October 1958 to June 1962

Harvey in Russia...  Lee in the USA

Date:

June 3, 1960

To:

Office of Security


Department of State

From:

John Edgar Hoover, Director

Subject:

LEE HARVEY OSWALD

 

-INTERNAL SECURITY


In the spring of 1961, LEE Oswald traveled to Havana via Mexico City and met with Robert Taber, a news correspondent and one of the founding members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC). Taber and LEE went to Sloppy Joe’s Bar and met Dr. Enrique Lorenzo Luaces, a former professor of engineering at the University of Santiago (Cuba). Taber introduced LEE as Lieutenant HARVEY Oswald,” an arms expert, who promptly opened his briefcase and pulled out a series of folded charts, which were training aids for the M1 rifle. Dr. Luaces had no doubt that "Lieutenant Oswald" was the same man depicted on television after the assassination of JFK. The document describing this encounter is entitled: "SUBJECTS: OSWALD, LEE; TABER, ROBERT POTENTIAL I.D. OF OSWALD, LEE; FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE," ARRB Rec. No. 180-10031-10352.) On November 22, only two hours after JFK was assassinated, FBI Director Hoover wrote a memo to top FBI officials and said, "Oswald went to Russia and stayed three years; came back to the United States in June, 1962, and went to Cuba on several occasions but would not tell us what he went to Cuba for." Hoover knew that (LEE) Oswald was in Cuba, yet never furnished that information to the Warren Commission. In its published findings, the Warren Commission gave no indication that Oswald EVER travelled to Cuba.

    When Norton saw photographs of "Lee Harvey Oswald" in the newspaper following the assassination, he said the man was identical to the "Harvey Lee" he met in Monterrey, except that his hair appeared to be thinner. Norton delivered the case full of money to "Harvey Lee" and was given a briefcase full of documents in re-turn. Norton took the documents and drove, as instructed, to Calgary in Alberta, Canada. When approached by his CIA contact, who identified himself by using the phrase, "The weather is very warm in Tulsa," Norton told his contact the documents were in his room. Norton retrieved the documents and met his contact in the parking lot, where he found the man sitting in a Volkswagen. Norton gave the documents to his contact and then left. He then telephoned Mr. Albert Penn, another of his CIA contacts in Five Points, Alabama. Penn instructed Norton to proceed to Boston, Mass, which he did. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT DONALD NORTON.

    In 1977, during his brief tenure with the HSCA, attorney Robert Tanenbaum saw a short film of Cuban exiles in training at Lake Ponchartrain. The film was made in the early 1960's and showed the CIA's David Atlee Philips, David Ferrie, and LEE Harvey Oswald. HARVEY Oswald is either in Russia at this time (prior to June, 1962) or in Dallas/Ft. Worth (thru May, 1963) or in New Orleans. LEE Oswald is shown in the film in the presence of CIA operatives, something he was not supposed to have done, according to the official story. In 1996 Mr. Tanenbaum testified before the assassination records review board. He talked about his tenure with the HSCA and said, "the major area, and I can't overemphasize this, focused on the government and what the government knew about Lee Harvey Oswald... and what the CIA was doing with Lee Harvey Oswald. And what he was doing in New Orleans with anti-Castro Cubans, rabid anti-Castro Cubans, and to get everything you could get from the government with respect to it. And how this government today could want to hold that information and feed the kind of anti-government feeling that results from non-disclosure is really beyond my comprehension."

    Mr. Tanenbaum could not comprehend how our government could withhold information from the public. But a high level official, like FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, not only comprehended but knowingly withheld vital information from the public. Hoover knew about the possibility of two Oswald's in 1960, as did other people within the State Department in 1961. Three and a half years later, when President Kennedy was assassinated, his FBI knowingly withheld information about HARVEY and LEE and showed no interest whatsoever in pursuing leads of two different Oswalds. Furthermore, as we shall see, his FBI was responsible for falsifying evidence, destroying evidence, creating evidence, and changing FBI and WC testimony to conceal their knowledge of HARVEY and LEE.

    But there were two Oswalds and though they looked similar, they were not identical. One, born LEE Harvey Oswald, had a southern U.S. accent and operated mostly in the American South while the Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald was in the Soviet Union. Both were American intelligence agents, entangled in an operation designed to give a U.S. identity to a Russian speaking child. After HARVEY Oswald returned to the US with his Russian wife and child, this Russian speaking supporter of communism became the ideal candidate to blame for assassinating JFK. But someone was needed to assist in helping to frame HARVEY Oswald as the "patsy" in the months preceding the assassination. Who was this person who identified himself as Lee Harvey Oswald? Who tried to purchase rifles from Castro's close friend (Robert McKeown)? Who demonstrated his shooting ability (Sports Drome Rifle Range)? Who drove to the Irving Furniture Store and asked for gun parts (Whitworth/Hunter)? Who claimed that he would soon have lots of money (Downtown Lincoln Mercury)? Who carried a long package wrapped in brown paper to the TSBD just two days before the assassination (Ralph Leon Yates). Who was driving a red Ford Falcon, with license plates from a 1957 Plymouth, shortly after the assassination and was identified as LHO (T.F. White)? Who was this person who helped to set up HARVEY Oswald as the "patsy" for the murder of President Kennedy?

    Who else but LEE Oswald?  To see where, why, when ,and how LEE Oswald impersonated HARVEY and set him up as the "patsy," CLICK HERE.