Commission Exhibit 780 contains the review of Oswald's discharge.
On page 664 [scroll down] Oswald completed a high school equivalency [USAFI] and graduated 46th out of a class of 54...[not very high] Read his hand written letter for discharge reconsideration page 653 on and see that his English spelling is horrible. Oswald's GCT [a military aptitude test] was 105....[not very high at all] Yet Lee Oswald could read and write Russian script. Not just Russian print but
script as well.
Russian is a very difficult language to learn and I just can't believe that a relatively poorly educated person could master Russian in his own spare time for no apparent reason like it was a hobby.
If anyone here speaks a foreign language, they should agree that one has to be highly motivated and have a definite concrete reason for learning it.
https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh17/pdf/WH17_CE_780.pdfWalt brings up a point...
According to the record [CE 780]...Oswald petitioned for a hardship discharge on Aug 17 1959
According to the passport record...Oswald applied for a passport on Sept 4, 1959--issued on Sept 10~~~
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix-15.html#issuanceOn page 663 of CE 780...Oswald was released from active duty
Honorably on Sept 11 1959.
Oswald applied for a passport before a clerk of the superior court at Santa Ana, Calif.1 On the application Oswald stated that he intended to leave the United States for 4 months on approximately September 21, 1959, by ship from New Orleans, La., and that the purposes of his trip would be to attend the Albert Schweitzer College in Switzerland... American officials in Moscow had no knowledge that Oswald was in Russia until October 31, 1959, more than 2 weeks after he had arrived, since he failed to register at the U.S. Embassy, as Americans traveling through Russia normally did.
There was no such obligation. Allegedly Oswald renounced his citizenship upon visiting the American Embassy.
The archive page fails to mention that Oswald managed to travel [somehow] to Finland and commanded to obtain a Russian visa in one day!