20-04-2014, 12:53 AM
Hoover got personally involved with the Oswald file shortly after his defection to USSR, when it was alleged that someone pretending to be him tried to arrange for auto loans or something similar. The FBI determined that Oswald's official birth certificate was missing from the parish of his birth. (was this the first ever FBI identity theft case?) In addition to the normal "defector" file, they did have an active case agents assigned to him at all times in 1963, so some of the background information might have already been gathered prior to the assassination. I've no doubt that they were burning the midnight oil (and possibly other more relevant things) right after his name was announced. There is no question that the FBI knew a lot more about him than they pretended to know.

