A thought exercise: A Mafia conspiracy is established beyond any doubt ...

[Lance Payette]

One additional aspect of the "perfect" Marcello conspiracy, now that I'm on a roll: There would have been absolutely no need for Oswald to be a "LN" patsy. He only had to be a "pro-Castro" patsy who thought he was involved in a pro-Castro operation. If he knew no more than that, he was harmless dead or alive. The LN stuff is the effort by LBJ et al. to avoid the obvious pro-Castro implications. Marcello et al. may have been laughing their fannies off at the efforts to explain Dealey Plaza in one-gunman terms. (The faux "pro-Castro" Mafia pro would have been in the Dal Tex or County Records building simply because any other location would have absurdly magnified the risks.) I'm starting to like this. If John Orr hadn't gone off on his goofy tangent of Oswald being a reluctant but knowing Marcello recruit, I might be an Orr-ite.