Ricardo Morales Sr., known as Monkey, was a sniper instructor who had worked for the FBI, CIA, DEA, Israel's Mossad and Venezuela's intelligence agency
JFK's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald trained at a secret CIA camp preparing for an invasion of Cuba, the son of his alleged sniper teacher said.
But Ricardo Morales Jr said that trainer - his dad Ricardo Sr - insisted after the November 1963 assassination that there was no way Oswald had the marksmanship to pull off the murder, further bolstering conspiracy theories over the doomed president's death.
Morales Jr., 58, of Michigan, told Miami's Actualidad Radio that his father was a contract CIA worker, anti-Castro militant, counter-intelligence chief for Venezuela, FBI informant and drug dealer. Morales Sr went by the nickname 'Monkey', and was among the FBI's most infamous informants.
Morales Jr. also recalled the moment when his family, who lived in Miami, learned of President John F. Kennedy's November 1963 assassination, and his father's shock when he allegedly recognized Oswald as one of his sniper trainees.
'When he saw the photo of Lee Harvey Oswald [after the assassination] he realized that this was the same character he had seen on the CIA training field,' Morales Jr. said.
'He saw him, he saw the name tag, but he did not know him because he was not famous yet, but later when my father sees him he realizes that he is the same person.'
Ricardo Morales Sr. allegedly trained JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, center
He added that his father did not believe that Oswald, a former marine, could actually be the killer, 'because he has witnessed him shooting at a training camp and he said there is no way that guy could shoot that well,' Morales Jr. told the Miami Herald.
Further muddying the waters, Morales Jr. noted that his father had left for Dallas two days before the assassination for a mission with a 'clean-up' team. Morales Sr later returned without ever knowing what the planned mission was, since it was cancelled due to the assassination, it is claimed.
The informant hinted at part of a wider plot when questioned by his sons about who killed Kennedy, telling them: 'I didn’t do it but I was in Dallas two days before waiting for orders. We were the cleaning crew just in case something bad had to be done.’ After the assassination, they did not have to do anything and returned to Miami.'
Oswald was famously shot and killed by Texas businessman Jack Ruby two days after Kennedy's assassination, fueling speculation that he wasn't the real killer, and that the president had been eliminated by a powerful and shadowy cabal with government help.
Hundreds of conspiracy theories are centered over the death of President John F. Kennedy
Kennedy was shot while out on a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. That motorcade is pictured moments before the fatal shooting took place
He said he had not shared his father's story before because his family had been afraid of dealing with the repercussions of Morales Sr.'s alleged actions and that no one would believe him after so much time has passed.
The claims would add a new saga in the complicated story of Morales Sr., a man used to playing both sides as he completed classified missions for the US government as an anti-Castro agent while also trafficking drugs across the world.
Morales Sr., dubbed Monkey Morales, had served as an intelligence officer for Fidel Castro's during the 1953 Cuban revolution, but was later exiled and went to work for the CIA and FBI.
He would also go on to work for the Drug
