One of the two people killed in Thursday’s shooting at Florida State University was the son of shadowy Cuban-American CIA operative and anti-Castro extremist Ricardo “Monkey” Morales throughout the 1960s and ’70s who died in a bar fight in Miami in the 1960s and 1982.
Roberto Morales, 57, was among several university employees who gathered for the meeting when the shooting began, his brother, Ricardo Morales Jr., said. He worked for the university’s Dining Bureau.
“Today we lost our brother. He was one of the victims killed at FSU. He loved FSU and his beautiful wife and daughter.
Roberto Morales was one of the two, neither of which was a FSU student who was killed. The other five were hospitalized in the shooting, beginning just before noon. Authorities said the shooter in custody was the deputy son of a Leon County school and used one of her weapons.
Roberto Morales was deeply affected by his father’s death while he was a teenager, his brother said. His father, a central figure in Cold War espionage and anti-Castro extremists, was killed in Key Biscayn Bar on December 20, 1982 during the battle. He was 43 years old. Although police ruled the case as a legitimate murder, his controversial past has long burned speculation about the true nature of his death.
“Monkey” Morales operated in the shadowy realm of intelligence and anti-intellectuality of multiple institutions, including the CIA, FBI, DEA, the Mossad of Israel, and the Venezuela obstacles. His legacy is characterized by alleged connections with secret operations, bombings and drug trafficking. Despite the numerous brushes of the law, he was frequently protected from prosecutors and cultivated theory about his connections with high levels of secret US businesses.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Morales, who failed to invade the Gulf of Cuba in 1961, was one of many Cuban exiles working with the CIA to undermine Fidel Castro’s regime.
