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Still, a much-bruited theory is that Cuba's Castro enticed Oswald into killing Kennedy to avenge CIA attempts against his own life. With no more hard evidence than anyone else, Lyndon Johnson thought that Kennedy had been a victim of a Communist plot. "When I took office," Johnson told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos in June 1971, "I discovered that we had been operating a goddamn Murder Inc. in the Caribbean. I never believed that Oswald acted alone, although I can accept that he was the one who pulled the trigger...
L.B.J. often told intimates that he suspected that Castro was behind Oswald. As Johnson said: " 'See how it feels to be the target of an assassination?' That was Castro's reply...
Some responsible critics of the commission feel that the CIA has not yet revealed everything it knows about Oswald. Republican Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania strongly suspects that Oswald was some kind of intelligence agent, if not for the CIA, then for the Soviet Union. He thinks that there are too many mysteries about Os wald's defection to Russia, his 32 months of life there (from October 1959 to June 1962), his marriage to Marina and his quick acceptance for re-entry into the U.S. with a State Department cash loan and a renewed passport. Schweiker...
Certainly, the nature of Oswald's relations with both the CIA and the FBI, as well as his movements in Russia and Mexico City, is the most formidable lingering question about the assassination. It should be vigorously pursued by congressional committees...
...Oswald was much too unstable a personality for any government to have used him for serious undercover work. He seems to have provoked fights with government officials wherever he went. He was not, as once rumored, a paid FBI informer with a badge number (the FBI does not issue badges to informers). As a returned defector, however, he quite possibly was queried periodically by FBI agents; they may have asked him about pro-Castro activities in New Orleans and the Russian-speaking community in Dallas. His note threatening to blow up Dallas FBI offices-which was destroyed by FBI officials...