MRS. OSWALD THINKS SON TOOK BLAME AS CIA AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600170020-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: February 13, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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1L',!sL i!h ftl un, f.'cb. 12 LT)-Mrs.
\iargucritc Oswald said today she
told the Warren commission that.
she believe., her son was a United
States intclii;;i ncc agent who was
:,eL tip to tr,Icc the blame" ,for
P'resid-of i;,.uncdy's a'ssassina-
tion. She : i d she believes her
son was ini,ocert.
The 56-year-old mother of Lee
If:!rvcy Oswald finished ' three
days of testimony to the, Presi-
dential investigating commission.
Then she held an impromptu
news conference in which she
said-despite her belief in his in-
tnocence-that: "I realize that as
a human being he could be
guilty."
"Evidence" Reported
But sho said she possesses
:"pertinent evidence" loading her
to believe that the assassin is
;still at large.
Chief Justice Earl Warren said
after the hearing, however, that
.Mrs. Oswald, a Fort Worth prac-
tical nurse offered no evidence to
support her belief that the 24-
year-old suspected assassin was a
secret agent for the Central In-
t.elligence Agency.
Justice Warren said:
"She contends that her story
to us and the correspondence she
presented, taken together, lead
her to the speculation-f urc 'the
.luotice Warren said thw, com-t.
mission may hear another
4 es;; Or two next week" h;t h:cs
~;ct 1111 no schedule.
When asked whether the nest;
witness might be a janitor in the;
".' here swa was emp oyes-al
word speculation, as she used
-that the was :!n agent." i::nitor who reportedly saw Oti-i
! + .?.~;Id going upstairs to the sixthp
He said that Mrs. Oswa..'s 1501. area where police found a'
lengthy testimony provided . noisniper's nest and a rifle that Os
facts that would "change t.he'pr? 1''a I r s
I' wife identified as his
Lure as we knew it up to tic tiee Warren paused. He was
time she testified." ,jtuld that a Texas newspaper had3
The bulk of evidence in the,, tin indicated, and he replied:
commission's hands-including a i -Well, maybe they know- i
five-volume FBI report-points toydon, t."
Oswald, as the ]one perpetrntor' present Tense Used
of the assassination in Dallas; Luting her session with news-
November 22, 1963. ;men, Mrs. Oswald frequently
Justice Warren said he hc?.;a;cd the present tense in refer-
]loved some of the mother's ics?; ring to her son, who was slain
timohy would be useful, how-
ever, and summed up her pre
sentation with this sentence:
"She says she believes her son
is innocent, that it is possible
that the committed the crime, hutj A reporter reminded Mrs. Os-
that it is possible that other pco-Iwold that authorities in New
pie could have committed it." Nork had recommended psychia-
Mrs. Oswald went readily to a tric treatment for Oswald when
group of microphones when thelhc was 13, and that she report-
as she went along. Mrs. Oswald refused to com-
She said she intends to con-.ment on that point, saying she
tinue "malting public appearances had "retracted it many, many
and investigations, if it takes an- tirrics." She went on to. say that
other year," to find the assas-lshe? had talked for three days
sin. i ilefore the commission, was very
She will work, she said, wit Ih'? tired, and would like to end the
Mark Lane, a New York. lawyer tress conference.
who is currently -lecturing In Os- ` " ""'
wald's behalf across the color;;
try......
in a Dallas police station two
clays after the assassination. A
night club owner, Jack Ruby, isl
about to stand trial on a murder
charge in that killing.
Idly left the city-'without taking
advantage of the offer of psyche-j
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