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I am researching the time period from October 8, 1959, when LHO arrived at La Harve, France on the Marion Lykes which had sailed from New Orleans. He then made his way to Southampton, England. How? He then possibly went to London and eventually ended up in Helsinki, Finland on October 9, 1959. Then he possibly made a side trip to Stockholm, Sweden before departing on October 15, 1959 for Moscow by train. Has anyone compiled a detailed account of the time period from October 8, 1959 to October 15, 1959 that accounts for the precise and documented movements of LHO? My interest in his timeline overlaps another, and perhaps related timeline belonging to a Baltic Sea offshore radio station called Radio Nord. It was created by Gordon McLendon of Dallas who later became a partner of David Atlee Phillips, and he also had a strange relationship with Jack Ruby that revolved around McLendon's radio station KLIF in Dallas. On January 7, 1960, Lee Harvey Oswald boarded a train in Moscow that took him to Minsk where he began work in an electronics factory. Radio Nord was planned in 1959, but it did not become operational until March 1, 1961. Because it was based on board a ship anchored off Sweden in the Baltic Sea, its signal that was also radiating towards the USSR, crossed the sea before hitting land. Therefore it is possible that it could be heard in Minsk. Its stated goal was projecting commercial radio programs to a good portion of Sweden. Was it a CIA station maintaining contact with Lee Harvey Oswald? On June 1, 1962, Lee Harvey Oswald boarded a train on a journey that would take him to Amsterdam, Holland, and then by ship to the USA. On June 30, 1962, Radio Nord closed down. Radio Nord was managed by McLendon's national manager of broadcasting who was also station manager of McLendon's KILT in Houston, Texas. In 2008, just before he died of cancer, Bill Weaver (who I met in Texas during the 1970s), published a strange book about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It is called 'Triple Double Cross'. Weaver was assisted in this book which is styled as a novel, although real events are discussed and a mixture of altered names and real names are both used. It appears to be written by at least two people - maybe more. This is perceived by writing styles and by a very false ending to the book. Aside from that section of absolute fiction which may have been added to complete the book after Weaver died, he received and acknowledged contributions from Jones Harris who I have also spoken to (2018) about the Weaver book. Another contributing source of material includes that of de Vosjoli whose heavy involvement in the episode surrounding events that led up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, is well known. Weaver claims that the purpose of Radio Nord (which he actually managed during its close-down), was in reality funded by CIA to intercept messages from the USSR under the cloak of being a commercial radio station. While his explanation for the intercepts do not make technical sense, there is a possibility that it could have been used to relay instructions to Oswald in Minsk by using the tried and true method of playing specific records at specific times, and those records could convey a meaning by their lyrics. Announcements could also be made to listeners in the same way. This method has been used since the birth of radio and it was heavily employed by BBC transmissions to Nazi occupied Europe. The Weaver book was privately published and according to Bill Weaver's widow who I spoke to last year, the main stock was wiped out by a Houston flood. For a time in October 1962, Weaver stayed in London. It also appears that Bobby Kennedy asked for the Radio Nord ship to be taken to Galveston, Texas (which is was in March 1963). It was to be used as part of the continuing secret war on Cuba - run by Bobby Kennedy. In the end the Nord ship was found to be to small and anther CIA radio ship (later used to broadcast to the UK as 'Swinging Radio England' and 'Britain Radio' using two 50kW transmitters.) All pointers indicate that Lee Harvey Oswald went to the UK in 1959 where he met his 'handler' who gave him more cash than he arrived with, and possibly had him flown out of the UK on board a CIA flight - since no commercial flights account for the method by which he arrived in Helsinki, Finland on October 9, 1959. I want to know if anyone has ever documented Lee Harvey Oswald's time in England. Right now Oswald's time in England appears to be as much a mystery as the creation of Radio Nord - which was capable of relaying coded messages from the Baltic Sea, and which Weaver claimed was a CIA funded spy station under the disguise of a commercial radio broadcasting station aimed at Sweden. Since Gordon McLendon had schooled CIA mastermind and friend David Atlee Phillips in the art using radio to stage the illusion of actual events, it is not beyond reason to ask whether McLendon was tied to the assassination of JFK in Dallas - as Weaver claimed in his book.