OSWALD'S MA TALKS OF 'PLOT'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600170002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 13, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Sanitized - Approved For Releas O:P A-
MAR 13 1964
Ot TCEN,iWsr
,--a T'amE of IIIDE
By BOB CONSII)INE
CPYRGHT
. ALLAS: Nobody, but nobody, con-
nected with the tragic events of
last Nov. 22-24 here in Dallas is more
accessible for interviews than Mrs.
,Marguerite Oswald.
1. "I've been looking for
naueu me at the Uaitas
Press Club bar last
night as she stirred
.the flotsam and jet-,
sam In her, rye o I d
fashioned. "Called you
long distance not long
ago to bawl you out,"
the mother of Lee Har-
vey Oswald continued
cheerfully. "When
was in New York I
read a story of yours
in which you called
would take care of Marina and le
kids. If that's not a double agent, what
is?" . .1
. I asked her who killed the President.;
It surprised her.
"Why, It's right there in front of,
you," she said.
"What is?"
"I can't tell, you," Mrs. Oswald said.:
"You should see it."
"Who killed Tippit?" I asked.
"That's a good question," she en-1
thused. "Nobody seems interested In'
how Lee 'got out of the Book Deposi-
tory the day of the assassination. The'!
place was surrounded by pollee, absu
lutoly surrounded. Yet Lee walked',
right by them. You know how? Because
Tippit took him out. Then the higher- !
ups in the conspiracy ordered somebody 1
to kill Tippit. Part of the master'plan,'
the way?I,figure It. Marina's part of it,;
too.'CIA or one of those agencies."
Mrs. Oswald said yes, she would have
another old-fashioned. She asserted.
she has received about 20,000 pieces of
mail in the past three months. '
"The mail gets friendlier and friend
tionally, as the Warren Commission lier," she said. t'A big percentage of the
rioted at the end of her long table- people are on my side. They know there:
pounding appearance befqre it. ,was some kind of conspiracy, just like.
I do. They want me on the lecture cir-
"Lee was some kind of an agent for cult, and Its just as well they do. I lost,!
Lee the assassin, Instead of the accused
assassin. Nobody ever proved he killed.
the President, right?"
Mrs. Oswald was dressed neatly In
black, a gold holy medal hanging from
.a golden chain. She was well-groomed,
with graying hair and the confidence
of a marriage broker.
She is not easy to follow conversa-
told me, speaking with emphasis and
perhaps even a trace of. pride. "Cou1d1_
'have been a double agent, come to
think of it. That happens a lot of times.
A man becomes an agent, then gets a
chance to become a double agent..
"Remember the night Lee's sup
tposcd to have gone out to shoot Gen-
,-eral Walker, which his brainwashed'
wife. says he said? Well, ' she says he
my job, but I manage to live off making"
little appearances and selling my prod
erty, piece by piece. I've sold a maga
zinc a- ~,ic1e. 1 .11,
"I would have sold those baby-pie-.;
.'tures of Lee, but somebody beat me to;
-that: Sold copies of them and made a
..lot. of money. Still, people are nice. One
couple wrote that they sat up all night:
calculating the length of the-stock on,
the
he
un Lee's holding in
that
icture'
g
.
p
her that he might get. in some,
trouble that night and. If he didn't, on the cover of a magazine. Says it's
come home by a certain. hour to go to! ' :. 'fraud, which I've `been saying all along..'
the Russian Embassy and they'd tftke Somebody superimposed. Lee's head on
care of her. Well, h think he wassayin}r that figure holding the guns. It's allt
that he'd go where his people. were, part of the. conspiracy."
,af tehe got in that trouble, and they'd ''Hear Bob ConMIdino' on WADC Itadlo 77,:
;take care of him, just as the Russians ,Monday'' throu$h'F'riday at 6:50 P.M.
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