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Harvey Oswald visit her Dallas apartment with two anti-Castro Cubans. One of these
men would later call Odio and talk about Oswald as wanting to assassinate Kennedy.
The report stated that the committee disagreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald
could not have been there. “Based on a judgement of the credibility of Silvia and [her
sister] Annie Odio, one of these men at least looked like Lee Harvey Oswald and was
introduced to Mrs. Odio as Leon Oswald.” 434 This incident connected Oswald with
virulently anti-Castro Cubans. The Committee dismissed the idea that Oswald was being
impersonated by someone, but did not adequately explain why an avowed Marxist would
have such strange associates.
Having decided that there was a conspiracy, the Committee was faced with the
problem of finding who conspired with Oswald. The House members looked at three
prime suspects for being behind the assassination: New Orleans mafia chieftain Carlos
Marcello, Florida boss Santo Trafficante, Jr., and mob associate Jimmy Hoffa of the
Teamsters Union. The Committee determined that “organized crime had the motive,
opportunity, and means to kill the President.” 435 The Report quoted transcripts of FBI
electronic surveillance of mob bosses making hair-raising threats against President
Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. For example, Buffalo, New York boss
Stefano Magaddino erupted during one conversation that “They should kill the whole
family, the mother and father too. When he talks he talks like a mad dog, he says my
434 House Report, 166-167.
435 House Report, 197.
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