On November 22, 1963, the world fell silent for the assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, Dallas.
However, a declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) document reveals that the U.S. agency had suspicions of a plan to assassinate Kennedy during his visit to Costa Rica. The fear was that Kennedy would assassinated by some fanatical individual or small group while the U.S. President was in Costa Rica.
The document refers to “an unconfirmed report by Castro terrorists to assassinate President Kennedy in Costa Rica is under investigation by Costa Rican and US security agencies. There may be attempts against Presidents Somoza of Nicaragua or Ydigoras of Guatemala in Costa Rica, and it is possible that President Kennedy might be endangered in such disorders”.
Kennedy visited the country between March 18 and 20, 1963.
Playing host to Kennedy was Costa Rican President Francisco Orlich. Like in Dallas 8 months later, Kennedy in Costa Rica rode in an open vehicle from the airport to downtown San José, and walked with the people outside the Gran Hotel.
Photos sources: Google, Wikipedia, La Nacion, Rosettasister
Ironically, Kennedy was safer here than in the US.
One must always be suspicious of these projections by entities like the CIA and wonder if the CIA was actually part of a conspiracy to eliminate Kennedy on foreign soil and blame it on their enemies.
A similar situation now exists in Italy, where the mayor of Rome has voiced concern that the new “too holy to enjoy a long life” pope will be assassinated by the mafia. It is just as likely that the pope would be assassinated by the numerous politicians and Vatican insiders who were enriched by the corruption that this pope is fighting against. Of course, now that the pope’s taken a firm stand against fracking, he’s taken on even more powerful enemies. I hope that Pope Francis starts permitting increased security measures because I think that not only the Catholic church but the world really needs him (and I’m not Catholic).