“Patsy” Manssor Arbabsiar v. Lee Harvey Oswald

Traveled to radical country of the time: Check

o MA – Iran
o LHO – Cuba & Russia

Doesn’t fit profile of a mastermind: Check

o MA – ran a restaurant, a convenience store and a used car lot. Was forgetful and not detail oriented.

o LHO – Court marshaled and discharged from US military, was a welder, worked for a coffee co. and book
depository.

No family: Check

o MA – Estranged wife
o LHO – Estranged wife

Questionable if he could have pulled it off: Check

o MA – very long odds if he could even find Washington, DC, recognize the Saudi Ambassador, locate the
supposed restaurant, or logistically pull off any sort of attack. Screw up, not well organized.
o LHO – impossible shot from the book depository, conflicting reports, suppressed conflicting evident, etc.
Screw up, not well organized.

High level political motivations for the event: Check

o MA – Iran, Pentagon just need a reason, (any reason) to press the button. Also waning support for future
military industrial spending and appropriations.
o LHO – Vietnam / Cuba - Pentagon just need a reason, (any reason) to press the button. Also waning
support for future military industrial spending and appropriations.

Covert or treasonous innuendo: Check

o MA – Mexican Drug Gangs. Also I’d wager you see the Justice Dept release some “details” about supposed
contacts on his trips to Iran in the coming days.
o LHO – KGB in Russia and Cuban sympathizers.

Killed before he could talk: Check

o MA – We’ll see
o LHO – By Jack Ruby. Supposed died on the way to the hospital of a stomach wound which is not usually
fatal and never that fast.

why would iran hire the mexican drug cartel to assassinate a saudi official. it's ridiculous. i'm sure iran has no shortage of assassins, just like the cia has no shortage of operatives.

and for 1.5 million. they wipe their ass for 1.5 million. it's not worth it to them the amount of heat and attention that would come in blowing up a restaurant and killing a government official of one of america's most important and needed ally's.