José Sanjenís Perdomo

"witness"  Joaquin "Jose" Sanjenis Perdomo
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.

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Jose Sanjenis Perdomo, a man of 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 squad for the CIA, run out of CIA/Miami station. He is also believed to have been

Official Narrative

Wikipedia's short article on Jose Sanjenis Perdomo was deleted on 6 September 2015, after a 3-0 vote.

Operation 40

Full article: Operation 40

Larry Hancock in his 2006 book, Someone Would Have Talked reveals that Jose Sanjenis Perdomo was closely involved with David Morales in 1962 and 1963, and that "[Sanjenis], the individual in charge of Operation 40, was actually the number one exile in the AMOT organization trained and prepared by David Morales." Perdomo chose most of the original 40(?) members of this CIA assassination squad most of whom were Cubans. He was a close associate with Operation 40 member and Watergate burglar, Frank Sturgis, 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.

Lennon Assassination

Full article: John Lennon/Assassination

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. It is interesting that Perdomo's name was not released for several years after the event.

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
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.

Rating

1 September 2016 Robin  A sound introduction to this shady character
Perdomo 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...

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