Cuba 'knew of Oswald's planned hit on Kennedy' IN November 1963, Cuban intelligence officer Florentino Aspillaga was posted in a little hut near a Cuban beach where he operated listening equipment trained on Miami and CIA headquarters in Virginia. On the morning of November 22, Aspillaga - who would defect to the US in 1987 - said he was ordered "to stop all your CIA work, all your CIA work." He was ordered to "put all of my equipment to listen to any small detail from Texas. They told me Texas.