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enters the picture. “Again a double is used, but this time without Oswald’s knowledge”
to lay “a trail of incriminating clues…pointing straight at a pro-Castro activist” – Lee
Harvey Oswald. 519 So in Anson’s view there are three Oswalds – the historical Oswald,
the intelligence operative Oswald, and “an impostor who was used to frame the historical
Oswald for the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.” 520 Anson had the good sense to
acknowledge that his theory is “not a happy solution” since it is Byzantine, but he
claimed that this “is the way things work in the world of intelligence.” 521
In his conclusion, Anson declared that the evidence is overwhelming that Oswald
had ties to the CIA or other U.S. intelligence branch. He wrote that “The conspirators
had to be sure they would have protection” – that they “had the power to blackmail the
government, or were, in fact, part of the government.” 522 According to Anson, all roads
led back to Langley, Virginia where the CIA is based. These elements of the CIA may
have conspired with their allies among the anti-Castro Cubans or mob, but only the
intelligence operatives had the power to elicit a cover-up of the crime. Arguments for
CIA complicity in the assassination, as will be seen in the next chapter, are among the
most popular theories about the assassination. The revelations in the 1970’s of CIA
abuses led many Americans to wonder whether the agency or people associated with it
carried out the ultimate crime – the murder of the nation’s president. Anson’s multiple
Oswald theory, however, seems more far-fetched, and is based on flimsy evidence.
519 Anson, 214.
520 Anson, 211.
521 Anson, 211.
522 Anson, 345.
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