Donald P. Norton began his employment with the CIA in early 1958 at Fort Benning, Georgia. In February his CIA handler told him to meet a man named "Hugh Ferris" at the Atlanta Airport and pick up a package. Nortan arrived at the airport and met "Hugh Ferris," who was wearing sunglasses and accompanied by a young lady named Carlotta Roth, a dancer at the Domino Lounge in Atlanta. "Ferris" gave Norton a package, which appeared to be a case of phonograph records, and told him "it" was in the case. Norton understood that "it" was $150,000 in cash which was to be delivered to Carlo Media, a Cuban television star who was working with the CIA against the corrupt regime of Fulgenico Batista.

After travelling to Cuba and delivering the package to Media, Norton returned to Atlanta and reported to his CIA contact. His contact instructed him to once again meet "Hugh Ferris" at the Atlanta airport. When "Ferris" arrived at the meeting, Norton noticed that he was wearing a very sloppy wig. Two years later, in 1960, Norton visited New Orleans and stopped by the My-O-My Club, and saw the man from whom he had picked up the package in Atlanta. Norton positively identified the man as David W. Ferrie.

Donald P. Norton, the CIA agent who received $150,000 from David Ferrie in 1958 and delivered cash to Havana, was given another assignment involving Cuba in the fall of 1962. On this occasion he was given a case full of money and told to travel to Monterrey, Mexico and meet "Harvey LEE." Norton took the case, traveled to Monterrey as directed, and checked into the Yamajel Hotel. Before he was able to get to his room Norton was met by "Harvey Lee." The two men went into the hotel bar to drink a couple of beers and relax. Norton recalled that "Harvey LEE" refused to look him in the eye. He described "Harvey Lee" as a man of slight build who was dressed casually and said that he was from New Orleans. 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 return.

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. The importance of Donald P. Norton's testimony is that it places LEE Oswald in Mexico while HARVEY Oswal was working at Leslie Welding in Fort Worth.

The late JFK researcher Mae Brussell corresponded with a young man named Donald O. Norton from Akron Ohio. Norton told Mae that he was the real Lee Harvey Oswald. Researchers John Judge and Bill Kelly met this man in Mae's presence once at the University of Toledo. Other researchers later determined that Norton was still living, and obtained a photo of young Norton. Later he moved to Florida, and an older photo of him was obtained as he looks today. His left eye, in particular as well as his nose, looks very much like the Marine photo of Oswald. Handwriting expemplars of Donald O. Norton and Lee Harvey Oswald were compared and found to be very similar, as shown (in The Zapruder Film Hoax Of The Century)----especially the WALD and NALD. Is Norton really Oswald? It is a very curious story, especially given that a CIA agent named Donald P. Norton was discovered during the Garrison investigation and LHO had a penchant for using aliases for people he had known personally on 'assignments'.