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Davison claimed that Odio did in fact see Oswald, but that Oswald and his two
associates were apparently attempting to infiltrate the anti-Castro movement. As the
Warren Commission reported Odio claimed that Oswald and two Latin-looking men
came to her apartment shortly before the assassination and made provocative remarks, in
the meeting and a later telephone conversation about Oswald’s belief that Kennedy
should be killed. Many conspiracy theorists claim that perhaps someone was
impersonating Oswald or, if in fact he was there, the meeting indicated his true anti-
Castro and anti-Kennedy beliefs. However, Davison contended that Oswald was
probably acting as a provocateur “to encourage acts of violence that will discredit the
group he has infiltrated. By goading the exiles into attacking the president, a pro-Castro
provocateur might have hoped to destroy two threats to Cuba with one blow.” 223
Ultimately, according to Davison, Oswald assassinated President Kennedy in
revenge for the plots against Castro. Like several other researchers, Davison pointed to
an Associated Press report from Havana carried in the September 9 th New Orleans Times
Picayune in which Castro declared that U.S. leaders “would be in danger if they helped in
any attempt to do away with leaders of Cuba…’We are prepared to fight them and
answer in kind. United States leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to
eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.’” Other press accounts that
Davison presumed Oswald read dealt with covert U.S. raids on Cuba and President
Kennedy’s remarks calling for a coup there. Davison concluded by declaring “The
assassination of John Kennedy was neither an act of random violence nor a conspiracy. It
223 Davison, 196.
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