Emil Snizek

We all move through these subplots in cycles and I was holed up in this one for a good while,, but I've moved on past it having felt there's enough solid understanding of the reasons why there didn't have to be "2 Oswalds" in Mexico... it seems like the ultimate answers were first implied by John Newman in 'Oswald and the CIA' and further helped along by Morley in 'Our Man in Mexico'... neither book spent any time talking about a multiple Oswald theory very seriously, having arrived at relatively solid logic before having to resort to anything fantastic like an Oswald double... - In the case of the famous mystery man photo, I got the impression from Morley that Winston Scott merely submitted that surveillance photo and jumped the gun, wanting to report the sighting but being out of the loop on what Phillips was doing and who Oswald was... thereby inadvertently creating a myth that people still spend a lot of time on that doesn't seem to be going much of anywhere. This is born out by what we know of his memoirs too I believe...- and John Newman seemed to show very early on that Oswald was caught in a trap in Mexico City that was mostly intended to get him on the record as having tried to get out of the country there and/or used him as a dangle once again in the Consulates... but Oswald abandoned the plan to leave... why? ...and did he know where he was going after that and what was in store exactly?... the only "2nd Oswald" that was down there, as far as I've discerned, was when he was badly imitated on the Saturday phone call (and possibly more calls during the next week) by someone trying to figure out how far he'd gotten in applying to get his visa... I wouldn't call this a "2nd Oswald" necessarily... regardless, no other writer seems to have as solid or scientific of a grasp on this situation as Newman as far as I've read... but if you see the need for another Oswald in Mexico besides this occurrence let me know because I'm always trying to straighten this timeline out in my head... 10-4

Here's a small piece of the questions I'd thrown together on the blog: Was Oswald being guided down or chased down into Mexico? Or most interestingly, what is the true meaning of his return to the US and was Phillips behind Oswald's intention at this moment?... Surely Oswald would not be left to roam free upon leaving Mexico in this vulnerable moment after he has either been following direction very well or running from his commitments... Was Mexico City just another performance of Oswald's as a dangle for Phillips?... It's a crucial moment when Oswald leaves the Soviet consulate and doesn't submit the application to leave because it means he has either given up and decided to go back to the US for some hidden reason... or he was performing and was never sincere in trying to leave. The vortex around his true intention here is virtually impossible to unfold and would likely solve his ultimate mystery if decoded. If he was truly scared of being offed by the FBI/CIA like Nechiporenko says... then perhaps, on coming home to the US, he could've had some sort of drastic and final revenge on his mind. Unfortunately it seems that most any theory is always too simple... If you were David Phillips and had set up the entire New Orleans FPCC infiltration with Oswald and then controlled the Mexico City drama, would you then let Oswald roam freely back up to Dallas to do whatever he wanted with no instruction? If something had gone wrong in Mexico City or if Oswald was really trying to escape from his grasp, wouldn't Phillips have considered getting rid of Oswald? The Russians say that Oswald was scared for his life ...and if he follows an AMLASH sponsored script down to Cuba it could end in his death ...if he abandons any specific script it could get him eliminated. This is where Phillips' abandoned novel "The AMLASH Legacy" suggests that his responsibility as Oswald's handler evaporated... that Phillips handled him up to this point, trying to get him into Cuba... and then Oswald mysteriously reversed the plan and killed Kennedy instead of Castro. But, upon leaving Mexico, Oswald was allowed to stroll back to work at a new job right above where the President's car's path would soon pass under. It seems like he was abandoned to that particular reality by design as every movement often looks before it. How much longer would he be allowed to exist?... History would play that out in the first death on live television.

I've also wondered if Phillips' abandoned text will ever be released to the public (however small it was)... and I've wrestled with there being any possible logical validity to Phillips' tossed-off claim in "The AMLASH Legacy" of Oswald being a potential assassin of Castro etc... I feel it's ultimately been proven to some degree that Oswald was a part of AMSPELL... so connecting those two projects within Oswald's trajectory is the ultimate temptation, but also the heart of the perennial mystery I suppose. When Phillips wrote that he was 'one of the two case officers who handled Lee Harvey Oswald' do you think he could have possibly meant James McCord when they were working in New Orleans together on AMSPELL?... I just posted a massive argument with myself on this subject at: http://gnosticdevice.blogspot.com/ if anyone has any particular corrections to help me make let me know, this is just where I try to straighten out my own thoughts on the Dallas>New Orleans>Mexico>Dallas transitions.

My name is Emil Snizek... I was born in Coconut Grove (Miami, FL) in '76 where, as far as I've read, both E.Howard Hunt and Cord Meyer had houses and the JM/Wave station wasn't far away. My father was an experienced sailor who often went down to the Keys and I have memories of going along with him as a child. There are many odd and great stories about my father from the 60's and I'm in the process of trying to get his FOI files to confirm some of them. He once told me that he was in Chicago having a drink (I'm guessing sometime in '62) and talking to a bartender down in the basement bar of a skyscraper, when he realized that he'd been drugged (probably by the bartender, who he now realized had been hitting on him). He tried to leave and stumbled out the door into a massive crowd of a few thousand people crowded on the sidewalks. Not knowing why they were there, my father pushed through the crowd and fell into the street where JFK's car almost hit him while driving by as the president waved to the crowd. He said that the Secret Service briefly interrogated him in an alleyway because they'd thought he was lunging at the president. I have a blog largely based on gaining an understanding of Oswald at: http://gnosticdevice.blogspot.com/

This moment does seem to be when the crucial wheels of a plan began turning... I usually think of Oswald's exit from New Orleans as more foreboding than his entrance... To me, his dropping everything and leaving quickly after having achieved the goal of hoisting himself into the media/public record, says that his mission had been completed and he'd been given new instructions. The fact that Agent Hosty lost track of Oswald in the crucial moment that he left for New Orleans makes Hosty look out of the loop to me in a similar way that Winston Scott seemed to be in Mexico concerning Oswald's instructions. The fact that the "FBI didn't know where he'd gone" but he'd turned in his own forwarding address to keep receiving Communist magazines (Oswald and the CIA, John Newman) clashes hilariously with the fact that once he got himself arrested in New Orleans, the first thing he asked to do was talk to the FBI. How fascinating would it be to know what John L. Quigley (FBI) said to Oswald when he visited him in jail after the scuffle and just days before the radio debate? The whole New Orleans period seems shockingly transparent beginning from his courting of Bringuier when Oswald walked into his store and offered to train Anti-Castro refugees... which just looks like part of Phillips and McCord's project to infiltrate the FPCC and the DRE simultaneously. I believe it was in Dick Russell's "On the Trail of the JFK Assassins" (one of my favorites) that I read that a sworn deposition from a witness in an unconnected court case stated they were in a meeting with both Guy Banister and a "Mr.Phillips" who was "from Washington" and "seemed to be running the show" where they were working on "a televised anti-Castro propaganda program". The move to New Orleans is one of the darkest corners of Oswald's life that could always use more research if there's anything tangible left to dig up- ...it leads you toward wondering why Oswald, having crossed many borders before and having applied for visas before, would end up in Mexico expecting to get into Cuba without having to apply for a visa in advance. ...and who brings a clipping about themselves being arrested to make themselves look more suitable to enter another country? (I realize many people don't think Oswald was in Mexico at all, but I think there's logical reasons why it could make more sense that he was.) 10-4