José Sanjenís Perdomo
 "witness" Joaquin "Jose" Sanjenis Perdomo    | |
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| Member of | Brigade 2506, Operation 40 |
| Perpetrator of | John Lennon/Assassination |
Former senior policeman under Carlos Prio, exiled to US where he assisted the CIA by putting together Operation 40. Later reportedly worked as a doorman and witnessed the murder of John Lennon. | |
Jose Sanjenis, who reportedly used many aliases, was a Chief of Police during Cuban President Carlos Prio's regime who went into exile after Fidel Castro took power. He played a key role in setting up the Operation 40 hit team for the CIA, run out of Miami station.
Operation 40
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He reportedly chose most of the original 40(?) members of the CIA assassination squad, Operation 40, most of whom were Cubans. Perdomo was a closely associate with Operation 40 member and Watergate burglar, Frank Sturgis[1], who claimed that Sanjenis died of natural causes in 1974. According to Sturgis, the CIA nurtured Sanjenis's anonymity and his family was not notified of his alleged death until after the funeral. This was however never confirmed by any other source.[2]
Lennon Assassination
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Jose Sanjenis Perdomo was probably working as the doorman at the Dakota on Dec. 8, 1980, the night John Lennon was killed. He was at the crime scene when the shooting occurred and asked Mark David Chapman immediately afterwards if he knew what he had just done. Chapman reportedly replied that he had just shot John Lennon. Perdomo's name may not have been released for several years after the event.[2]
An event carried out
| Event | Location | Description |
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| John Lennon/Assassination | New York The Dakota | “Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.” Jose Sanjenis Perdomo, the assassin who chose the staff of Operation 40, was the doorman of The Dakota hotel, a name not reported by commercially-controlled media at the time of the assassination. |
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1 September 2016 Robin A sound introduction to this shady characterPerdomo played a key role in Operation 40 - the CIA hit squad run out of Ted Shackley's Miami station - connected to the JFK Assassination. His witnessing the assassination of John Lennon is therefore remarkable. Wikipedia deleted their page on him in 2015...
