An interesting discussion in Bulgaria.
Just over 10 years ago I was on a train travelling from Sofia in Bulgaria to Bucharest in Romania. 14 hour journey on an old uncomfortable carriage. I was booked for a seat in one of the compartments and when I reached it I found an old man of 80 or so and a young teenage girl. She spoke excellent English and told me she was living with her mother in Australia and that the old man was her grandfather who lived in Ruse on the border between Bulgaria and Romania and she was visiting him for a month or so.
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They were my travelling companions for 7 hours of my journey. The girl acted as an interpretor between her grandfather and I. From the discusions I learned that he had been in the Bulgarian army during his work career. As the conversations progressed I realised I was speaking to someone very intelligent and very knowlegeable of countries out side of Bulgaria.
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I told him that I suspected that he had worked for military intelligence. I got a laugh in responce. When I asked him about any memorable events he witnessed, I was told that he saw Fidel Castro in Sofia where he gave a 2hr long speech. He thought Fidel was very impressive on the stage.
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Then I asked him about his views about the JFK assasination. His response was that there was complete and utter panic in USSR and countries behind the iron curtains. Messages from Moscow, Warsaw, Zagreb, Prague, Bucharest Kiev all aking the same questions. 1. Was anyone from Bulgaria involved in anyway? 2. What information do you have about the assasination. 3. Have you raised an alert to get ready and in location for an potential attack from Natio. Like wise Bulgaria were asking the same questions of other communist countries.
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For the next 48hours or so it was like the Cuban Missile Crisis. This could lead to nuclear war. After that it became a fact finding mission. LHO had been arrested and the lone nut theory was the official story. The Bulgarians did not believe that LHO carried out the assasination on his own. They believed that there was a conspiracy and the venture was ordered and financed by Aristotle Onasis because he wanted Jackie and because Robert Kennedy had threatened to arrest Onasis on racketeering charges and would place sanctions on his companies if he ever set foot on US ground.
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I am not proposing that as my theory, but reflecting on an intesting discussion that made me stop and think.