30-06-2015, 07:53 PM
The ostensible "raison d'etre" for a mole hunt need not have really happened, so long as it is sufficiently feasible to justify the exercise.
When I said "protecting Castro" I meant that the CIA might have suspected a mole in their ranks, leaking information to Cuba, due to the failure of several of their various attempts to kill Castro. Whether Oswald was actually an agent, or merely a convenient distraction, at the time he defected to the USSR, and whether or not his mission in the USSR was a success, he could have been used for a different purpose upon his return.
If there were marked cards in Oswald's bio already in use to unmask Soviet spies, which (apparently) didn't net any result, someone just might have continued the exercise against the Cubans to see if they could get some mileage out of the operation anyway.
When I said "protecting Castro" I meant that the CIA might have suspected a mole in their ranks, leaking information to Cuba, due to the failure of several of their various attempts to kill Castro. Whether Oswald was actually an agent, or merely a convenient distraction, at the time he defected to the USSR, and whether or not his mission in the USSR was a success, he could have been used for a different purpose upon his return.
If there were marked cards in Oswald's bio already in use to unmask Soviet spies, which (apparently) didn't net any result, someone just might have continued the exercise against the Cubans to see if they could get some mileage out of the operation anyway.
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."