Did G-2 Encourage LHO to Perp the JFKA?

[John Corbett]

It's easy to conjure up reasons any number of entities would have wanted JFK killed. What nobody has been able to conjure up is any real evidence any of them conspired with Oswald to do the deed.

[Benjamin Cole]

JC--

Say you lived in a town somewhere, and Mr. Smith was murdered.

The mayor says to the police chief, "Whatever you do, don't look into Mr. Jones. He is too important to the prosperity of the town."

Indeed, years later we would have little evidence that Mr. Jones murdered Mr. Smith.

That is what happened to the WC/FBI. They were told not to follow leads in Havana, and people lost their jobs for doing so.

Gus Russo is a serious JFKA scholar and no leftie. He says much what I say: There was no investigation into LHO connections to Havana.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Here is Russo (page 455) in his concluding chapter of "Live By the Sword" - note the uncertainties, "we can't be sure" et cetera.

Again this is the main theme of his book: He thinks the covert war on Cuba played a role in Oswald's act. I.e., "blowback". But he doesn't know how or how much. Did Oswald learn about the war on his own? Or was he told about it? By who? Pro-Castro people or Castro's agents? And what did they tell him? Again, he doesn't know. His argument is that the rumors or allegations of Oswald meeting with pro-Cuban figures (private citizens or agents) were never fully investigated. Maybe, he says, they would have found direct evidence of Cuban involvement (although he says Castro didn't directly order the assassination). Maybe not. Maybe it was Oswald on his own volition based on his own discoveries. But again it's all, as he says, "educated guesses."


 

[John Corbett]

JC--

Say you lived in a town somewhere, and Mr. Smith was murdered.

The mayor says to the police chief, "Whatever you do, don't look into Mr. Jones. He is too important to the prosperity of the town."

Indeed, years later we would have little evidence that Mr. Jones murdered Mr. Smith.

That is what happened to the WC/FBI. They were told not to follow leads in Havana, and people lost their jobs for doing so.

Gus Russo is a serious JFKA scholar and no leftie. He says much what I say: There was no investigation into LHO connections to Havana.

A rather humorous tale. The CTs have been looking for evidence that Mr. Jones was complicit in the assassination and have come up empty. Why would anyone believe Mr. Jones had anything to do with it. If we are going to simply assume Mr. Jones was involved, why stop there. Why not accuse, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Michaels, or Mr. Thomas. Oh, wait. The CTs have already done that. Never mind.

I was ready to assume Russo was just another CT huckster separating gullible CTs from their money but I decided to look into it. According to Wikipedia, Oswald acted on his own in retribution of JFK's policies toward Cuba. While nobody knows why Oswald decided to kill JFK, that seems as good an explanation as any. It wouldn't require Oswald to know anything that wasn't public knowledge. JFK did sign the trade embargo with Cuba, but only after Pierre Sallinger had scored 1200 Cuban Petite Upmann cigars.