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Tribeca Review: Golden Venture
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In the film's first ten minutes, there is an epic story of smugglers, mutiny, gang violence, a dangerous global sea voyage, a rescue by the Coast Guard, and the imprisonment of almost 300 "bad guys". No, this isn't a new action blockbuster out of Hollywood. It is a documentary called Golden Venture, and it is a damn near perfect one.
On June 6, 1993, the coastal freighter Golden Venture ran aground in New York City with the largest shipment of illegal aliens ever recorded. The 286 Chinese expatriates (minus 10 who died and 6 who escaped), who were part of a usually routine operation handled by immigrant runners called "snakeheads" and the Chinatown gang Fuk Ching, had the misfortune of being caught too soon after the World Trade Center bombing. They were all made an example of, and many were detained for over four years.
Conspiracy theorists, rejoice!
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Did Cuba pay Lee Harvey Oswald to assasinate John F.
Kennedy? That's the driving theory behind a new documentary from award-winning German filmmaker Wilfried Huismann. Rendezvous with Death is the
result of a three-year investigation, through which Huismann interviewed
with former Cuban secret agents, U.S. officials and a Russian intelligence source, and also delved into Mexican
security archives. The film alleges that in 1963, Oswald made a journey
to Mexico City, where he was paid $6,500 by agents at the Cuban embassy.
The film apparently revolves around the damning testimony of a former Cuban secret agent, who claims that Oswald was a
"dissdent" who would do anything to harm the United States. "He was so full of hate, he had the idea. We used him ... He was a tool." The Cuban
government, the film postulates, wanted to get rid of Kennedy to clear the path for the assendancy of Castro and the
Communist Revolution. Whether the country had a hand in Kennedy's death or not, that goal was claerly met: in the
documentary, a former CIA official tells Huismann, "[Castro] beat us. He bested us. He came out on top, and we lost."The film was shown to reporters in Berlin yesterday; there's no word yet on when it'll be made more widely available, but as I'm total conspiracy theory nerd, I'll let you know the minute I hear anything.
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