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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 22, 2023 6:49:48 GMT -5
Oswald in New Orleans Harold Weisberg, was an investigative reporter in Washington, and an outspoken critic of the JFK Assassination until his death in 2002. He had written several self-published books on the topic that clearly demonstrate the failure of the evidence to provide necessary proof. In 1967, he released "Oswald in New Orleans: A Case for Conspiracy with the CIA. It comes from the investigation assisting the Garrison case against Shaw. Lee Oswald had deep roots in New Orleans. He was born there in Oct 1939 to Robert & Marguerite. He lived there until 1944, then moved to Dallas. He lived in Dallas until 1952, when his mother moved the family to New York City. After two years in the Bronx NY, the family moved back to New Orleans. At seventeen, he joined the Civil Air Patrol in New Orleans. One year later, he enlisted in the Marines. Marguerite's sister, Lillian, was married to Dutz Murrett, an illegal bookkeeper under the control of the Carlos Marcello crime family. The HSCA established that Oswald was familiar with his uncle's underworld activities and had discussed them with his wife, Marina, in 1963. Ignored with obvious intent are the Cuban group connections or the undercover connections in the heart of the Intelligence community in New Orleans. FBI agents, infiltrating anti Castro group meetings, then being seen with Oswald. anti Castro guerilla camps on the outskirts of town, with military grade munitions and equipment for a raid of Cuba. In the Summer of '63, Lee was handing out anti Castro leaflets, then, next day, he was handing out pro Castro literature, then a fight broke out. The fight appeared to be staged. The CIA was controlling all of the anti-Castro groups with any muscle. There was no intention of any kind, to invade Cuba as US policy. So the, the discussion turned to assassination. Kill the 'Beard', 638 attempts over 49 years in power, but in 1963 the US had made promises. At some point a plot to assassinate Castro turned against Kennedy. Those in control of this power, could wait no longer. Vietnam will be lost. Something had to be done. Dallas was the stage. It worked because some DPD were in the pocket with Military Intelligence. New Orleans was the design, the back room, the setup.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 23, 2023 6:55:45 GMT -5
My Old School Beauregard Junior High SchoolThe Commission called two former classmates of Oswald's from Beauregard Junior High School, in New Orleans. Edward Voebel and Frederick O'Sullivan, were teenage friends of Lee at that school, in 1955. Margaurite (Lee's mother) mentioned it was a boy from school, that had gotten Lee interested in the Civil Air Patrol. Voebel testified on April 07 th '64. Albert Jenner, was the questioning attorney. Jenner tried unsuccessfully to scour Lee's past for a hint of a brawler or an inordinate interest in guns. When Voebel mentioned smoking & drinking, Jenner replied, "All right; those are the things
I am interested in, what you think of Lee's habits and personality and so forth,
from the time you knew him, and don't worry about whether it is important or not. That's my problem" He found neither. It is incredible Jenner did not ask obvious questions relating to David Ferrie. Ferrie was arrested on November 25 th and held as a suspect as Oswald's accomplice..." He was an airplane pilot that had been to Texas that day, and may have been somehow connected to this case. The failure of the Commission to call David Ferrie in directly, is an obvious indication re: the lack of urgency in pursuit of this matter. When Jenner finally did get around to Capt. Ferrie, it was one question, nothing that pursued any line of, David having met Lee, or serving together. The only reply Voebel gave regarding Ferrie was, "I think it was Captain Ferrie.
I think he was there when Lee attended one of the meetings, but I'm not sure of that. Now that I think of it, I don't think
Captain Ferrie was there at that time, but he might have been. That isn't too clear to me" He didn't confirm that he wasn't and had already told the FBI that, "Voebel stated that he believed Oswald attended a party (not sure)
at the home of Dave Ferrie (Captain) right after the members of the C.A.P.C. received their stripes."+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On the GroundFrederick O'Sullivan appeared before the Commission April 7-8th, 1964, although there is no indication as to why this short deposition should take that long. It was only Wesley Liebeler and Fredrick at the Old Civil Courts Building in New Orleans. The attorney was a bit more inquisitive about "Capt. F-e-r-r-i-e". He asked if he had personal knowledge of Ferrie knowing Oswald. O'Sullivan answered, "No". "Personal knowledge", meaning not admissible in court, but this is not court. Distortion of facts was often put forth in these proceedings with no opposing counsel to object. The next statement Liebeler put down was in the form of a question. Mr. LIEBELER. But you don't know of any time that Oswald associated with or knew Ferrie through the Civil Air Patrol? Mr. O'SULLIVAN. No; I am not sure of any. Mr. LIEBELER. Am I correct in understanding that there has been publicity here in the New Orleans area concerning a possible relationship between Oswald and Ferrie? Mr. O'SULLIVAN. Yes, sir; I believe Captain Ferrie was arrested. I am sure he was arrested, and I believe it was in connection with this Oswald situation. He was booked at the first district station. I don't know just what he was charged with, I believe just 107, under investigation of whatever it was, I don't know. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oswald in New Orleans | Harold Weisberg "That was the beginning and the end of any Liebeler -- or Commission -- interest in the Ferrie arrest. It should not have been, need not have been -- and was by intent. Another man who should have been called as a witness and was not is Lt. Paul Dwyer who, with O'Sullivan, examined a plane said to be Ferrie's at the New Orleans airport at the time of the assassination. O'Sullivan said they found it not airworthy. Thus we are left with the inference that it was not possible for Ferrie to have flown to Dallas at the time of the assassination."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 24, 2023 10:39:56 GMT -5
CAP Squadron Lee Oswald was shot at about 11:30am, on Sunday, November 24, '63. That was kept from Marina until she saw the body later that day. After such a weekend, the widow was returned to "Protective Custody". For 10 more weeks, she was threatened with deportation if she did not cooperate. In the transcript of a very long interrogation with the Secret Service, on the 24 th came the question, "Did she know a "Mr. Farry"? --------------------------- ...Weisberg explained, "My correspondent pointed out that there is no "Farry" listed in any of the indexes of the
Commission materials, "and almost certainly they were referring to Mr. (David W.) Ferrie...
who was not called as a witness although his implication in the affair was obviously known
to the Warren Commission...(Ferrie) was arrested in New Orleans on November 25, 1963 and held
as a suspect as Oswald's accomplice..." David Ferrie was a disgraced Airline Pilot, and defrocked Catholic Priest, over allegations of sexual abuse of young boys in New Orleans. He was Capt. of the Civil Air Patrol in New Orleans and served at the same time Oswald was enlisted in that group. He later flew missions against Cuba. Marina did not know him. But more perplexing, how did the SS know the name Ferrie, one day before he was arrested or had anything to do with this case? Weisberg went back and checked his records and the original transcripts and dates. He was not mistaken. They were asking the name before he was arrested. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Frederick S. O'Sullivan | WC TestimonyMr. LIEBELER. Ferrie was involved with the CAP squadron at New Orleans Airport at the time Voebel and Oswald came out to, join it? Is that correct? Mr. O'SULLIVAN. Ferrie was in charge of the squadron, and then there was a Captain Hinton. Now I was in the squadron for 6 years, so I am not sure who was in charge at what particular time. I am not sure. He could have been. He may have been, but I am not sure. I know that when he left the New Orleans squadron, Ferrie did have something to do with the Moisant squadron, so he may have. If he wasn't in charge when Oswald was out at New Orleans Airport, he may have been in charge when he went to Moisant Airport. Mr. LIEBELER. Did you find anything in these files that related to Ferrie or Oswald? Mr. O'SULLIVAN. Well, we found papers signed by Ferrie but nothing in relation to Oswald. His name wasn't mentioned in anything at all that we could find, so we assumed at that time that Oswald was in the Moisant squadron. I believe they even had in the paper the dates, and we checked those particular dates and it turned out that Ferrie was in a transition between the New Orleans squadron and the Moisant squadron in these dates, so he could have been involved either way with Oswald. I don't know if he was involved, he could have been.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 25, 2023 11:11:40 GMT -5
Cuban Alert  New Orleans was where Lee got involved with the one and only Castro group the Commission would acknowledge, "Fair Play for Cuba Committee". It was a group based out of New York that would provide grass roots assistance for the Revolution against attacks from the US. Oswald was the one and only member in his New Orleans Chapter. A painted two-bit loser that might as well been writing correspondence to himself. The Report makes no mention of any other Cuban group he may have been involved with in New Orleans, or the meetings Lee attended. The group they are talking about below is the "Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil" translates to: "Student Revolutionary Directorate" It was a student activist group that played a role in the revolution in the opposition and eventual fall of Dictator, Fulgencio Batista. The group was relaunched in 1960, and moved to the United States where it had sponsorship from the CIA to overthrow Castro. Walker reluctantly remembered. Additionally, it was Lee and an FBI Agent at "Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front" meetings in New Orleans. Edwin Staig saw Lee Oswald at the Dallas meeting. General Walker attended that same meeting. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Gen. Edwin Walker | WC TestimonyMr. Liebeler: Do you recall speaking -- pardon me, not speaking, but going to any meetings of anti-Castro Cuban groups during the month of October 1963? General Walker: During what month? Mr. Liebeler: October. General Walker: I don’t remember a date of attendance. Mr. Liebeler: Isn’t it a fact that there were some meetings here in Dallas sponsored by an organization known as DRE, which is a revolutionary group that is opposed to Fidel Castro? Do you remember that? General Walker: What does DRE stand for? Mr.. Liebeler: It is the initials of a lot of Spanish words which stands for the Student Revolutionary Council. It is an anti Castro organization. General Walker: What does DRE stand for? How would they have advertised themselves? Mr. Liebeler: I think it is probably DRE. General Walker: Meaning what? Mr. Liebeler: It is Spanish words I am not familiar with. General Walker: Well, there is a student directorate group, which I remember they call themselves, and that is the way they identified themselves. I attended a meeting sometime and listened to some speakers. Mr. Liebeler: They came from Miami? General Walker: I believe they came from Miami. Mr. Liebeler: And you contributed $s to the organization that night? General Walker: I believe I did. Mr. Liebeler: Did you see Lee Harvey Oswald at that meeting? General Walker: No, I did not. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oswald in New Orleans | Harold Weisberg "Here Liebeler discloses knowledge of more than he asks about; his questions are, rather, answers. He knew all about it, although there is no printed evidence I have seen to so reveal. And if Walker did not see Oswald at the meeting, did nothing else happen? Who were the speakers ? Liebeler did not care and did not ask. Nor was Liebeler, the college professor, unwilling to show a common touch. His reply to Walker's inquiry, "What does DRE stand for?" reveals this."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 26, 2023 10:50:37 GMT -5
It's a Put On Edward Butler. was from New Orleans and finished Army Management School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, in 1959. He was good friends with Clay Shaw, and persuaded another at the Trade Mart, Lloyd Cobb, to help with his anti communist campaigns. The Free Voice of Latin America (FVLA) and the American Institute for Freedom Project (AIFP). Guy Banister was recruited to run AIFP. When Oswald was arrested in August '63 for a street fight with Anti-Castro Activist, Carlos Bringuier, Lee had some printed booklets on him. 'The Crime Against Cuba', had a rubber stamp impression, "FPCC 544 Camp St., New Orleans". Sam Newman, was, the owner of 544 Camp St. He did not recall renting space to FPCC. However, he did rent an office on the second floor to the "Cuban Revolutionary Society," actually, the "Cuban Revolutionary Council". Newman said, "Guy Banister was, "...well acquainted with this organization". +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thomas Beckham | Shaw Trial Grand Jury Q. Did you ever have occasion to hear of an organization, a corporation by the name of The Friends of Democratic Cuba? A. No. Q. In all of your dealing with Guy Banister, Jack Martin and Grady Durham, and Sergio Arcacha Smith, you have never heard of the corporation of The Friends of Democratic Cuba mentioned at all? In any connection? A. There was something...what was it...making a deal... I think it was the young guy or the old guy, I am pretty sure, they had a coin, they had some made, and it named some society on it, and they gave these coins out to members, the members had to pay some money or something, I don't know what society it was though, sounds like it was something like Revolutionary Forces 'or something like that, its that type of name... Q. What about the Cuban Revolutionary Front, does that ring a bell? A. That could have been the name. Q. So Sergio told you these Cuban people were working or had the support of the Central Intelligence Agency? A. He said, the Central Intelligence Agency was training them. Training them in the Algiers Naval Station. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Painted RedIn March of 1961, the CIA ordered a merge of two Anti Castro Groups, Frente Revolucionario Democratico and the Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo. Once combined, they became part of the 'Cuban Revolutionary Council'. It was a CIA operation as publicly written by Tracy Barnes (CIA) & Arthur Schlesenger. After the assassination THE INFORMATION COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS, produced a record of Lee's Oswald radio appearance on the William K. Stuckey Show. "Self-Portrait in Red" was released in 1964. Hale Boggs delivered a pitch for INCA, as being actively engaged against Communism thru its "Truth Tapes Program". +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oswald in New Orleans | Harold Weisberg "There are other interesting tidbits about the Cuban Revolutionary Council in these reports. For example:" "Mr. Manuel Gil...member of the 'CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL' ...employed as Production Manager
by 'THE INFORMATION COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS' He makes tape recordings...which recordings are
broadcast in Latin American countries ...some of these recordings are used in Louisiana schools...""The Information Council of the Americas, also known as "INCA," is the owner and distributor of the broadcasts Oswald made in New Orleans following his arrest when, as part of his establishment of a "cover," he engaged in allegedly pro-Castro debates. It is a propaganda outfit."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 27, 2023 11:58:13 GMT -5
Camp Shutdown CIA based, Anti-Castro training camps, were set up about 30 miles north of New Orleans, on a property owned by mobster, Mike McLaney and his brother, Bill. Michael had owned casinos in Cuba, and when Castro nationalized them, he took all the money. McLaney lost about $7M, then was duped out of $100K by the CIA. These camps were set up specifically for anti Castro forces to train in a second attempt to take Cuba. There was an additional camp at Algiers Naval Station. That was the facility that Tom Beckham referred to in his Grand Jury testimony in Feb '68. That location was given to him by Sergio Arcacha Smith. On July 31 st, '63, the camp at Mandeville, LA., on the McLaney property, was raided by FBI. Mrs. McLaney said, the house had been loaned to a Cuban exile friend, she knew only as 'Jose Juarez'. A few months before, Mike McLaney was still fuming over the lack of response from the US against Cuba. He sent detailed plans to the CIA for bombing the Esso Oil refineries in Havana, thereby destroying the economy, and Cuban infrastructure. The CIA refused. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Probe Magazine | July-August 1996 "Among training camps funded covertly by the CIA was a camp located across Lake Pontchartrain
from New Orleans on land owned by Bill McLaney, a gambler and former casino operator in Cuba, who,
not surprisingly, had ties to the mob. On JFK's orders, this camp was raided on July 31,1963 by the FBI.
The raid resulted in several arrests and seizure of weapons and explosives. The camp was also shut down.
Film was also discovered that was taken inside the camp.
According to HSCA Deputy Chief Counsel Robert Tannenbaum, the committee viewed the film.
Tannenbaum recalled, "The movie was shocking to me because it demonstrated the CIA was training,
in America, a separate army. It was shocking to me because I'm a true believer in the system and yet
there are notorious characters in the system, who are funded by the system, who are absolutely un-American!"
Tannenbaum went on to reveal that depicted in the film among the Cuban exiles were Guy Bannister,
David Atlee Phillips and Lee Harvey Oswald. This film later disappeared from the committee's files."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 28, 2023 12:07:20 GMT -5
Agent Assurance Agreement Former FBI Agent John W. Fain, was the Dallas FBI Agent, assigned to Oswald, from about April 1960, until his retirement in Oct. 1962. His first contact with the name, Lee Harvey Oswald, was an instruction to reach his mother regarding some money she wanted to send him. This was standard procedure in a defector case. When the agent could not locate Marguerite, he found Lee's brother Robert, to help him make contact. "We wanted to find out the circumstances and about these funds and any information
we could ascertain and, of course, it is always important in this type of case to find out whether or not
any of these--- especially intelligence agents or anyone like that might contact these people and try to get
information from them. We try to get these people to let us know if anything like that happens." Both agreed to contact the FBI if approached by any suspicious group or individual. Then in, Jan. 1961, Fain heard, that Lee wanted to come home. The Oswalds arrived in the US the first week of June, 1962. They stayed in New York for a while before settling in Fort Worth TX around the 14 th. Fain called Robert to get the status, then set up a visit with Lee, at the brother's house. Fain described an "impatient and arrogant attitude". "...he was a little insolent in his answers.
He was the type of individual who apparently doesn't want to give out information about himself..."Fain was not satisfied with the lack of response on his interview in June. He decided to set up another visit, and contacted Robert once again to arrange it. Robert told the agent, Lee no longer lived there, and had moved out at the end of July. He knew the street name, but was not sure of the house number. On August 16 th, Fain took Special Agent, Arnold Brown, out to Mercedes St. and waited for Lee to walk to or from, whatever house, he had rented an apt. Lee was walking home when the agents approached him in the car, and asked him to sit in the back seat and talk. They asked him many of the questions from the previous interview, and Lee was more open and receptive to their inquiries. Oswald denied that he had revoked his US citizenship when he arrived in Russia, and had never applied for Soviet citizenship. Nor had he never given away any classified or secret information, or had any contact with soviet officials to be recruited in any way. When Lee left the Marines, it was on an "Honorable Discharge" to help his "sick" mother. He had only 43 days of enlistment service left. After his defection, that status was changed to an "Undesirable Discharge". Lee fought for it to be overturned and asked about it in both interviews. He also seems to have been assured of no criminal prosecution upon his return, and he mentioned that to both agents as well. ...then there is this:"OSWALD agreed to report to FBI any information concerning contacts or attempted contacts by
Soviets under suspicious circumstances...he promised his cooperation in reporting to FBI any
information coming to his attention."Lee Oswald agreed to be an FBI Informant. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oswald in New Orleans | Harold Weisberg "Hoover also told the Commission (17H816) that FBI headquarters has obtained affidavits from every special Agent who was in contact with Oswald, as well as from their SACs (Special Agents In Charge). These affidavits show that none of these FBI agents developed Oswald as an informant." Here again, the self-serving affidavits are no substitute for the Commission's own investigation. These affidavits, with the February 12, 1964, covering letter from Hoover, were entered into the record as Exhibit 825. The most conspicuous omissions are those one would most suspect." There is no affidavit from Warren deBrueys, the Cuban expert, whose New Orleans-Dallas route matched Oswald's. Nor is there one from Milton Kaack. Pertinent to this omission is the following exchange between Dulles and Quigley (4H438): Mr. Dulles: Who was in charge of this other investigation from the FBI office with regard to Lee Harvey Oswald that you found out about later, was this Special Agent Milton R. Kaack? Mr. Quigley: Yes, sir. Mr. Dulles: Did you make your report to him, did you? Mr. Quigley: Orally, yes; I discussed it with him.
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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 29, 2023 11:48:12 GMT -5
Open to Close FBI, SA Fain, closed the Oswald on August 29, 1962, and was satisfied by Lee's answers from the meeting on the 16 th. In October, Fain retired and handed his files over to FBI, SA James Hosty. The new agent had no reason to consider Oswald for the rest of the year. It is important to note here, that the FBI was well aware of Lee's, reading material, subscriptions, mail, and current status of his Russian wife. Something happened that prompted Hosty to reopen the file in March of '63. Though it was nothing new to the FBI, Attorney Stern explained it to Dulles: "The file was closed, sir,
until March of 1963 when Mr. Hosty decided it should be reopened on the basis of two items of information,
one of them the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was listed as a subscriber to The Worker newspaper." Based on this false premise, Hosty tried to find Oswald. He claimed he never met him, although his name, address and license plate number was in the subject's address book. Hosty was too late, Lee had left for New Orleans. Marina, and the baby, left Dallas with Mrs. Paine's to follow Lee to New Orleans, about a month after he left, and had secured a job. Hosty did not find out the Oswalds had left town until the middle of May '63, and then received contact from the New Orleans office that, Oswald wanted to speak to him; "In June, I believe it was the middle of June, we received a communication from our
New Orleans office advising that one Lee Oswald, was apparently in New Orleans, and requested information on him.
They had had previous correspondence with the Dallas office in connection with the Lee Oswald case, as an auxiliary
office, and we are aware that we did have a case on him. They asked if this could be the same man, and I wrote back
and told them that Lee Oswald had left the Dallas area, and for them to attempt to verify the presence of Lee Oswald
and Marina Oswald in New Orleans." Hosty exchanged some letters of correspondence with New Orleans office, was satisfied that it was Lee, and he was working. So, he left it to New Orleans. The next FBI Agent involved with the Oswald case was, SA Milton R. Kaack. In June of '63 that agent had been in touch with informant N-O / T-2: A confidential informant, NO T-2, advised on June 26, 1963,
that LEE H. OSWALD, Post office Box 30061 New Orleans Louisiana wrote a letter on June 10, 1963,
to The Worker, West 26th Street New York 10. In August, when Lee was arrested for a fight that broke out over pro-Castro leaflets, Lee requested an agent from the New Orleans office to come to the station and talk to him. John Quigley was the next FBI agent assigned to the Oswald case. The Oswald file was open and active again. The mail was being closely monitored, as well as surveillance on the opening and closing of PO Boxes as he moves from town to town. Yet, something revealing about the closing of the New Orleans PO Box, when Lee left for Mexico City. It seems someone else had filed the New Orleans card, not Lee. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Whitewash | Harold Weisberg"In tracing the other boxes the Report accurately describes Oswald's closing out of his New Orleans box and the filing of a change-of-address card immediately prior to his trip to Mexico in late September 1963. What the Report ignores is the intriguing revelation by Postal Inspector Harry D. Holmes (7H289-308; 525-30) that still another change-of-address card not written by Oswald was sent to the New Orleans office. It was postmarked in New Orleans October 1l, and in Dallas October 16. Assistant Counsel Wesley J. Liebeler frankly admitted the problem that presented the Commission, stating, "Let me come bluntly to the point. My problem is this: Oswald wasn't in New Orleans, October 11. He was in Dallas" (7H529). Inspector Holmes could only conjecture that some unknown person had telephoned the change of address to the New Orleans post office (and even to its correct branch). The Report, in ignoring this, ignored obvious conspiratorial connotations, The Commission's attitude is reflected with unfortunate clarity by the disposition Liebeler made of his unwanted evidence, "Well, In any event, we will add this to the pile" (7H530).
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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 30, 2023 10:53:16 GMT -5
Address Unknown In Oswald's pocket address book, there are these notations on a page (16H67) that face a blank page: Cuban Student
Derectorate (sic)
107 Decatur St
New Orleans, La
Carlos Bringuier
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N.O. City Editor “Cowan”
David Crawford
reporter
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117 camp
107 Decatur
1032 Canal
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Post by Michael Capasse on Aug 31, 2023 11:26:12 GMT -5
Right on Queue Dennis Ofstein | Co Worker"--he did admit to me that he had been in the Soviet Union and my assumption was possibly that he had worked as an agent of the United States at the first." Teofit Meller (friend of the Oswalds) | DPD Subject: Criminal Intelligence "Subject said he checked with the FBI, and they told him Oswald was alright."John McVickar | Consul at the US Embassy in MoscowI think that he did seem to know something about the renunciation process, and it was almost as though he was trying to bait the consul into taking an adverse action against him. Delphine Roberts | Secretary, Guy Banister"Oswald introduced himself by name and said he was seeking an application form. During the course of the conversation I gained the impression that he and Guy Banister already knew each other. After Oswald filled out the application form Guy Banister called him into the office. The door was closed, and a lengthy conversation took place. Then the young man left. I presumed then, and now am certain, that the reason for Oswald being there was that he was required to act undercover." John E. Donovan | HSCA ReportOfficer in charge of Oswald's radar team in Atsugi Japan.He feels that Oswald may have developed intelligence contacts in Japan and he thinks that Oswald's
later defection to the Soviet Union may be related to such intelligence.
James Gale | HSCA
Assistant Director in charge of the Inspection Division - FBI. What I meant in writing that sentence was that we did not know definitely whether he had any intelligence assignments at that time, but I felt in my mind that he possibly could have had intelligence assignments based on his Russian background, his defection to Russia, and the fact that he would not take the polygraph examination, and also because of his activities with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. James Wilcott | CIAFormer CIA agent while Oswald was in Atsugi Japan Mr. WILCOTT - Well, it was my understanding that Lee Harvey Oswald was an employee of the agency and was an agent of the agency. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What do you mean by the term "agent"? Mr. WILCOTT - That he was a regular employee, receiving a full-time salary for agent work, for doing CIA operational work. Robert OswaldMr. OSWALD. No, sir; and the only time the thought ever entered my mind as to him being an agent of the CIA or any other U.S. Government bureau was on his return from Russia while residing at my residence in Fort Worth, the FBI had called and requested that he come down for an interview there in Fort Worth. On the completion of his interview when I came home from work that night, he discussed it briefly and I asked him how did they treat him, and so forth. He said just fine, and he says, "They asked me was I a secret agent," or some type of agent for the U.S. Government and he laughed and he said, "Well, don't you know?" I remember that. That was just crossed out of my mind. Lee Oswald, to his mother "... He said, "Mother, not even Marina knows why I have returned to the United States....."
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