The more I read, the more I’m considering the possibility that the CIA were trying to frame the Soviets/Cuba for JFK’s assassination, in order to cover their tracks and create broader war.
It seems like the CIA were trying to establish the idea that Oswald was connected to the Soviets/Cubans. It’s like they were trying to make it obvious. Maybe I am way off base, and perhaps the Soviets/Cubans did play a role, but it seems like the CIA were trying to steer the conversation towards blaming the Soviets.
My reasoning is that after JFK’s death, LBJ escalated Vietnam and gave the CIA their next war to launder money from. A war that JFK did not want, despite many in the intelligence community pushing for it.
The CIA tried to drag the US directly into war in Cuba, JFK refused to do it, and then he averted nuclear war. Then the CIA tried to drag the US directly into the war in Vietnam, and JFK refused to do it. JFK was repeatedly standing in the way of the CIA from utilizing their business model, also known as, war.
The Soviets did not benefit from JFK’s assassination, but the CIA did. Soviet PM Khrushchev respected JFK after the Cuban missile crisis, and viewed him as a rational counterpart. Meanwhile, LBJ was an impulsive warhawk. The Soviets did not express joy after JFK’s death, they expressed concern. Things only got worse for the Soviets geopolitically after JFK’s death, and the CIA only continued to get more powerful.
Obviously there is no smoking gun that proves this definitively, it’s just an observation based on what I am seeing from the files, and a scenario I think is worthy of consideration.
