U2 Pilot Powers Likely Was Murdered by plane too

[Anthony Thorne]

My guess would be that this incident was the genesis of Eisenhower's military-industrial speech and was a pre-cursor to the provocations enacted by the Pentagon during the Cuba missile crisis that almost destabilised the Kennedy Administration.

Yes - Brown's book concurs with all those points - and Oswald's activities in Russia match up with key events of the Powers trial, to the extent that he may have been present there as an unused patsy in case the American public needed an ex-Atsugi communist 'defector' familiar with the U-2 to take the blame for the Powers shoot-down - a role eventually not taken by him, but his status as a patsy ready to be deployed elsewhere may have stuck in the minds of some particularly important people.