the S-Force story and advising Danny Jones on how to conduct the upcoming interview with Rodriguez to potentially elicit new information.

Here is a link to the Sheehan interview, with the relevant segment already queued up for your convenience:

 

 

During the final half-hour of the Felix Rodriguez interview, Danny Jones attempted to ask questions aimed at uncovering Rodriguez's cover stories, but without success. Rodriguez's cover stories, however, revealed some information. When questioned about the JFK assassination, Rodriguez stuck to the standard CIA narrative implicating Fidel Castro as the mastermind behind the event. He even suggested that Castro's intelligence chief, Fabian Escalante, was the one who pulled the trigger. This is intriguing as a retaliation ploy by Rodriguez, given that Escalante on numerous occasions fingered Rodriguez as a potential participant in the assassination in his books and interviews.

 

Felix Rodriguez also denied other unpopular personal achievements of his, such as his participation as a CIA interrogator in the the 1985 death of DEA Agent Kiki Camerena, and although he did admit his involvement in the assassination of Che Guevara, he tried very hard to minimize the brutality involved in the affair.

 

The following is the link to the Rodriguez interview queued for you to the relevant segment in advance:

 

 

Felix Rodriguez was born on May 31, 1941 and would have been age 22 at the time of the JFK assassination. I doubt that young man was a shooter of JFK: Félix Rodríguez (soldier) - Wikipedia

Having said that, it is my opinion that Felix Rodriguez has had a very long and dirty career in the military and U.S. intelligence. I do believe the man was assassinating people or arranging the assassinations of people. If you go to his HOME in Miami today, you will notice both in the front yard and back yard there are security cameras placed on tall poles that allow Rodriguez to monitor the entire area around his house. This is because the man is afraid of being assassinated himself.

You can read L.D. Brown's book Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation (1999) Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation: Brown, L. D.: 9781582750033: Amazon.com: Books and read about how a man MAX GOMEZ (Felix Rodriguez) was going to great lengths to get L.D. Brown to go down to Mexico and assassinate Terry Reed at a motel. Terry Reed was involved in government/intelligence criminal activities in the 1980's and he would later go on to write the book Compromised: Bush, Clinton and the CIA. https://www.amazon.com/Compromised-Clinton-Bush-Terry-Reed/dp/1561712493/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11G25QXGQE6NR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5hlpKPLsbNx_POrh5zmd-WhVnlcbX4U8t3uB-nlYZ-GKmJdbFS8u8DXEu7XohVme.OrxfXVyizUDuBQMT9D4nFMzKve35NSQ9UN7yGWIZz9s&dib_tag=se&keywords=terry+reed+compromised&qid=1709016956&sprefix=terry+reed+compro%2Caps%2C239&sr=8-1 

At the last moment, with Terry Reed in his gun sights, L.D. Brown decided NOT to murder Reed because Reed's wife and children were present. Get that L.D. Brown book and you will learn about the Bush, Clinton, Barry Seal involvement in CIA drug running of the 1980s.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 27 by Robert Morrow

[Keven Hofeling]

FELIX RODRIGUEZ AND CIA OPERATION 40

"This photograph was taken in a nightclub in Mexico City on 22nd January, 1963. It has been argued by Daniel Hopsicker that the men in the photograph are all members of Operation 40. Hopsicker suggests that the man closest to the camera on the left is Felix Rodriguez, next to him is Porter Goss and Barry Seal. Hopsicker adds that Frank Sturgis is attempting to hide his face with his coat. It has been claimed that in the picture are Albertao 'Loco' Blanco (3rd right) and Jorgo Robreno (4th right)."

"Virtually every one of the field agents of Operation 40 were Cubans. This included Antonio Veciana, Luis Posada, Orlando Bosch, Rafael Quintero, Roland Masferrer, Eladio del Valle, Guillermo Novo, Rafael Villaverde, Virgilio Gonzalez, Carlos Bringuier, Eugenio Martinez, Antonio Cuesta, Hermino Diaz Garcia, Barry Seal, Felix Rodriguez, Ricardo Morales Navarrete, Juan Manuel Salvat, Isidro Borjas, Virgilio Paz, Jose Dionisio Suarez, Felipe Rivero, Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo, Nazario Sargent, Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, Jose Basulto, and Paulino Sierra. (11)"

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKoperation40.htm

[Robert Morrow]

7 minutes ago, Keven Hofeling said:

SANTO TRAFFICANTE REVEALED MUCH IN CONFIDENCE TO HIS LAWYERS...

Listen to this video about Santo Trafficante confidentially providing the details about the origin of the S-Force to his legal counsel under the protection of attorney/client privilege. Trafficante did not do so to seek publicity or sell books. He only did so in the utmost confidentiality, expecting that it would never be divulged to anybody. I've queued the video to the relevant segment for you.
----------------------------------------------------------
RE: THE S-FORCE

In 1960, once VP Richard Nixon came to believe he was going to win the presidential election and decided to send a hit squad after Castro, he called upon Howard Hughes on whose behalf Robert Mayheu contacted Johnny Roselli who contacted Santo Trafficante (because Trafficante was the Don over Cuba). Trafficante insisted upon proof that VP Nixon was authorizing it, so Nixon sent the CIA Chief of Security to a meeting with Trafficante and Roselli to confirm. They then assembled a 15-man team made up of anti-Castro Cuban mercenaries, Italian organized crime assassins (who had worked for Trafficante in Cuba), CIA operatives (such as Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker, Frank Sturgis, David Morales, etc.) and special forces operators. This "S-Force" was funded by a skim off Las Vegas casinos, and was trained on U.S. military bases and Clint Murchison's ranch in Mexico to conduct triangulated crossfire ambush assassinations, and they were deployed to conduct such an operation against the President of the United States during the weekend of November 22, 1963.

This information is primarily derived from what attorney Daniel Sheehan has divulged about the attorney/client privileged communications between James McCord and Santo Trafficante and F. Lee Bailey while Bailey was representing them on CIA retainer during the period of the Watergate Hearings.

Video is queued to 45:39 where Professor Sheehan describes Santo Trafficante's confidential attorney-client privileged explanation of the relationship between Operation 40 and the "S-Force" which was originally constituted under the auspices of VP Nixon to off Castro, but was instead ultimately deployed to assassinate President Kennedy:

Also see detailed account of the origins of the S-Force as presented in Daniel Sheehan's autobiography via the following link: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/politicalassassinationsresearchgroup/posts/6787297377992940/

 

 

May 23, 2016 - Here is Danny Sheehan saying that Gen. Edward Lansdale's (second) wife Patrocinio Yapcinco Lansdale (also known as Pat Kelly when younger) had identified Lansdale in that photo of the 3 tramps which was taken about 2:30PM on 11-22-1963 about 5 feet west of the Texas School Book Depository.

 

 

[Robert Morrow]

1 minute ago, Keven Hofeling said:

FELIX RODRIGUEZ AND CIA OPERATION 40

"This photograph was taken in a nightclub in Mexico City on 22nd January, 1963. It has been argued by Daniel Hopsicker that the men in the photograph are all members of Operation 40. Hopsicker suggests that the man closest to the camera on the left is Felix Rodriguez, next to him is Porter Goss and Barry Seal. Hopsicker adds that Frank Sturgis is attempting to hide his face with his coat. It has been claimed that in the picture are Albertao 'Loco' Blanco (3rd right) and Jorgo Robreno (4th right)."

"Virtually every one of the field agents of Operation 40 were Cubans. This included Antonio Veciana, Luis Posada, Orlando Bosch, Rafael Quintero, Roland Masferrer, Eladio del Valle, Guillermo Novo, Rafael Villaverde, Virgilio Gonzalez, Carlos Bringuier, Eugenio Martinez, Antonio Cuesta, Hermino Diaz Garcia, Barry Seal, Felix Rodriguez, Ricardo Morales Navarrete, Juan Manuel Salvat, Isidro Borjas, Virgilio Paz, Jose Dionisio Suarez, Felipe Rivero, Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo, Nazario Sargent, Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, Jose Basulto, and Paulino Sierra. (11)"

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKoperation40.htm

Scott Kaiser can tell you exactly who all those people were in the top photo which was taken in a Mexican restaurant. Yes, that is Frank Sturgis trying to hide his face.

[Keven Hofeling]

8 minutes ago, Robert Morrow said:

Felix Rodriguez was born on May 31, 1941 and would have been age 22 at the time of the JFK assassination. I doubt that young man was a shooter of JFK: Félix Rodríguez (soldier) - Wikipedia

Having said that, it is my opinion that Felix Rodriguez has had a very long and dirty career in the military and U.S. intelligence. I do believe the man was assassination people or arranging the assassinations of people. If you go to his HOME in Miami today, you will notice both in the front yard and back yard there are security cameras placed on tall poles that allow Rodriguez to monitor the entire area around his house. This is because the man is afraid of being assassinated himself.

You can read L.D. Brown's book Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation (1999) Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation: Brown, L. D.: 9781582750033: Amazon.com: Books and read about how a man MAX GOMEZ (Felix Rodriguez) was going to great lengths to get L.D. Brown to go down to Mexico and assassinate Terry Reed at a motel. Terry Reed was involved in government/intelligence criminal activities in the 1980's and he would later go on to write the book Compromised: Bush, Clinton and the CIA. At the last moment, with Terry Reed in his gun sights, L.D. Brown decided NOT to murder Reed because Reed's wife and children were present. Get that L.D. Brown book and you will learn about the Bush, Clinton, Barry Seal involvement in CIA drug running of the 1980s.

 

 

 

 

 

'THE WHEATON INTERVIEW'
https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Essay_-_The_Wheaton_Lead.html
"...In this interview with Wheaton, conducted by William Law and Mark Sobel, Wheaton opened up to a limited degree about what he had witnessed. The following quotes are excerpted from the interview...
"Carl Jenkins was a retired high-level paramilitary specialist for the CIA..... He headed up the largest covert base in Laos during the secret CIA wars over there when the open war was going on in Vietnam..... [Jenkins] invited me to stay in their home..... In 1985 he [Jenkins] became my Washington representative when I took over as Vice President for a cargo airline called National Air..... I was like a brother to Carl..... Carl was the head recruiter and trainer of the Bay of Pigs invasion for the assassins and saboteurs that were going into Cuba for the pre-invasion to lay the groundwork for the Bay of Pigs..... He trained the 17, 18, 19 year old exiles and became their father figure..... Chi Chi Quintero became like a son to Carl..... He [Quintero] and two or three others, Felix Rodriguez, Nestor Pino, all went to Vietnam with him..... Chi Chi was a shooter. He was trained by I.W. Harper..... There was a CIA funded program to assassinate Castro and Carl was in charge of training the Cubans from Miami..... They were the ones that diverted the Castro assassination funds and training for their own agenda to snuff Kennedy..... They had a thing called a triangulation shooting team..... [Describing the Bay of Pigs and JFK backing off the air strike] They were furious and still are to this day..... And there was another clique above them..... they would reminisce about the past and what went wrong and what went right....."
'The Wheaton Lead: An Exploration'
by Larry Hancock and David Boylan, April 2020
https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Essay_-_The_Wheaton_Lead.html

[Keven Hofeling]

FELIX RODRIGUEZ'S INTEROGATION AND MURDER OF CHE GUEVARA

"...I stood above Che, my boots near his head, just as Che had once stood over my dear friend and fellow 2506 Brigade member, Nestor Pino. Captured at the Bay of Pigs, Pino was beaten by Castro's soldiers when he told them that he was not a cook or radio operator but the company commander of a paratroop battalion. His body battered, he lay on the earthen floor of a seaside hut taking the kicks and blows. Suddenly, they stopped.

Pino opened his eyes and saw a pair of polished boots next to his face. He looked up. It was Che Guevara, staring coolly down at him. Che spoke as matter-of-factly as if he was telling a child tomorrow is a school day. "We're going to kill you all," he said to Pino.

Pino had survived his ordeal. Now, the situation was reversed. Che Guevara lay at my feet. He looked like a piece of trash.

I said, "Che Guevara, I want to talk to you."

Even now he played the role of comandante. His eyes flashed. "Nobody interrogates me," he replied sarcastically.

"Comandante, " I said, somewhat amazed that he had chosen to answer me at all, "I didn't come to interrogate you. Our ideals are different. But I admire you. You used to be a minister of state in Cuba. Now look at you - you are like this because you believe in your ideals. I have come to talk to you."

He looked at me for about a minute in silence, then agreed to speak and asked if he could sit up. I ordered a soldier to untie him and got him propped onto the rickety wooden bench. I got him tobacco for his pipe.

He would not discuss tactical matters or technical things. When I asked him about some of his specific operations, he responded by saying only, "You know I cannot answer that."

But to more general questions, like "Comandante, of all the possible countries in the region, why did you pick Bolivia to export your revolution?" he answered at length.

He told me he had considered other places - Venezuela, Central America, and the Dominican Republic were three he named. But, he added, experience had shown that when Cuba tried to foment unrest so close to the U.S., the Yanquis reacted strongly and the revolutionary activities failed.

So, Che continued, since countries like Venezuela and Nicaragua were "too important to Yankee imperialism, and the Americans hadn't allowed us any success there, we figured that, by picking a country so far from the U.S. it wouldn't appear to present an immediate threat, the Yanquis wouldn't concern themselves with what we did. Bolivia fulfills that requirement.

"Second," he added, "we were looking for a poor country-and Bolivia is poor. And third, Bolivia shares boundaries with five countries. If we are successful in Bolivia, then we can move into other places-Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay."

He told me he believed that he'd lost support in Bolivia because the people were too provincial. "They cannot see their revolution in broad terms-as an international guerrilla movement working for the proletariat-but only as a regional issue," he said. "They want a Boliviano comandante, not a Cuban, even though I am an expert in these matters."

We talked about Cuba. He admitted to me that the economy was in a shambles, largely because of the economic boycott by the U.S. "But you helped cause that," I told Che. "You-a doctor-were made president of the Cuban National Bank. What does a doctor know about economics?"

"Do you know how I became president of the Cuban National Bank?" he asked me. "No. "

"I'll tell you a joke." He laughed. "We were sitting in a meeting one day, and Fidel came in and he asked for a dedicated economista. I misheard him - I thought he was asking for a dedicated comunista, so I raised my hand." He shrugged. "And that's why Fidel selected me as head of the Cuban economy. "

He refused to talk about what he had done in Africa although, when I said we'd been told he had a ten thousand-man guerrilla force, but that his African soldiers were a disaster, he laughed sadly and said, "If I'd really had ten thousand guerrillas it would have been different. But you are right, you know - the Africans were very, very bad soldiers."

He refused to speak badly about Fidel, although he damned him with faint praise. Actually, Che was evasive when Fidel's name came up. It became apparent to me that he was bitter over the Cuban dictator's lack of support for the Bolivian incursion. Indeed, that Che admitted how bad the Cuban economy was represented an indictment of Fidel's leadership, even though he did not specifically criticize him.

Che and I talked for about an hour and a half until, shortly before noon, I heard the chopper arrive. I went outside and discovered that Nino de Guzman had brought a camera from Major Saucedo, who wanted a picture of the prisoner. That was when I purposely screwed up the Bolivian's camera, but had Nino de Guzman snap a picture of Che and me using my own Pentax. It is the only photograph of Che alive on the day he died.

Back inside, we resumed our conversation. Che expressed surprise that I knew so much about him, and about Cuba. "You are not a Bolivian," he said.

"No, I am not. Where do you think I am from?"

"You could be a Puerto Rican or a Cuban. Whoever you are, by the sorts of questions you've been asking I believe that you work for the intelligence service of the United States."

"You are right, Comandante," I said. "I am a Cuban. I was a member of the 2506 Brigade. In fact, I was a member of the infiltration teams that operated inside Cuba before the invasion at the Bay of Pigs."

"What's your name?"

"Felix. Just Felix, Comandante." I wanted to say more, but I didn't dare. There was still a slim possibility that he might get out of this alive, and I didn't want my identity to escape with him.

"Ha," Che answered. Nothing more. I don't know what he was thinking at the moment and I never asked.

We started to talk about the Cuban economy once again when we were interrupted by shots, followed by the sounds of a body falling to the floor. Aniceto had been executed in the adjoining room. Che stopped talking. He did not say anything about the shooting, but his face reflected sadness and he shook his head slowly from left to right several times.

Perhaps it was in that instant that he realized that he, too, was doomed, even though I did not tell him so until just before 1 P.M.

I had been putting off the inevitable, shuttling between Che's room and the table where I was photographing his documents. I was taking pictures of his diary when the village schoolteacher arrived.

"Mi Capitan?"

I looked up from my work. "Yes?"

"When are you going to shoot him?"

That caught my attention. "Why are you asking me that?" I asked.

"Because the radio is already reporting that he is dead from combat wounds."...

"...His face turned as white as writing paper. "It is better like this, Felix. I should never have been captured alive."

When I asked him if he had any message for his family, he said, "Tell Fidel that he will soon see a triumphant revolution in America." He said it in a way that, to me, seemed to mock the Cuban dictator for abandoning him here in the Bolivian jungle. Then Che added, "And tell my wife to get remarried and try to be happy."

Then we embraced, and it was a tremendously emotional moment for me. I no longer hated him. His moment of truth had come, and he was conducting himself like a man. He was facing his death with courage and grace.

I looked at my watch. It was one in the afternoon. I walked outside to where Mario Teran and Lieutenant Perez stood. I looked at Teran, whose face shone as if he had been drinking. I told him not to shoot Che in the face, but from the neck down. Then I walked up the hill and began making notes. When I heard the shots I checked my watch. It was 1: 10 P.M.

Che was dead.

Felix I. Rodriguez, Shadow Warrior (1989)

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKroderiguez.htm

 

Biography

His uncle was minister of Public Works during the Fulgencio Batista government, in Cuba. After the Cuban Revolution he and his family became exiles in the United States.

He attended The Perkiomen School, in Pennsylvania, but dropped out to join the Caribbean Anti-communist Legion, created by Dominican president Rafael Trujillo, with the intention of overthrowing Fidel Castro in Cuba.

The invasion of Cuba was a failure, and Rodríguez went back to Perkiomen. He graduated in June, 1960, and went to live with his parents in Miami, where thousands of Cuban exiles lived.

In September, 1960 he joined a group of Cuban exiles in Guatemala, supported by the CIA, to receive military training. They were called Brigade 2506.

Bay of Pigs Invasion

He was a Paramilitary Operations Officer from Special Activities Division. He joined and became a leader in the CIA-backed Operation 40^{[citation needed]} and Brigade 2506, and clandestinely entered Cuba a few weeks before the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Utilizing his familiarity with the country, he was able to gather critical intelligence to be used in the planning and preparation for the invasion.^[2]

His colleagues in Operation 40 included David Atlee Phillips, David Morales, Ted Shackley, E. Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis, Barry Seal, and Porter Goss among others.

Bolivia

See also: Capture and execution of Che Guevara

In 1967, the CIA recruited Rodríguez to train and head a team to hunt down Marxist guerilla Che Guevara, who was attempting to overthrow the government in Bolivia. After Guevara was wounded and captured by Bolivian special forces trained and supported by the CIA, Rodríguez interrogated him. According to the Bolivian military Jaime Niño de Guzmán Guevara refused to speak with Rodríguez. File:Carta CIA a IRL autentica foto FIR con Che.pdf Rodríguez stated that he wanted to keep Guevara alive for further interrogation, but was thwarted by the order of the Bolivian President that Guevara be summarily executed. Rodríguez, whose cover was that of a Bolivian army major, repeated those orders, later stating that it was a Bolivian decision, and Guevara was killed. Rodríguez has in his possession Guevara's Rolex wristwatch.^[3][4]

Vietnam

He became a U.S. citizen in 1969, soon enlisting in the United States Army.^{[citation needed]} During his career with the CIA he also went by the name Máximo Gómez. He was awarded the Intelligence Star for Valor by the CIA and nine Crosses for Gallantry by the South Vietnamese government.^{[citation needed]} He was codenamed Lazarus after his survival of the Bay of Pigs invasion operation.

In the Vietnam War, Rodríguez flew over 300 helicopter missions, and was shot down five times. In 1971, Rodríguez trained Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs). PRUs were CIA-sponsored units that worked for the Phoenix Program.^[5] The Walsh Report states (Chapter 29): "During the Vietnam War, [Donald] Gregg supervised CIA officer Felix Rodriguez and they kept in contact following the war."^[6] Rodríguez also reported to Ted Shackley during the Phoenix Program - Shackley became Bush's top aide for operations when he directed the CIA; Gregg later became National Security Advisor for Vice President Bush. Rodríguez was in frequent contact with him regarding arms for the Contras.

Iran-Contra and ties to George H.W. Bush

There is extensive documentation of Rodriguez' ties to US vice-president George H. W. Bush during the Iran–Contra affair, from 1983-1988.^[7] In September 1986 General John K. Singlaub wrote Oliver North expressing concern about Félix Rodríguez's daily contact with the Bush office and warned of damage to President Ronald Reagan and the US Republican Party. The Walsh Report (Chapter 25) states that M. Charles Hill took notes at a meeting between George Shultz and Elliott Abrams on 16 October 1986, as follows:

"Felix Rodriguez [sic] – Bush did know him from CIA days. FR [Rodriguez] is ex-CIA. In El Salv[ador] he goes around to bars saying he is buddy of Bush. A y[ea]r ago Pdx [Poindexter] & Ollie [North] told VP staff stop protecting FR as a friend – we want to get rid of him from his involvnt [sic] w[ith] private ops. Nothing was done so he still is there shooting his mouth off."^[8]

(brackets are in the original)

Rodríguez met with Donald Gregg, who by then was Bush's National Security advisor. The Walsh Report (Chapter 29) states: "Gregg introduced Rodriguez to Vice President Bush in January 1985, and Rodriguez met with the Vice President again in Washington, D.C., in May 1986. He also met Vice President Bush briefly in Miami on May 20, 1986."^[6]

Rodríguez also met and spoke repeatedly with Bush's advisor Gregg and his deputy (Col. Samuel J. Watson III). As one indicator of this connection, a single chapter in the Walsh Report titled "Donald P. Gregg" (Chapter 29) contains 329 references to Rodríguez.^[6]

On 5 October 1986, the Corporate Air Services C-123 carrying Eugene Hasenfus was shot down over Nicaragua, killing two US pilots, William H. Cooper and Wallace B. Sawyer, Jr., and one Latin American crew member. "Rodriguez unsuccessfully attempted to call Gregg to inform him of the missing plane. He reached Watson, who in turn notified the White House Situation Room. The following day, Rodriguez called Watson again and told him that the airplane was one of North's."^[6] Hasenfus told reporters that he worked for "Max Gomez" (an alias for Felix Rodriguez) and "Ramon Medina" (an alias for Luis Posada Carriles) of the CIA. On 10 October 1986, Clair George, head of CIA clandestine operations, testified before Congress that he did not know of any direct connection between Hasenfus and Reagan administration officials. In Fall of 1992, George was convicted on two charges of false statements and perjury before Congress; he was pardoned Christmas Eve that year by then-President Bush.^[9][10]

Murder of Enrique Camarena

On October 2013 Phil Jordan, Héctor Berrellez ex DEA agent and Tosh Plumlee ex CIA pilot reveled to Fox News and mexican newsletter Proceso, that Félix Rodríguez killed DEA officer Enrique Camarena following directions from the CIA.^[11]

 

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Félix_Rodríguez_(soldier)

 

Edited February 27 by Keven Hofeling

[Keven Hofeling]

'TORTURER AND TERRORIST FELIX RODRIGUEZ AWARDED FLORIDA MEDAL OF FREEDOM'

TRILLIONS Intelligence Network | ON 10/10/2021 AT 13:42 PM | https://www.trillions.biz/news/171425-Torturer-and-Terrorist-F%C3%A9lix-Rodr%C3%ADguez-Awarded-Florida-Medal-of-Freedom.html

Op-Ed

 

"PHOTO: Deranged Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis has awarded a Medal of Freedom to one of the hemisphere's most vile criminals."

Felix Ismael Fernando José Rodriguez Mendigutia, aka "Max Gomez," is most famous for the torture and murder of the revolutionary Che Guevara and chopping off his hands in Bolivia. What is less known is that he was one of the CIA's most evil and was deeply involved in the Cuban mafia, death squads in Southeast Asia and Central America, and the CIA's international drug operations.  

Rodríguez was born into a wealthy plantation owning family in Cuba in 1941 and fled the country for the U.S. after Castro seized control in 1959. He was recruited out of college in Pennsylvania into the CIA in 1960 for Operation 40, which was intended to remove Castro from power in league with former Havana godfather Santos Trafficante. The effort to oust Castro failed in the Bay of Pigs fiasco but Rodriguez continued to carry out terrorist, torture and murder operations in Cuba and other countries.

In 1970 he joined the CIA's Air America trafficking heroin from Laos to the U.S. drugs network of Trafficante. The purpose of the smuggling was to gain the support of Laotian drug lords by buying their product, enrich the Cuban mafia and fund illegal CIA black operations.

In Vietnam, Rodriguez honed his torture and murder skills in Operation Phoenix, in which more than 10,000 Vietnamese civilians were brutally tortured to death for little or no reason except to satisfy some sort of satanic blood-lust.

Rodriguez would apply his death squad skills in Central America in the late 1970s up into the 1980s where more than 200,000 innocent civilians were abducted, tortured and killed because they were easy targets or might oppose the right-wing narco-dictators the CIA had put into power.

In the 1980s the CIA got heavily into cocaine and Rodriguez was front and center. High ranking retired DEA officials blame the CIA and Rodriguez for the 1985 kidnapping, torture and assassination of Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, a senior DEA agent with major busts in Mexico of CIA related traffickers. Kiki was tortured for 30 hours, according to the CIA's audio recordings of their crime. Camarena wasn't the only American that Rodriguez abducted, tortured and murdered.

Rodriguez worked closely with the Bush crime family and ran George Bush Sr.'s operation to arm the Nicaraguan contra terrorists for the Reagan regime while smuggling massive amounts of coca paste into Costa Rica where it was refined into pure cocaine and crack at the ranch of CIA operative John Hull and then flown to the airport at Mena, Arkansas under the protection of then Governor Bill Clinton and into U.S. military bases.

By the late 1980s Rodriguez mostly retired and published his autobiography, Shadow Warrior: The CIA Hero of a Hundred Unknown Battles in 1989. He continues to be active in Cuban exile groups such as Brigade 2506 and other Cuban mafia terror groups that continue to attack Cuba.  

Despite his long bloody career of crimes against humanity, Rodriguez has never faced any measure of justice and continues to be celebrated by America's most disgustingly evil sociopaths and psychopaths. Instead of being awarded the Floridiot's medal of freedom by a fellow Cuban mafia thug, Rodriguez should have faced justice long ago.

What the rabidly right-wing can't seem to understand is that the more they terrorize those who merely seek a better life for themselves and their families, the more they will resist. Had the CIA and Cuban mafia not turned on Castro and continued to terrorize Cuba, Castro would have likely been replaced long ago and Cuba would have become a democracy. The only reason that Cubans continue to cling to their failed revolution is the unending threat from the U.S. and its geriatric but vicious Cuban mafia.

 

 

[Robert Morrow]

I was told by a researcher that Felix Rodriguez's home address is 215 NE 114th St., Miami, FL  33161: 

https://www.google.com/maps/@25.8795856,-80.1935219,3a,75y,19.03h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPS00fdE7yEhwRd3z7TN70w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Note the two tall white poles in his back yard that have security cameras attached to them. Note all the bars on the windows.

Note that Google does not show the address number (you have to ask Google to do this).

Rodriguez fears being assassinated himself and that is what happens when you have lived a long and very, very dirty (criminal) career in government and intelligence.

A friend of mine who has been in his house says Rodriguez has the bloody watch of Che Guevara prominently displayed in his home.

 

 

Edited February 27 by Robert Morrow

[Keven Hofeling]

9 minutes ago, Robert Morrow said:

I was told by a researcher that Felix Rodriguez's home address is 215 NE 114th St., Miami, FL  33161: 

https://www.google.com/maps/@25.8795856,-80.1935219,3a,75y,19.03h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPS00fdE7yEhwRd3z7TN70w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Note the two tall white poles in his back yard that have security cameras attached to them. Note all the bars on the windows.

Note that Google does not show the address number (you have to ask Google to do this).

Rodriguez fears being assassinated himself and that is what happens when you have lived a long and very, very dirty (criminal) career in government and intelligence.

A friend of mine who has been in his house says Rodriguez has the bloody watch of Che Guevara prominently displayed in his home.

 

 

Daniel Sheehan told the podcast interviewer to ask Rodriguez about the watch, and Rodriguez denied it, just as he denied everything else. Very transparent lies. Rodriguez has obviously lived lies for most of his life...

[Paul Cummings]

You don't live as long as Rodriquez has without someone having your back.