description: In 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald defected to the Soviet Union and was sent to Minsk, where he was kept under constant KGB surveillance on the suspicion that he might be a CIA agent. In 1993 Norman Mailer spent six months in Minsk retracing Oswald's former friends and sweethearts. He obtained exclusive interviews with KGB officers and exclusive access to KGB surveillance reports. Mailer also provides an account of Oswald's disastrous childhood and of the events leading from his return to the US to his death in Dallas.
language: English
title: Oswald's Tale : An American Mystery
titlecomplete: Oswald's Tale : An American Mystery
characters: Lee Harvey Oswald
genres: Biography, American, Politics, The United States Of America, Psychology, Nonfiction, American History, History, Crime, True Crime
ratings_count: 1178
publisher: Abacus