Marguerite Oswald in 1963 on the
likelihood her son Lee Harvey Oswald was U.S. intelligence
“We are a patriotic family. All my three children volunteered for service in the armed forces. Lee wanted to enlist in the Marines at sixteen years old – he was rejected as being too young. But he was a member of the Cadet Aviation Corps, and they wanted to make him a pilot – the American Air Force doesn’t normally recruit young people whose patriotism is in doubt. An officer often came by the house to talk to Lee. That’s how he came to read Das Kapital; but at the same time he learned by heart the big wordy manual, The Perfect Marine. At seventeen, he enlisted, and his letters said he was happy. He was decorated. He did not receive a medal for being a sharp-shooter; it was his battalion which received that distinction … but the police and the press lied, making the world believe that my son was a champion rifle-shot.
“I am sure that the Marines trained Lee to be a secret agent.
True, he did not tell me so, nor does anyone say so today. But since when did
secret agents tell their mothers what they were doing? Or the secret services
acknowledge their members?
“Lee was never in contact with the Communists. If he
became a Marxist, it was because the Marines made a Marxist of him …
“Lee decided all in a minute to go to
Russia … as if he’d received an order. He, always so truthful with me, told me
that he was going to get on a cargo-boat for Europe. How could he, in the two days he stayed with me
after leaving the military base, have arranged so quickly to get a passport, a
Soviet visa and a passage to Russia?
[Nerin Gun, Red Roses from Texas, p. 206]
Nerin Gun’s Red Roses from Texas was published in January 1, 1964 by publisher Frederick Muller of London.
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By Feb. 12, 1964 Marguerite Oswald
was telling the press that her son was a CIA agent Set Up to Take the Blame for
JFK assassination
“MRS.
OSWALD SAYS SON IS SCAPEGOAT; Thinks He Was C.I.A. Agent ‘Set Up to Take Blame”
by NYT, Feb. 13, 1964
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—The mother of Lee H. Oswald said today that she
believed her son was a United States “intelligence agent” and that he was “set
up to take the blame” for the assassination of President Kennedy.
She made the statement to newsmen as she finished three days of testimony
before the Presidential commission investigating the assassination. She said
she had told the same thing to the commission.
Chief Justice Earl Warren, commission chairman, said the mother had
presented no evidence to support her belief that Oswald was an agent for the
Central Intelligence Agency.
“She offered no evidence to that effect except her story and correspondence
that she presented, taken together, leads her to the speculation—I use word
speculation, as she used it—that he was an agent.”
“She has not given us any facts that would change the picture as we know it
up to the time she testified,” Mr. Warren said. “She did not profess to give us
any facts that would prove anything in connection with the assassination.
“She did contend that the correspondence
[with Oswald] that she presented and her own testimony taken together in their
entirety present a much different picture than has been given to the public up
to the present time. She says she believes her son is innocent, that it is possible
that he committed the crime but that it also is possible that other people
could have committed it.”
She Makes Statement
The plump, matronly appearing woman, when asked for a statement, moved readily
to microphones set before cameras in the lobby of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Building on Capitol Hill, where the commission met.
She had declined to make a statement until today on the advice of her
counsel, John F. Doyle, who was appointed by the District of Columbia Bar A
ssociation at her request.
“I still believe my son, Lee Harvey
Oswald, is innocent,” she began. She vowed she would “contime public
appearances and an investigation” to clear her son “if it takes another year to
do so.”
The assassin, she contended, “is
still at large.”
I realize that as a human being he [Oswald] could be guilty,” she said, but
added that she had given the commission “evidence” that her son was innocent.
Some of the documents she said she gave the commission were of a nature “the
commission did not know before.”
She said she and Mark Lane. the New York lawyer whom she has said she
retained without fee to defend her son, had “investigators all over.” She also
said that she had received 1.500 letters with information on the assassination,
including some from foreigners, and that she would not pass on “any tins” to
the commission.
Says Son Was Not Killer
“Lee Harvey Oswald was not the killer of President Kennedy and he was set
up to take the blame,” she went on.
In most references to her son, Mrs. Oswald used the present tense, such
as “I believe Lee is an intelligence agent.”
“My son was a scrapgoat,” she said
at one point. She apparently meant “scapegoat.”
“Who can prove he is not a C.I.A.
agent?” she said. “He isn't going to say he's a C.I.A. agent, and the Government
isn't going to say he is. Lee, being an agent, would not say so to anyone.”
Mr. Warren indicated that other witnesses would be called soon. But he said
this would depend on when “certain witnesses can get here and when certain
members of the commission can be here.”
Asked about a report that a janitor in the Texas Book Depository Building
in Dallas would be the next witness, Mr. Warren said: “Maybe they know. I don'
t know.”
Oswald is alleged to have fired the shots that killed President Kennedy
from a sixth floor window of the building.
Marguerite Oswald on Mother’s Day, May 9, 1965, on her son being an agent of the U.S. government. Marguerite Oswald was standing near her son’s grave at Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park in Ft. Worth, TX and talking to author Jean Stafford
“It turned out to be a right nice Mother’s Day after all,” she said. “But on some Mother’s Day, I think it would be wonderful for the United States to come out and say my son was an agent. It would be wonderful if they would come out in behalf of his family and his mother and say he died in the service of his country. They’re not all-powerful, and not everything they do is right. I love my United States, but I don’t think just because I was born in it, that we’re perfect. And I feel my son Lee Harvey Oswald felt the same way. If he learned those truths from me, I didn’t teach him, but if he sensed that was the way I felt, I make no apology for that either. We are not always right and I feel sure that as Americans we know this and we will admit it some day. Let’s have a little defense of Lee Harvey Oswald! On Mother’s Day, let’s come out and say that he died in the service of his country.”
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[Jean Stafford, A Mother in History, p. 105]
Lee Harvey Oswald had a CIA 201 file! # 201-289248
https://www.maryferrell.org/php/showlist.php?docset=1095
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This collection is the voluminous CIA "201" file (also known as a "personality" file) on Lee Henry (sic) Oswald. The file was opened in December 1960 and contains a small set of pre-assassination records. After the assassination, this file became a repository for much of the CIA's investigative work, and grew into the massive file available here. Portions of the 201 file were obtained at different times, so documents in some volumes feature RIF header sheets, and documents in volumes obtained earlier do not.
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