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This is a Central Intelligence Agency release dated 2025-06-12 under the JFK Act. It collects 1975 newspaper and magazine clippings. They include Mark Harris's New York Times Magazine essay on a UCLA "Conspiracy in America" conference and the conspiracy-theory mindset, a Jack Anderson column on stalled CIA reform, and wire reports of Richard Helms calling CBS newsman Daniel Schorr "Killer" after he testified to the Rockefeller Commission. There is also an essay on power and a publishing item about Philip Agee's book.
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# Facts Belie 'Fiot' Charges in JFK Assassination BY HENRY J TAYLOR Current charges revive the idea that Ice Harvey Oswald did not alone assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Having traveled to New Orleans, Dallas, Washington and elsewhere to investigate his horror, all I can say is hokus, hokey, tokum. Moreover, the revived questioning builds up the contrived idea that Oswald was not only not alone, but that Oswald himself was some kind of "crackpot." Again, hokus, hokey, hokum. But Oswald himself was proud of his Communist record, a pride that continued to the horror-moment end in Dallas. This is documented not by opinion, not by debatable testimony, not by deductions, but by Oswald himself. Communists worldwide conform to the Soviet party line that President Kennedy's assassination was a Fascist plot. Oswald, in turn, as in a New Orleans radio debate after returning from Russia before the assassination, omitted ever having been in the USSR. U. S. Postal Inspector Harry D. Holmes worris to me in Dallas summarize all statements to me through my investigation: "In Oswald's talks with me, I found that he had a disciplined mind and disciplined reflexes. He unhestatingly answered questions he wanted to answer, skillfully parried the others, and lied instantly whenever cornered." Oh, no, Oswald was never just some 'crackpot' wandering around the Soviet Union for some two and a half years. That is, on the record, impossible. Prior to assassinating President Kennedy, Oswald had gone to Mexico City. By his own written declarations (September 27) at Castro's Mexico City embassy, his memorandum to "Comrad Kostin" at the Soviet Embassy there, known to our CIA (real name Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov) as a KGB spy, Oswald's letters to the Soviet Washington embassy as late as Nov. 9, 1963, the forgeries found and innumerable incriminating documents in Oswald's own handwriting, he was a drilled, dedicated, obedient, cool and canny Communist. Oswald was protected by Moscow's identity document (No 311479) which gave him the run of the Soviet Union. He was immediately given a certificate to Mary (April 10, 1934) Russian wife Maria N. Kollyova Pruskova, about whom I wrote in a previous article. She made her home with her uncle. KGB Col. Nicolay Akserov, a high-ranking secret police official. He was given the extraordinary money-and-privilege advantages I have described. Oswald's preferential treatment is undeniable and so is his devotion to the Communist cause and its personnel up to the very moment he died. President Kennedy was assassinated Oswald's letter, which Shanklin showed me, includes: "... Certain of my documents are in the small blue valise... The embassy [i.e. Castro's Mexico City embassy] will come quickly to your assistance on learning everything... We also have friends here." Oswald wrote this in Russian. He enclosed the key to a post office mailbox under his H. O. Lee alias at Dallas' Ervay Street Substation. The true key to Oswald's thinking in Lee Harvey Oswald (shown above in custody) hoped to flee to Cuba following the slaying of the President where the dedicated Marxist could live out his years as a resident hero. Nov. 22, 1963. Postmarked Dallas. November 1, Oswald wrote a letter to the New York headquarters of the Communist Party, U.S.A. In it he reported his return to Dallas. Headquarters executive Arnold S. Johnson claims that this "information" was not received until after the November 22 assassination. Oswald also wrote in longhand an undated letter to his wife before the assassination. Dallas Regional. FBI Chief J. Gordon Shanklin found it secreted in Oswald's personal effects at Oswald's temporary hole-in at 1023 North Beckley Avenue. Dallas, a rooming house where Oswald lived under the alias O. H. Lee. Johnson blandly passes over the date difference as if it means nothing. assassinating President Kennedy is Fidel Castro. Wife Marina, trapped by her own inconsistencies, finally told Shanklin that Oswald had laid plans to reach Cuba and had prepared the way by going (September 25) to Castro's Mexico City embassy. On September 8 Castro had castigated President Kennedy over Radio Havana as "my enemy" and concluded "if the United States can deal in assassination, so can we." Oswald believed that if he killed our President he would be an inside hero in Castro's Havana—and a hero for the first time in his life. United Feature Syndicate
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