The CIA, according to its own documents, defines an agent as: “A person who acts in our behalf, at our instigation and in consonance with our direction.”
Oswald was alleged to be a Communist sympathizer who defected to the Soviet Union, but he was most definitely a CIA “agent.”
A CIA document titled “Excerpts From Unpublished Writings of Lee Harvey Oswald” quotes Oswald as having written, “When I first went to Russia in the winter of 1959 my funds were very limited, so after a certain time, after the Russians had assured themselves that I was really the naive American who believed in Communism, they arranged for me to receive a certain amount of money every month . . . . It was arranged by the MVD [Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs] . . . . It really was payment for my denunciation of the US in Moscow in November 1959.”
A CIA memo from March 1964 makes reference to Oswald’s writings and states, “In his writings, Oswald is highly critical of Soviet rigged elections, the massing of crowds for staged demonstrations, travel restrictions, regimentation, and the lack of freedom of press, speech, and religion.”
On November 29, 1963, the CIA sent a message to the White House stating that while Oswald was enroute to the Soviet Union, he “passed through Sweden during October 1959” and was “unsuccessful in obtaining a visa to the USSR in Helsinki, which resulted in his returning to Stockholm.”
The CIA message also stated, “Two days after he arrived in Stockholm, Oswald traveled directly to Moscow . . . . There was no record that there was any request for a USSR visa processed through normal channels for Oswald at any time during 1959 . . . . It was difficult to explain how Oswald might have received his visa in two days without going through normal channels.”
The CIA sent out a cable in July 1964, stating that Headquarters “wants to know minimum time required to obtain Soviet tourist visa.”
The response in a CIA cable three days later states, “Normal visa processing takes seven days, which can be shortened ‘in exceptional cases’ to five days. Impossible in two or three days.”
As for Oswald being “a person who acts in our behalf, at our instigation and in consonance with our direction,” Oswald’s Marine Corps record shows that on February 25, 1959, he was tested on his Russian language “comprehension” skills, including his ability to “understand” Russian, his ability to “read” Russian, and his ability to “write” in Russian.
On August 17, 1959, less than six months after being tested on his Russian language skills, Lee Harvey Oswald “submitted a request for a ‘dependency’ discharge from the Marine Corps.” The alleged reason for the “dependency discharge” was the “hardship of his mother.”
After submitting his request, Oswald first “appeared before the Hardship/Dependency discharge board,” which “recommended that he be released from active duty for reason of dependency,” and his discharge from the Marines was approved on August 31, two weeks after Oswald submitted his request.
Two days after Oswald’s discharge was approved, a CIA memorandum addressed the “legal travel operations into the USSR,” stating that the CIA’s Soviet Russia Division “will conduct all legal travel operations involving the use of U.S. citizens.”
On September 4, Oswald applied for a passport. His application states that the countries to which he would be traveling include France, England, Finland, and Russia.
Then, on September 11, 1959, one week after applying for a passport, Oswald was officially released from “active duty” in the Marines, whereupon he was transferred into the Marine Corps Reserve with obligated service until December 8, 1962. He then went to Fort Worth, Texas, where he visited with his mother for “approximately three days” and told her that he would like to “travel abroad,” after which he went to New Orleans.
On September 16, five days after his release from active duty in the Marines due to the alleged “hardship of his mother,” Oswald paid $215 to travel to France aboard the SS Marion Lykes, a “passenger-carrying freighter.” He boarded the ship on September 19 and “wrote his mother that he had booked passage for Europe.”
The ship set sail on September 20, 1959, and Oswald arrived in France on October 6. He subsequently departed for England the same day, arriving in England on October 9. The next day, he boarded a flight that would take him to Helsinki where, as previously noted, he was unsuccessful in obtaining a Russian visa, after which he went to Stockholm and waited two days for a Russian visa, even though “there was no record that there was any request for a USSR visa processed through normal channels for Oswald at any time during 1959.”
The only explanation for Oswald getting a visa “without going through normal channels” and getting it in “two days” is that the CIA created one for him. A 1961 CIA document states that the CIA Deputy Director of Operations “is authorized to suspend procedures” when “operational and security aspects of an agent’s management are so sensitive as to require processing through special channels.” The document also states that one of the “basic requirements” in a “secure operation” is “to keep to an operational minimum the number of persons aware of the true aims of the operation.”
Oswald’s fabricated visa, for which there was “no record” of a request, lists “Helsinki” as the place where it was issued, and the “signature” of the person issuing the visa is “illegible.”
On October 16, eight months after the Marine Corps tested Oswald on his Russian language “comprehension” skills and forty-four days after the CIA memorandum about “legal travel operations into the USSR,” Oswald arrived in Moscow, where “he was handled” by “a KGB agent.”
A CIA paper dealing with the alleged defection states, “All such defectors would be interrogated by the KGB” and “surrounded by KGB informants wherever they re-settled in the USSR.”
Fifteen days after arriving in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Oswald went to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and claimed that he was renouncing his American citizenship, stating afterward, “I will never return to the United States for any reason.”
The Embassy reported that Oswald “was aggressive, arrogant, and uncooperative,” and in response to his alleged desire to renounce his citizenship, the Embassy “advised Oswald by mail of his right to renounce citizenship, such renunciation in manner prescribed by law being valid, and that he might appear on any normal business day and request documents be prepared.”
But Oswald never went back to do the paperwork, and a U.S. State Department memo in December 1961 states that Oswald “did not, in fact, renounce United States citizenship . . . . Mr. Oswald did not expatriate himself and remains a citizen of the United States.”
Eleven months before the State Department memo, Oswald wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Navy due to receiving an undesirable discharge for traveling to the Soviet Union. A short fifteen months after the alleged attempt to renounce his citizenship, Oswald told the Secretary of the Navy that he is “still a U.S. citizen” and “had gone to the Soviet Union to reside only for a ‘short time.’”
Oswald also wrote a letter to a Marine Corps General on March 22, 1962, stating, “I have never taken steps to renounce my U.S. citizenship . . . . I refer you to the United States Embassy, Moscow, or the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., for the verification of this fact.”
According to the State Department officer who dealt with Oswald during the phony attempt to renounce citizenship, Oswald appeared to have been “tutored in connection with his apparent attempts to renounce his American citizenship,” and Oswald’s trip to the Soviet Union was suspiciously a “competently arranged trip.”
The State Department officer also reported, “Oswald evidently knew something of the procedure for renunciation of citizenship when he came into the office. This seemed a bit unusual since it was so soon after his first departure from the United States on his first trip abroad traveling as a private citizen.”
The Warren Commission told CIA officials in March 1964, “The letters Lee Oswald wrote to the American Embassy in Moscow while he was trying to get permission for himself and his wife Marina to return to the United States might have been ‘coached.’”
A Warren Commission staff member told the CIA officials that “these letters reflected a higher degree of sophistication and knowledge of passport procedures than would be expected of a man of Lee Harvey Oswald’s known character.”
The FBI documented that an Associated Press reporter spoke with Oswald at his hotel soon after his claim that he wanted to “relinquish his United States citizenship and remain in Russia.” The reporter “engaged him in a conversation” and “asked Oswald why he was going to remain in Russia.”
The FBI report states, “Oswald replied, ‘I’ve got my reasons,’ but did not elucidate.”
On June 18, 1962, five days after he returned from the Soviet Union, Oswald had Pauline Bates, a stenographer in Fort Worth, Texas, type up notes that he made while in Russia. Bates testified to the Warren Commission that the notes, both typed and handwritten, were in Russian and that Oswald spent three days translating them for her. She also stated that she was “anxious to get on it” because she was very interested in the fact that Oswald “had just come back from Russia and had notes.”
She told the Warren Commission, “I started asking him some questions – ‘Why did you go to Russia?’ - and a few things like that. Some of them he’d answer and some of them he wouldn’t . . . . He wasn’t very talkative. And whenever I did get him to talk, I had to drag it out of him. He didn’t talk voluntarily.”
The information that Pauline Bates “dragged” out of Oswald included the fact that he would “scribble notes” while in Russia “whenever he could” and then “surreptitiously” type them when “Marina would cover for him . . . muffle the tone of the typewriter and everything . . . . He said she would cover or watch for him so that nobody would know that he was making them . . . try to steer anybody away while he was doing this, because he could have got in trouble.”
She testified that the notes were “about the living conditions and the working conditions in Russia. And they were very bitter against Russia . . . . It was the terrible living conditions and the terrible working conditions . . . . The notes were very, very bitter about Russia.
“He smuggled them out of Russia. And he said that the whole time until they got over the border, they were scared to death they would be found, and, of course, they would not be allowed to leave Russia.”
Oswald also told Pauline Bates that while he was in the Marine Corps, he “had taken elementary Russian - a course in elementary Russian.” As noted earlier, six and a half months before he left on a “passenger-carrying freighter” with the Soviet Union as his ultimate destination, the Marines tested Oswald on his ability to understand Russian, read Russian, and write in Russian.
The FBI reported that when they interviewed Oswald on June 26, 1962, thirteen days after he returned to the United States, “Oswald declined to answer the question as to why he made the trip to Russia in the first place” and stated he “would not be willing to take a polygraph test.”
Oswald was put on the CIA’s Counterintelligence “Watch List” on November 9, 1959, nine days after he told U.S. embassy officials that he was renouncing his American citizenship and would “never return to the United States for any reason.”
The card with Oswald’s name on it simply states, “Recent defector to the USSR, Former Marine,” but it is also stamped “Secret: Eyes Only,” which means it was of the highest restriction when it comes to who sees it, and anyone who sees it knows they are not supposed to ask any questions about Lee Harvey Oswald.
Very few people were supposed to know that Oswald was acting on behalf of the CIA in his feigned defection to the Soviet Union. In an executive session of the Warren Commission on January 27, 1964, Congressman Hale Boggs asked former CIA Director Allen Dulles, “Did you have agents about whom you had no record whatsoever?”
Dulles replied, “The record might not be on paper,” adding that if anything were “on paper,” it “would have hieroglyphics that only two people knew what they meant, and nobody outside of the Agency would know.”
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