THE INSIDE OSWALD STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600160048-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: April 4, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

:;,specialist in communications-radio,
microfilm, and code-and the third
Is the executioner
This last was Os-
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wald's role.
At this point, Lee Harvey Oswaldf
Irto the United States, pleading disillu..
sionment with the Soviet system. TwoY
facts in his return should have alerted -4
f U. S. security agencies:
(1) He was allowed, to make his
approach to U. S. authorities with-
out any hindrance, ? and, far more
important (2) he was allowed to
leave with his l3ussian wife. In other
cases it has taken tremendouspres-
sure and publicity to win Soviet:
;spondents and others who married
n?y~tae~~bovtet ~ .Union 'c~-n" attest ,.
By RALPH de TOL EDANO
When Jack Ruby pumped a bullet
into Lee Harvey Oswald, he may have,
'closed a chapter in the sordid history
i,of Communist-inspired political mur.-
. der. This is the conclusion of intelligence
operatives and investigative news-
I papermen who have been tracing Lee
Oswald's movements both in the Soviet
Union and in the United States.
According to these sources, Oswald
was (1) trained in espionage and po-
litical violence; and (2) acting not for
the Soviet Union but for the so-called
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antiparty
nist or
underground,
- '.In the Communist international move-
ment If the account of his activities
As accurate, Comrade Khrushchev's
-protestations of horror at the assassi
Accor ing to sources which Have
in the past found reliable, this is the
Lee Oswald story':
. When Oswald tore up his American
passport during a trip to the Soviet
U i in 1959 his application for
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On' e her % however, Oswald was.
ubverted by those Stalinist forces
hich still remain within the under-
round apparat Like all Communists,
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ncip
es
e Stalinists subscribe to pr
f rigidly controlled violencecatechized
y a Russian revolutionist of the 19th
entury named Nechayev and latex
'1 dopted by Lenin. These principles
3 , all for an elite corps of profession
gents who operate under very specific
lens. Recent high-ranking Soviet d
Lion and methodology- of these terror
and murder units.
r'If this account has any basis infact,
two other aspects of the Kennedy as-
sassination assume importance. First,'
Sov et citizenship was carefully scrutin- Oswald took a trip to Mexico just
ized. That he was a Marine, expert before the day of the terrible deed. In
in firearms, and with that peculiarly
introverted psyche common to mem-
apparatus work of this sort,.the direr-,
don is always handled in a neighbor
lug country. This Is standard operatingl
hers of any murder apparat was
sent to the Kachenko Hospital of Psy-
chiatry, run by the Soviet intelligence
services, where he was thoroughly
tested and examined to determine
i?' vhether or not he was a Central In=
' telligence Agency plant
Having passed these tests, Oswald
nation of President Kennedy were, for..
once, sincere-
To take the second point first, it is
,clear from all the available information
that Comrade Khrushchev believed
that he could deal with President Ken
inedy in bringing about that period
of deceptive "peaceful coexistence"
which the Kremlin so desperately needs.
By the same token, the secret"Stalinibt"'
opposition hopes to see continuc?'us
'international turmoil in order to use
It as a pretext for undermining and.
took his preliminary training ? as a +, scurity unless a new defector brings the
member of the apparat in Moscow, story out with him. But certainly, there
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were signed, by Col. Peter Ivanovichi intelligence services around the world
Ivachutin. (Oswald had said that he
worked in "a .factory in Minsk.) In
his advanced training, Oswald was
,assigned to a team of three-a" troika"
-made. up along traditional NKVD
.lines. One man is the chief, ' another
is the technician who operates - as a
'eventually toppling Comrade Khru-
shchev. Once the"out" group has taken
over, it will proclaim the need for. ?!
"flit' wihl
peaceu coexsence ?t equa
passion.
The FBrs flat statement that the
nedy assassination is supported
V by new evidence now being scrutin-
ized, by the ' Warren commission. '.`
But this does not mean that Lee",
In the. -Soviet , Union , which pre-
Secondly, the theory.-that Oswald
was mad does not match his behavior
after his arrest The mad political as-
sassins issue flamboyant justifications
.of their acts. Thetrainedassassinclams
up. This. is what Oswald did.
What Oswald really was and who,
to put together much of the story--as-
others did in discovering the back-.
ground of Trotsky's murderer, a man,
who had much in common psycholog
'Ically with Oswald:
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