[tpaine]

Buried within the 26 volumes of the Report are Oswald's service records, testimony of his officer in the Marines, State Department papers, contacts with top CIA officials in the USSR, job applications, a certificate of special training in radar, electronics, photographic skills, Russian language tests and proof of learning abilities, college applications and acceptances, intelligent correspondence with the Navy and important public officials, FBI contacts in Texas and New Orleans, access to passports and special favors, funding by the State Department, arrangements provided by the Treasury Department cancelled pay checks and continuous funding associated with Government employment, proof of being coached in legal rights, and Oswald's connections with U-2 flights over the USSR.
Oswald was not rejected by the society in which he lived. He received special favors in the Marines, being relieved of duty while meeting with secret persons. His discharge was honorable from the service. His entry from Helsinki into the USSR was speeded up in an "unusual" hurry. Housing and finances in the USSR were superior to that of anyone around him. All waivers were passed, breaking particular stipulations in the State Department, to allow his Russian wife speedy entry into the U.S.
Lee and Marina stayed at the best hotels, were met by VIPs at the New York harbor, were taken to their hotel, airport in limousines. Oswald had special privileges, traveled in the USSR without passes, received an immediate passport renewal in the U.S. in June 1963, and proved that with every gesture he made somebody was catering to his wishes, rather than rejecting his plans.
Research in the Report indicates that Lee Oswald was not without friends in the U.S. or in the USSR. All of his contacts and associations were with medical students, lawyers, doctors, oil engineers, accountants, professional people, professors, employees of space and defense industries.
There was a chain of command from the time of his arrival in Fort Worth in June 1962 that took care of introductions, jobs, housing, placements, assignments.
All of this had the earmarks of a very complicated and successful intelligence operation, one in which Oswald was kept on a financially short leash.

[The KG9 Kid]

Oh great. This is where you finally get the horns on your ridiculous and long standing Oswald conspiracy claims, tpaine.

Your last comment comes uncredited from the late Mae Brussel at the link Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnapped?. Was there any reason you decided not to post a link to that?

Okay, let it be known that you're referencing a left wing site tributing an old anti-war pinko screwball who saw the shadowy ghost of Adolf Hitler in everything she wrote about and talked about on some shortwave radio program targeted at angry anarcho-hippies like the Symbionese Liberation Army. Her references to the claims made in the paragraph above come primarily from career conspiracist David Lifton and third hand references from career conspiracist Mark Lane.

Almost none of the baloney in those paragraphs you posted is true, or it's taken out of context and wildly overstated as conjecture.

Among many points made by Lifton and Lane examined and debunked by Posner in 'Case Closed', here are a few which are contrary to the claims you posted above:

Oswald was indeed rejected by the society in which he lived. He received no special favors in the USMC, and met with no secret persons while being suspended from duty -- for shooting himself with an unauthorized pistol in his barracks, mind you. He spent time in the brig. He was reduced to mowing lawns, mopping decks, and washing trucks. His discharge was undesirable for re-enlistment and was granted to care for his alleged ailing mother. They were just happy to be rid of him. Lifton speculates that Oswald got expedited handling of his defection to the USSR. Oswald initially worked in a metal foundry and complained that it was too dangerous. He was switched to working in a television factory. His accommodations were not superior to his co-workers unless you count the time he spent in a guest hotel for Western tourists while awaiting his defection request response which the USSR initially rejected. His friends there were factory workers. He generated a little interest among local party members until they found out what a dullard and creep he was. Just like in America, he complained about everything and made himself out to be the poor victim.

When he returned from the USSR, he wasn't met by VIPs. In fact, he complained that there was no press event at all after laboring to create a self-serving media statement that was never delivered. His brother wired him money for him and Marina to travel to Texas where he went back to a series of dead end jobs there and in New Orleans.

During that time, he was indeed visited occasionally by FBI agents, because, you know, he was a creepy defector who they had interest in.

tpaine, Posner's 'Case Closed' addresses all of the baloney from Lane and Lifton about his so-called secret and shadowy connections to military intelligence and the CIA. That sensationalist crap has been dismissed long ago. The real story about Oswald isn't anywhere near as compelling as the lies that Lifton made up.

Thanks for finally getting around to showing us where you get your conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination, though. You're a Lane/Lifton believer who sources information from 1972 by an old pinko Jewess who worked out of her basement and believed that Richard Nixon ordered the murderers of JFK/RFK/MLK because of a CIA connection to a secret post-war consortium of Nazi war criminals still at-large.

Jesus Christ. You're a complete moonbat if you believe any of that shit. You're also on the wrong website. I think you need to find some Symbionese Liberation Army cult tribute website, because you're starting to make me think that you're Bill or Emily Harris, or someone similar.

Either that, or you were locked in a closet for months with Patty Hearst.