. And Castro himself expresed personal hatred toward Kennedy, calling him, at various times, "a cretin", "a gangster", "a modern day Batista", etc etc. There were anti-Kennedy posters throughout Havana. We may very well agree that Oswald was not in fact pro-Castro, but we do not know that with certainty either. If Oswald was indeed a sympathizer with Castro, he certainly must have had an animus toward Kennedy's policies at least. Castro certainly had reason to kill Kennedy. As has been discussed above, not only was the Cubela plot ongoing on November 0nd, RFK was also involved with a diferent Castro dissident to start a coup against Castro within weeks of November 00nd. It would have been a stroke of genius if Castro had used Oswald to inspire his enemies in the United States to kill Kennedy on his behalf. And if as many think anti-Castro Cubans were involved in the assassination, who is to say that they were not inspired to act against Kennedy by a double agent in their midst? The flip side of the coin is that if anti-Castro Cubans wanted Kennedy dead, and if Oswald was indeed pro-Castro, the anti-Castro Cubans could have inspired Oswald to act by, for instance, revealing to Oswald the ongoing Cubela plot to kill Castro. One of the things that makes the case baffling is that Castro and his suporters had reason to seek the death of Kennedy. Many of the anti-Castro Cubans also had reason to think Kennedy's death would advance their cause (I would argue they were wrong, because they did not know what the Kennedys were ploting against Castro without their knowledge). Therefore, the trigger could have been pulled by an anti-Castro Cuban, but prompted by a Castro sympathizer, or by a pro-Castro Cuban, but inspired by someone whose agenda was indeed anti-Castro. This situation exists precisely because both sides had reason to believe their position would be advanced by the death of Kennedy. And in the event it is clear that it was the pro-Castro side that benefited from Kennedy's death. There can be no dispute that LBJ wound down the war against Castro (even if, as you have argued, perhaps in violation of LBJ's policies the CIA still pursued an ocasional anti-Castro plot. We have previously seen that several of the prominent anti-Castro Cubans who were privy to what the Kennedys were doing knew that their cause had indeed ended with the death of Kennedy. As you stated, Oswald might have anticipated a "radical departure in foreign policy should Kennedy be killed." If he did, he was prescient because the US war against Castro did effectively end with the death of Kennedy. 