JFK (pt. 3)

If Oswald’s  (and the American intelligence apparatus’) behavior in the marines or in Russia aren’t peculiar enough, his return to the states is simply mind boggling. Although the State Department could have, and routinely did deny defectors the right to return to our country, and also would have denied Marina access to America, this simply didn’t happen. In fact, Oswald was given a “repatriation” loan of $436- something that could only be given to a person who’s loyalty to our country is “beyond question”- as Jim Garrison points out, a person who gave away vital US secrets loyalty is hardly “beyond question.” Oswald was greeted upon returning to the States not by any law enforcement officials, but by an Anti- Communist organizer with intelligence connections, Spas T. Raikin. (Garrison 51) This seems an odd welcomer for our so-called Marxist. Moving to Fort Worth, Oswald befriended George De Mohrenschildt. De Mohrenschildt was a “white russian”- tsarist blue blood, an anti-communist, and authors such as Jim Marrs and Jim Garrison contend that he was Oswald’s “handler” for the CIA. Oswald left Fort Worth for Dallas and befriended more white russians (such strange company for a communist to keep) and got a job making maps for the Army- even after being a defector.

Then there’s Oswald in New Orleans, and things get very messy. Oswald befriended anti-Castro cuban exiles and subsequently got in a very public brawl with them when they discovered him handing out leftist “Fair Play for Cuba” leaflets. Oswald was arrested and asked to speak with FBI agent John Quigley, who spoke with him, taking notes, which he subsequently destroyed. Oswald was released. The address on these leaflets was 544 camp street- essentially the same address as Guy Bannister, ex- FBI, anti-Castro operator who was associated with David Ferrie, a mercenary who also worked to organize and train Anti- Castro exiles. Several witnesses linked Oswald directly with these individuals and “Clay Bertrand,” believed  to be Clay Shaw, later found to be a CIA operative. It was said that these men planned to assassinate the president. (Garrison 29-43) Oswald was spotted by witnesses receiving what appeared to be money from Clay shaw at an obscure rendezvous location in a park, and by numerous witnesses with Shaw and Ferrie observing blacks registering to vote in a small town in Louisiana. Numerous employees including Bannister’s secretary and Jack Martin claim Oswald and Ferrie were regulars in Bannister’s office. Many contend Oswald’s leftist behaviors were a hoax; that he was acting as an “agent provacatuer.”