Did the anti-Castro Lawrence agree to engage in some low-level espionage against the pro-Castro Oswald -- and was then sickened when he realized that he had been used as a fall guy?
Whether or not editor Johnny King had his story right, Michael Paine is somehow caught up in this web of deception.
The aforementioned anomalies of the Oswald story were ignored by the Warren Commission. Instead, the month of September 1964 was used to ensure that these stories and others like it were smoothed over prior to publication. The man who had ordered this review of these stories, J. Lee Rankin, had a shot at being a hero. Rankin didn't take it.
In the years before his death, Rankin encouraged researchers in the JFK case to keep digging. Rankin asked one researcher, "Are you looking into the plots on the basis of whether they were covered up by the CIA because some of the very people involved in them could have been involved in the President's assassination?" When told that was an area of investigation, Rankin replied, "Good. Good. You have to look at it that way."
Ruth Paine's relationship with Lee Oswald's letter that tied him to the USSR and Cuba
The most remarkable story about Ruth Paine is how she defused the explosive letter written by Oswald to the Soviet Embassy in DC -- this is where she switched from being Marina's legend maker to being Oswald's worst nightmare.
Paine admitted to copying this letter by hand with the intention of turning it over to FBI agent Jim Hosty. Hosty had met with Paine a few days earlier to find out where Oswald lived and where he worked. Paine assumed that Hosty would soon come back again.
The letter that Paine had found is dated 11/9/63. Go back to the incident at Hutchinson's grocery. Did Oswald write this letter the day after he got paid $189 on the 8th, or was it supposed to look that way?
The letter focused on Oswald's contacts with the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City. This letter enabled the higher-ups in the FBI to learn days before the assassination that Oswald visited the Cuban compound in Mexico City - at the time, this information was concealed by the CIA's Mexico City station from its own headquarters, at least in official documents. (For more, see State Secret, Chapter 5)
The letter arrived at the Soviet embassy on the 18th, and intercepted and on Hoover's desk by the 19th.
Here's the text of the letter, which shows that events were moving into an endgame:
This is to inform you of recent events since by meetings with comrade Kostin in the Embassy of the Soviet Union, Mexico City, Mexico.
I was unable to remain in Mexico indefinly because of my Mexican visa restrictions which was for 15 days only. I could not take a chance on requesting a new visa unless I used my real name, so I returned to the United States.
I had not planned to contact the Soviet embassy in Mexico so they were unprepared, had I been able to reach the Soviet Embassy in Havana as planned, there would have been time to complete our business.
Of corse the Soviet embassy was not at fault, they were, as I say unprepared, the Cuban consulate was guilty of a gross breach of regulations, I an glad he has since been replaced.
The Federau Bureau of Investigation is not now interested in my activities in the progressive organization Fair Play for Cuba Committee, of which I was secretary in New Orleans (state Louisiana) since I no longer reside in that state. However, the FBI has visited us here in Dallas, Texas, on November 1. Agent James P. Hasty warned me that if I engaged in FPCC activities in Texas the FBI will again take and 'interest' in me.
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