Debates
06 Apr 10
07 Apr 10
Originally posted by joneschr"In fact, early on there were assertions that Oswald was a federal undercover agent. According to a biographical sketch of Waggoner Carr, the Texas Attorney General who led the investigation in Texas into the assassination and worked with the Warren Commission, “Carr testified that Lee Harvey Oswald was working as an undercover agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was receiving $200 a month from September 1962 until his death in November, 1963. However, the Warren Commission preferred to believe J. Edgar Hoover, who denied Carr’s affirmations.”
True, though, to change the question a little - why wasn't he at least arrested and tried?
You'd think a discharged marine that went to the soviets offering to spill the beans on his training would have gotten more notice.
Yet, the problem is that Hoover could be expected to lie about such an association and thus, his denial is meaningless.
Much has been made about Oswald’s communist sympathies, including his defection to the Soviet Union and his affiliation with a group called the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
Yet, those actions are entirely consistent with being a CIA undercover agent. For one thing, Oswald was a Marine. Most people who join the Marines are patriotic individuals who have the utmost loyalty to their government. How likely is it that a person who hates America is going to join the U.S. Marine Corps? Not very likely at all. In fact, wouldn’t the Marines be a likely place that the CIA would do recruiting?
Many people point to Oswald’s dysfunctional behavior, including his propensity for violence, citing the fact that he beat his wife. But the problem is that the CIA has a history of attracting dysfunctional people to work there, including alcoholics and people who have a propensity for violence. Indeed, what better types of people to assassinate and torture than dysfunctional people with a propensity for violence?
The thing that I have long found mystifying is the U.S. government’s reaction to Oswald when he returned from the Soviet Union. Did they arrest and indict the guy? Did they even subpoena him to appear before a federal grand jury? Did they harass him?
No, none of the above."
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07 Apr 10
Originally posted by AThousandYoungThe answer is:
Why wasn't he executed as a traitor when he came back from the Soviet Union?
Because the US doesn't execute people without trying them first and the US authorities were probably unaware of his previous actions in the USSR at the time. Hindsight is 20/20; but at the time, Oswald was a very small fish.
I'm not sure if you're alluding to this, but I'll also tell you what the answer is NOT:
Oswald was a CIA double agent of some sort who was later used as a patsy to deflect attention from the fact that the CIA/FBI/US Military/ Military-Industrial complex/ KGB/ Fidel Castro/ Cuban Mob/ Various other Mobs all conspired to murder JFK.
07 Apr 10
Originally posted by zeeblebotWell, at least they knew: a couple quotes from wikipedia:
maybe the US just wanted to track him for a while. or maybe they didn't know.
Even before November 22, 1963, Oswald received a small measure of national notoriety in the U.S. press as an American who had defected to the U.S.S.R. and returned.
When the Navy Department learned of <his attempt to communicate with the soviets>, it changed Oswald's Marine Corps discharge from "hardship/honorable" to "undesirable".
07 Apr 10
Originally posted by sh76No, I'm not a conspiracy kinda guy.
The answer is:
Because the US doesn't execute people without trying them first and the US authorities were probably unaware of his previous actions in the USSR at the time. Hindsight is 20/20; but at the time, Oswald was a very small fish.
I'm not sure if you're alluding to this, but I'll also tell you what the answer is NOT:
Oswald was a CIA double ...[text shortened]... trial complex/ KGB/ Fidel Castro/ Cuban Mob/ Various other Mobs all conspired to murder JFK.
07 Apr 10
Originally posted by zeeblebotAs soon as he arrived in the Soviet Union he offered to the soviets to disclose confidential information he acquired while training as a radar operator in the marines.
it wasn't illegal to travel to the USSR, was it? on what basis would they execute him?
So, I guess the basis would be treason.
07 Apr 10
Originally posted by joneschryeah, but did the US know that at the time?
As soon as he arrived in the Soviet Union he offered to the soviets to disclose confidential information he acquired while training as a radar operator in the marines.
So, I guess the basis would be treason.
i'm guessing that neither the Soviets nor Oswald volunteered that.
08 Apr 10
Originally posted by zeeblebotAs of November, 1959, they knew. And strangely enough, it really was Oswald that volunteered the information -- when trying to renounce his U.S. citizenship.
yeah, but did the US know that at the time?
i'm guessing that neither the Soviets nor Oswald volunteered that.
http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh18/pdf/WH18_CE_908.pdf
See the second page:
that he had voluntarily stated to unnamed Soviet officials ... he would make known to them such information concerning the Marine corps and his specialty...