The Chicago Plot: A Hypothesis

[Steve Franklin]

I speculate the "Lee" teletype was meant to get Oswald to cooperate at the Book Depository thinking he was a super secret important presidential security operative reporting on threats. The fact he had successfully stopped the Chicago plot gave him confidence that he was a genuine important secret service member. At this point Oswald was completely suckered. His importance in relation to the Chicago plot he now thinks he prevented is used to induce him to take orders without question. He then does what he's told at the Depository that day (Or wherever "Lee" was).

"Lee" was a common pseudonym at the time, stemming, I suspect, from William Burroughs' use of "William Lee." I personally received a call from a friend in the mid 60s using the name "William Lee." Burroughs also used a character in his novels called "Inspector J. Lee of the Nova Police." Other Lee pseudonyms may be found doing a search on "Lee pseudonym." They are fairly common and at least some of them derive from good old Robert E Lee of Civil War infamy.

So I really don't think you can draw any conclusions from the use of that particular name.