One theory I heard recently was that Barry wasn’t his purported mother’s son at all, but an illegitimate son of the 9th Rama of Thailand, who was given to the young second-generation CIA woman to raise as a favor and safe-keeping for the Rama. The Rama btw was a musician and composer of jazz, so hanging around a surprising number of black folks around the supposed time of this.
That is a pretty wild! I personally wouldn’t give it much credence. I consider the current archival evidence in three government archives that SADO is his mom and that she was knocked up by BHO Sr. to be persuasive to me until better evidence turns up.
Those archives are the INS records for BHO Sr. recording the report that he inseminated Barry’s mom and she was going to decamp to U of Washington. U of Washington records that she spent her semester there and then U of H records that she came back and had U of W credits. U of W and U of H are government archives along with the INS, so you can’t beat that for contemporaneous records cross-affirming a trail pointing to SADO as Barry’s mom.
Now WHERE he was born is another matter.