16-06-2013, 09:58 AM
Lee Oswald arrived in the Soviet Union on Friday, October 16, 1959. Within hours, he wrote a letter to the Supreme Soviet saying he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship and become a Soviet citizen. In that letter--which was unavailable to the Warren Commission and first made available after Russian President Boris Yeltsin turned it over to US President Bill Clinton in August, 1999--Oswald said: "I want citizenship because I am a communist and a worker; I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves."
Oswald's request was turned down, and on Wednesday, October 21--the last day of his six-day tourist visa--he prevented his (forced) expulsion when he attempted suicide (or staged a suicide attempt, depending on one's interpretation). This dramatic act of Oswald changed the entire dynamic, and the Oswald case then went to the top of the Soviet Government. Both the top level KGB then became involved, and, more important, the case was considered by Gromyko, and Mikoyan and Madame Furtseyva, the Minister of Culture, and reportedly Khruschev's girlfriend). The entire matter wasn't resolved until late November, when the USSR granted Oswald permission to remain in Russia (but not in Moscow; rather, he would be sent to Minsk).
In the interim, Oswald took a number of actions to further his chances of being granted permission to stay. In particular, on Saturday, October 31, 1959, he went to the American Embassy, met with Consul Snyder, threw down his passport, and said he was through with the U.S. and capitalism, and wanted to remain in Russia for the rest of his life. In other words, on October 31, 1959, Oswald said to Snyder--verbally, and in person--what he had already stated in writing, to the Soviet Presidium, on the day he arrived in Moscow.
Then came two "newspaper events". On Saturday, November 14, he called UPI's Aline Mosby, and invited her to his hotel for an interview. Her story ran on the UPI wire on Sunday, November 15, and was published --for example--in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It ran under the headline "Fort Worth Defector Confirms Red Beliefs" (and is Commission Exhibit 2716).
Two days later, on Monday, November 16, Priscilla Johnson (later Priscilla McMillan) knocked on Oswald's hotel door, and arranged to interview him that evening. She made notes, and filed a nearly identical story with North American News Alliance (NANA). But NANA was not a wire service, and so McMillan submitted her story by mail, and it was published in a number of newspapers over the the following month.
Mosby's story begins: Lee Oswald, still sporting the chop-top haircut he wore in the U.S. Marines, said Saturday that when he left America to seek citizenship in Russia, "It was like getting out of prison." But his dream of achieving Soviet citizenship in exchange for U.S. citizenship he renounced went aglimmering. The 20-year-old Texan from Fort Worth said Soviet authorities would not grant him citizenship although they said he could live in Russia freely as a resident alien."
McMillan's story begins:"For two years now I have been waiting to do this one thing. To dissolve my American citizenship and become a citizen of the Soviet Union." Today, twenty year-old Lee Harvey Oswald of Fort Worth, Texas, is in Moscow. he hopes he's close to his goal."
The two stories are very similar, because Oswald said the same thing to both reporters--i.e., he said the same thing to Aline Mosby, on Saturday November 14, as he said to McMillan on Monday, November 16--the difference being that Mosby's story ran nationwide on the UPI wire and had much more of a public relations effect than did McMillan's account.
Some JFK researchers have spent a lot of time and effort attempting to argue that Priscilla McMillan's story reads the way it does because she was "doing a job" for the agency. I don't see it that way, at all.
On the question of Priscilla McMillan being a CIA operative, and writing the story she did because she was a "CIA operative" or a "wanna be" CIA person, etc., here's where I stand:
The issue is not whether Priscilla Johnson McMillan may have been a CIA operative in 1959. Rather, the point is that Lee Oswald definitely was a CIA operative in October, 1959, and his entire defection was a fake.
So: Oswald was not "framed" by false accounts created by either of these two nefarious female "CIA agents" in 1959McMillan and/or Mosby. Rather: Oswald -- himself a CIA operative -- consciously and deliberately spewed the words that McMillan and Mosby both dutifully wrote down in 1959, and then distributed through their news outlets: Mosby, via UPI; and McMillan via NANA.
Oswald himself indeed said what Oswald is alleged to have said in 1959 -- and he had very specific reasons for saying it: i.e., to further his fake defection to the USSR.
So that is the issue, not whether Macmillan and/or Mosby were agency-affiliated in 1959.
Those JFK researchers who -for whatever reasoninsist on focusing on McMillan are looking at the issue through the wrong end of the telescope. Priscilla McMillan was not the central character back in 1959; Oswald wasand, historically, still is.
Viewed that way, the "media" was not "controlling" the portrait of Oswald; rather, Oswald was utilizing the media (available to him in Moscow) to paint the picture of himself that he wanted projectedi.e., to "paint" his own "self-portrait" to further his own defection.
DSL
6/16/13; 2 AM PDT
Los Angeles, California
Oswald's request was turned down, and on Wednesday, October 21--the last day of his six-day tourist visa--he prevented his (forced) expulsion when he attempted suicide (or staged a suicide attempt, depending on one's interpretation). This dramatic act of Oswald changed the entire dynamic, and the Oswald case then went to the top of the Soviet Government. Both the top level KGB then became involved, and, more important, the case was considered by Gromyko, and Mikoyan and Madame Furtseyva, the Minister of Culture, and reportedly Khruschev's girlfriend). The entire matter wasn't resolved until late November, when the USSR granted Oswald permission to remain in Russia (but not in Moscow; rather, he would be sent to Minsk).
In the interim, Oswald took a number of actions to further his chances of being granted permission to stay. In particular, on Saturday, October 31, 1959, he went to the American Embassy, met with Consul Snyder, threw down his passport, and said he was through with the U.S. and capitalism, and wanted to remain in Russia for the rest of his life. In other words, on October 31, 1959, Oswald said to Snyder--verbally, and in person--what he had already stated in writing, to the Soviet Presidium, on the day he arrived in Moscow.
Then came two "newspaper events". On Saturday, November 14, he called UPI's Aline Mosby, and invited her to his hotel for an interview. Her story ran on the UPI wire on Sunday, November 15, and was published --for example--in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It ran under the headline "Fort Worth Defector Confirms Red Beliefs" (and is Commission Exhibit 2716).
Two days later, on Monday, November 16, Priscilla Johnson (later Priscilla McMillan) knocked on Oswald's hotel door, and arranged to interview him that evening. She made notes, and filed a nearly identical story with North American News Alliance (NANA). But NANA was not a wire service, and so McMillan submitted her story by mail, and it was published in a number of newspapers over the the following month.
Mosby's story begins: Lee Oswald, still sporting the chop-top haircut he wore in the U.S. Marines, said Saturday that when he left America to seek citizenship in Russia, "It was like getting out of prison." But his dream of achieving Soviet citizenship in exchange for U.S. citizenship he renounced went aglimmering. The 20-year-old Texan from Fort Worth said Soviet authorities would not grant him citizenship although they said he could live in Russia freely as a resident alien."
McMillan's story begins:"For two years now I have been waiting to do this one thing. To dissolve my American citizenship and become a citizen of the Soviet Union." Today, twenty year-old Lee Harvey Oswald of Fort Worth, Texas, is in Moscow. he hopes he's close to his goal."
The two stories are very similar, because Oswald said the same thing to both reporters--i.e., he said the same thing to Aline Mosby, on Saturday November 14, as he said to McMillan on Monday, November 16--the difference being that Mosby's story ran nationwide on the UPI wire and had much more of a public relations effect than did McMillan's account.
Some JFK researchers have spent a lot of time and effort attempting to argue that Priscilla McMillan's story reads the way it does because she was "doing a job" for the agency. I don't see it that way, at all.
On the question of Priscilla McMillan being a CIA operative, and writing the story she did because she was a "CIA operative" or a "wanna be" CIA person, etc., here's where I stand:
The issue is not whether Priscilla Johnson McMillan may have been a CIA operative in 1959. Rather, the point is that Lee Oswald definitely was a CIA operative in October, 1959, and his entire defection was a fake.
So: Oswald was not "framed" by false accounts created by either of these two nefarious female "CIA agents" in 1959McMillan and/or Mosby. Rather: Oswald -- himself a CIA operative -- consciously and deliberately spewed the words that McMillan and Mosby both dutifully wrote down in 1959, and then distributed through their news outlets: Mosby, via UPI; and McMillan via NANA.
Oswald himself indeed said what Oswald is alleged to have said in 1959 -- and he had very specific reasons for saying it: i.e., to further his fake defection to the USSR.
So that is the issue, not whether Macmillan and/or Mosby were agency-affiliated in 1959.
Those JFK researchers who -for whatever reasoninsist on focusing on McMillan are looking at the issue through the wrong end of the telescope. Priscilla McMillan was not the central character back in 1959; Oswald wasand, historically, still is.
Viewed that way, the "media" was not "controlling" the portrait of Oswald; rather, Oswald was utilizing the media (available to him in Moscow) to paint the picture of himself that he wanted projectedi.e., to "paint" his own "self-portrait" to further his own defection.
DSL
6/16/13; 2 AM PDT
Los Angeles, California
