Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Late-breaking news on Lee Harvey Oswald and the CIA

By way of Covert History: We now have confirmation that Oswald was functioning as an American spook when he went to Russia. Of course, we already had good reason to believe that. No-one has ever been able to explain otherwise how he afforded his trip to the USSR, or why he was not prosecuted on return, or why a defector was allowed to work (after his return) in a DOD-related photographic lab, or...

...well, there are numerous other indicators. Here, according to author Joan Mellen, are a few more:
James Angleton in real life was the mastermind not, as the film suggests, of the Bay of Pigs (that was Richard Bissell), but of a false defector program that sent spies into the Soviet Union. Among them was one Lee Harvey Oswald. I am basing this talk either on interviews I conducted for “A Farewell to Justice,” or on new interviews I've done since its publication a year or so ago. I am referring as well to some of the more than four million documents released under the JFK Records Collection Act and now residing in Maryland at the National Archives.

It was actually an FBI document that demonstrates that Oswald, indeed one of Angleton's assets in the Soviet Union, communicated back to the CIA through a CIA asset at American Express named Michael Jelisavcic.
And:
That Oswald was an employee of the CIA I demonstrate in my book, a fact recently re-confirmed by a historian named Michael Kurtz. Professor Kurtz reports on an interview he did in 1981 with Hunter Leake, second in command at the New Orleans field office. Leake admitted that CIA used Oswald as a courier and that Oswald came to New Orleans in April 1963 because the CIA office there intended to use him for certain operations. Leake either was disaffected from the Agency, or, perhaps, was just an honest man. He admitted that he personally paid Oswald various sums of cash for his services. Oswald was on the CIA payroll, Leake knew. He himself paid Oswald's CIA salary.

Leake also explained in this telephone interview with Professor Kurtz why there was no documentation on Oswald's employment with CIA in New Orleans. After President Kennedy's assassination, he drove the files personally to Langley, Virginia. They were so voluminous that he had to rent a trailer to transport them. Shouldn't revelations from so credible a source have made the newspapers or CNN?
And:
That street fight was clearly staged, as I show in my book. I also discovered what Oswald actually said to Lieutenant Francis Martello, and which Martello chose not to share with the Warren Commission: “Call the FBI. Tell them you have Lee Oswald in custody.” Yet another recently declassified FBI document, again, once marked “Secret,” reveals information given to the Bureau by a CIA officer. Dated 11/23/63, it confirms that Oswald was indeed a shared agent of both agencies.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

excuse me but your article seems to say that oswald was alive in 1963

Anonymous said...

Oswald was alive in 1963.
All the quotes above have citations of 'someone said that some one said'. How do you verify any of it?

Anonymous said...

From Joan Mellen -
"James Angleton in real life was the mastermind not, as the film suggests, of the Bay of Pigs (that was Richard Bissell), but of a false defector program that sent spies into the Soviet Union. Among them was one Lee Harvey Oswald."

When Nixon referred to "the Bay of Pigs" on the Watergate tapes, it turned out this was his code for the JFK assassination. Which means the film (Oliver Stone's "JFK") was correct about Angleton.

Joseph Cannon said...

"JFK" never mentions Angleton.

Neither does "Nixon," if that is what you are thinking of.

"Nixon" does mention the thesis that "Bay of Pigs" was a reference to the JFK assassination, but puts that theory into the mouth of Bob Haldeman. Which is entirely correct, since Haldeman outlines that theory prominenty in his book, "The Ends of Power."

In later years, Haldeman tried to blame his ghost, Joe DiMona, but it is impossible to believe that the meticulous Haldemann would allow such a thing to slip into his book, whose manuscript he checked repeatedly. The "Bay of Pigs" thesis is the entire point of one chapter.

We tend to forget, though, that Haldeman espoused a Castro-did-it thesis. He thought that the CIA was covering up the fact that Castro killed JFK in retaliation for the Bay of Pigs.

I tend to believe that JFK was killed by the MONGOOSE team after he refused to let the Bay of Pigs invasion turn into an Iraq-style disaster. I also think Angleton was THE key player.

Anonymous said...

I wonder what effect Hurricane Katrina had on the sites in New Orleans that were associated with Oswald?