Undercover Agent
After the war, Barker returned to Cuba and joined the secret police under Fulgencio Batista. He was later recruited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and worked for them as an undercover agent. He also did work for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He joined Operation 40 and the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
Some conspiracy theorists have accused Barker as being complicit in the 1963 John F. Kennedy assassination. During the time of the Watergate scandal, a Dallas deputy constable police officer stated that he recognized him as the man showing secret service credentials and keeping the public away from the grassy knoll, from which according to many conspiracy theories the fatal shot was fired. Barker denied this, pointing out the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's pro-Castro leanings.
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