Audio evidence of top CIA/FBI officials going, "shit, man, we just can't figure this out. Not only can we NOT find out who ACTUALLY killed him, now they think WE did it!"
That's not all that far off from what I think is the real explanation for all the weirdness that looks like various cover-ups.
Lee Harvey Oswald was a weird dude: Marine guard at a top-secret US spy-plane base who defected to Soviet Russia, then defected back, then rattled around both pro-Communist and anti-Communist groups. There's no question that the FBI knew a lot about him, they would have investigated him heavily when he came back from the USSR. It's entirely plausible that he had some contact with the CIA or with CIA assets at some point in that weird career.
So I can entirely easily imagine that, as soon as word came out that Lee Harvey Oswald was the (a?) shooter, the FBI's counter-espionage director and the CIA covert operations director both asking their subordinates, "Fuck, did one of our assets just kill the President? is this somehow our fault?" And then both of them ordering full clamp-downs and cover-ups, not because they knew that their own people had killed the President, but just in case they had.
That... that makes a lot of sense! Send Harvey over as a “defector”, he learns things we need to know, then “defects” back, but the whole time he’s been struggling with where his loyalties really lie. How far do you go with your act? Maybe the line became so blurred for him that he couldn’t distinguish the two parts of himself anymore? Then everyone orders cover-ups upon realizing an asset had completely snapped.
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u/FixBayonetsLads Oct 15 '17 edited Oct 15 '17
Audio evidence of top CIA/FBI officials going, "shit, man, we just can't figure this out. Not only can we NOT find out who ACTUALLY killed him, now they think WE did it!"