Lucien Sarti

Lucien Sarti (circa 1931[1] – April 28, 1972 [2]) was a French drug trafficker.[3]

Drug smuggling

On April 19, 1968, Sarti was arrested along with fellow Corsicans Auguste Joseph Ricord and Francois Chiappe for questioning regarding the robbery of a branch of the National Bank of Argentina.[4] The three were released due to lack of evidence.[4] In April 1972, Sarti was shot to death in Mexico City during a police raid of a drug trafficking ring.[4][3] A detective in Rio de Janeiro was later suspended from the police force after being accused of accepting a bribe to free Sarti and Helena Ferreira, his girlfriend, from jail earlier in 1972.[5]

Allegations of involvement in the assassination of John F. Kennedy

The Men Who Killed Kennedy

On October 25, 1988, the British television program The Men Who Killed Kennedy named Sarti as one of three French gangsters involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.[6] According to the program, Sarti, Roger Bocagnani, and Sauveur Pironti were contracted by organized crime in the United States.[6] In the French newspaper Le Provençal, Pironti denied the allegation stating 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.[6]

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.[7][8] In the April 5, 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.[8][9] 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.[7] 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.[7] The Los Angeles Times said they examined the materials offered by the sons to support the story and found them to be "inconclusive".[7]

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Clark, Evert and Nicholas Horrock (1973). Contrabandista! Praeger, ASIN B0006C4TXQ. The authors state Sarti was 41 at time of death.
  2. ↑ Menéndez, Jorge Fernández (November 22, 2013). "Kennedy: Oswald, Sarti, México". Excélsior (Mexico City). Retrieved November 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The dice turn sour for a pair of high rollers". The Gazette (Montreal). February 8, 1975. p. 12. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Hall, Isabelle (September 22, 1972). "Heroin, Smuggling Case May Uncover Mystery". Ludington Daily News (Ludington, Michigan). UPI. p. 8. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Jail Escape Plot, Rio Cop Linked". The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). UPI. November 15, 1972. p. 36. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "French accused of killing JFK". Observer-Reporter (Washington, PA). AP. October 27, 1988. p. A-8. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Williams, Carol J. (March 20, 2007). "Watergate plotter may have a last tale". Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles). Retrieved December 30, 2012.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Hedegaard, Erik (April 5, 2007). "The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt". Rolling Stone.
  9. ↑ McAdams, John (2011). "Too Much Evidence of Conspiracy". JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think About Claims of Conspiracy. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books. p. 189. ISBN 9781597974899. Retrieved December 30, 2012.

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