Anyone want to discuss HARVEY & LEE?

[Jim Hargrove]

It makes perfect sense that Baker didn't mention the lunch-room encounter because he had the problem of seeing the same person twice within a short period.

It seems likely that Baker would consider other possibilities for the two sightings instead of considering them the same man, though I doubt an Intelligence operation involving doubles would immediately be one of them <g>.

If this did happen the way you speculate, do you think Truly vouched for both Oswalds? If so, that sure seals his guilt. Truly's affidavit, signed on the 23rd, just refers to the second floor encounter.

I mentioned your theory to John A. late last night, and he said that with only a few seconds to think about it, his first thoughts were that you might be right. He said the timing issue for Truly, Baker and Mrs. Reid was critical, but since everything occurred in mere seconds, its hard to pin down. Then he talked about Roy Truly.

John said setting up Harvey as the patsy took months of work, and there was no other known candidate for the patsy role in Dallas at the time. So Harvey was critical. He had to be at the right place at the right time. And so someone had to keep an eye on him, at the TSBD, at North Beckley, at Ruth Paine's. John thought the candidates for watching Harvey at the Book Depository were Frazier, Shelly, and Truly, and he thinks Truly was the guy for a number of reasons, including the fact that he hired Harvey. John wonders if the phone call from Ruth Paine to Truly ever really happened. (He said the call from the Paine residence to the TSBD was technically long-distance, and that therefore billing records would exist for it, but the Warren Commission never sought them.)

Albert--I've been on vacation some the last few weeks and may have missed your main description of this theory. I looked back in this thread and didn't see it. Can you point me in the direction of it?