Oswald in Minsk

[Peter Lemkin]

Sorry, I forgot about this thread...discovered it looking for something else. I long ago got the book, signed by the author Professor Ernst P. Titovets, read it and have had a modest email exchange with him. The book suffers much from inadequate editing of Titovets English, which was from some old British books and has a very strange style...but forget that...I'd not be able to write a book in Russian. He writes only about what he knows first hand. Only in a small part of the last chapter does he speculate even a little [about what happened and why to his friend he knew in Minsk]. More than anything else, it gives a glimpse into the character of the man who was Oswald in the USSR as to personality, temperament and interests, etc. It also confirms that Oswald spoke little Russian - even at the end only polite phrases he could parrot. He understood a little. He was far, far from fluent! And the book makes clear that most of the time this Oswald did nothing that would be called spying and, of course, at the time Titovets and others all kept in the back of their minds he could be. I am inclined to think that Titovets was not a spy, and was, if anything, only used by his chance encounter with Oswald as someone to inform on him....but he claims there was nothing to inform upon....they went to concerts, they chased women, they had drinks, they horsed around, he helped Titovets with his English, they went to work [separately], etc. Titovets is convinced that the Oswald he knew could not have and did not kill anyone on 11/22/63. He is curious to know [and I have sent him some materials and suggested a few good books he now is reading] if that Oswald was, at the time he knew him, an intelligent agent of some kind. Certainly, what one would likely call a 'sleeper' or just to test the Soviet reaction. Perhaps [this is me speculating], his only function was one or two things - maybe something about the U2; maybe to get Marina out for the purposes of some or several intelligence agencies. While in the USSR he was closely watched - but from a distance..and I think Titovets was not actively spying on him. If any are interested to communicate with him, PM me privately and I will perhaps give you his email, after asking him with your reason to want to talk to him. He is a very nice person, from what I can gather via our exchanges....and mystified how he happened to meet this strange American who stuck out like a sore thumb and later was accused of killing the President of the USA. He really would like to know more about Oswald and the whole case. He admits he has not read many of the better and latest books. Though a research scientist of some renown in Belarus, he makes little money to afford sending to the USA for such books. Anyone with an extra copy of the better books to send him, I'm sure he'd much appreciate it! I certainly do not regret reading the book and feel I have a somewhat better picture of the Oswald who was in the USSR. By the way, Titovets found a few more errors in the book Harvey and Lee as concerns dates and things that happened in the USSR.