About $38,000 in today's dollars.
Here is a great documentary on everything you wanted to know about Oswald . ..
I think he was a misfit, and didn't need any encouragement or help from Russia or Cuba. A lot of the KGB thought that Oswald was either a flake or double agent.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oswald/
What did he do with all the money? Both him and his wife lived like paupers . .