We do see a note stating that "Alexander Zeger...is probably identical with Alejandro Ziger, a Polish engineer and radiotelephonic expert...: Oswald
201 File, Vol 24 Bulky, Oswald Chronology Part 2 to Name Trace Appendix Draft,
4/16/64 draft of "Chronology of Oswald in the USSR",
CIA document. See p. 160. Background notes on this draft: Chronology of Oswald in the USSR, cover and opening page.
This CIA document indicates that Ziger may have been an agent" and an "ardent Communist officer" born in 1908: Name Check Request - Alexsandr Ziger, p.3, ARRB 1996 Releases/NARA Record Number: 104-10006-10226
There is a reference in Oswald's phone book to a "Debovy
or Debooy". CIA analyst Marguerite Stevens wondered if it might be a
reference to "David DeBoey Sagier": Memo by M.D. Stevens to Chief, Research
Branch SRS/OS, 2/3/64, HSCA
Segregated CIA Collection, Box 47/NARA Record Number:
1993.07.24.10:25:23:530550
Born in 1908, David Zagier's memoir Botchki describes growing up in Poland and his work with the OSS and the CIA: David Zagier, Botchki (George Braziller, 2001)
David D. Zagier wrote an OSS paper on the devaluation of the Finnish mark: OSS Secret Intelligence/Special Funds Records, 1942-46, p. 214.
Alejandro Ziger's daughter "Lenora Zeger" is described as divorced and a singer. Lenora and Lee used to like to flirt together. The CIA's traces indicate that Lenora's birthdate is supposedly "1923": Name Check Request - Lenora Zeger, Oswald 201 File (201-289248)/NARA Record Number: 104-10006-10227
Oswald's diary estimates that Lenora was born in 1934: Revised and Updated Version of List Forwarded to Warren Commission Re Names, p. 204, ARRB 1996 Releases/NARA Record Number: 104-10009-10068
The CIA's traces for the younger sister Anita indicate that her birth year is supposedly "1929": Name Check Request - Anita Zeger, Oswald 201 File, Vol 53B/NARA Record Number: 104-10006-10228
Regarding Mrs. Zeger, her traces are run for her apparent maiden name,"Ana Dmitruk": Name Check Request - Ana Dmitruk, Oswald 201 File (201-289248)/NARA Record Number: 104-10006-10114. Note that the attached documents identify a woman who was born in the 1880s and couldn't have been Ana. The identified woman may have been Ana's mother.
The odds are strong that Ana is related to Pavel Dymitruk, whose ex-wife Lydia took in Marina Oswald after the Oswalds left the USSR and arrived in Texas virtually penniless: Memo from James Angleton to Director of Naval Intelligence, 5/19/64, Russ Holmes Work File/NARA Record Number: 104-10423-10255. Although unsigned by Angleton, the format and typeface reveals it as an Angleton memorandum; see this 2/14/64 Angleton memo for comparison.
An alleged ship manifest says that Ziger and his family left Argentina for the USSR with his family in 1956, but the birth years don't track what we have previously seen - his birth year as approximately 1912, his wife Ana's as 1910, daughter Leonor as 1935, and daughter Anita as 1941: "Chronology of Oswald in the USSR", for date January 12, 1960; Oswald 201 File, Vol 38B/NARA Record Number: 1993.06.10.15:01:04:030000
Author John Armstrong went to Argentina in 1998 and interviewed Ana Zeger. To Armstrong's astonishment, Ana Zeger told him that Oswald "didn't speak any Russian at all"...: John Armstrong interview with Ana Ziger, October 1998. See Armstrong's Harvey and Lee, (Quasar, Ltd., Arlington, Texas 2003), p. 336.
Oswald's male friends spoke English, and his female companions were from the foreign language institute who spoke English: Norman Mailer, Oswald's Tale, pp. 108, 122-123 (Erich Titovets), Inna Pasenko, other girls at the Foreign Languages Institute, pp. 123-126. Pavel Golovachev's letters to Oswald are all in English.
When Oswald was hospitalized for his alleged suicide attempt, the authorities thought that he understood the Russian spoken to him despite his verbal denials. "Sometimes he answers correctly, but immediately states that he does not understand what he was asked". Soviet hospital medical notes, Warren Commission Exhibit 985.
His Intourist guide Rimma Shirokova recalled that "he didn't seem to know a single word in Russian" when he arrived in the USSR: Norman Mailer, Oswald's Tale, p. 43.
Angleton's aide Ray Rocca told the Church
Committee that Shirakova was a KGB agent: Memorandum
for the Record by AC/CI/OG Robert Wall re Ray Rocca meeting with Senate Select
Committee staff, 11/13/75, Russ
Holmes Work File/NARA Record Number: 104-10423-10002.
Oswald's Russian
was considered good enough in the United States
to qualify him as a professional translator...: Testimony of Paul Gregory, Warren Commission Hearings, Volume 2, p. 338.
...and for his wife Marina to mistake him as a
native-born Russian with a Baltic accent when they first met: Testimony of Paul Gregory, Warren Commission Hearings, Volume 9, p. 146.
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