CYA actions by the various agencies? How far would they go? Planting a 40” MC rifle after the fact is a low probability imo.
Switching shells though, because the shells at the SN did not match the MC rifle ? and the imperative was to avoid a conspiracy investigation… maybe is plausible.. But whom other than Tom Aleya saw Fritz picking up shells and then returning later and throwing them back down?
So I’m not sure what the simple conspiracy could be here if CE399 is not the bullet that hit JFK and JC at Z224, especially if that’s the 1st shot heard.
If it’s just a solitary shooter at the TSBD 6th floor SE window, then the only reason to have switched CE399 for some other bullet is because the shooter was using a different rifle.
But if the conspirator shooter is using a different rifle then pre planting a 40” rifle seems to be illogical.
To be willing to go to more complication of pre planting an 40” MC rifle , therefore, the shooters motive may have been to cause confusion and induce anxiety of a conspiracy. A way to get revenge on the American public as well as JFK, the one man whom had the authority to have ordered air force support for the BOP operation. An action not taken that resulted in a disaster for the shooters BOP comrades who got captured and tortured to death by Castro.
The shooter may have known Oswald was an operative working for Guy Bannister or the shooter really thought Oswald was a traitor who had become a Marxist. He may have befriended Oswald ( Sylvia Odios apartment?) and he could be the one who drove Oswald to the Walker residence and had Oswald take a shot at Walker.
The shooter would have had to take the rifle from Oswald by either stealing it or buying the rifle from Oswald ( the money Oswald left for Marina ?)
A simplistic CT scenario then is a solitary conspirator shooter, a BOP survivor
(Alpha 66?) wishing revenge on JFK, wishing to inflict anxiety on the American public, and despising Oswald for being an informant and /or a pro Castro Marxist, The post event anomalous evidence such as CE399 , and the paper bag, were CYA actions by the investigators following a no conspiracy imperative by the Hoover Memo and LBJ interfering directly with Will Fritz.
The post event shooting of Tippit was not part of the conspirator plan. It was Oswald in a state of paranoia ( perhaps realizing to whom he had sold his rifle) and going to the boarding house to get his revolver fearing for his life.
If the conspirator shooter was also connected with the Mafia, and Oswald knew and suspected Jack Ruby of being a mafia informant then Oswald might have suspected Tippit had been sent to find and kill Oswald.
Perhaps that is why Oswald took a route from his boarding house heading to Rubys apartment ,which would place Oswald one block east of 10th and Patton when Tippit stated following Oswald.
And it might explain why Oswald turned 180 degrees and started walking westward TOWARDS Tippits car. Oswald had decided he had no alternative but to shoot Tippit before Tippit could shoot him.
The shooting of Tippit therefore was a big mistake by a paranoid Oswald, whom had left TSBD because he suspected the person to whom he had sold his rifle , was the assassin of JFK and that Ruby knew the assassin also.
