The disbanding of the CIA was something I had read a couple of times and heard a couple of times so I by no means have evidence of that either.
From what I've been able to determine, this idea originated either with Grand Pre or with Michael Collins Piper, whose book Grand Pre cites as a source. It seems to have been repeated by a few particularly cranky conspiracist web sites. You will find that most conspiracists simply parrot the claims of others, without bothering to investigate either the claims' validity, or the credibility of the sources.
As far as Oswald goes everything I've ever heard about him indicates that he was not exactly a stable personality.
This goes for every Presidential assassin and would-be assassin in the history of the United States, with the possible exception of
John Wilkes Booth (though I would argue that it also applies to him).
And this was the president of the US who usualy has an extreme amount of security.
Your expectations are likely colored by your perceptions of more modern levels of Presidential security, Many regulations, procedures, and training standards changed after Kennedy's assassination, including a major expansion of the Secret Service's White House detail.
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White House Security Review (Public)
The Kennedy assassination triggered the most extensive changes ever in the Secret Service's approach to Presidential protection....In its 1964 report, the Warren Commission made numerous recommendations regarding Presidential security. Over the next decade, the Secret Service implemented these recommendations, which fell into three broad areas: (1) an increase in the number of special agents assigned to protect the President, and improved training for such agents; (2) an expansion of protective intelligence activities and of cooperation with other law enforcement agencies; and (3) the acquisition of sophisticated data processing, communications, and technical security equipment. The Secret Service created a number of new divisions to implement these changes, including the Intelligence Division, the Technical Security Division, and the Liaison Division.
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I've just always thought it was a pretty expertly executed assasination for Oswald to have doen it himself.
This was discussed earlier in this thread. As mentioned, Oswald was a fully qualified as a Marine rifleman, and his shooting has been successfully reenacted numerous times.