"Building the Oswald Legend" - manufactured by the Reich Wing in America

[John Bevilaqua]

This is just one person's current view, subject to further development as time permits. Otto was one of the ancient holdover McCarthyites in the Kennedy administration since he worked for the State Dept. Office of Security in the Passport Office. Otepka, a strong voice in The Liberty Lobby for years and JFK were essentially mortal enemies from day one and they basically hated each other. Like Robert Morris and others of their ilk they still felt that JFK had been hiring closet Commies just like Truman and Ike, but JFK more so than others.
Otepka tried to hang JFK out to dry by leaking classified documents regarding the Walt Rostow Senate approval hearings. I think he leaked them to J. Strom Thurmond and/or James Eastland. Needless to say JFK hit the roof and canned Otepka and people like Morris, Thrumond and James B. Utt jumped to his rescue by making a movie called "The Strange Ordeal of Otto Otepka" where they all played the roles of themselves. Tried to get a copy of that movie but I was referred to the "Sons of Liberty" by The Liberty Lobby receptionist. This is from memory now, but previous to this Otepka and his personal dragon lady: "Frances Knight" would have had to respond to every single inquiry about Oswald's trip to Albert Schweitzer College, Mexico City if indeed he went there and even beyond including giving someone permission at the Hoboken, NJ docks to let him back into the country.

This is only speculation right now, but given the fact of Otepka's status as a cause celebre and a McCarthyite and future martyr, Otepka had to know what Oswald was going to be used for in the very near future and allowed him free access in and out of the country at the drop of a hat. No other "true" defector would have been allowed back into the country without or with Otepka's say so under any circumstances.

Otepka was later hired back by the Nixon Administration with a raise and back pay, so you know he was one of "them". This leads me to believe that Otepka, from Catholic University, joined Morris from Fordham as yet another McCarthyite who knew a lot about Oswald's training as a programmed assassin and they knew already in June, 1962 that Oswald was ready for his appointed task, either as patsy, or hypnotized and programmed shooter, even though no one could have made the kill shot from the TSBD even if they had the ammo clip from AMF made by the Pattersons for the Navy Seals which converted an M-1 into essentially a semi-automatic rifle with a 5-6 shot clip capable of firing Manlicher-Carcano shells.

They also knew what Oswald was trying to do in Berlin which was probably to kill Yaroslaw Stetsko, a good friend of both Charles Willoughby and Spas T. Raiken and many others including Walker. Stetsko was a Ukrainian Fascist who led the Lvov pogrom slaughter in the Jewish Ghetto early in the War.

Bit of a stretch? Perhaps, but darn close to what happened. Remember Condon has Morris and Company trying to kill JFK in 1958 so the plot was sitting on go once again as Milteer once said. If Otepka leaked the derogatory information to James Eastland or Barry Goldwater or even J. Strom Thurmond, it would mean that this was the FIRST of many attempts to eliminate Kennedy by character assassination, the LAST being Operation Red Cross also a project of Eastland and Goldwater and probably Thurmond, too.

JFK would have been better off had these failed attempts at character assassination actually succeeded. As it was, these McCarthyites, MacArthurites, Malta Knights, Militia-ites and Mississippi-ites proceeded to step two: The Final Solution. And they were not fooling around either.