Rose opines that the handwritten draft was created to create proof that Oswald had written the letter by generating a "draft" in his handwriting": HSCA Volume VIII, pp. 351-352, 358. Handwritten version:
Typed version: click here
The FBI found that the Soviet letter was written on Ruth Paine's typewriter: 2/13/64 insert by SA Robert P. Gemberling , re the FBI test, Warren Commission Document 735, p. 102.
This letter was written on November 9, and expressed satisfaction at Consul Eusebio Azcue's replacement as consul at the Cuban consulate in Mexico City. This replacement did not occur until November 18: WCH Vol. 26, p. 790, Exhibit 3126.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=146897
Also see Mann's letter to Alexis Johnson at State, 11/30/63.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=10876&relPageId=70
The people with access to Azcue's pending replacement were those people with access to the telephone taps and hidden microphones in the Cuban consulate -- David Phillips and other CIA officials at the Mexico City station: Id. Notice how CIA Director Richard Helms is forced to argue that someone in the Cuban consulate must have told Oswald. Although highly unlikely that Oswald would have learned the November 18 date two months in advance from anybody, that's the only other possible theory.
The FBI went so far as to say that Oswald's source had to be a Cuban consulate informant, a KGB member, or the CIA itself: Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott, "Oswald Letter Still A Puzzle", 9/21/67, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 47/NARA Record Number: 1993.08.20.14:42:46:250028.
Paine admits reading and copying Oswald's private correspondence before the assassination: Jim DiEugenio, book review of James Douglass' JFK and the Unspeakable. http://www.ctka.net/2008/jfk_unspeakable.html
On another front, according to the letter, since Oswald wasn't able to get a Cuban visa, he was forced to take up "our business" with "Comrade Kostin" in Mexico City: Clarence M. Kelley and James Kirkpatrick Davis, Kelley: The Story of an FBI Director (Kansas City, Andrews, M cMeel & Parker, 1987), p. 268.
The letter points out that Oswald did not use his "real name" when he went to Mexico City. Oswald used the name Harvey Oswald Lee. The authorities initially insisted that it was just an error involving a comma, as his visa states "Lee, Harvey Oswald", but by late December 1963 even CIA officer John Whitten thought that it was deliberately caused by Oswald: John Whitten, "Subject: Lee Oswald's Visit to Mexico City", 12/20/63, p. 10, Oswald 201 File (201-289248)/NARA Record Number: 104-10004-10211. (33 page version)
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