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I think my favorite one from that point was when some guys trying to prove it couldnt have been Oswald hired a retired sniper to make the shots to prove it couldnt have possibly been done by one guy...only for the sniper they hired to be both more accurate and made the shots faster.
As for the main thing, I do definitely agree with the overall theory (as I know we have had this conversation before), but I think that Oswald was rogue from the KGB when he did it, rather than necessarily on their orders. After all, they were fine with mayors, governors, and generals being killed. Killing the president kind of raises the stakes to a position all but the most extreme of KGB types would not be comfortable with.
I think oswald was a patsy, thats why he was murdered before he could testify.
Being the son of a military general (or something), I dont see him really working for the enemy state.
The KGB admitted that the recruited him. He defected at the Soviet embassy in Mexico. Everything we have about him publicly shows he was a die-hard communist.
If he didn't work for the KGB, he'd have to be a double agent, and frankly, the CIA got a lot of people killed trying to do that. It almost never worked. That's why American intel focused so much on Signal Intelligence.
I'm willing to accept that there could be alternatives to this theory. Something like, "The CIA pretended to be the KGB to Oswald", or "Oswald decided to go rogue from the KGB", at least as I think they are more plausible alternatives, and it's bizarre that the fact that Oswald was a KGB agent, murdered a police officer, and tried killing a rightist is basically unknown (or all three are typically not known by one person).
It would be balls-to-the-walls crazy to do it, but then so was launching a nuclear torpedo. The Leftwing narrative has always been that right-wing reactionaries were paranoid and that the USSR was never involved in terrorism, assassination, regime change, cultural subversion, espionage, infiltration, and was terribly afraid of nuclear war. Instead it was involved in all of those things and only a few communists were ever opposed to nuclear war, even in East Germany. 99 Red Balloons was a western shit-lib position.
The "rogue from the KGB" for me isnt necessarily that he was actually rogue and the KGB didnt know what he was doing. It was that they had sent him to the US to kill "enemies of the revolution" promising him high status in the Party if he did it (as the KGB had done exactly that on other occasions for other killers). And he was originally going to kill something more sensible, as we do know his first target was going to be a General, but then he found out about Kennedy being in Dallas and decided that would be his golden ticket into the cushiest life the Party could provide, but didnt really tell the KGB about it.
Then he actually did it, and he told them, and the KGB response was "ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH?!!?" and then did everything they did to throw it under the bus. Not out of any non-radicalism, but because they thought they werent prepared for surviving the nuclear war that would come if it came out the KGB killed the American president. Because like you have been saying with how unhinged communist are, for as much as people dismiss it as a "meme" ideology, when you look at it there are a terrifying amount of high-level commies who were favorable toward Posadism.
I'm not sure he would have had much time to know. Even if he was an active member of the KGB with a professional handler, he was arrested within a few hours. He attempted to die in a shootout with the police (which no one brings up regarding Jack Ruby killing him, when he tried to kill himself), that's why he was stuck in a jail.
As a result, if the Soviets sent him, and didn't want anything to do with it, they'd be in a panic to burn everything related to it, and shoot everyone involved in it.
Which is interesting because the records weren't destroyed, and the recruiters and handlers weren't executed.
And as for Posadism, yeah, it's pretty bad. I think Kruschev understood that he could never actually win a nuclear exchange, especially given the industrial difference. The entire Bomber Gap scandal demonstrated that the Americans could mistakenly build 2,000 nuclear bombers because they thought the Soviets had more, not realizing the Soviets only had 12. The nuclear sub program was basically the only hope that the Soviets would have to retaliate if the Americans launched first. They were never going to win, but too many Communists didn't get it. I have an atlas that actually contains a map of the Soviet plan to invade Europe in 1990 that was developed because they were concerned Reagan would attack.
There is no record, that I have seen, of an anti-war or anti-nuclear program in the Soviet sphere of influence. The ones in the west were all nearly explicitly funded by Russia.
Anyone trying to claim that the shot was impossible is doing so out of malice or is so ignorant they should be deported to a third world country.
Especially given Oswald was a trained shooter. Would I expect a rando off the streets to do it? No. But anyone with any practice easily could.