The Chicago Plot: A Hypothesis

[Tracy Riddle]

CD:

Point 1: What I meant about Vallee being in some ways an even better patsy than Oswald was his head injury which his sister told DOuglass about. This allowed for the whole disability angle to be exploited. See, this was what was lacking with Oswald. THat is why Shaw and Ferrie were sent up to Clinton-Jackson to try and get his file into the mental hospital. But the problem is, too many people saw them at the voter registration drive.

Maybe it's just my little hobby horse that I can't let go of, but I think the whole point of picking Oswald as the patsy was to blame Castro and the KGB for the assassination (Operation Northwoods). This clearly wouldn't work with Vallee and his well-documented far-right politics. If they wanted to pick a "lone psycho," maybe TSBD employee Jack Dougherty would have been better. No, the plotters weren't setting up a nut; they were setting up an agent of the Communist Conspiracy.