Jerry, I believe that you're handcuffing yourself to a flagpole with your negative bias toward Marina. Marina was a young woman in a foreign land with limited understanding of English, and she was frightened and intimidated by the police and FBI. She obviously was confused and misinformed and mislead by the authorities, whom she was desperately trying to placate by "cooperating " with them. You should open your eyes and see that it was the authorities who were manipulating Marina.... She wasn't creating lies on her own.... The lies she told were what the authorities wanted her to say....or she thought they wanted to hear.
But she wasn't lying about the Walker incident....However... she wasn't there at Walker's so she only knew what Lee told her about the incident. And since the Walker incident was a HOAX ( just as the investigating cops suspected) She only "knew" what Lee told her, and he told her that he had tried to kill Walker because that's what he hoped would appear in the newspapers where Castro's spies would read it and report back to Castro . Lee Oswald and George De Morenschildt had anticipated that Lee would be welcome in Cuba after Castro learned that Lee Oswald had tried to kill one of Castro's most vocal foes.
Lee had NOT tried to hit or kill Walker ( If Walker was actually in that room at the time) ...This should be obvious because the Carcano was / is a bolt action repeater and multiple shots can be fired in just a few seconds.... If Lee had intended to kill Walker ( who was center stage in the hoax, would have been an idiot to be in that room while bullets were being fired through the window) It would have been a simple matter to reload and fire again....
The fact that there was only one shot fired is a very strong indication that the shooting was a hoax.....
Lee Oswald and George De Morenschildt had anticipated that Lee would be welcome in Cuba after Castro learned that Lee Oswald had tried to kill one of Castro's most vocal foes.
When we separate the Walker hoax from the coup d 'etate and look at the evidence of the purchase of the rifle we can see a picture forming regarding the Walker incident..... Back in January or February of 63.... DeMorhenschildt was planting ideas in Lee's head.
De M and Lee were discussing Walker who was on a speaking tour and making newspaper stories with his rants against the Kennedy's.
De M told Lee that Walker was a Nazi, and someone should take him out before he could rise to power or foment civil unrest.. De M suggested that if someone had killed Hitler in 1932 the world would never have have suffered WWII, and the extermination of over six million Jews. Lee thought that De M was right, and Lee agreed with him. Whether De M was serious or just planting ideas in Lee's head we'll never know. However once the seed was planted a plot began to form and George and Lee started making plans to attack Walker. ( I've often wondered if Bobby Kennedy was paying De M and had told De M that he was sick and tired and fed up with Walker's constant attacks on his brother, Jack, and his father Joe Kennedy ... And perhaps someone should throw a scare into big mouth Walker by taking a shot at him. Knowing what we now know, it's entirely possible that this could have happened ) At any rate it was in February that De M started the ball rolling by suggesting that Walker might be an asset for Lee in his quest to penetrate Castro's Cuba, just as he had penetrated the Iron Curtain by pretending to be a disgruntled Marine.
De M encouraged Lee to start creating a false dossier in which he would appear to be a communist in support of Castro...
They ordered a cheap unusual old relic rifle to be used as a photo prop and a throw down gun, through a popular mail order house so it could be easily traced after it was used at the Walker residence. And Lee had Marina take his photo with the rifle. He also took photos of Walker's house and the surrounding area. He compiled a dossier that if discovered by the police after the shot through Walker's window would appear to be a plan of attack on Walker. ( At least that's what Lee thought. although George was probably
wise enough to see that a smart cop would see that the dossier was a pile of BS, but Lee wasn't smart enough to understand that a smart cop would never fall for the BS. )
