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Week 11 and we are deep into exploring the conspiracy theory of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  If you are just joining this exploration and want to “catch up” – you can click on the category Conspiracy Theory Wednesday and read this unfolding saga.

James Jesus Angleton

JAMES JESUS ANGLETON

In addition to Oswald, seven U.S. military men defected to U.S.S.R. between June 1958 and January 1960.  At least four of them, including Oswald, soon returned to the U.S.  This, and Oswald’s Marine spy training, suggests they were part of a false defector   program run by U.S. intelligence.  Gary Powers, whose 1960 spy flight was shot down over Russia, later said Oswald supplied the Soviets with vital U2 radar data.  In any case, Oswald received a government stipend and a nice apartment in Minsk and married Marina Prusakova, whose uncle was a colonel in the Soviet Domestic Intelligence.  In June 1962, Oswald returned home with his bride.  They were met by Spas T. Raikin, a Traveler’s Aid Society agent who was also Secretary-General of the CIA-connected American Friends of the Anti-Bolshevik Nation.  The State Department, advised by the FBI,  said Oswald had not expatriated himself and could resume U.S. citizenship.   Because a State Department “look-out” card wasn’t issued, he was able to renew his passport on 24 notice.

In January 1964, KGB agent Yuri Nosenko defected to the U.S., claiming the KGB never debriefed Oswald about his military background nor recruited him.  James Jesus Angleton, the  CIA counter-intelligence chief who handled Agency matters pertaining to the Kennedy assassination, subjected Nosenko to 1277 days of hostile interrogation and solitary confinement, but Nosenko stuck by this story.  Angleton later said, “A mansion has many rooms; there were many things during the period; I’m not privy to who struck John.”  If Angeleton didn’t believe Oswald was the lone assassin who “struck John”, neither could he prove that Oswald was a Kremlin-sponsored killer.