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THE JFK CASE: THE TWELVE WHO BUILT THE OSWALD LEGEND (Part 12: The Endgame)

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This agent also 'suggested' to Marina Nichilayova that she could remain in the United States under FBI 'protection', that is, she could defect from the Soviet Uion, of course, I and my wife strongly protested these tactics by the notorious FBI.

Please inform us of the arrival of our Soviet entrance visa's as soon as they come.

Also, this is to inform you of the birth, on October 20, 1963, of a DAUGHTER, AUDREY MARINA OSWALD, in DALLAS, TEXAS, to my wife.

Professor Jerry Rose, a long-time researcher in the JFK case, points out that the Oswald's handwritten draft copy has virtually none of Oswald's characteristic errors, while the typed version is filled with them.

Professor Rose also shows that not only did Paine's supposed handwritten copy never surface, but that Paine was given by the Warren Commission the original of Oswald's handwritten draft which should have rightly been given to Oswald's wife Marina.

Rose opines that the handwritten draft was created to convince the reader that Oswald had written the letter by himself. The two versions can be viewed together at the website page provided in the endnotes. The reader can see that the handwritten draft is superior to the typed final.

This letter was designed to cement Oswald's ties to the USSR and Cuba prior to the assassination of JFK. The FBI found the letter was written on Ruth Paine's typewriter.

I'm unsure if the letter was a forgery, but the letter is highly significant in any case on several levels.

Notice its date - November 9. Oswald expresses pleasure at Consul Eusebio Azcue's replacement as consul at the Cuban consulate in Mexico City. The Mexico City tapes indicated that Azcue had evicted a man calling himself "Lee Oswald" from the consulate two months earlier.

The replacement of Azcue had been planned since early September, before Oswald's arrival into Mexico City. The reference to Azcue's replacement in the letter indicates that the writer had deep knowledge into Cuban affairs.

Who knew that Azcue was about to be replaced? The people with access to the telephone taps and hidden microphones in the Cuban consulate -- Bill Harvey at Staff D, and David Phillips and other CIA officials at the Mexico City station.

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.

Notice also that Paine admitted reading and copying Oswald's private correspondence before the assassination. As author Jim DiEugenio points out:

"(Paine's) copy of the letter differs in some interesting ways from the typewritten one. As the author notes, it de-emphasizes Oswald's contacts with the communist embassies. Instead, it emphasizes his differences with the FBI...

"...Amazingly, it was this Ruth Paine version of the letter -- not the one Oswald allegedly typed and mailed -- that the Warren Commission used in its analysis of what the correspondence meant. The Commission then returned Oswald's rough draft, the one Ruth copied, not to Marina, but to Ruth." (Note: The FBI's version of the rough draft eliminates most of the misspellings. Ruth's version of the rough draft allegedly no longer exists.)

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. This is clearly a reference to Valeriy Kostikov, who FBI chief Clarence Kelley claimed was "the officer-in-charge for Western Hemisphere terrorist activities -- including and especially assassination." However, the CIA and FBI in mid-1963 concluded that there was no evidence that Kostikov had anything to do with any assassination unit. The imaginary spectre of Kostikov leading a KGB-driven plot is raised once again.

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