The CIA made it its business to get to know people on the Left. Many of them provided the Agency with little gems about their Cold War enemies.
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How Ruth's machinations got Oswald the job at the Texas School Book Depository
Let's return to the story of what Oswald was doing in the weeks immediately leading up to 11/22/63.
When Lee needed a job in Dallas
during October, 1963, the Warren Commission says that it was Ruth who set him
up working the boxes on the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository, thanks to
a tip from neighbor Buell Wesley Frazier's sister Linnie Mae Randle. The
Book Depository was an ideal spot along the motorcade route for a sniper to
take a shot at the President.
Ruth said she bitterly regretted her role in finding Oswald the Book Depository job. I believe that is true, but the Commission ignored Randle's statement that she did not know of any jobs available at the depository during that time.
Furthermore, the Warren Commission suppressed the information that Paine hid from Oswald that Robert Adams from the Texas Employment Commission had left a message at her home in an effort to tell Oswald that a job was available with Trans Texas Airways which would have paid much more money than the Depository job. Paine would not admit receiving that message.
Adams remembered the details of this story in August 1964, after he had for some strange reasons denied telephoning for Oswald when originally quizzed by the Warren Commission in April.
There is a phone number in Oswald's phone book that should be Robert Adams' number, but it reads as "Robert Odum". This is beyond Oswald's normal misspellings. Did Odum have some kind of relationship with Oswald? Was this some kind of Freudian slip?
Odum was all over this case before and after 11/22. I will discuss more of Odum's post-11/22 actions in the epilogue.
By the end, even the general counsel of the Warren Commission realized something was deeply wrong with the Oswald story
What is particularly interesting to me is how even J. Lee Rankin, the general counsel of the Warren Commission, was forced to conclude in the last month of the investigation that something in the Oswald story was deeply wrong.
Deadlines had come and gone. LBJ had made it clear that the report had to be done by the end of September, well before the 1964 presidential election.
At the beginning of September, counsel Rankin wrote a four-page memo to Hoover, telling him that the Commission needed to review the evidence around several individuals: The grocer Leonard Hutchison, the barber Cliff Shasteen, the auto salesman Albert Bogard, and the gun owner Garland Slack. The backstory involving all four of these men led right back to the Paines. It would have been hard for Rankin to ignore it.
Special Agent Richard Rogge observed that these events are based on stories that "generally do not adhere to facts developed by us", and claimed that the re-investigation of these witnesses only further supported the FBI's version of the facts. Rogge testified that the reason that the FBI had jurisdiction in the JFK case was because of "presidential directive" from LBJ himself.
Rankin's concern was well-founded. The evidence involving these four men didn't add up.
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