From: mst4298@zeus.tamu.edu (Mitchell S Todd)
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
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:52:00 GMT

david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright) writes...
>mst4298@zeus.tamu.edu (Mitchell S Todd) writes:

>||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.

>|	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.

	It has? where has this been shown, since I haven't seen it.
	
	Anyway, the first thing the CIA would want in a deep cover agent
	would be reliability, and unreliability was a character trait
	that Oswald fairly exuded. 

	
>|	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?

	Since Oswald attended only two or three meetings before
	losing interest and dropping out, I seriously doubt that
	there is anything more than a casual connection. 


>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,

	What work that needed a secret clearence? 


>or gets venereal disease in "the line of duty"?

	Or he just got VD and convinced the doctor/corpsman to add
	"in the line of	duty" so Oswald would stay out of trouble?


>You must have read the connections, the ease at which he passed between
>countries,

	How hard would it have to be? 

>his confession that he was going to spill secrets to the Soviets, etc

	Now this is a new one. Who did he say this to, and when?


..What do you make of this?

	Certainly not moutains out of molehills.


>||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.

	Well, you started out by saying that the Soviets knew Oswald
	was a spy. I saw the Nightline episode and the associated
	newspaper, etc articles, and they only claimed that the 
	Soviets suspected that LHO was a spy. Since the Soviets
	have released their files on Oswald, I'm sure we'd know
	by now if they could prove it. The Soviets would have suspected
	Oswald whether he was a spy or not.


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