“to make discreet contact” with Cuba’s UN ambassador Carlos Lechuga.[14] Was Fidel Castro interested in a dialogue with John Kennedy? A strongly affirmative answer would come back from Castro, who had been urged by Khrushchev to begin trusting Kennedy. Although Kennedy specified that the CIA not be told of his Cuban initiative, Attwood later wrote, “the CIA must have had an inkling of what was happening from phone taps and surveillance of Lechuga.”[15] Attwood also said, “There is no doubt in my mind.
