John Armstrong's Harvey and Lee

[David Josephs]

David,As you show in the above, isn't it strange that Os was being treated for Gonococchus contracted while "in the line of duty". What kind of line of duty would an ordinary marine be doing to contract gonorrhea?

That makes for a very interesting episode and dovetails into Dick Russell's great book on Nagell.
(Nagell actually married a beautiful Asian girl he met while in Japan)

Oswald (LEE) was apparently given funds and was seen frequenting a "club" that served as a prostitution spying ring to try and extract secrets from the GIs stationed at the super secret CIA-U2 base in Atsugi.

from H&L:

Lee Oswald was diagnosed as having
"urethritis, acute, due gonococcus #0303."** Captain Deranian wrote that the origin of
the disease was, "In line of duty, not due to own misconduct."61 58-19

**NOTE: On March 31, 1964 Staff Medical Officer Captain George Donabedian told
Warren Commission staff attorney John Hart Ely the Marine Corps Medical records
clearly showed that Oswald had contacted gonorrhea (probably from his Japanese girlfriend).


p169 H&LStout's group spent most of their liberty in the towns of Yamato andSagami,
which were near the base. Sagami was farther away, near the main camp,while Yamato
was near the east camp and a 20-minute bus ride. While on liberty, theyoften encountered
fellow Marines at the local bars. At the "Queen Bee," inYamato, Stout recalled
that Oswald alway s seemed to be with the same Japanese girl, as wasthe custom of
many of the Marines. Liberty ended at midnight, which limited theirfree time and
activities to nearby towns


http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2010/...ornia.html
(From "The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: How the CIA Set Up
Oswald" by Mark Lane, Hustler, October 1978)

Recently, a former Marine
who had served with Oswald in Santa Ana, California, after Oswald had returned
from Atsugi, began to talk about his discussions with him. His name is David
Bucknell.

Bucknell told me that one day he and Oswald went to a tavern
near the base to drink a few beers. Two women approached them. Later that day
Oswald told Bucknell the incident with the women reminded him of a experience he
had had at Atsugi. Oswald had been alone in a bar when an attractive Japanese
woman approached him, he told Bucknell. She asked him some questions about his
work on the base. That work was, of course, with the supersecret U-2 program.
Oswald,predictably, reported that conversation to his superior officer, who then
arranged for a meeting on the base between Oswald and a man dressed in civilian
clothes.

The man, a "security" or "security-intelligence" operator,
explained to Oswald that he could do his country a great service. Oswald was
told that the woman was a KGB contact and that he would be given false
information to pass on to her. Oswald agreed, and while still a teenager in the
Marine Corps he became an intelligence operative. His liaison with the woman
continued; he was given money to spend at the Queen Bee, and apparently
encouraged by American intelligence to enter into a sexual relationship with the
woman.

Regarding Oswald's tour of duty in Japan, Bucknell can only report
what Oswald recounted to him. However, he was involved directly with Oswald in
an intelligence effort when they both were at MACS-9. In1959 Oswald, Bucknell
and others were ordered to report to the Criminal Investigation (CID) at the
base. There a civilian began an effort aimed at recruiting those present for an
intelligence operation against "Communists" in Cuba. Oswald was selected to make
several additional trips to CID. Later he told Bucknell that the civilian who
served as his contact or control at Atsugi had taken over the same job at Santa
Ana. Still later, Oswald confided to Bucknell that he, Oswald was to be
discharged from the Marine Corps very soon and that he would surface in the
Soviet Union. Oswald told Bucknell that he was being sent there on assignment by
American intelligence and that he would return to the United States in 1961 as a
hero