18-10-2016, 10:50 PM
Jim Hargrove Wrote:Hoover was confiscating "Oswald's" teen-aged school and employment records before making any substantial attempt to, as just one example, determine if anyone else in the U.S. government was being targeted for assassination. That suggests that he had prior knowledge of both the "Oswald project" and, in all likelihood, the limits of the conspirators' goals, i.e., to assassinate only JFK.
"Oswald" was on the FBI payroll while he was starring in the FPCC charade in New Orleans, and Hoover famously knew the very day after the hit that there was an "Oswald impostor" in Mexico City. To me, the Soviet/Cuban red herrings should have made some sense to both Hoover and, quickly enough, LBJ.
Jim, I think we're in agreement about what Hoover and LBJ really thought about MC. When I said the Soviet/Cuban angle "could not have made sense to them" I didn't mean that they were confused by it, but that they saw right through it and realized that neither the Soviets nor the Cubans would either involve a guy who had visited one of their embassies in a plot to assassinate a US president or set up a patsy whose false trail led right back to them. If that's indeed the case then their use of the Soviet/Cuban angle to sell the cover does raise some very disturbing questions about whether they had prior knowledge of the plot. I don't pretend to know the answer to that but nothing in that context about either Hoover or LBJ would shock me.