For many years I’ve come across statements claiming that Lee Harvey Oswald was an FBI informant as well as an agent, or perhaps just a

low level operative, of the CIA. I’ve always found these claims ridiculous, and one of the reasons why there is such a growing hatred against ‘conspiracy theorists’. So I brushed them aside.

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But claims to ties with either agency couldn’t be easily proven, and that’s what makes them even more interesting.

Because that means his link to either would have been deeply covert.

Many people have always seen Lee Oswald as a nobody, someone who doesn’t stand out through achievements, someone of absolute insignificance. Unimportant. His life was most likely the exact opposite. Why else would many of the files on him still be classified?

He was surely making a difference, just nothing very noticable.

And that’s the way it had to be, as much as he might have hated it. Deep down he wanted recognition.

So I grew curious about him.

What was he all about?

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Lee Harvey Oswald joined the Civil Air Patrol in 1955 at the tender age of 15 years old.

On October 24, 1956  he enlists in the Marines, where two months later, he scores 212 on his marksmanship test.

This means he qualified as a marksman. Though it was the lowest possible rank, with training he might have made sharpshooter.

Instead he was posted elsewhere.

They sent him to the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Jacksonville, Florida in March of 1957.

 

• In May of 1957 he is promoted to Private 1st Class and two days later is given the security clearance level 'Confidential', and reports to Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi.

• On June 25th, 1957, Oswald is given the occupational specialty of 'Aviation Electronics Operator' after completing 'Aircraft Control and Warning Operator Course' in Biloxi a week earlier.

• Early July of that year he is assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station in El Toro, California with the 4th Replacement Battalion, and a month and a half later, on August 22nd, he leaves for Japan.

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In late 1957 he arrives in Yokosuka, where he meets his unit.

He accidentally shoots himself with an illegal firearm (a Derringer), and is officially court-martialed once he arrives in Atsugi in March/April of 1958. Two months later he is court-martialed again for assaulting a superior officer and is sent to the brig, where he sat for nearly two months. This gave him plenty of time to think things through.

Although competent in his work, he was somewhat of a loner. Some said he was just very commited to his training.

 

Then comes the turning point.

In September of 1958, Oswald and his unit set sail for Taiwan, where he suffers a nervous breakdown and is sent back to Atsugi, Japan.

In November he leaves Japan and arrives in San Francisco from where he makes his way to El Toro once again.

He’s assigned to 'MACS-9', which specializes in aerial surveillance and ground-controlled interception.

In 1959 Oswald receives linguistics training at the Monterey School in California, where he learned Spanish (!) and Russian, at a time where the official records state that he was already discharged from the Marines.

Not only that, but they say he scored poorly on Russian tests he did in February 25th of that year.

The truly funny part of that is that the US Government denies Oswald underwent ANY linguistics training whatsoever.

This confirms that they couldn't get their stories straight, and were thus lying.

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On September 11th, 1959 Oswald was discharged from the Marine Corps and nine days (!) later sets sail for the Soviet Union!

He arrives at Le Havre, France on October 8, 1959 and leaves for England that same day.

The next day, he flies to Helsinki, Finland. Now things become a bit strange and slippery.

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Oswald checks in at the Torni Hotel, but the next day registers at the Klaus Kurki Hotel, and the day after that apparently applies for a visa at the Russian consulate, which is issued two days later!

On October 15th he leaves Helsinki by train and arrives in Moscow the following day.

That went remarkably easy for a 'former' U.S. Marine.

It could only mean his military records were buried, because having been in the military would have prevented his entry into Russia.

It almost seems like he met someone in Helsinki who expedited his next push North.

How he gets an Intourist Guide to show him around the sights of Moscow is weird enough, but according to his guide, Rima Sherikova, he didn’t seem that interested in the architecture and history of the city.

Apparently he tried to renounce his citizenship in November of 1959 in a letter sent to the American Embassy.

In January 1960 he relocates to Minsk, and in September of that year he’s given an 'undesirable discharge' from the Marine Corps.

There is no way the Corps didn’t know where he was the whole time, which means he was still in military service at the time of his 'defection' to Russia.

 

On January 2, 1961, he proposes to his girlfriend Ella German, but she turns down the offer.

This must have left him immensly heartbroken and distraught, because two days later he rejects Soviet citizenship and, according to his diary, contemplates leaving Russia altogether.

In February he notifies the Embassy that he wants to return to the U.S., but the following month (March 17) he meets Marina at a dance, proposes to her two weeks later (while he is in the hospital with an ear infection) and another three weeks later she accepts.

Ten days later, April 30th, they are married.

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He was intent on marrying quickly, possibly to make his application for citizenship seem more sincere, but most likely, if he was actually an Operative, to look like he was a regular young man with insecurity issues.

But a month after his marriage to Marina, he lets the Embassy know he still wishes to return to the United States, but this time with his new wife. The rest of the year, and early 1962, Oswald is busy trying to find ways to get out of Russia with Marina by way of numerous correspondences with his mother, his brother Robert, the American Embassy, John Connally, and the International Rescue Committee.

He asks the latter to lend him money on two separate ocassions.

June 1st 1962, Lee and Marina Oswald, now with a three month old baby, depart Russia by boat (apparently First Class).

On the 13th they arrive in Hoboken, NJ, and fly to Fort Worth, TX the following day.

On June 26th Lee is interviewed by the FBI, followed by a second interview on August 16th.

Since their arrival in Texas, Lee, Marina and June move around a few times, and Lee has several jobs.

Later Lee and Marina separate briefly, leaving Marina and June to move around from home to home under the guidance of friends.

On November 4th, Lee rents an apartment at 604 Elsbeth St. in Dallas, the home of Mary Bledsoe, where he is reunited with Marina and June. The very next day Lee and Marina get into a fight and Marina moves on with June again, but on the 17th they move back to Lee.

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Now, on March 2nd, 1963, the Oswalds move to 214 West Neely St (where the famous backyard photos were apparently taken), which is just a few minutes walk from 1026 North Beckley Ave.

April 24, Lee moves to New Orleans. Ruth Paine drove him to the bus station for that.

June 3rd, 1963, Lee rents a p/o box in the name of A.J. Hidell as his second member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC), in order to have the minimal amount of people to run the new chapter in New Orleans.

The name Hidell is now on record and linked to Oswald.

On June 24th he applies for a new passport.

 

On July 19th he is fired again (having lost two previous jobs in Dallas) and on the 25th his request for his 'undesirable discharge' to be reviewed is denied.

He wanted his Marine status to be changed in order to receive benefits for his service.

But why apply for a new passport first? Or at all, for that matter?

 

Now comes the dicey part:

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• On September 17th, Oswald obtains a tourist card for Mexico City from the consulate in New Orleans, which is good for only one visit.

• On September 20th Ruth visits Marina and takes her back to Irving, TX on the 23rd so she can have her second baby (Rachel) there.

• On September 25th Lee collects his unemployment check of $33, and catches a bus to Houston.

• The next day he catches a bus to Laredo, TX and crosses into Mexico that afternoon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, since the photographs taken at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City do not, in any way, resemble Oswald, despite the CIA and FBI claiming that it’s him, we can assume that the trip to Mexico in his name was either a diversion or a set-up.

As was his visit to the Russian Embassy that day.

Which also means that the application for the new passport was done by someone pretending to be Oswald.

 

October 3rd Lee checks into the YMCA in Dallas, TX, and he later moves to 621 Marsalis Ave, and tells Ruth that his landlady doesn’t want him to return. As if he’s desperate to be with Marina again.

October 14th he moves to 1026 N. Beckley Street. (under the name O.H. Lee - apparently the landlady has trouble with his name and called him Mr. Lee)

The next day Oswald applies for a job at the TSBD, with help from Ruth Paine, and is hired.

On October 29th, FBI agent James P. Hosty asks around in the Paine neighbourhood regarding Lee Oswald.

Two days later Hosty interviews Ruth and Marina in the Paine residence.

 

That same day Lee rents a p/o box and apparently sends letters to the ACLU and the American Communist Party.

(that’s nice and subtle)

 

On November 3rd Ruth Paine gives Lee a driving lesson.

On November 5th Hosty interviews Marina at the Paine home again.

On November 9th Ruth takes Lee to the Driver Examination Station, accompanied by Marina and the children, but it’s closed.

So they spend the day together doing other things.

It was on this very day that the FBI says Oswald visited the Mercury dealership where Jack Lawrence worked.

This Oswald could have only been an imposter, and this is definitive proof that someone was trying to set him up.

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On November 12th a very upset Lee Oswald delivers a note to the Dallas FBI office, addressed to James Hosty, warning him to leave his family alone. (this note was later destroyed by order of J. Gordon Shanklin, Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Field Division)

 

On November 24th Lee Harvey Oswald is shot dead by Jack Ruby, which launches the very first conspiracy theory.

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All of the above just sums up the movements (as well as the purported movements) of Lee Oswald.

He seemed to be a very busy individual. Constantly on the move. Even when he finally got married.

His sudden decision to move to New Orleans, without Marina and June, seems more and more like he was under orders to do so.

When he returned to the United States from the Soviet Union (after defecting !), he should've been arrested for treason. He never was.

Oswald had let his mother and brother know he was coming home and to alert the press, who didn't show.

The latter might have sought confirmation by the FBI, who could have then told them that story was not worth the ink they wanted to use.

In any case, Oswald's return to the U.S. went unnoticed.

But that still doesn't mean he was insignificant.

They still had use for him.

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