KGB did an excellent job of diverting Americans’ attention in the assassination story. Oswald came back from the USSR, didn’t he? (More about that later.) He also visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.
We’ve known for a long time that the Soviets had their agents in the US. Agents and sympathizers, useful idiots. Where, what did they do? No one seems interested in knowing. Even the $30 million or so a year transferred (how? what did it pay for? How about the so-called “civil rights movement”?) to Gus Hall is of no interest. How about the possibility of those KGB agents behind all those conspiracy stories, theories, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM, implicating the Soviets (talking about the published theories.)
Next, we have heard of stories of Americans marrying a Russian and UNABLE to get that Russian to leave Soviet Union for years on end despite diplomatic interventions on the highest level. Here again, no one wants to add 2 and 2 and ask how come Oswald and his lovely Marina were so easily allowed to leave?! Duh!
Oh yes, I’ve read the recent accounts that have Oswald being an idiot that the Soviets were just happy to get rid of. Maybe. Or maybe not, since there were no other such returning defectors.
Even if there was no conspiracy and Oswald acted alone, everything from the beginning has pointed to the Soviets, and nothing to the Mafia, to the CIA, LBJ, and other fairy tale monsters of your silly theories.
What, though, would the Soviets have expected to gain from the assassination of Kennedy?
As it was, they gained no apparent advantage whatsoever.
If the Soviets are to be ascribed a role in JFK's assassination, they must also be ascribed a motive...
Supposedly someone from the KGB said that they were behind the wave of conspiracy theories.