From: mst4298@rigel.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: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 21:27:00 GMT

In article <17ofogINN8mq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright) writes...
>[Mitchell S Todd] 
>[bruce:]

>||Thanks to his announcement in the US Embassy that he planned to
>||pass such information on, the military could go ahead and change the
>||codes and frequencies immediately instead of waiting until Oswalds
>||defection could be found out through intelligence contacts.

>|	The US would have known of Oswald's defection fairly quickly
>|	and would have had enough warning to change call signs, etc,
>|	before any real harm could be done. The military wouldn't
>|	have to rely on Oswald's announcement to give them an excuse
>|	to change codes anyway.

>I think the point is that anyone with Oswald's information, that attempted to
>or said he was going to defect would normally send off alarm bells from the
>state department to the CIA to military intelligence. Quite likely, Oswald was
>attempting to tell secrets to the Enemy, which is probably against the law.

	I imagine that prosecution, or at least a detailed
	investigation, would be dependent on the quality of secrets
	we're talking about here. Oswald didn't exactly have the
	hottest information; hence his "confidential" clearence.


>At the very least, anyone doing what Oswald did would be thrown in jail or
>investigated in the Cold War spirit of the times. Instead of any likely hostile
>treatment, Oswald gets treated with kids gloves, gets visas, and even gets
>funds on his return to the US. All this to me is extremly suspicious.

	The Embassy probably would have asked the military "what would
	this guy know?" The answer would be something like "well, this
	guy was a corporal, with a confidential clearence, and he was
	a radar operator. The secret information he knows is either
	ephemoral, or is most likely already known by the enemy. He's
 	not even active duty. It's not a big deal." 

	1959/1960 was not really the height of the Cold war: that would
	come with the first two years of the Kennedy Administration,
	the Wall, the Cuban missile crisis, etc. If anything, the late
	50's saw something of a thaw, with Kruschev touring the US, and
	talk of summitry in the air. 

	Finally, I have yet to see any information indication that
	Oswald's treatment by the US after he returned was some strange
	anomaly.


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