From: david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Re: Teen Agent, Can you Hear Me? Teen Agent, Can You See Me? (was: Clay Shaw is Clay Bertrand, Oswald *was* a Teen Agent
Date: 18 Aug 92 05:51:22 GMT
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In article <17AUG199221485278@zeus.tamu.edu> mst4298@zeus.tamu.edu (Mitchell S Todd) writes:
|david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright) writes...
||In article <13AUG199212033646@summa.tamu.edu| mst4298@summa.tamu.edu (Mitchell S Todd) writes:
|||In article <schuck.713688893@sfu.ca|, Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes...
||||Mitchell S Todd |
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||This is obviously ideal from the CIA's point of view. They get a young
||recruit, do a few odd and ends, nothing to dangerous, and then can have some
||deap cover. I don't see anything absurd about this at all. It is not as
||though the CIA went actively looking, but if someone like Oswald joins the
||Civil Air Patrol at an early age, they might want to keep him for some purpose.
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|	I should let this statement stand on its own as an example of
|	conspiracy-think. But I'm not, of course.

There is nothing conspiratorial about it. How do you think the CIA recruits
people for deep cover anyway? It has already been shown that they in fact do
look at young people Oswald's age.

|	The whole idea that the CIA would recruit, or even be interested
|	in, a young derelict whose affiliation with the cover
|	organization was short and shallow is at the far edge of
|	believability. Also, David seems to assume that the CAP was
|	automatically some CIA front, along with all its members),
|	something that I've seen little or no real basis for.

I see. It's just a coincidence that Ferrie and Oswald were in the CAP?
It is just a coincidence that Oswald goes to the Atsui Air Force base in Japan,
or comes back and does work that needs a secret clearance, or gets
venereal disease in "the line of duty"? You must have read the connections, the
ease at which he passed between countries, his confession that he was going to
spill secrets to the Soviets, etc...What do you make of this?
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||After all, the Soviets say they knew Oswald was an agent anyway, and they
||didn't kill him or put his life in danger.
|
|	The Soviets claim only that they suspected that he was a spy
|	not that they "knew" in the way of being able to prove it.

Is there a point to this mindless distinction? Maybee they could prove it.

|	The Soviet Union, and Czarist Russia before it, was known
|	for, among other things, an acute case of xenophobia. Even
|	Peter the Great, who endeavored to import Western knowledge
|	into Russia, kept the European experts segregated away from 
|	the general populace. The Soviets were no less xenophobic;
|	after the end of WWII, many non-German foreigners in the
|	occupied lands, including many Americans and the Sweedish hero
|	Raul Wallenberg, never to be heard from again. The KGB would
|	have suspected Oswald of being a spy from the start. Such
|	was the Soviet way.

What about Catherine the Great and the Cossacks? What about Abraham Lincoln and
Daniel Boone? Must have been a slow day....
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