Oddly enough, we know more of Oswald’s CIA background than of his FBI connection.

So, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Oswald’s defection to Russia was not only dubious, but that his return was so unimpressive yet impossible, that it smelled like he had help from someone who had some push.

Someone who could open some doors in Washington. And let’s not forget his military training, which is in fact documented. Mostly.

His military clearence was not super high, but high enough to get him stationed at a top secret base which monitored the spy plane flights over the Soviet Union. At some point in his military career, someone got a grip on him.

 

Oswald’s mother Marguerite, who was a very peculiar woman to say the least, always maintained that Lee was a CIA agent.

A spy. And that made her feel proud!

Well the agent part was never proven, but there is reason to believe he was at least a CIA asset, because he sure was important enough to bring back from Russia. WITH a new wife and daughter.

While in the Marine Corps, Oswald talked so openly about his love for Russia and his respect for Marxism and the communist regime, that he was nicknamed 'Oswaldovich'.

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According to some of the people who knew Lee Oswald best, he was a great admirer of John and Jackie Kennedy.

He was, however, not very fond of Gen. Edwin Walker, whom he supposedly shot at (and missed … a stationary target approx. 100 feet away), and might not have had any warm feelings or respect for Gov. John Connally.

When Oswald was still in Russia, he sent a letter, dated January 30, 1961 to the secretary of Navy, (Oswald thought that was still John Connally), hoping to speed up his military upgrade in order for him to return to the United States.

This was the famous letter mentioned by Walter Cronkite on November 23rd.  

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/creatingapatsy.htm

 

So first we're told he defected to Russia, and then we're told he sought help returning to the United States.

And all this during the era of the known false defector program.

But when Connally simply referred Oswald’s appeal to his successor, it might have infuriated the young man.

And this would have certainly given him the motive to kill Connally.

He could have been arrested on those grounds, and then the death of the President would have become an accidental murder.

That would have been the easiest way for the Police and the D.A. to connect Oswald to the shooting at Dealey Plaza. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jfk-accidental-victim-article-1.1453721

“… no one wanted to describe a popular president as collateral damage.” – James Reston Jr.

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But the strange thing about Oswald’s travel back from Russia was that he had no problem at all getting back in to the United States.

He was NOT arrested upon arrival. He had defected to Russia and apparently said he was going to share all the information he had regarding his knowledge of radar information and regarding certain high altitude spy plane flights over Russia.

But anyone else during this era, which was the height of the Cold War, would have been arrested for treason.

Throughout the continental United States, people were arrested for having mere affiliations to communist sympathisers. 

Lee Oswald was given a lot more freedom, which could only mean it was more a debriefing than a questioning.

There is no documented proof that Oswald ever said he was going to give the Russians any military information, nor did anyone ever prove, or state on record, that he told the Russians anything classified. All we have is hear-say.

So the question is posed: was Oswald a CIA operative/assett?

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NARRATOR: “Helsinki was one of the few cities in the world where an American could get a visa to Russia on short notice. From there, Oswald boarded a train for Moscow.”

[ ibid. - But how did Oswald, a simple Marine, know of the visa situation in Helsinki? Did he get assistance from the State Department? ]

“Where did he get the money for his extensive travels? He later claimed he had saved over $1,000 while in the Marines, but records show he had only $200 in his bank account. As a deluxe-class tourist Oswald received the personal attention of his own Intourist guide, Rima Shirokova.”

NARRATOR: “The day after John Kennedy's inauguration in 1961, Lee's mother arrived at the White House to ask for help in locating her son. She was not the only one asking questions. No one had heard from Oswald for over a year. Recently released documents show that several government agencies began tracking Oswald in Russia.”

W. SCOTT MALONE, FRONTLINE: “These files clearly show that there's hardly an intelligence agency that did not have an interest in Lee Harvey Oswald. Navy intelligence was worried about radar secrets he may have given to the Russians. The FBI was concerned that an impostor might be using his papers to come -- to sneak into the United States. And the CIA had both a positive and a counterintelligence interest.”

[ SOURCE: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/transcripts/1205.html ]

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So Lee Harvey Oswald was not as insignificant as many people like to believe he was.

He was, like many CIA assets, a chess piece on the board.

A little, dispensable pawn that could be thrown into the lion’s den without a care in the world, but who would go to hell and back to be noticed by his handlers, and to, perhaps, try to work his way up the ranks.

Unsuccessfully, of course.

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The following is an exerpt of an article titled “CREATING A PATSY (formerly “THE REAL TARGET?”)” by Peter R. Whitmey, of Abbotsford, BC, published in JFK/Deep Politics Quarterly, April 1998 (revised & expanded)

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However, the fact that Oswald wasn’t charged with failing to report for non-active duty in the spring of 1960, or for denouncing the United States and offering to provide military information to the Soviets, strongly suggests he was part of an ongoing “fake defection” program. This has been supported by an alleged CIA memo dated March 3, 1964 and sent to James J. Rowley, Chief of the Secret Service, from John McCone, Director of the CIA, which reveals that Oswald had been “trained by this agency, under cover of the Office of Naval Intelligence, for Soviet assignments” and had received “additional indoctrination at our Camp Peary site from September 8 to October 17, 1958.”  

McCone points out that Oswald was “on special assignment in the area of Minsk” after “arrangements were made for his entry into the Soviet Union in September 1959.”

 

Later in the memo, he emphasizes that after Oswald’s return to the U.S. the CIA came to the conclusion that Oswald was “unreliable and emotionally unstable” and was “of little use to us after his marriage”, suggesting the Agency would have preferred it if Oswald had remained single while in Russia.  The memo also suggests that Oswald may have returned to the U.S. as a so-called “sleeper agent”, working for the KGB.   In addition, the memo suggests the possibility that Oswald “…given his instability, might have been involved in some operation concerning Hoffa”, which, implies involvement with organized crime, consistent with the HSCA’s conclusions.

Was the memo, perhaps, withheld from the Warren Commission on the orders of McCone, for obvious reasons?

 

The question of the document’s validity has been raised and debated at various Internet sites, including  at the moderated newsgroup “alt.assassination.jfk”, since it first appeared on the Internet in 2004.  It was also the subject of an article by Prof. Walt Brown in the Oct. 2004 issue of his journal JFK: Deep Politics Quarterly, who discusses both sides of the issue, but leans towards it being legitimate.  Most researchers appear to have concluded that it is either a false document, or an altered one, especially since its source is a reporter named Jim Moore, associated with tabloid journalism back in the late 1970s (who claims to have received it from a former FBI agent in Tennessee).

I was able to contact the journalist (with the assistance of researcher Gary Buell), and he suggested that the format of the document (which includes a Secret Service file number rather than a CIA one) might have been created intentionally, so that the content would not be taken seriously if it was leaked to the press.

It is also possible the file number was added, as a cross reference to earlier correspondence between the Secret Service and the CIA noted at the beginning of the memo.  As for Moore, he has never been investigated or charged with creating a bogus government document, and appears to believe the content is valid.

Gary Buell has created a blog site in which the document and related material can be read.

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[ SOURCE: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/creatingapatsy.htm  ]

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All of a sudden, a little, insignificant, spiteful, mistreated former Marine suddenly seems a lot more significant and ‘planted’.

Now, was Lee Harvey Oswald a CIA asset sent to Russia and back by the U.S. government, or just a common defector with trust issues?

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**** CIA involvement, 112th Military Intelligence Group - Fort Sam Houston, my research on L. Fletcher Prouty ****

 

While I was researching certain things retired Air Force Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty had said to Jim Garrison, and later in a filmed interview, I found this:

 

"The committee did obtain evidence that military intelligence personnel may have identified themselves as Secret Service agents or that they might have been misidentified as such. Robert E. Jones, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who in 1963 was commanding officer of the military intelligence region that encompassed Texas, told the committee that from 8 to 12 military intelligence personnel in plain-clothes were assigned to Dallas to provide supplemental security for the President's visit. He indicated that these agents had identification credentials and, if questioned, would most likely have stated that they were on detail to the Secret Service.

 

The committee sought to identify these agents so that they could be questioned. The Department of Defense, however, reported that a search of its files showed "no records * * * indicating anyDepartment of Defense Protective Services in Dallas."

The committee was unable to resolve the contradiction.

 

Conclusion.--Based on its entire investigation, the committee found no evidence of Secret Service complicity in the assassination.

 

Oswald's military intelligence file--On November 22, 1963, soon after the assassination, Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Jones, operations officer of the U.S. Army's 112th Military Intelligence Group Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Tex. contacted the FBI offices in San Antonio and Dallas and gave those offices detailed information concerning Oswald and A. J. Hidell, Oswald's alleged alias.

This information suggested the existence of a military intelligence file on Oswald and raised the possibility that he had intelligence associations of some kind.

 

The committee's investigation revealed that military intelligence officials had opened a file on Oswald because he was perceived as a possible counterintelligence threat. Robert E. Jones testified before the committee that in June 1963 he had been serving as operations officer of the 112th Military Intelligence Group at Fort Sam Houston, Tex.

Under the group's control were seven regions encompassing five States: Texas, Louisiana. Arkansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma.

Jones was directly responsible for counterintelligence operations, background investigations, domestic intelligence and any special operations in this five-State area.

He believed that Oswald first came to his attention in mid-1963 through information provided to the 112th MIG by the New Orleans Police Department to the effect that Oswald had been arrested there in connection with Fair Play for Cuba Committee activities.

As a result of this information, the 112th Military Intelligence Group took an interest in Oswald as a possible counterintelligence threat.

It collected information from local agencies and the military central records facility, and opened a file under the names Lee Harvey Oswald and

A.J. Hidell. Placed in this  file were documents and newspaper articles on such topics as Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union, his travels there, his marriage to a Russian national, his return to the United States, and his pro-Cuba activities in New Orleans.

 

Jones related that on November 22, 1963. while in his quarters at Fort Sam Houston, he heard about the assassination of President Kennedy. Returning immediately to his office, he contacted MIG personnel in Dallas and instructed them to intensify their liaisons with Federal, State and local agencies and to report back any information obtained. Early that afternoon, he received a telephone call from Dallas advising that an A.J. Hidell had been arrested or had come to the attention of law enforcement authorities.

Jones checked the MIG indexes, which indicated that there was a file on Lee Harvey Oswald, also known by the name A. J. Hidell.

Pulling the file, he telephoned the local FBI office in San Antonio to notify the FBI that he had some information.

He soon was in telephone contact with the Dallas FBI office, to which he summarized the documents in the file.

He believed that one person with whom he spoke was FBI Special-Agent-in-Charge J. Gordon Shanklin.

He may have talked with the Dallas FBI office more than one time that day."

 

[ **Ibid. this may have been the reason for Shanklin to panic (as portrayed in the movie "Parkland") and get rid of anything they might have had on Hidell or Oswald, which is why he flew off the handle towards Hosty for having been in touch with Oswald recently and for keeping a threatening note from him **  - This event did actually take place, according to the real James Hosty. ]

 

"Access to Oswald's military intelligence file, which the Department of Defense never gave to the Warren Commission, was not possible because the Department of Defense had destroyed the file as part of a general program aimed at eliminating all of its files pertaining to nonmilitary personnel."

 

[ SOURCE: http://www.jfklancer.com/RobertJones.html ]

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It later became public fact that there were over a thousand documents on Lee Oswald alone, of which most were still classified Top Secret.

One of the few that somehow slipped through the censoring sessions, was the famous Katzenbach Memo.

The information below is, for me, the most important part of that memo:

 

November 25, 1963

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MEMORANDUM FOR MR. MOYERS

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1. The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial.

 

[ Ibid.It's apparent that it was important to them to keep the lone gunman theory going - this was the day after Oswald was shot by Ruby and the public had to be lulled to sleep. ]

 

2. Speculation about Oswald's motivation ought to be cut off, and we should have some basis for rebutting thought that this was a Communist conspiracy or (as the Iron Curtain press is saying) a right-wing conspiracy to blame it on the Communists. Unfortunately the facts on Oswald seem about too pat-- too obvious (Marxist, Cuba, Russian wife, etc.). The Dallas police have put out statements on the Communist conspiracy theory, and it was they who were in charge when he was shot and thus silenced.

 

[ Ibid. I never realized how cleverly Oswald was put together - trained in linguistics (Spanish, Russian), sent to Atsugi, Japan, "sent" to Russia under the guise of defection, set-up with a Russan girl, brought back a married man and new father (excellent cover), never really questioned about his defection, made himself a very visual Marxist (New Orleans), introduced to the white-Russian community in Dallas (DeMohrenschildt, who even wrote a manuscript on him http://jfkassassination.net/russ/jfkinfo4/jfk12/hscapatsy.htm ), kept low on the ladder by getting him to work a menial job in the midst of minorities (D.H. Byrd connection), and of course making it look like he REALLY wanted to get back to Russia via Cuba. ]

 

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach

Deputy Attorney General

 

[ SOURCE: http://www.jfklancer.com/Katzenbach.html ]

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It's now obvious that Oswald was not just a young man pretending to be a CIA agent, he WAS a CIA agent.

Well, a CIA Operative. A low level Operative. An asset.

The reason for him to become an FBI informant could have been because he was sick and tired of being moved around like a toy soldier without having any say in it. He was murdered because there was fear he would talk.

But in the two days during his detention, he didn't talk. Or none of it was recorded in any way.

He was trying to get the FBI to listen to him, and to hopefully stop the CIA from doing what they were doing.

He might have been trying to prevent the assassination after all. If so, WHY keep working at the TSBD?? Why not quit??

Did someone threaten Marina and the kids to keep him in play?

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Dick Russell, in The Man Who Knew Too Much wrote: "The official record on Oswald makes no mention of his having received official tutelage in any language during his Marine years. However, at a Warren Commission executive session whose minutes were declassified in 1974, chief counsel J. Lee Rankin is quoted saying of Oswald: “We are trying….to find out what he studied at the Monterey School of the Army in the way of languages.”

[ SOURCE:  http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.nl/2011/09/monterey-language-institute-presidio.html ]

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Everything you've read so far about Oswald appears to show how he was picked.

A 15 y/o boy showing interest in serving his country by signing up with the Civil Air Patrol, and then even forging papers to enlist in the Marines at the age of 17. That’s precisely the type of devotion the CIA would look for in an Operative.

It was noticed that he was somewhat subversive and even Marxist (he earned himself the nickname 'Oswaldovich'), as well as being a loner. Loners are typically the perfect kind of operatives, since they would have no trouble leaving things behind on short notice.

The Spanish training would suggest that if Oswald was being trained as a CIA Operative, instead of the asset he later became, he would have most likely been sent to Cuba to help overthrow Castro. And here is where he could be tied to David Ferrie.

The U.S. Government always maintained that Oswald taught himself Russian, which even today is a difficult language to master.

Some people do have a knack for picking up foreign languages faster than others, or at least be able to nail pronunciation, but to learn a whole language on your own, in such a short time, in that era? No dice.

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1959 was a very busy year for Lee, because it was the year in which he also 'defected’.

In that time it was difficult, even for a man of his intelligence, to find the proper information with regards to moving to Russia.

Anyone with an ounce of intelligence can see right through the charade these days.

Receiving Spanish and Russian linguistics training in the same year as his defection to the Soviet Union!?

But at this time things must have already been stirring for him, since he was always an advocate for freedom, liberty, and equal rights.

He had nothing against Castro or Cuba, so if he was being trained to participate in Operation 40’s Operation Mongoose, it might have sparked a certain level of dismay and lack of respect towards his own government, who were training him to do something he didn’t want to do.

Something he didn't believe was right.

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The tip of that iceberg was of course when he was 'sent' to Russia, to gain whatever intell he could get.

 

As a lone young male, with a good deal of Russian language taught to him, he should have been able to slip in and out of the cracks.

But in 1961 he meets and marries Marina, and while living in Minsk with her, they have a child (June).

This is absolutely not the behaviour of a CIA Operative.

Some have claimed that his marriage was a smokescreen. That she was his cover, but that doesn’t explain the baby.

It explains the quick marriage (6 weeks after meeting), but not having a child.

If he was an Operative at the time, in the Soviet Union to gather intell for the CIA, he failed his mission.

Whether or not he got any kind of information to his superiors is unknown.

When he then returned to the United States, without any problems, it began to smell like something was fishy.

In the height of the Cold War it was very very difficult for someone to move back and forth between the two nations, especially with a new Russian wife and child in tow. They were only minimally debriefed, as far as we know.

But it could have been at this moment that it was decided that he would take the fall for the event that was to come in November of 1963.

One way or the other.

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In any case, yes ... Lee Oswald was a CIA spy. That's to say, he was spying on the CIA. Most likely for the FBI.

They needed someone who could blend into a crowd. Somone with a military background, but still low enough to the ground to be hungry for a bit more action and power. Someone who knew about the politics of communist countries. Someone who could handle himself with languages, and who could speak with a certain level of eloquence when necessary.

But it would appear that Lee messed up by allowing himself to be interviewed on radio and television.

It's difficult to imagine this was part of the plan. Many people have stated that his scuffle on the streets of New Orleans with Carlos Bringuier and the other Cubans seemed somewhat fake, as was the subsequent arrest. This apparently got Oswald some media attention.

Perhaps it was Bringuier's task to get Oswald that kind of exposure in order to make him look like a communist sympathizer in the eyes of the public. Being hungry for attention, like some say Oswald was, he might have just taken the bait. We'll never know for certain.

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Here's an amazing read on how the CIA kept track of Oswald (and others)  http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/ops/htlingual.htm 

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With regards to the assumption that Oswald may have given radar information to the Russians I will share this:

 

At Area 51 there was once a top secret project called "Project: AQUATONE".

Author Ben Rich, states that Skunk Works engineer Kelly Johnson thought the electronic counter-measure black box installed in the U-2 tail, called Granger, may have acted as a homing device for the Russian missile.

The same Granger system was used on Taiwanese U-2s flying over China.

"One day, three of four U-2s were shot down, and the sole survivor told CIA debriefers that he was amazed to be alive because he forgot to turn on his black box. To Kelly, that clinched the case."

 

So, dear readers, Lee Harvey Oswald may not have given the Russians any secrets that assisted in the downing of the Gary Powers U-2 after all! His U-2 was shot down because they were able to lock on to the signal coming from the plane's tail.

 

 

Keep in mind all that you have just read. Perhaps now things will seem a bit more clear.

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