26-10-2013, 04:24 AM
Jim Hargrove Wrote:As to sending a corpse--or a live body--to Cuba and blaming Castro that way, that sounds pretty dangerous to me: customs of two nations, for starters. Lot's of things could go wrong. I think they wanted a live body to parade in front of the cameras and look guilty for a day or two.
Jim
No, Oswald would disappear somewhere in the States but would never be found - perhaps flown from Red Bird airport to Louisiana - but the CIA assets would put out stories that the plane landed in Mexico, and another plane then took him to Cuba. Gilberto Policarpo Lopez, who actually did go to Cuba via Mexico, might have somehow been involved in this fake narrative.
Even though this cover story didn't work out, CIA-connected people like Gilberto Ugarte Alvarado, Frank Sturgis, John Martino and others still put out stories to media assets like James Buchanan about Oswald being seen meeting with Castro agents and taking money from them. As Gerald McKnight wrote, "the first JFK conspiracy theory to find its way into print was paid for by George E. Joannides, a CIA psychological warfare specialist."