The Chicago Plot: A Hypothesis

[Albert Doyle]

Let's assume for the sake of the exercise, that Oswald's visit to the Cuban and Russian embassies was part of a legitimate CIA operation against FPCC and Castro/Soviet Union. What would have been the benefit of:
1. Sending Oswald himself to visit the embassies

Hypothetically, to establish Oswald as a familiar face for Mexican Fair Play For Cuba Committee activities.

2. Having an Oswald imposter (short, blond Oswald, but a different from the imposter that called the Soviet Union embassy speaking poor Russian) to visit the embassies

To create a scene at the embassies in order to establish Oswald as a nut who would never get a visa to either Cuba or Mexico. This killed two birds with one stone because it established a record of Oswald seeking an escape route to two communist countries while blocking any possibility of any Oswald getting cold feet and scooting before the assassination.

3. Sending both at different times in both embassies or sending the short blond in the Cuban and the real Oswald in the Soviet embassy.

If the real CIA Oswald double ever got exposed it could be defeated by pointing to Mexico where two Oswald's were suspected but the photographic surveillance shows the second Oswald was a case of mistaken identity and could never have been mistaken for the real Oswald.