No reason U can see that they couldn’t both be involved. The CIA was undeniably recruiting many Cubans at that time and somebody paid for Cruz Sr’s UT education. Perhaps the CIA paid? I have trouble believing the whole “I bus boyed my way through college” story. His involvement would be a good reason for the long hiatus to Canada a few years later until the heat died down. Cruz Sr. working for Poppy would explain Ted’s being hired by G.W. Bush later. It was a legacy hire! I am not saying Cruz Sr. was definitely involved but it would not be surprising to me if it turned out he was.
There were Cubans involved, but I don’t think Cruz’s father was among them. I will tell you someone I know didn’t participate: Lee Harvey Oswald. He was in the break room on the ground floor when the police rushed into the Texas School Book Depository building seconds after the shots were fired. No way could he have run down six flights of stairs in that little amount of time.
Cruz’s was unwittingly used to set up LHO as the greatest patsy of all time.
He was filmed by the Agency in NOLA distributing FPCC materials and that very same long dormant footage was amazing uploaded to a youtube video by some one in Texas in 2015. That is most likely where the National Enquirer captured their photo.
He was also photographed protesting for the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) in Austin and either for DRE or FPCC in Montreal during that era. Cruz went to Canada for a reason and it was not because of any shortage of oil in Texas, LOL.