Lee Harvey Oswald

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Biography

Family and early life

Military career

Soviet defection

Return to the US

New Orleans activism

Mexico City visit

Assassination of JFK

Main article: JFK assassination

Capture and death

Controversies

Intelligence ties

Political connections

References

External links

Ruth and Michael Paine

  • Michael Paine, an employee of Bell Helicopter, allegedly worked for General Walter Dornberger, a Nazi scientist brought to the US under Operation Paperclip
    • NASA History Division, SP-4402 Origins of NASA Names, "SECTION IV: MANNED SPACE FLIGHT": "In 1965 Dr. Walter R. Dornberger, Vice President for Research of Textron Corporation's Bell Aerosystems Company, published "Space Shuttle of the Future: The Aerospaceplane" in Bell's periodical Rendezvous. In July Dr. Dornberger gave the main address in a University of Tennessee Space Institute short course: "The Recoverable, Reusable Space Shuttle."7"

New Orleans milieu

  • Steve N. Bochan, "The Bolton Ford Dealership Story", 1995/12 - Oswald's name was used by members of the Friends of Democratic Cuba in New Orleans to purchase ten Ford trucks, in January 1961 while Oswald was in the Soviet Union
  • Interview with former Guy Banister detective Joseph Newbrough (parts 1, 2) - in part 2 says that Banister did work for various private and public groups, with one public group being the Office of Naval Intelligence
  • Connection to Efraim O'Sullivan aka Fred O'Sullivan or Frederick O'Sullivan
    • Haaretz, "How Oswald’s Childhood Friend Found Himself in Israel and Ended Up 'Helping the Mossad'", 2017/10/30
      • "To Efraim O’Sullivan, Lee Harvey Oswald was always “Lee,” even after he assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Lee was the kid who lived down the street from him in a working-class neighborhood of New Orleans, the classmate who always sat next to him, in alphabetical order, in junior-high homeroom."
      • "Efraim — back then still known as Fred — remembered Lee as a loner, a kid he unsuccessfully tried to recruit in high school to the drill team of the Civil Air Patrol, as he would later testify to the Warren Commission that investigated Kennedy’s assassination."
      • "Ahead of the expected release Thursday of thousands of pages of classified documents related to the assassination, Arieh O’Sullivan, a longtime journalist in Israel, said his father agreed with the commission that Oswald alone shot Kennedy, but he thought there might be more to the story connected to the mafia.

        “He always thought the assassination of Kennedy and Martin Luther King crossed paths in New Orleans,” Arieh O’Sullivan told Haaretz. “He could never elaborate on it, but he said the mafia was strong here, and it was part of his job to investigate the mafia. He thought there was some kind of ties to the killings with the mafia. But he couldn't prove anything.”"
      • "A Catholic who grew up not knowing any Jews, he converted to Judaism in 1967, caught the Zionist bug, moved his family to Israel on the third day of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and became a policeman in Jerusalem. According to his son, he “helped out” the Mossad on occasion."
      • The father was someone who in his policing days in New Orleans helped foil a plot to assassinate President Richard M. Nixon, arrested a KKK leader en route to planting a bomb at the home of the local head of the Anti-Defamation League, was targeted by the KKK for his work trying to break up that group in New Orleans, and in 1973 was shot in the arm by a young black man [Mark Essex] targeting white police officers from a hotel rooftop.

        His best friend, also an officer, and four other policemen and four civilians were killed by the gunman. An Uzi assault rifle that O’Sullivan had helped procure from Israeli contacts was the weapon that killed the man, said Arieh O’Sullivan." - TODO: look more into the Mark Essex case, as Essex was allegedly a member of the Process Church
      • (Photo caption) "Efraim O'Sullivan at his desk as intelligence chief of the New Orleans Police Department in 1973, the year he immigrated to Israel with his family. Credit: Courtesy of Arieh O'Sullivan"
      • "Arieh O’Sullivan said that after his father died in 2005 at 67 from the complications of diabetes, he went through his papers. Among them, along with a letter from Jacqueline Kennedy thanking him for testifying before the Warren Commission, were handwritten letters thanking him for his service from Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Rabin. There was also a Lebanese driver’s license with his photo but a different name. When Arieh had first seen it years before and asked his father about it, his father told him he was better off not knowing."
      • "He never returned to Israel to live but continued to love it there and would often visit his son, who returned to live in Israel in his ‘20s and raised his family there.

        Meanwhile, his New Orleans detective days remained a source of great stories. One Arieh O’Sullivan remembers well was his father’s last night of duty as a detective in the city before immigrating to Israel.

        It was Rosh Hashanah Eve, September 1973, and his father had received a tip from the FBI that a noted Klansman named Byron De La Beckwith was heading to the city to plant a bomb at the home of the New Orleans ADL chief, Adolph Botnick. O’Sullivan and his partner stopped De La Beckwith before he could reach the house and arrested him." - ed. note: Guy Banister was alleged (albeit by a dubious LaRouche source: p.73 of EIR, "The Ugly Truth About The ADL") to be a "longstanding friend" of Botnick
      • "Efraim O’Sullivan had first met Ferrie during his Civil Air Patrol days where Ferrie was like a scout master of the group.

        In his Warren Commision testimony, O’Sullivan told the investigators that he and another New Orleans detective went to examine Ferrie’s plane at the New Orleans airport soon after the assassination.

        “We wanted to check it to see if it was flyable,” he said, “to see possibly whether he had been flying it lately, with the thought that he may have transported Oswald to Dallas .... We found the plane, but his plane was not in flyable condition. It had flat tires, instruments missing, needed a paint job. We also checked to see if he had rented an aircraft from any of the companies out there, and one company in particular said they wouldn’t rent him an airplane.”"
      • "“He would always say, ‘People will always believe in conspiracy theories. There’s nothing you can do,’” Arieh O’Sullivan said, adding that his father had his own unproved theories of involvement by the mafia, and possibly Fidel Castro. “It’s the story that won’t die.”"

Intelligence monitoring

  • CIA mail watching by Reuben Efron
    • Toronto Star, "New JFK files reveal Oswald was on CIA’s mail ‘watch list,’ FBI misplaced his fingerprints", 2017/12/15: "The latest documents provide fresh proof that he was in their sights: a 1975 CIA memo marked “top secret” shows that Oswald was on a “watch list” of people whose mail would be intercepted from Nov. 9, 1959, to May 3, 1960, and again from Aug. 7, 1961, through May 28, 1962."
    • New York Times, "Biden’s ‘Final’ Order on Kennedy Files Leaves Some Still Wanting More", 2023/07/16
      • "On June 22, 1962, an intelligence official drafted a memo summarizing a letter intercepted between Lee Harvey Oswald and his mother. The memo was made public long ago. But for 60 years, the name of the letter opener was kept secret.

        Now it can finally be told: According to an unredacted copy of the memo released recently by the government, the official who intercepted Oswald’s mail for the C.I.A. in the months before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated was named Reuben Efron."
      • "Whether any of the withheld documents would shed more light on Reuben Efron is unknown. His name on the mail intercept memo intrigued Mr. Morley. The memo was sent to Betty Egerter at a C.I.A. unit known as “the office that spied on spies.” On the day of the assassination, Egerter’s boss told the F.B.I. that the C.I.A. had no information on Oswald, who in fact had been monitored when he moved to the Soviet Union. A document released long ago showed that the agency opened Oswald’s correspondence from Nov. 11, 1959, to May 1, 1960, and again from July 1, 1961, to May 25, 1962."
      • "Curiously, Efron was previously listed as being in the room when the Warren Commission interviewed Marina Oswald, his Russian-born widow, in February 1964 — the only one present whose title and role were not explained. Mr. Morley suspects Efron was monitoring the commission’s investigation for James Angleton, the legendary C.I.A. official, essentially his “eyes and ears inside the room.”"
      • "Efron was born in Lithuania in 1911 as Ruvelis Effronas and arrived in the United States via Cuba in 1939, according to immigration papers that described him as a 5-foot-3, 135-pound “merchant-salesman.” In addition to English, he spoke Russian, Lithuanian, Hebrew, Yiddish and German, and served in the Air Force during World War II as an interpreter. His obituary said that after the war he was “a specialist on the Soviet Union and consultant on foreign affairs” without saying for whom."
      • "In a harmonic convergence of conspiracy, Efron reported seeing a U.F.O. in 1955. He was traveling with Senator Richard Russell, Democrat of Georgia, and an Army colonel on a train trip through the Soviet Union when all three spotted what a C.I.A. report called two “flying saucers.” Skeptics later suggested they were Soviet aircraft. Russell was among the Warren Commission members in the room for the Marina Oswald interview that Efron attended in 1964."
    • Times of Israel, "New JFK documents reveal assassin’s CIA monitor was Jewish spy Reuben Efron", 2023/08/02
      • "The Jewish Telegraphic Agency has confirmed that Efron spent time living in Israel before dying on November 22, 1993 — 30 years to the day after Kennedy’s assassination. While there, he contributed five articles in the 1970s to the Jewish Bible Quarterly, a World Zionist Organization-affiliated publication based in Jerusalem, that channeled his expertise in espionage."
      • "In retirement, Efron apparently enjoyed the freedom to opine. Living in Washington, DC, in 1971, he wrote to The New York Times urging the Nixon administration to reject proposals of a joint US-Soviet force to police Egypt-Israel peace, saying it would ​​”communize the whole area.”

        It’s not clear if he ever officially immigrated to Israel using its Law of Return, which grants automatic citizenship to Jews who move to the country. But the obituary in the Miami Herald said that Efron “commuted between Israel and the United States for many years, during which he studied Israeli law and was admitted to the Israeli bar.” The obituary said Efron was inspired by his mother’s work in Lithuania with Jews who were immigrating to Mandatory Palestine."

Jack Ruby association

  • Per a teletype from New Orleans SAC to Hoover, Jim Garrison purportedly had proof that Oswald listed Ruby as a job reference (from NARA #124-10101-10017): "Informant furnished the following information in the strictest confidence since it was furnished to him by Orvie Aucoin, a cameraman for Channel 12, WVUE-TV, a neighbor of the informant, who swore informant to secrecy before furnishing the information. Informant advised that according to Aucoin, he had talked to the judge who had handled the matter involving Clay Shaw and this judge stated that after he had seen the evidence District Attorney Garrison has, he strongly believes that if the case against Clay Shaw goes to a jury, the jury will vote 11 to 1 in favor of a conviction.

    According to Aucoin, Garrison’s ace in the hole is well documented proof consisting of a certified photostatic copy of a job application made by Lee Harvey Oswald in his own handwriting during the spring or summer of 1963 with a trucking company, name not mentioned, believed to be in New Orleans, in which Oswald listed three personal references one of whom was Jack Ruby. Aucoin also mentioned that attorney Sam (MONK) Zelden has knowledge of this application as he is an attorney for the trucking firm."
  • Toronto Star, "New JFK files reveal Oswald was on CIA’s mail ‘watch list,’ FBI misplaced his fingerprints", 2017/12/15: "Agents around the country contacted gambling sources for any insights, mostly coming up empty. But in Chicago, agents learned that Ruby had been close with Ross Prio, a “top hoodlum” in the city. And he was friends with gun shop owner Joe Scaramuzzo, who had sold three of the four guns used in a 1954 shooting at the U.S. House of Representatives by Puerto Rican nationalists."

Southland Center meeting

Mexico City visit

Minox camera

Raleigh phone call

Various peculiarities

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