What is the strongest evidence that Oswald was an intelligence asset/informant/contact etc.?
I came across this article titled "Assassin or Agent? Tracing the links between Oswald and the Spooks" [
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000100560003-0.pdf ]
It starts off strongly with a story about J. Lee Rankin getting a telephone tip from Waggoner Carr that Oswald had been an undercover agent on the FBI's payroll at the time of the assassination. The WC didn't know what to do with this information as it didn't have any investigators of it's own and was basically relying on the FBI to do the investigation. They already knew that the FBI had decided that Oswald was the lone assassin (this was actually decided less than 48 hours after the assassination) but their hands were tied because they knew there was no point asking the FBI if Oswald worked for them. So it was dropped.
And that appears to be the strongest evidence that Oswald was an intelligence asset!
The rest of the article is more "he said, she said", with the 'coincidence' that Oswald was connected to the U2 spy plane program and a U2 was shot down by the Russians while he was living there, featuring heavily. How this makes him an intelligence asset is unclear.
It is inconceivable that Oswald wasn't on the FBI's or CIA's radar as a defector. It is very difficult to believe that he wasn't being watched to some extent on his return from Russia up to the time of the assassination. It may well be the case that the FBI and CIA were trying to cover up any prior knowledge of Oswald because it revealed they were culpable in the assassination due to incompetence. But none of this makes Oswald an intelligence asset.
Surely there is stronger evidence than this linking Oswald to the intelligence services as some kind of 'asset'.
