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point, it is hard to believe Oswald did not have more direct connections to Cold War
intelligence activities. 274 Even the “simple truth” appears complicated.
Carlos Bringuier, the anti-Castro Cuba involved in a fracas with Oswald in New
Orleans, was another author to accuse the Communists of being behind the assassination.
In his 1969 book Red Friday, Bringuier defended the Warren Commission’s portrait of
Oswald as a true Marxist disciple, but he added that, “A Communist conspiracy involving
several persons besides Lee Harvey Oswald is a distinct possibility.” 275 Bringuier’s own
views as a fervent activist against Fidel Castro are readily apparent.
Political scientist Edward Jay Epstein was a critic of the Warren Commission,
writing a book called Inquest that detailed the panel’s investigative shortcomings. His
later work Legend: the Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald accepted at face value the
extreme leftist views of the alleged assassin and emphasized his ideological motivation
for killing Kennedy. However, Epstein argued that the Soviets had not been forthcoming
about their involvement with Oswald and that Oswald must have been a Soviet agent –
even if the KGB was not directly involved in the assassination. In his analysis, Epstein
began and ended Legend with a discussion of the KGB defector to the United States, Yuri
Nosenko. Epstein used as sources former high-ranking CIA officials, including the mole-
hunting counter-intelligence chief James Jesus Angleton. Epstein accepted the Angleton
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Hosty, 26.
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Carlos Bringuier, Red Friday: November 22 , 1963, (Chicago: Chas. Hallberg and
Company, 1969), 108.
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