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Post by Arjan Hut on Feb 12, 2019 6:09:12 GMT -5
Also from the New Jersey Real Time News article by Lisa Rose about Spas Raikin, in 2013: Oswald’s quiet demeanor in Hoboken may have sprung from fear that Raikin was connected to the government in some way, said Priscilla Johnson McMillan, author of “Marina and Lee: The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald’s Assassination of John F. Kennedy,” published in 1977.CIA asset Priscilla MacMillanOf course Raikin was connected to the CIA, and so was/is Priscilla macMillan! It is bizarre to read, with everything that was already known when Rose wrote this article, that such connections are not made. Rose does ask the old Cold-Warrior about 'rumors' that he was a CIA-asset. Raikin then answers: “If I worked for the CIA, I’d have a government pension,” said Raikin. “There are many myths that have been associated with my contact with Lee Harvey Oswald. The biggest myth is that I had been an agent of the CIA. This is the most untrue myth that was created by writers. My obligation was to meet him, assist him through customs. Once I delivered him to the office, my job was finished with him. He was passed to another worker, and I had no more contact with him.”In Albarelli's book "A Secret Order", the writer shows that Raikin's recollections do not always jibe with the (few) known facts and with the recollections of others who were somehow involved with welcoming the Oswald's into the USA on that rainy Wednesday afternoon during the spring of 1962. Hoboken New Jersey 5 st. Pier.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Feb 12, 2019 11:14:47 GMT -5
From page 713 of the Warren Report: ["I have lived," he said, under both systems I have sought the answers and although it would] be very easy to dupe myself into believing one system is better than the other, I know they are not." In these notes, he acknowledged that his "Red Cross" subsidy had been paid by the Soviet Government rather than the international organization, and said, "I shall never sell myself intentionally, or unintentionally to anyone again." (Commission Exhibit No. 25, p. 273.) It was probably also on board ship that Oswald wrote two sets of answers to questions which he anticipated about his decision to go to Russia. and later to return to the United States. Although the sets of answers are somewhat similar, but the tone of one is apologetic, while the other suggests that Oswald went to Russia to study the Soviet system, but remained a loyal American and owed no apologies. The Maasdam landed at Hoboken, N.J., on June 13. The Oswalds were met by Spas T. Raikin, a representative of the Traveler's Aid Society, which had been contacted by the Department of State; Raikin had the impression that Oswald was trying to avoid meeting anyone. He told Raikin that he had only $63 and had no plans either for that night or for travel to Fort Worth, and accepted the society's help, according to Raikin, "with confidence and appreciation." They passed through the immigration office without incident, and Raikin helped them through customs. The society referred the Oswalds to the New York City Department of Welfare, which helped them find a room at the Times Square Hotel. Oswald told both Raikin and representatives of the welfare department that he had been a marine stationed at the American Embassy in Moscow, had married a Russian girl, renounced his citizenship, and worked in Minsk; he soon found out, he said, that the Russian propaganda was inaccurate but had not been able to obtain an exit visa for his wife and child for more than 2 years. He said also that he had paid the travel expenses himself.
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Post by Arjan Hut on Feb 12, 2019 11:16:53 GMT -5
From the New Jersey Real Time News article by Lisa Rose:
Raikin’s written account of his meeting with Oswald was published in the Warren Commission Report, an 888-page study of the assassination that concluded Oswald was the lone culprit.
Where in the WR can I find Raikin's written report?
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Post by Arjan Hut on Feb 14, 2019 3:02:05 GMT -5
As far as I can tell, there is no written report by Spas Raikin in the WR's 888 pages. Raikin is mentioned by name and he is quoted on page 713 and the story of Oswald's return on the SS Maasdam and his Hoboken arrival is mentioned again, without naming Raikin, on page 773. All of the CE's that are referred to are secondary sources, no information comes from Raikins contemporary 1962 Travelers Aid report.
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