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multiple personalities could explain Oswald’s contradictory ideological positions and his
alleged psychological instability.” An intelligence agency could use “his pro-
Communist personality…to infiltrate Communist organizations as a means of monitoring
them and their members or as a means of feeding these groups disinformation.”
According to Leonard, “evidence indicates that Oswald was used as an agent
provocateur, a double agent used to infiltrate and discredit ‘enemy’ organizations by
engaging in illegal or undesiserable behavior.” 538 The author pointed to Oswald’s
activities in New Orleans in the summer of 1963, in which he posed as an pro-Castro
activist. Finally, he would be induced to carry out the assassination of Kennedy to
advance a right-wing conspiracy. The “physical act” would be committed by Oswald,
but “the CIA would have provided the hidden mental stimulus of his anti-social
response.” 539 Alternatively, he may have been programmed to take responsibility while
leaving a trail of evidence pointing to a left-wing motive or conspiracy in the plot.
Leonard surmised that “If Oswald did not do the actual shooting of the president, it is
very possible that he could have been manipulated using mind control techniques into
setting himself up to take the fall through a series of pre-planned actions to implicate
himself in the murder.” 540
Leonard admitted that there is no proof that Oswald was under the influence of
mind control while apparently posing as a double agent or informer, or as the alleged
assassin. However, he claimed that “the striking similarities between Estabrooks’
538 Leonard, 26.
539 Leonard, 75.
540 Leonard, 73.
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