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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)I'm trying to assemble a theory that explains as much as possible.
I guess I need to carefully spell this out for you:
Oswald's character is one of being an extreme leftist. From an early age he studied Marxism and learned Russian. He keeps to himself and is very cool-headed. These are already qualities that set him to act as an ideal spy or counter-spy. As a young man he becomes a Marine and ends up as a radar operator at a spy plane base in Japan operating U-2 flights over Russia. He is exposed to enough secret information justifying a security clearance. He could have easily been recruited by the ONI while at Atsugi Naval Air Field.
Later, he defects to Russia and offers to turn over information that would be useful to the Russians. He then works at an electronics R&D facility. Later, he is allowed to return to the US with his Russian wife, no questions asked (at least on record, as far as the CIA is concerned).
While in Dallas, he shoots at General Walker but does not injure him, a notorious segregationist who has even promoted insurrection, and who is a notable enemy of the Kennedys.
In New Orleans he engages in "guerilla theatre" promoting pro-Castro activities as a foil to the anti-Castro activities taking place simultaneously, and then engaging in publicized confrontations with anti-Castro groups. This has the effect of drawing out some of the more extreme right-wing elements, and perhaps the more nefarious mafia-related ones which the government distrusted.
Oswald also claims to have infiltrated an anti-Castro meeting lead by General Walker.
I know this is a little hard to follow, but Oswald's credibility as a Marxist allowed him to organize the Fair Play for Cuba chapter. His credibility as a Marxist spy may have allowed him to penetrate some of the inner circle of anti-Castro activity in New Orleans and even groups organized by General Walker (at the time, Walker was not aware that it was Oswald who had shot at him). Also, while Bannister's affiliation with the ONI is questionable, he did have a friend, Guy Johnson, who had been with the ONI and may have vouched for Oswald's cover as a Marxist, but serving the needs of the ONI, which Bannister may have interpreted as the needs of the anti-Communist cause.
Oswald's deception to the right-wing, and his double-agent covert status would, however, make him an ideal candidate to be framed for the crime of the century.