The Chicago Plot: A Hypothesis

[Albert Doyle]

The Chicago plot was clearly designed very similarly to Dallas. Down to a patsy who is some ways was even better than Oswald. Why would they blow it up on purpose?

It's possible they didn't and the accidental stumbling-in and finding of the rifles actually was an accident. But look at the tightness of the Dallas operation and look at the stupid leaving of the sniper rifles right out in the open in Chicago. However, if you compare Chicago to Dallas there wasn't the accompanying pantheon of evil actors in attendance like there was in Dallas. The wheels seem to be turning more in relation to Dallas than Chicago. The Book Depository was more like Milteer's "tall building" than Vallee's apartment. It's possible this was a dry run. Oswald was taken into the TSBD long before the November 2nd Chicago plan. That means there was a plan to shoot from the TSBD in the works well enough in advance for there to have been a Dallas plot. The assassination is so deviously planned that Milteer is set-up to speak about a shooting from a building to a wired informer in order to put Oswald in that building as the shooter. There's very little separation between police, informers, plotters, and shooters. The advantage is squarely with the string pullers with many possibilities of latitudinal manipulation.

The answer could be as simple as what was already written. Chicago was designed to make right-wing, Cuban exile infiltrator "Lee" think he was involved in stopping assassination attempts by the group he was assigned to. Oswald could have been a double agent of sorts for CIA/FBI internal affairs where those in the Shaw/Banister group knew he was a false defector but didn't know he was being used to report on the exile group. Oswald is given enough information to know about the Chicago plot and reports it according to his duties. He then thinks he's a genuine operative playing an important role in presidential security. He then dutifully follows orders the day of the Assassination.

Vallee wasn't as thoroughly sheep-dipped as Oswald was as a red. Vallee didn't talk to head of KGB assassinations a few weeks earlier. This thing was going to Dallas from the start. Though it is possible Vallee was a failsafe in case Oswald got caught after Mexico.