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So says AMC’s popular new series, RUBICON. And I’ve been hinting at that for weeks now.  Read further into COUP D’ETAT – The Assassination of John F. Kennedy. This is the 10th installment entitled:

Juat a Patsy? Lee Harvey Oswald

JUST A PATSY?   LEE HARVEY OSWALD

While in police custody, Lee Oswald was grilled repeatedly by federal and local officials, but, incredibly, no tapes or transcripts were made of his interrogation.  His questioners said that although Oswald admitted to being a Marxist, a former Soviet defector, and a supporter of Fidel Castro, he steadfastly denied shooting anyone.  There has never been any hard evidence against Oswald, who claimed he was “just a patsy”, but over the years he has emerged as a mystery man who inhabited a secret world of spies and conspirators.

Born and raised by his mother Marguerite in New Orleans, Oswald enlisted in the Marines in 1956.   Known as “Shitbird” because of his poor marksmanship.  Oswald had another Marine nickname, Oswaldkovitch, in reference to his open espousal of communism.  Yet the 17 year-old was given radar training and a security clearance and sent to Atsugi Air Base in Japan, the CIA’s main operational base in the Far East, and home to the top-secret U2 spy missions over Russia.  Oswald often visited Tokyo, where he carried on with a Japanese hostess who worked at one of the city’s most expensive night spots, the Queen Bee.  His military record, which shows that he contracted venereal disease “in the line of duty”, suggests these trysts might have been an intelligence assignment.  After his return from Japan on November 19, 1958, Oswald took a crash course in Russian at the Army’s Monterey School (now the Defense Language Institute).  On September 11, 1959, Oswald obtained an early discharge.  A month later, he defected to the Soviet Union.

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