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  1. As I already stated here, it’s a little more complicated than that. During the early months of 1953, Russian-speaking Lee HARVEY Oswald was truanting school in NYC, serving a brief sentence in Youth House, and then probably was relocated to North Dakota to avoid the NYC judicial system, and, by late summer 1953 was being eased into the New Orleans public school system by taking just two classes for a semester. He stayed in New Orleans until mid-1954. After a brief period in Fort Worth, TX, he was back in New Orleans, at least until late 1955. Throughout 1953, American-born LEE Harvey Oswald was living in the Bronx, NYC and attending school regularly. In early 1954, LEE moved to New Orleans, staying for most of the year at 1454 St. Mary’s, Apt. 6, and then at 126 Exchange until mid-1956. The Warren Commission published documents showing that, while one LHO was attending school in NYC, the other was in school in New Orleans. This NYC Board of Education record shows that LEE Harvey Oswald attended Public School 44 in New York from 3/23/53 until Jan. 1954. But these Beauregard New Orleans records show HARVEY Oswald attended 89 days of school during the fall semester of 1953, at the same time LEE Oswald attended PS 44 in New York City. Harvey only took Phys Ed and Science during the fall 1953 semester at Beauregard, probably because his handlers were worried about his truancy in NYC, which nearly exposed the Oswald Project.
  2. Sandy, Bentley did, however, spend considerable portions of her life in NYC, and it seems entirely reasonable to believe she would have expected greater anonymity as a “resident” of New York City than as an inhabitant of Connecticut. The caller’s choice of the Tippits puzzled me for a long time, but the probable solution is that although she honestly feared being killed, she wasn’t as afraid of the Commies as she was of the spooks running the Oswald Project in America. No doubt it was obvious to her that “Lee Harvey Oswald” was a U.S. intelligence op. Matt, Thanks for the YouTube link. NoTrueFlags’ belief that Harvey Oswald was at any time “controlled by the Communists” while in the U.S. is at odds with John Armstrong’s careful analysis. I agree with you that searching for refugees with a name similar to any part of “Lee Harvey Oswald” would be in all likelihood fruitless. Harvey was probably given his name and new identity after he was already at least a landed immigrant. Lately, I’ve been looking for any association between Edwin Ekdahl and groups such as the U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children and the like, without the slightest success so far. As time permits, I’ll do the same with Gardos, Blair and Weinstock, but even this approach is probably a very long shot.
  3. According to an AP story entitled “Refugee Children Learn Rapidly in the U.S.” from the 5/30/1948 edition of the Richmond-Times Dispatch, U.S. INS figures “show 28,789 displaced persons came to the United States between late December, 1945 and Nov. 30, 1947. Ninety-eight percent were from Europe, among them Austrians, Czechs, Germans, Poles, Hungarians and Yugolslavs.” The article goes on to name agencies active in bringing WWII era children to the U.S., which included Church World Service, United States Service for New Americans, Catholic Committee for Refugees, and United States Committee for the Care of European Children. According to one organization's spokesman, “The speed with these youngsters become part of American life is amazing…. they fairly gulp the English language.” And then the article summarized the situation for war orphans coming here:
  4. Thanks, David. Searching for "Lee Henry Oswald" on the database, the first six hits did not include a page with that material, which struck me as odd.
  5. Just asking once more.... Can anyone find a copy on the Mary Ferrell JFK assassination database of the infamous 10/10/1963 CIA cable which includes the sentence: "US EMB MOSCOW STATED TWENTY MONTHS OF REALITIES OF LIFE IN SOVIET UNION HAD CLEARLY HAD MATURING EFFECT ON OSWALD". Can anyone explain why this document was produced the same day the FBI cancelled the security watch on "Lee Harvey Oswald?"
  6. I stopped reading it at that point also. If memory serves, Mr. Simpich said at least three times near the start of his book that Oswald “was a spy in his own mind.” Despite the obvious scholarship of State Secret, the author apparently didn’t even consider the possibility that “Lee Harvey Oswald” was, in fact, an actual spy! This despite the fact that CIA accountant James Wilcott testified that he made payments to an encrypted account for “Oswald or the Oswald Project” and told HSCA staffers that Oswald’s CIA cryptonym was RX-ZIM. Richard Sprague, Richard Schweiker, and CIA agents Donald Norton and Joseph Newbrough all said LHO was associated with the CIA. Oswald owned an expensive Minox spy camera, which the FBI tried to make disappear. CIA's Ann Egerter, who worked for J.J. Angleton's Counterintelligence Special Interest Group (CI/SIG), opened a "201" file on Oswald on December 9, 1960. Egerter testified to the HSCA: "We were charged with the investigation of Agency personnel....” When asked if the purpose was to "investigate Agency employees," she answered, "That is correct." When asked, "Would there be any other reason for opening up a file?" she answered, "No, I can't think of one." No one has yet explained how, before ever setting foot in the Soviet Union, Oswald scored equally on Russian-language and English-language exams in the U.S. Marine Corps. How? Mr. Simpich’s desire to discuss all this civilly is admirable, and I respect him for that. And despite the apparent culpability of a number of Agency and Bureau officials in the assassination of JFK, I still believe the U.S. government, as a whole, was then and remains now better than most others.
  7. Wikipedia: Russian War Relief (RWR) (also known as the Russian War Relief Fund and The American Committee for Russian War Relief) was the largest American agency for foreign war relief. It had the "express and exclusive purpose of giving succor to the Russian people at a time of crisis." According to the Feb. 8, 1945 edition of the Mount Vernon Argus (White Plains, New York—emphasis added): The Mount Vernon Russian War Relief Committee held an executive board meeting this week at the home of the chairman, Mrs. Jacob Rabkin, 312 East Devonia Avenue. Mrs. Grace Gardos, publicity director of the National Russian War Relief Society, announced that February is Russian War Relief “food month”….. No mention is made in the article of refugees, war orphans, or immigrants, but near the end of the article it mentions that RWR sent aid of nearly $23,000,000 in 1944 to Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Russia, and possibly other nations. A fellow has been sending me all kinds of news clippings about WWII refugees, especially involving the U.S. and organizations from the US. So far, I haven’t seen RWR named, but personnel from that committee surely ran into organizations such as “Care of European Children” (see below). From the Buffalo News of Feb. 11, 1947:
  8. John, John A. just forwarded to me an email from a fellow who has been reading this thread. He included the following newspaper clip from New York Age, Jan. 6, 1945. Near the end of the short piece it mentions “Mrs. Grace Gardos, of New York Committee of Russian War Relief.” I’ll start looking into that committee asap!
  9. John, Can’t help much with your questions other than quote what is in John A’s book, which you probably already know, but just in case..... On Marguerite’s divorce from Ekdahl…. From H&L, p. 33: After a 2-day jury trial on June 15th and 16th [1948], Ekdahl was granted a divorce. Marguerite received a settlement of $1500 and $250 attorneys fees from Ekdahl. This was her last marriage.98 Marguerite told John Pic that she had received a settlement of about $1200, and said that most of the money was used to pay her attorney. 99 98 WC Exhibit 1960-A;Tarrant County court records, 17th Dist Court, divorce petition 15537-D. 99 WC testimony of John Edward Pic, 11 H 29 On Margaret Fuhrman…. From H&L. pp. 38-39 In October [1950], John Pic took a 20-day leave from the Coast Guard and visited his family in Fort Worth. When his leave was over, John returned to New York and spent the Christmas holidays with his new girlfriend, Margaret Fuhrman, and her family. After the holidays, John was assigned to the US Coast Guard Training Station at Groton, CN. From H&L , pp. 39-40: On August 18, [1951]19-year-old John Pic married his 17 -year-old girlfriend, Margaret Dorothy Fuhrman, at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in New York City.
  10. According to Google AI: Elizabeth Bentley began teaching political science at the College of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana in February 1953…. until she was fired in the summer of 1957. During the early months of 1953, Russian-speaking Lee HARVEY Oswald was truanting school in NYC, serving a brief sentence in Youth House, and then probably was relocated to North Dakota to avoid the NYC judicial system, and, by late summer 1953 was being eased into the New Orleans public school system by taking just two classes for a semester. He stayed in New Orleans until mid-1954. After a brief period in Fort Worth, TX, he was back in New Orleans, at least until late 1955. Throughout 1953, American-born LEE Harvey Oswald was living in the Bronx, NYC and attending school regularly. In early 1954, LEE moved to New Orleans, staying for most of the year at 1454 St. Mary’s, Apt. 6, and then at 126 Exchange until mid-1956. If you’d like to indulge in some wild speculation (and who wouldn't?), Elizabeth Bentley may have been sent to New Orleans to help pave the way for the relocation there of both LHOs. During these years, probably for entirely patriotic reasons, the Oswald Project was in full swing. In order to give a Russian-speaking youth an American identity, both kids needed to have similar experiences and histories. New Orleans was pivotal. LEE Oswald was born there. HARVEY Oswald wasn’t.
  11. Geo – All that editing work really wasn’t necessary, but the info you gave us on Corvina is much appreciated. Sandy – Thanks for tracking down the Louisiana info on Bentley. From the New York Times archive: ---------------- NYT 12/4/1963: Elizabeth Bentley is Dead at 55; Soviet Spy Later Aided U.S. “For the last five years she taught English at the Long Lane School for Girls, a state correctional institution at Middletown.“ Toward the end of the article is this: “In the early ninteen-fifties Miss Bentley frequently lectured on Communism and related subjects, but in recent years she drifted into obscurity, teaching at schools in Grand Coteau, La., and in Hartford before taking the post in Middletown.” ----------------- Her funeral was held at a church in Middletown, CT. In all likelihood Bentley’s Louisiana sojourn had nothing to do with LHO, but it still seems kind of odd considering she otherwise spent virtually her entire life in New England and thereabouts.
  12. Thanks, John. What’s weird about this Connecticut Yankee’s will is that it was executed and signed by five witnesses “all of whom are residents of the Parish of St. Landry, State of Louisiana….” This Vassar College and Columbia University educated woman spent practically her entire life in New England and nearby. The longest exception I see is her brief stay in Italy, but I may well be missing something. Edwin Burdick, the sole beneficiary of her will, lived at “8=buttonball (sic) Lane, Glastonbury, Connecticut. “ What brought her to Louisiana, birthplace of Classic Oswald®, to execute this will? Also, I obviously misread what you wrote about the Manhattan phone books. I’ll find out the total cost for researching our queries. Thanks again for the leads.
  13. Are we all talking about the same 10/10/63 Agency document(s)? I’ve stored the following copy of one on my home computer and the Harvey and Lee web server for many years. Note that, just before paragraph #3 on the second page, it says, “US EMB MOSCOW STATED TWENTY MONTHS OF REALITIES OF LIFE IN SOVIET UNION HAD CLEARLY HAD MATURING EFFECT ON OSWALD. This cable was issued on the same day the FBI cancelled the security watch on Oswald. Here’s the document I’ve saved for years, which, for some reason, I can’t seem to find on the Mary Ferrell site, though it was an admittedly quick search using the search phrase “Lee Henry Oswald”. \
  14. The 5 foot 10 inch Lee Henry Oswald described in the infamous CIA cable of 10/10/1963 to Mexico City always seemed to me to have been a compromise initiated by someone who knew there were two different Lee Harvey Oswalds, one measuring 5 toot 9 inches tall, and the other 5 foot 11. Here is the discharge paperwork for American-born Lee Harvey Oswald indicating his height was 71 inches (5 ft 11 inches). And here, on Earl Rose’s autopsy report, the Oswald killed by Jack Ruby measured 5 ft 9 inches tall. Both were measurements above were made by professional medical personnel. Other than on the Mexico City version of the Agency cable, there were few 5’ 10” heights recorded for LHO. Note how many of the measurements above cluster at 5'9" and 5'11". Way back when, Jim Garrison’s staff was so perplexed by the differing height measurements some of them suspected in at least one written report that there were two different LHOs. The best bet to me is that the CIA cable was fashioned to cover, and therefore take the federal spotlight, off both men. The evidence for that? At the very same time the Agency was giving Oswald a clean bill of political health against all the recent evidence from New Orleans, the FBI cancelled the security watch for Lee Harvey Oswald. What a stunning coincidence!
  15. Paul, Megathanks for reminding us of that! The Hungarian coincidences in this saga are extraordinary. In 1952, American-born LEE and his mother moved temporarily into the apartment on 92nd St. in Manhattan that was owned by Mrs. Mary Fuhrman.
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