:::Look, I meant what I said about not knowing enough to get into the details of it. Right now I can only respond again with generalities: (a) if there was a conspiracy, then just because things turned out a certain way doesn't mean that this was the only option the conspiracy left itself (cf attempted assassination of John F. Kennedy). (b) don't underestimate the ability of intelligence types to obfuscate how things get arranged a certain way (eg using, as far as possible, being who can't talk because they're oblivious of their role) - this is their speciality, and quite often their lives may depend on it as well as their livelihoods.  And a point I keep making: if Oswald was an intelligence asset, that gives a lot of power to the elbow of someone trying to steer him in certain directions in way that would appear coincidental ("hey, there's someone you should meet, but make it look an accident. Here's information A,B,C about the target; do X, Y and Z; and you should be able to strike up a relationship...."). Oswald, lest we forget, didn't get to talk, and if that was planned, he could have done the bulk of the leg work setting himself up.