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Lee Harvey Oswald's lost year in the USSR

posted 8 years ago by Akzidenz_Grotesk
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I believe Oswald was the lone shooter.

But the fact there were no witnesses to that lost year and that the KGB agent Nosenko was sent as a disinformation officer make me think there was at least SOME Soviet influence on Oswald.

Soviets were the best spies along with the British but I think the Soviets had the edge since they managed to get Kim Philby in as a mole.

James J. Angleton probably went to his grave without the answer to this mysterious lost year of Oswald's.

"Encerrarlo, y no habla."

[–] Drunkdustmonkey 8 years ago

I would hardly call Oswald's year in the USSR lost. Case Closed: Oswald and the assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner does an excellent job of documenting his time there. It also clearly documents that the Soviets correctly thought Oswald was a nutjob. The Soviets clearly used Oswald's defection for propaganda purposes, but I think that's the extent of their use of him. I do however agree with you about the efficacy of Soviet spies. As an American I'm embarrassed to say that during the Cold War era the USSR put us to shame.

"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer

[–] indy_go_blue44 8 years ago

They did the same during WWII. At Potsdam Stalin didn't even bat an eye when told of the new "superweapon" because he'd been updated on it from the earliest days of the Manhattan Project. His words: "I hope you make good use of it," although he did move up the Soviet invasion of Manchukuo from April '46 to August '45.