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From Jack Childs' account of his meeting with Castro shortly after the assassination:

That's what Castro allegedly told Morris and/or Jack Childs (J. Edgar Hoover's beloved but probably Kremlin-loyal SOLO).

But why would Oswald go to the Cuban Embassy?

He wanted a transit visa to Havana.

You go to a consulate for a visa, not an embassy.

From "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?", PBS Frontline special:

NARRATOR : At a party in February 1963, Oswald was introduced to oil geologist Volkmar Schmidt. The two hunkered down by a window to talk politics.

VOLKMAR SCHMIDT : Lee Harvey Oswald brought up in the conversation with me the fact that he really felt very angry about the support which the Kennedy administration gave to the Bay of Pigs invasion. It turned out that Lee Harvey Oswald really idealized socialism of Cuba, while he was critical of the socialism in the Soviet Union. And he was just obsessed with his anger towards Kennedy.

NARRATOR : Schmidt says he tried to divert Lee's political anger toward a more worthy target. General Edwin Walker was a virulent anti-communist. He had recently been fired by Kennedy for preaching right-wing extremism to his troops.

Mr. SCHMIDT : I mentioned General Walker, who deserved criticism because he was a racist retired general, ultra-right-wing, and who had just a few -- a little time before talked to students at the University of Mississippi who then got so agitated that they shot and killed some reporters.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oswald/etc/script.html
 

Here's a thought exercise for you:

-- JFK, through his brother RFK, was threatening the very existence of several powerful Mafia organizations, especially those of Marcello and Giancana.

-- JFK allowed RFK to humiliate Carlos Marcello by (arguably illegally) deporting him without due process and leaving him stranded in Guatemala.

-- Thus, certain Mafia leaders had powerful motives for wanting JFK dead: revenge and survival.

-- Some Mafia leaders were overheard talking about killing JFK before the assassination.

-- A credible informant reported that Marcello admitted being involved in JFK's death.

In contrast,

-- Oswald had no known motive for killing JFK, and he adamantly denied killing JFK at every opportunity while in police custody.

-- By all accounts, Oswald admired and thought highly of JFK.

-- According to the lone-gunman theory, Oswald tried to kill General Edwin Walker, a fanatical right-winger. It boggles the mind to imagine why someone who wanted General Walker dead would feel any desire to kill JFK, given that JFK had criticized and publicly humiliated Walker, and given that Walker had accused JFK of being a traitor.

Dear FPR*,

*Today's FSB/SVR

(My Pet Rock suggested that bit of persiflage. I told him it was kind of lame.)

Edited and bumped for FPR.

By God, you have to admire someone who bumps his own post 27 seconds after having posted the first one! This had never even occurred to me. I may become a veritable Bump Master, driving people mad by repeatedly bumping everything I post. I'll be sort of the QAnon Shaman of the JFK Assassination Forum, wreaking insurrection on every thread!

What was the question again?

Oh, yes: Uh-huh, you are quite correct that I could not even begin to summarize what I loosely characterize as your "KGB stuff." I know only that it has something to do with the KGB (*Today's FSB/SVR), the Traitorous Orange Turd, someone named Bruce Solie and someone else named Bagley (or were they the same guy?), and nefarious FSB/SVR agents being in control of Walmart and probably my cerebellum. Is that about it?