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advocates that the Mafia was responsible for the assassination. This theory also has the
support of the congressional investigation of the Kennedy assassination. In this
rendering, a tragically flawed president takes on the mob, but pays the ultimate price for
his double-dealings. The Oswald as mob patsy appealed to Mafia experts who believed
organized crime to be a major threat, and to supporters of the president’s crack down.
The theory focused on Oswald’s ties to mob figures in New Orleans and minimized
evidence of his intelligence connections, while stressing Jack Ruby’s obvious
involvement with the criminal underworld.
However, many other researchers believe the mob only a part in the alleged plot,
and that elements connected to the CIA and anti-Castro movement were the main
culprits. In these theories, Oswald was connected to U.S. intelligence – a secret agent –
set up to take the fall for the assassination to mask the other plotters. There are even
theories that conspirators employed a double to implicate the real Oswald, or
brainwashed him to carry out the deed at the behest of the masterminds behind the plot.
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