Departures of note

June Cobb was an American informant for the CIA who worked at Fidel Castro’s headquarters in Havana as a translator and public relations worker in 1959 and 1960. After leaving Cuba she continued working for the CIA in Guatemala and Mexico, and she was the first CIA asset to relay an account that Lee Harvey Oswald attended a twist party in Mexico City weeks before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

In the early 1950s Cobb was involved with the production and trafficking of narcotics together with her Colombian fiancé and his twin brother, and she later provided information to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics that led to arrests in Cuba and Colombia.