Hidell: A Hypothesis

[Charles Drago]

Hidell = hide Lee and Lee.

[David Andrews]

Hidell = hide Lee and Lee.

Good one - however, the novelist Don Delillo hit on this in his 1980s book on Oswald, Libra.

[Stan Wilbourne]

Richard Case Nagell said something about the meaning of "Hidell," but I'm having difficulty recalling it.

Anyone remember?

[Charles Drago]

Hidell = hide Lee and Lee.

Good one - however, the novelist Don Delillo hit on this in his 1980s book on Oswald, Libra.

Thanks, David. I truly was not aware.

Great literary minds think alike, I guess!

[David Andrews]

Hidell = hide Lee and Lee.

Good one - however, the novelist Don Delillo hit on this in his 1980s book on Oswald, Libra.

Thanks, David. I truly was not aware.

Great literary minds think alike, I guess!

Delillo had it as Hide-ell (ell = graphic representation of sound of letter L) - "Hidell means Don't Tell." It's a good book.

[Albert Rossi]

Richard Case Nagell said something about the meaning of "Hidell," but I'm having difficulty recalling it.

Anyone remember?

Something about Nag-ell, Hid-ell.

Also I don't know if it's in Russell or not, but I seem to remember from somwhere Jekyll + Hyde ==> Hidell...

And there are others ...

[David Andrews]

Richard Case Nagell said something about the meaning of "Hidell," but I'm having difficulty recalling it.

Anyone remember?

Dick Russell wrote that the "-ell" in Hidell was copied from the -ell in Nagell, and that he and Oswald used one-ell and two-ell spellings of the names Nagell and Hidell under different alias circumstances. It is possible that these five-letter vs. six-letter versions indicated work for the US some times and the Russians other times (Russell suggests that this is how Nagell used his "Nagel" alias, at least.)

Russell confronted Nagell with the idea that the "Hid-" in Hidell stood for the HID, a South Korean intelligence agency that Nagell worked with in Japan, and that Nagell may have had Oswald working for. Russell said that Nagell looked surprised at this reference, and then avoided the question, refusing to confirm or deny.

The Nagell-Oswald nexus is one of the most fascinating leads to assassination investigation.

[Albert Rossi]

Russell confronted Nagell with the idea that the "Hid-" in Hidell stood for the HID, a South Korean intelligence agency that Nagell worked with in Japan, and that Nagell may have had Oswald working for. Russell said that Nagell looked surprised at this reference, and then avoided the question, refusing to confirm or deny.

The Nagell-Oswald nexus is one of the most fascinating leads to assassination investigation.

Yeah, that was really interesting. Thanks for refreshing us on this.