Lucien Sarti

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Lucien Sarti (October 8th, 1937

drug trafficker.[3]
An alleged gunman in John F. Kennedy's assassination, Lucien Sarti was shot to death in Mexico in 1972 in a drug trafficking ring raid.

Drug smuggling

On April 19, 1968, Sarti was arrested along with

indicted by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn.[5]

Allegations of involvement in the assassination of John F. Kennedy

The Murderers of John F. Kennedy and The Men Who Killed Kennedy

In November 1988, Steve J. Rivele's French-published book The Murderers of John F. Kennedy named Sarti as one of three French gangsters involved in the

grassy knoll".[7] According to Rivele, Sarti, Roger Bocagnani, and Sauveur Pironti were contracted by organized crime in the United States to protect their drug interests.[7][8] The British two-hour television special The Men Who Killed Kennedy was based on Rivele's book, but preceded its release airing on October 25, 1988.[7][8] In the French newspaper Le Provençal published the day following the special, Pironti denied the allegation, stating that he believed at the time of the assassination that Sarti was held in Marseille's Baumettes Prison and that Bocagnani was in Bordeaux's Fort du Hâ.[8] He also showed the paper military records proving that he was serving on a minesweeper from October 1962 to April 1964.[8] The French Ministry of Justice stated that Bocagnani was in prison on the day of Kennedy's assassination and officials from the French Navy confirmed Pironti's military service.[8]

E. Howard Hunt

After the death of E. Howard Hunt in 2007, Howard St. John Hunt and David Hunt stated that their father had recorded several claims about himself and others being involved in a conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy.[9][10] In the April 5th, 2007 issue of Rolling Stone, Howard St. John Hunt detailed a number of individuals purported to be implicated by his father including Sarti, as well as Lyndon B. Johnson, Cord Meyer, David Phillips, Frank Sturgis, David Morales, and William Harvey.[10][11] The two sons alleged that their father cut the information from his memoirs, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond, to avoid possible perjury charges.[9] According to Hunt's widow and other children, the two sons took advantage of Hunt's loss of lucidity by coaching and exploiting him for financial gain.[9] The Los Angeles Times said they examined the materials offered by the sons to support the story and found them to be "inconclusive".[9]

Further reading

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-9871210732
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  2. ^ Menéndez, Jorge Fernández (November 22, 2013). "Kennedy: Oswald, Sarti, México". Excélsior. Mexico City. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "The dice turn sour for a pair of high rollers". The Gazette. Montreal. February 8, 1975. p. 12. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  4. ^ a b c Hall, Isabelle (September 22, 1972). "Heroin, Smuggling Case May Uncover Mystery". Ludington Daily News. Ludington, Michigan. UPI. p. 8. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  5. ^ a b "19 indicted in dope smuggling". Chicago Tribune. Vol. 128, no. 30 (Final ed.). January 30, 1975. Section 1, page 6. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  6. ^ "Jail Escape Plot, Rio Cop Linked". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. UPI. November 15, 1972. p. 36. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  7. ^ a b c d Kozlol, Ronald (November 9, 1988). "Book resurrects mob-JFK theory". Chicago Tribune. Vol. 142, no. 314 (Final ed.). Section 1A, page 26. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  8. ^ a b c d e "French accused of killing JFK". Observer-Reporter. Washington, PA. AP. October 27, 1988. p. A-8. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  9. ^ a b c d Williams, Carol J. (March 20, 2007). "Watergate plotter may have a last tale". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. Retrieved December 30, 2012.
  10. ^ a b Hedegaard, Erik (April 5, 2007). "The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on June 18, 2008.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. ISBN 9781597974899
    . Retrieved December 30, 2012.

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