Greg R. Parker - Lee Harvey Oswald’s Cold War Volume Two: Why the Kennedy Assassination Should Be Reinvestigated

Lee Harvey Oswalds Cold War: Why the Kennedy Assassination Should Be Reinvestigated

New Orleans, Fort Worth, California, Japan, Indonesia & Santa Ana by

Greg R. Parker

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For Alex, Ben, and Thom

The author wishes to acknowledge that the task of writing these volumes would not have been contemplated without knowing the help of many could be counted upon. It has been a truly global effort.

Specifically, I wish to thank

In Australasia

Steven Duffy, Vanessa Loney, Toni Parker, Mick Purdy, James Richards, Anthony Thorne, Frankie Vegas and Hasan Yusuf In Europe

Lee Farley, Bernie Laverick, Sean Murphy and John Watters In North America Herbert Blenner, Eric Catuccio, Robert Charles-Dunne, Jim Di Eugenio, Lee Forman, Richard Gilbride, Mark Groubert, Larry Hancock, Lisa Harbatkin, Nathaniel Heidenheimer, Robert Howard, Bill Kelly, Erin Lacey, Duke Lane, Ed LeDoux, Terry Martin, Carlos Mucha, William ONeil, Jim Olmstead, Bill Simpich, Andrea Skolnik, Stig, and Stu Wexler Each has contributed to this effort in their own way. I am especially grateful to Lee Farley for his friendship, support, research assistance and book cover designs, Robert Charles-Dunne for his friendship, support and vast knowledge in many areas of interest inside and outside of this case, Jim Olmstead whom I regard as my original mentor and who encouraged and added to my work enormously, and to Stig, who did the hard digging to obtain the evidence needed in pinning down some of the main claims within these volumes, and who also gave freely of his own personal research.

It would be remiss not to also acknowledge the wonderfully talented members at the reopenkennedycase forum. It has been a privilege. The good-will is endless, the humor often raw and thought-provoking.

PART 1 SYMBIOSIS & SYNTHESIS: 19541956

All of us live under the same sky, but we dont all have the same horizon.

Conrad Adenauer

Thats the new disease.

Natalie Wood in Rebel without a Cause, 1955

On December 6, 1953, Operation Candor was officially launched when Eisenhower addressed the UN General Assembly giving his Atoms for Peace speech. The stated purpose of the speech was to advise the public about the dangers of nuclear proliferation and the difficulties involved in accounting for all the nuclear material held by either side. Such candor was meant to share the troubling information with the world through the UN in order to gain approval for whatever defensive steps may be deemed necessary. It was also an opportunity to counter Soviet propaganda that it was the West blocking the path to dtente. This was to be achieved by proposing that both Superpowers contribute fissile material from their stockpiles to a depository for use by, and under the control of, an International Atomic Energy Agency.

It was not diplomacy. It was not keeping faith with voters. It was not heartfelt. It was Game Theory. And Game Theory is war strategy by another name. The speech deepened nuclear secrecy and suspicion, in turn leading to greater threats to public health not only in terms of mass psycho-political hysteria but also via isolated pockets of physical damage through human radiation experiments.

The Soviets were winning the propaganda war. The Soviets were winning the space race. This was not time to double-down. By 1956, Eisenhower wanted genuine rapprochement and opened the gates to the sharing of culture and science. It was an opportunity to find similarities and mutual benefits for some; for others, it was an opportunity to keep the Cold War rolling.

Back in the Big Easy

Marguerite and Lee turned up on Lillian Murrets doorstep at 757 French Street in New Orleans without prior notice. The mother told Lillian she had sought legal advice, and that advice was that she had better get out of New York as fast as she could with this boy.

Young Lee was familiar with the address. He had been looked after by Aunt Lillian and her husband Uncle Dutz on occasion in the past.

The HSCA concluded that Uncle Dutz had served as a surrogate father of sorts throughout much of Oswalds life in New Orleans. This conclusion is completely at odds however with Dutzs Warren Commission testimony. When asked by Counsel Jenner what kind of boy Lee was, Murret replied, Well, Ill tell you; I didnt take that much interest in him. I couldnt tell you anything about that, because I didnt pay attention to all that. I do think he was a loud kid, you know what I mean; he was always raising his voice when he wanted something from his mother, I know that, but I think a lot of times he was just the opposite. He liked to read, and he stuck by himself pretty much in the apartment the way I understand it. The only father figure Oswald ever knew was Edwin Ekdahl. Despite this, both Marguerite and Lee left Ekdahl out of the family history given to Lees Probation Officer and Youth House staff. Accurate and complete family history of course, is integral to accurate and complete child welfare assessments, and this missing piece of information helped color the assessments made of young Lee. If we consider those omissions and the unflattering assessments of Marguerite and Lees (very likely contrived) truancy, what we arrive at is the profile used by the Communists during the Korean War to identify potential military defectors. To refresh memories, here again is the profile we looked at in Volume One:

unstable childhood, or

raised in female dominated house-hold

high IQ but low prospects, or

physical differences

aversion to authority

thirst for knowledge

past criminal/delinquent record

If looking for a suitable candidate to fool the Communists in any false defector program, you would look for someone who ticked most or all of those boxes, in reality perhaps, but preferably with at least some markers on paper only.

The HSCA conclusion regarding the closeness of the relationship between Dutz and Lee has to be seen in light of some of its other findings. This includes that two gunmen fired at JFK, that one of the gunmen was Oswald, that individual members of anti-Castro Cuban groups, or individual members of national syndicates of organized crime were possibly involved, and that Dutz Murret was close to individual members of organized crime in New Orleans. It should come as no surprise then that the Chief Counsel for the HSCA, Prof. G. Robert Blakey, would author a book in 1981 on the assassination maintaining Oswald was a sniper in a mob revenge hit. Later still, in a 1993 interview with Frontline commemorating the 30th anniversary of the assassination, Blakey, when asked