Of course but he was miserable in Dallas and he had tried to kill Walker. Marina wanted him out of that city.
I really don't understand how people believe he was sent to New Orelans by the FBI, CIA or whoever as a pre assassination setup. Who would be happy with him down there? Getting arrested, on radio, on TV, "agitating" etc. Makes no sense at all.
as a pre assassination setup.Lee wasn't sent as a pre-assassination set up..... The coup d ' etate wasn't being seriously plotted in May of 1963.
Lee went to New Orleans to see if he could learn who was supplying the Cuban "Freedom Fighters" with the money, boats and guns to attack Cuba from bases in La.
It didn't take Lee long to learn that "EX" FBI agent Guy Bannister ( actually one of Hoover's EXTRA Special agents ) was the man running the illegal raids on Cuba.
JFK was mad as hell because those idiots who were attacking Cuba and the Russian ships in Cuba were creating a nightmare in his efforts to defuse the nuclear threat from the missiles in Cuba. Lee had been successful in his mission to Russia, and was being utilized again in an effort to curtail the illegal training and arming of
Cuban refugees.
In July JFK ordered the ATF to raid the training camps and arrest everybody at the camps..... Then just before the raid JFK called Hoover and told him about the raid and ordered Hoover to send FBI agents in support of the ATF. Naturally this infuriated J. Edgar Hoover, because he was supporting the training of the Cubans, and he didn't want to be forced into supporting the ATF. The raid netted several CIA operatives and many Cubans plus guns, and bomb making materials.
It didn't take Hoover long, to figger out that Lee was the snitch who had provided the info that allowed JFK to raid the illegal training camp.
That was the trip point in setting the murder of JFK into action.... Hoover thought it was great that he could set the little commie snitch (LHO) up as JFK's assassin....