Carlos Bringuier

Carlos Jose Bringuier Expósito ( born June 22, 1934 in Cuba ) is a Cuban- American lawyer and political activist. He is mainly known by its short-term connection with the suspected murderers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy Lee Oswald.

Life

Carlos Bringuier, son of Judge Julio Bringuier Laredo, attended the private Catholic school Colegio de Belén in Havana from 1941 - the year in which Fidel Castro there his secondary education acquired -. 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 graduated in 1957 from a doctorate, on which the approval was granted to the attorney. He then worked as an employee of the Tribunal of Havana.

After the takeover of power by Fidel Castro Bringuier left in 1960 as hundreds of thousands of Cubans to his home country because he did not agree with the establishment of a Communist dictatorship on the Soviet model. He emigrated first to Guatemala from, and later to Argentina, before he finally settled in New Orleans in February 1961. There Bringuier ran the clothing store Casa Roca and became the spokesman and the focal point of the local Castro opponents. His brother Juan was 1961 participants in the CIA-backed Cuban exile invasion at the Bay of Pigs, in which he was captured, from which he was bought along with the other fighters in December 1962 in April.

Bringuier joined in the U.S., the Cuban exile organization Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE, German: "Student Revolutionary Directorate ", English: Cuban Student Directory CSD), whose only member in New Orleans he was then. The DRE was founded in February 1960 by the Catholic students of the University of Havana, who protested against the pro-Soviet course of the Cuban revolutionary government and a little later the college were expelled. Many of the members went in the sequence into U.S. exile, where they represented the political and military struggle against the one-party rule of Fidel Castro. Bringuier, he was assigned within the DRE with responsibility for political public relations. So he turned, for example, in April 1963, two years after the failed invasion at the Bay of Pigs, on behalf of his organization in public calls to President Kennedy, to protest against the policy of containment of the activities of militant Cuban exiles on U.S. territory, the part had been the agreement with the Soviet Union to resolve the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.

Encounters with Lee Oswald

On August 5, 1963 Lee Oswald appeared in the business of Bringuier told Bringuier and two other present he is against Fidel Castro and against communism. Furthermore, he had been with the U.S. Marine Corps, was formed there in guerrilla warfare and now willing to fight against Castro Cubans to train and even fight against Castro. Bringuier refused this offer and said Oswald, that he had nothing to do with military actions. The following day, Oswald left in the clothing store for Bringuier his training manual of the Marines.

On August 9, 1963 Oswald distributed on behalf of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee Organisation ( German: " Committee for fair dealings with Cuba " ) in a busy street of New Orleans leaflets, was on where the protests against the Cuba policy of the USA and advertised with a sign for Fidel Castro. After Bringuier has been advised of the action of two other Cuban exiles and he had sought with them Oswald and found he confronted him there with the previously made contrary statements and there ensued a fierce battle between the four people, leading to a smaller crowd led. The police interrupted the debate, took the four main stakeholders fixed temporarily and interrogated them. The case to a local judge was heard on August 12, 1963, which was occupied Oswald because of disturbance of public order with the payment of an administrative fine of $ 10.

Bringuier and Oswald were a few days later invited by a local radio journalists in his talk show to explain their opposing points of view to the audience. Bringuier was subsequently issued a press release in which he warned the American public from Oswald as an agent of Soviet and Cuban communism and called for a public inquiry into the 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 presented a connection between the civil rights movement against racial discrimination in the United States and Communist agents operated coup efforts.

After the Kennedy assassination

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 Bringuier told the press, the FBI, the Warren Commission, and the Attorney Jim Garrison gave detailed information about his encounters with Oswald. The spread of Bringuier and other DRE members immediately after the assassination information about the pro-Castro Oswald's activities and their accusations of authorship Castro found in the U.S. public -wide observance. So the reference to the commitment Oswald for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was read on the day after the attack on the front page of the New York Times.

The mid-1960s held Bringuier lectures as part of the Christian Anti- Communist Crusade Youth University Billy James Hargis Protestant preacher, as well also be of Christian Crusade published, eight -page article " Oswald: A Castro agent in the United States " was widespread. 1966, the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil disbanded officially. 1969 published Bringuier his experiences and his view of involvement in the assassination of Fidel Castro in the book Red Friday, November 22nd, 1963. The same subject he devoted himself in his 1993 novel Operación Judas. As a figure of a Cuban exile opponent of Oswald appeared Bringuier also in the fictional movie " JFK - Tatort Dallas " from 1991 in which a played by Tony Plana supporting role on.

2011 sales Bringuier an Internet auction site, signed copies of his books and in the 1960s written by him information leaflets. In distributed over the Internet articles, he expressed occasionally on political issues with Cuban and U.S. reference. He lives in Spring in the U.S. state of Texas.

Publications

• Red Friday, November 22nd, 1963, Chas. Hallberg, Chicago, 1969, ISBN 978-0873190091 (English)
• Operación Judas (novel), Ediciones Universal, Miami 1993, ISBN 978-0897296946 ( Spanish)

Single notes

• Lawyer
• Cuban
• Born in 1934
• Man