Creating the Oswald Legend part 4

[Ron Bulman]

4 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

I knew I'd read at least one of the other parts of the series, so just in case anyone else missed one of the articles...

https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/creating-the-oswald-legend-part-1

https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/creating-the-oswald-legend-part-2

https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/creating-the-oswald-legend-part-3

I'd never read part one.  Oswald worked in a radio factory in Minsk.  AM transistor radios to spread propaganda and classical music?  Not exactly.  Minsk was the capital of Belorussia and a center of Science and Technology.  He worked in a 5000 person factory turning out "electronic systems", radios and TV's, operating a lathe.

Yet his supervisor was a Polish Jew who left Russia to work for a U.S. company in South America, who also happened to be the Chief Engineer of the plant (?).  That he socialized with, was at his house for a May Day party when the U-2 went down?

The depth of the U-2 incident is wayyy beyond what I've read before.

Thank You VV.

[Jim Hargrove]

Magathanks to Vasilos Vasakas and Jim Di. for bringing us this important series on the seemingly endless treachery involved in the creation of the legend of LHO, as well as the clear hints that this crap may be ongoing even well into the present century. 

Malcolm Blunt’s work shining a light on Betsy Wolf is marvelous new research.  Why was her work declassified so late and why were her handwritten notes not transcribed?  Genius is hardly required to reason why. There are so many chilling revelations….

The indication that all the docs in the 201 file so belatedly opened on LHO are copies, with the originals supposedly in the Office of Security without time stamps or handling records, is sure reminiscent of LHO’s school and employment records, the originals of which apparently disappeared in FBI custody, replaced by b&w photos.  How telling!

Equally chilling is Mr. Blunt’s discovery that the Michael Goldsmith interview with CIA officer William Larson apparently disappeared from the National Archives some time between 2006 and 2010.   If this is true, must we assume that efforts to cover up the truth about Oswald will continue indefinitely?  What other conclusion is reasonable? Also apparently missing is the HSCA interview with OS Chief Robert Gambino.  I agree with Mr. Vasakas that the search for Popov’s mole was just Angelton’s excuse.

The second half of this article, about the conflicting “Blame it on Cuba” vs. Lone Nut campaigns, is more familiar territory for many of us.  Nevertheless, Mr. Vasakas covers it concisely and yet still covers the most important details.

Thanks again for this terrific series!

[John Butler]

12 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

He worked in a 5000 person factory turning out "electronic systems", radios and TV's, operating a lathe.

Ron,

Operating a lathe probably came from Peter Vronsky in 1992.  Vronsky misuses the word "regulator".  His version is that Oswald was a lathe operator.  Actually, the word regulator means supervisor.  Oswald was a supervisor at the Experimential Shop where new products were made.  His pay was equivalent to the plant manager.  What was he there to make into a new product.  Radar equipment to track the U2 most likely. 

[James DiEugenio]

The thing about Malcolm that I hope no one overlooks is that he lives in the UK.  Plus he has never written a book as far as I know. Yet, he finds stuff that not even John Newman finds.  For instance those notes by Betsy about the Gambino interview.  Which are so important in figuring out what happened with Oswald's file.

Somebody was rigging the system, and that person knew how to to it.  And by sending the files to OS, that person knew that no 201 would be opened.

BTW, I don't think we should overlook that stuff about Mexico City by Betsy.  I always wondered who intervened with Duran the day after.  Looks like Angleton, through Rocca. And they had their contact picked out with Echeverria, who would end up running the inquiry in Mexico.  With all the BS thrown in.

Finally, Echeverria would later become the president of Mexico.  Nice payoff.

Edited August 25, 2020 by James DiEugenio

[Ron Bulman]

22 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

The thing about Malcolm that I hope no one overlooks is that he lives in the UK.  Plus he has never written a book as far as I know. Yet, he finds stuff that not even John Newman finds.  For instance those notes by Betsy about the Gambino interview.  Which are so important in figuring out what happened with Oswald's file.

Somebody was rigging the system, and that person knew how to to it.  And by sending the files to OS, that person knew that no 201 would be opened.

BTW, I don't think we should overlook that stuff about Mexico City by Betsy.  I always wondered who intervened with Duran the day after.  Looks like Angleton, through Rocca. And they had their contact picked out with Echeverria, who would end up running the inquiry in Mexico.  With all the BS thrown in.

Finally, Echeverria would later become the president of Mexico.  Nice payoff.

I really found the links to Mr. Blunt's work informative that Bart Kamp used to post here, though the volume was overwhelming for me.

As is trying to figure out much about Oswald himself and how he was used.  I still need to re read part III and finish/re read what I did of part IV.

I have a question though that may be answered in part in parts V & VI.

I'm pretty convinced Angleton was running Oswald in Russia and back in the USA regarding Castro/Cuba operations.  I.E. through at least most of the New Orleans period.

Mexico makes me wonder though.  Did he know what was going on there or did he orchestrate it all?  Phillips there with Win Scott.  It get's so deep, I get easily lost.  He did head to Mexico immediately to confiscate Scott's files when he died.  Something was rotten in Mexico City.  I've not had time to read all Mr. Simpich's work but have read Morley's books and a couple of others related.  

[James DiEugenio]

Well Ron, there will be three concluding chapters by VV.  This will include a summary at the end.

I think he will make clear what he thinks of MC by then.

My own opinion, and I am  speaking for myself, is that Oswald was not in MC.  I think David Josephs work demonstrates that by a clear preponderance of the evidence. (I also hear that Greg Parker has evidence on this also.) IMO, that is why Rocca and Angleton did what they did on the 23rd with Duran and Elena Garro, as Betsy writes in her summary of the Rocca chronology.

I had never seen that information anywhere until I saw it in Betsy's notes. I knew that the CIA wanted Duran detained, but I did not know it was Rocca who did it. And man, what was the CIA doing escorting Elena to a hotel at the same time they are detaining Duran?  To me, its  incriminating for the reasons  stated in the essay. 

How the CIA ever let her see that stuff escapes me.  But I think that is probably why they waited until 2010 to declassify most of her materials.