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Week 12 and another installment of  the conspiracy theory about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  Many more to follow.  You can read this fascination chronology of a conspiracy theory by clicking on the category, Conspiracy Theory Wednesday.

GEORGE  DE MOHRENSCHILDT

On their arrival from the U.S.S.R., the Oswalds moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where on October 7, 1962, they were visited by a geologist named George Sergius De Mohrenschildt.  A Russian-born count whose father had been the Czarist governor of Minsk (Marina’s father had been a Czarist officer), De Mohrenschildt convinced the Oswalds to move to Dallas.  With his help, they were taken in by the Russian emigre community, many of whom were right wing “solidarists” who sided first with the Nazis and later with the CIA against the Communists.  On October 12th, the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oswald was hired by a graphic arts company that did classified work for the Army Map Service on top secret U2 overflights of Cuba.

George De Mohrenschildt

For the next six months, Lee and George were close friends, an odd couple if there ever was one.  George’s social contacts included oil men like H.L. Hunt, Clint Murchison Sr., and Jean DeMenil, a fellow Russian emigre and head of the CIA-connected Schlumberger Corporation.  His good friend, J. Walter Moore, an agent in the CIA’s Domestic Contacts Division had “encouraged” George to befriend Oswald.  A world traveler, fluent in six languages, the count’s relationship with the CIA and its forerunner, the OSS, dated back to WWll, when, according to the FBI,. he worked for both the French underground and the Nazis.  His cousin, Baron Constantine Maydell, a producer of Nazi propaganda films, was a top Abwehr agent in the U. S.

De Mohrenschildt and Oswald parted company in April 1963.  Oswald left for New Orleans, and de Mohrenschildt went to Haiti, stopping en route in Washington D.C. to meet with a CIA agent and an assistant director for Army intelligence.