Roberto Morales, 57, son of CIA operative Ricardo Morales, was one of two people killed in the shooting
One of the two people killed in Thursday’s shooting at Florida State University was the son of Ricardo “Monkey” Morales, a shadowy Cuban-American CIA operative and anti-Fidel Castro militant throughout the 1960s and ’70s who died in a bar fight in Miami in 1982.
Roberto Morales, 57, was among several university employees who had gathered for a meeting when the shooting began, his brother, Ricardo Morales Jr., said. He worked at the university’s department of dining services.
“Today we lost my younger brother, He was one of the victims killed at FSU. He loved his job at FSU and his beautiful Wife and Daughter. I’m glad you were in my Life,” Ricardo Morales Jr. wrote Thursday night on his X account.
Roberto Morales was one of two people, neither of whom were FSU students, who were killed. Five others were hospitalized in the shootings, which began shortly before noon. Authorities said the shooter, who is in custody, is the son of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy and had used one of her weapons.
Roberto Morales had been deeply affected by his father’s death while he was a teenager, his brother said. His father, who had been a central figure in Cold War-era espionage and anti-Castro militancy, was killed in a Key Biscayne bar on Dec. 20, 1982, during a fight. He was 43. Police ruled the incident a justifiable homicide, though his controversial past has long fueled speculation about the true nature of his death.
“Monkey” Morales operated in the shadowy realms of intelligence and counterintelligence for multiple agencies — including the CIA, FBI, DEA, the Israeli Mossad and Venezuela’s DISIP. His legacy is marked by covert operations, bombings and alleged ties to drug trafficking. Despite numerous brushes with the law, he was frequently shielded from prosecution, feeding theories about his connections to high-level covert U.S. operations.
In the 1960s and ’70s, Morales, who took part in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, was one of many Cuban exiles collaborating with the CIA to undermine Castro’s regime.
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Ricardo Morales (intelligence agent) has been a subject of discussion in relation to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to Morales son, Ricardo Morales Jr., his father told both him and his brother that “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”. He further said that he saw Lee Harvey Oswald at a CIA training camp and recognised him when his picture was circulated in the aftermath of the assassination.
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKnavarrete.htm
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Ricardo Morales Navarrete
Ricardo Morales Navarrete
Soon after arriving in Miami, Ricardo Morales Navarrete joined Operation 40. One member, Frank Sturgis, claimed “this assassination group (Operation 40) would upon orders, naturally, assassinate either members of the military or the political parties of the foreign country that you were going to infiltrate, and if necessary some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign agents… We were concentrating strictly in Cuba at that particular time.”
Other anti-Castro Cubans who became members of Operation 40 included Antonio Veciana, Luis Posada, Orlando Bosch, Rafael Quintero, Roland Masferrer, Eladio del Valle, Guillermo Novo, Rafael Villaverde, Carlos Bringuier, Eugenio Martinez, Antonio Cuesta, Hermino Diaz Garcia, Barry Seal, Felix Rodriguez, Juan Manuel Salvat, Isidro Borjas, Virgilio Paz, Jose Dionisio Suarez, Felipe Rivero, Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo, Nazario Sargent, Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, Jose Basulto, and Paulino Sierra.
It has been argued that members of Operation 40, including Ricardo Morales Navarrete might have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Monkey Morales claimed he trained LHO as a sniper. https://www.spreaker.com/…/my-dad-the-spy-ricardo…
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My Dad the Spy (Ricardo “Monkey”Morales)
My Dad the Spy (Ricardo “Monkey”Morales)
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