Final_Judgment

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Peter Dale Scott, the prominent JFK assassination researcher, has
pointed out (as I noted in Final Judgment) that you can look at Oswald's
role as an employee of Banister and find various explanations for it: on the
one hand you can view Oswald as a functionary of the intelligence
community (in light of Banister's intelligence connections); on the other
hand you can also view Oswald as a patsy of "the Mafia" in light of the fact
that New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello provided financing for the
anti-Castro Cuban exiles through Banister's CIA operations.
However, Scott himself acknowledges that this whole interplay
between these interest groups through the Banister connection is part of a
"gray" area representing the underbelly of finance and politics and
international intrigue in New Orleans at the time.
I believe very strongly that the likely involvement of the ADL in
manipulating Oswald through Banister is one of the unexplored areas of the
JFK assassination—one that will probably, unfortunately, never be explored
by JFK researchers any more than it has already been explored in Final
Judgment. Let's not expect to find any ADL files on Lee Harvey Oswald.
The bottom line is that Lee Harvey Oswald himself probably didn't
know precisely who he was working for and that is the way the
assassination planners wanted it. Oswald is probably one of the mostdiscussed
and most-analyzed individuals in history, but we will never know
who he really was or what his motivations were. It is conceivable that
Oswald thought he was playing a double or triple game and fooling
everybody and was even more of a patsy than we realize. He's a tragic
figure any way you cut it—and an ideal patsy.
There is an interesting parallel, in this context, that should be noted as
an aside. It's been reported that Oswald was fascinated and inspired by the
1950's television series, I Led Three Lives, the story of an undercover agent
for the FBI inside the Communist Party. This also apparently inspired
another undercover intelligence operative—Roy Bullock—who was
exposed in 1993 as a long-time agent for the ADL.
Inspired by the book, Bullock went to the ADL and volunteered to
infiltrate "hate groups." He also made similar volunteer efforts for the FBI.
In addition, he also worked for the Indianapolis police department. In fact,
in 1957 Bullock went to the Sixth World Youth and Student Festival in
Moscow as an undercover informant and reported back to the FBI. As a
consequence of that, it's quite possible that there's a CIA file on Bullock as a
possible "subversive" if the FBI never let the CIA in on the fact that
Bullock was their boy.
Now in light of the fact that Bullock was infiltrating both "left wing"
and "right wing" groups over the years, Bullock himself would have been
an ideal patsy. In The Man Who Knew Too Much, Dick Russell has exposed
the possibility that there were a number of people who were being groomed
as possible JFK assassination patsies due to their association with the Fair
Play for Cuba Committee, of which Oswald was ostensibly the New
Orleans chapter head.