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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)wherein they state that the bullet was confirmed by the witnesses as being the actual bullet that they found, when in fact there was no such confirmation according to the original FBI report, later declassified. This would imply that the FBI was trying to fit the evidence into their story of Oswald being a lone gunman who was able to fire all the shots responsible for all the wounds, including the numerous wounds caused by the single magic bullet. Oswald was touted as a pro-Castro communist sympathizer, although he never actually registered with the communist party, and even associated with members of anti-Castro groups. His "Fair Play for Cuba" branch did not have any members and seems to have been orchestrated for publicity purposes.
The CIA also lied to various investigators by claiming they had no records of Oswald, when in fact there were records, later declassified, that indicated Oswald was a person of interest to high-level officials within the CIA. The CIA is highly compartmentalized so only a few officials might know of these records, but the very person placed in the position as liason between the CIA and HSCA was later found to be involved with a CI-affiliated organization that Oswald himself had been in contact with.
Why would both the FBI and CIA lie about Oswald? The obvious, non-nefarious explanation would be that probing too far into Oswald's involvement might expose some of the inner workings of the anti-Castro counter-intelligence operations that RFK himself was responsible for overseeing and securing. This is precisely where the small conspiracy starts. The government was covering up any contact Oswald had with secret government counter-intelligence operations and they were attempting to frame him as a simple Marxist intent on killing the president as retribution for Kennedy's policies against Castro. A detailed narrative was even written about this by Edward Jay Epstein for the Wall Street Journal in 1983:
http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/oswald.htm
Even this article, albeit painting Oswald in the light of being pro-Castro and anti-Kennedy, admits that there was "great concern" regarding Oswald by both the FBI and CIA, but that Oswald's connections remained "too sensitive to be aired publically in the emotional aftermath of the president's slaying." So there's obviously more to this story, but why haven't all the records been opened up even at this late date?