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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]nyquil_man
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It's as meaningless to me as the connection I just made up between Oswald and segregationists. And just as impossible to prove.
Oswald was hardly an ideal Marine. What ideal Marine pours a drink on a superior officer? What ideal Marine spends more than a month in the brig? What ideal Marine lies to get out of the Marines? If you want someone like that as a spy, have at it.
Yes, he offered to give secrets to the Russians. So what? There is nothing to suggest that he gave them anything. Or even had anything which would have been of value to them.
Oswald's Fair Play Committee had only one member. Himself. Vincent Lee of the national organization discouraged him from forming a New Orleans chapter; Oswald went ahead anyway. As for his infiltration of anti-Castro groups, the only documented instance I know was his attempt to ingratiate himself with Bringuier's group. They were suspicious of him from the start.
I see in Oswald a series of impulsive actions done with very little practical consideration of consequences, whether he's defecting to the USSR, slashing his wrists, attempting to renounce his citizenship, trying to come back to the US, forming a FPCC chapter, shooting at Walker, or shooting Kennedy. He's not lacking in intelligence. He's lacking in sense.
Oswald, to you, seems to be some sort of double-secret-super-spy who is so clever that he can play every side yet still stupid enough to get framed for murdering the leader of the free world. I don't buy it.