...they (the communist agitators) actually hope that some really harmless ‘useful idiot’ type gets taken out. Better PR for gaining wider support for the movement. And of course most folks, thanks largely to the lame street liberal snooze media and leftist ‘educators’ in our schools, don’t know beans about who or what is behind these things. So it usually works out quite well for the revolutionaries.
It worked for Fidel, with Che. Killing Che, got rid of a major headache for Fidel, and at the same time gave him a "martyr" for his revolution.