[Dog Gone]

The problem with any conspiracy theory is that nobody in their right mind would choose a flake like Lee Harvey Oswald to pull off a stunt like this. Especially not the Soviets.

Try again, Stratfor.

[ambrose]

People like to come up with wild conspiracy theories because they simply cannot accept that one lone loser nutjob has the power to literally change the world with one pump of his index finger.

[Allan]

Bump

[FReepaholic]

>>...nobody in their right mind would choose a flake like Lee Harvey Oswald to pull off a stunt like this...<<

At least not by himself.

[Nita Nupress]

The problem with any conspiracy theory is that nobody in their right mind would choose a flake like Lee Harvey Oswald to pull off a stunt like this. Especially not the Soviets.

How do we really know that LHO was a genuine flake? Couldn't that have been part of the M.O. chosen for him?

If I wanted people to think I was a flake, I bet I could do a pretty convincing job of faking it.

(Yes, I know that's an invitation for a good wise crack. We'll see how well you display a little self-discipline. LOL!)

[Ditter]

>>>>nobody in their right mind would choose Oswald>>>>>
Unless he was chosen to be the fall guy, the "patsy". That is what he called himself. I heard him say it on tape.

[Az Joe]

Exactly.

Oswald was a weird character and he did seem to have a fair amount of native intelligence. Definitely a nut case and he acted alone.

[pjill2371]

It would be my belief and opinion that LHO was an American agent of some sort beginning from some time during his Marine Corp service, I believe his recruitment into this agency would have caused his appeal for early discharge from the military. Another interesting note would be that all of these alleged "Oswalds" that were being seen in Dallas and New Orleans started occuring, interestingly enough while the real Oswald was in the Soviet Union. The most interesting of these being an attempted purchase of some trucks for use by The Friends for Democratic Cuba which within the articles of incorporation was Guy Bannister. We need not go into the connection there. Bannister formerly of ONI and FBI, the question remains why a man connected with such a group and our governments intelligence angencies would have such a close connection to a supposed "communist, marxist". How would Bannister have known about this man Oswald? Well, we know that Oswald served in David Ferries Civil Air Patrol while a teenager, perhaps he would have met Bannister at this time, and also could have paved his way into an intelligence opportunity himself via Bannister. Of course this is just a pinch of some of the peculiar acquaintances in this case. Certainly our government hasn't been too forthcoming with any information, that would implicate Oswald or prove Oswald guilty, since 1963. Marina herself believes now that LHO was an informant for the FBI, is she right? Who knows? In by gut feeling I believe that if the truth ever came out we would find that a bigger injustice has been done to LHO than even President Kennedy. I certainly would never entertain the possibility that the Soviets had a hand in this. We know that Kennedy refused air cover during the Bay of Pigs, averted a possible conflict with the Soviets during the missle crisis by promising that American forces would never invade Cuba in return for the removal of those missles, and that we were going to pull out of Vietnam, which of course, I think its safe to say, the Soviets were just slightly involved with a certain Vietnamese government. Having said all of this, why on earth would the Soviets or Castros Cuba want Kennedy out? That would be welcome foreign policy for their purposes, the preceding and following administrations certainly didn't see things quite this way. But of course that still leaves open to interpretation exactly who now would oppose this world view in that time? One other fact is why, if Oswald was possibly suspect to be spying for the Soviets or acting on their behalf wasn't he debriefed by the CIA upon his return to the US or tried as a traitor if the government suspected that he did indeed give up military secrets to the Soviets or even allowed back into the country. Well, if any doubt lingered in the mind of the government about LHO it obviously quickly vanished considering that he took a job at Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall company which did highly secret photographic work for the US government. Coincidentally he began working there Oct. 11, 1962 and the cuban missle crisis began on Oct. 18, 1962.