John Armstrong's Harvey and Lee

[Charles Drago]

I'm assuming that any Eastern European refugee families allowed to come to the US after WWII would have been checked out by the intelligence agencies, files put together on all family members (including the children), with periodic monitoring of their activities in the US. On the flip side, the real American Oswald family from New Orleans is involved with the US military, so that brings them into the same orbit.

True, you don't know how the children are going to turn out, but they only have to be roughly similar in appearance. By early adolescence (the New York period for Oswald), you can get a rough idea of how they will look as adults.

There could well have been several [to many] such pairings...and one only uses those that 'work out' as being still fairly close look alikes at a later date. Everyone is making the assumption that if this was done, it was ONLY done this once. I think if it was done, it was done with many pairs and we are seeing [for obvious reasons] a 'successful' pair that was then used operationally. The others were only used for creating paper doubles or were NOT used and let 'go'.....

Well stated, Peter.

I would add that some "Eastern refugee families allowed to come to the US after WWII" likely had been sent to and expected by certain allied parties in the West.

As I wrote in the Introduction to George Michael Evica's last book:

"Haunting the pages of A Certain Arrogance ... is a revelation so menancing in its assaults on convention and authority as to provoke a reflexive shielding of our eyes from its searing illumination. Yet Professor Evica could not spare us the psychic pain that is the unavoidable side effect of his scholarship, insofar as such suffering remains the sine qua non for the eradication of our common malady.

"Within the nucleus [of the JFK conspiracy], Professor Evica discovered 'a treasonous cabal of hard-line American and Soviet intelligence agents whose masters were above Cold War differences.' [emphasis added for this post]

"In light of this truth, we are left with no choice but to embrace a new paradigm of world power.

"Professor Evica revealed the universally accepted vertical, East v. West Cold War confrontation to be a sophistic construct, illusory in terms of its advertised raison d'etre but all too real in the bloody consequences of its staging, created by the powerful yet outnumbered manipulators of perception to protect what they recognized to be an all-too-fragile reality. The true division of power, he discovered, then as now is drawn on a horizontal axis.

"Envision the earth so bifurcated, with the line drawn not at the equator, but rather at the Arctic Circle. Above the line are the powerful few -- the 'Haves.' Below the line, in vastly superior numbers, are the powerless many -- the 'Have-Nots.'