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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)is one where Oswald had been setup and framed as a lone wolf Marxist assassin. It would certainly aid the setup if Oswald could have been motivated to fire shots toward JFK, for whatever reason. The real question should be: was the Warren Commission and the FBI just playing along with this setup? The Warren Commission had a simple choice to make: either they could pry into the secret operations that Oswald was involved in, or they could play along with the Marxist narrative and not disturb (too much) the undercover world so precious to the right wing.
The real question should be who orchestrated the assassination? A prime suspect in my mind would be James Jesus Angleton pulling the strings at a high level, with the framing of Oswald being handled pivotally around General Walker and associated extreme right-wing operatives who considered JFK to be a traitor. Keep in mind, according to Talbot's research, that both JFK and later RFK were essentially functioning as Soviet moles, all in the cause of peace. Perhaps the last straw was cast when Allen Dulles and others found out about this.
As for Angleton, he previously had a very bad experience dealing with a Soviet mole named Kim Philby. As the liason with British intelligence, Angleton had passed secrets on to Philby which were subsequently passed on to the Soviets. Angleton ultimately became so paranoid and delusional about flushing out Soviet moles within his own government that he was eventually forced out of the CIA.