History Channel Series Unveils Possible Lee Harvey Oswald Link to KGB!

By Dave O’Brien

Just eight weeks before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, did accused lone assassin Lee Harvey Oswald make a mysterious visit to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City?

Thanks to a six-part series by the History Channel titled JFK De-Classified: Tracking Oswald, it appears that Oswald visited both the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico for reasons pertaining to his actions two months later in Dallas.

If the visit by Kennedy’s alleged assassin did occur, we may be much closer to finding answers to these intriguing questions:

1. Why did the Warren Commission dismiss the trip to Mexico or an Oswald visit to the Soviet Embassy?

Instead, the Warren Report published a photo of a man pretending to be Oswald, claiming the matter to be a case of mistaken identity (see upper left).

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   Why did the Soviet Union refuse to allow the Warren Commission access to its files on Oswald’s two-year stay in the Communist country prior to the assassination, as well as Oswald’s visit to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico?

2. Is it just a coincidence that Oswald’s visit to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico happened to be where the Soviet KGB’s covert director of sabotage and foreign assassinations Valery Kostikov was stationed?

In A&E’s 2017 docuseries, former CIA counterintelligence officer and CNN contributor Bob Baer, along with retired LAPD Lieutenant Adam Bercovici, connect some fascinating dots about Oswald’s actions in the weeks leading up to JFK’s assassination on November 22, 1963.

Oswald’s trip to the Cuban and Soviet embassies, if factual, has been dismissed by the U.S. government as Oswald merely attempting to obtain a Visa for he and his family to return to the Soviet Union via Havana.

SOVIET ‘HIT’ ON KENNEDY?

Researchers like Peter Dale Scott, author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, have unearthed evidence that Oswald was hardly playing tourist in Mexico City.

Using his vast experience in such clandestine meetings, especially during the Cold War, Bob Baer sees the Oswald and Kostikov link as anything but coincidental.

“Something happened in Mexico City (involving Oswald) that the CIA Director didn’t want the Warren Commission to know about,” Baer says in the second episode of the History Channel report.

And to make sure that the CIA had an empathetic friend and censor during the JFK assassination investigation, former CIA Director Allan Dulles became one of the seven Warren Commission members who was assigned to be the liaison between the CIA and the Commission.

Coincidentally, Dulles was fired by President Kennedy after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. He would know how to redact or suppress CIA documents sensitive to national security interests from the Commission or FBI investigators.

Lieutenant Bercovici likens Oswald meeting with America’s greatest enemy at that time to a 24-year-old American meeting today with ISIS or Al-Qaeda officials.

Can we really believe that the CIA had no interest in an American citizen who had previously defected to the Soviet Union, comes back home two years later and makes a mysterious visit to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City?

COMRADE OSVALDOVICH?

Bear, who conducted several clandestine meetings with covert operators, says that a meeting would not have been conducted inside the Soviet Embassy because of heavy CIA electronic surveillance.

Instead, a second covert meeting would have been set-up in a crowded public setting that would make surveillance virtually impossible.

This would rule out the Hotel del Comercio where Oswald stayed. Rather than situated in a tourist area, the hotel was known to be a hub for gangs, drug dealers and secret government activities.

Back then, Oswald more likely received a ‘walk-in’ package that he was trained to de-code and act upon.

What got Baer’s attention were four blank postcards found at Oswald’s residence after the assassination. Each postcard featured a color photograph of a Mexico City landmark.

On the History Channel program, Baer, Bercovici and a small team visit the four landmarks and scout them out as potential clandestine meeting sites.

Three are ruled out because of the ease in which the CIA could have been watching and listening. One site proved to be ideal.

The Plaza Del Torres, Mexico’s largest bull-fighting stadium, would be a perfect meeting place. To prove it, Baer and an associate positioned themselves inside the stadium during a bull fight and challenged his team to find them having a simulated covert meeting.

Although his team knew that Baer and his ‘Oswald actor’ were inside the half-filled bull ring, they could not find them.

Could such a meeting have taken place between Oswald and a KGB handler such as Kostikov?

Declassified CIA files identify Valery Kostikov as director of Department 13, the KGB’s assassination squad. Further, he was stationed in Mexico City in the later part of 1963.

A search in the Mexico City archives proves that such a meeting was possible. There was a bull fight at the Plaza Del Torres on September 29, 1963, the day after Oswald walked into the Soviet Embassy.

OSWALD’S ROLE

Even if the meeting took place to discuss the pending assassination of the U.S. president, it is difficult to believe that the Soviets would have entrusted Oswald to carry out the assassination on his own.

While in the Soviet Union, Oswald was the brunt of jokes by comrades who had to provide him with game from hunting trips to help him save face. His Marine records also indicate that he was an average marksman at best.

However, what if Oswald had a most fascinating story to tell his Soviet handlers? What if Oswald was not to be the lone assassin, but merely one of the organizers?

As described in detail in Chapter 12 of Through The ‘Oswald’ Window, the communist sympathiser may have had a doozy of a story to relay to the Soviets.

Oswald had a friend named David Ferrie who kept some rather nefarious company leading up to the JFK assassination.

Ferrie was a contractor for hire by both organized crime in Louisiana and the CIA, helping them to train anti-Castro freedom-fighters for the Bay of Pigs invasion.

The anti-Castro training camps were stationed in Lake Pontchartrain just outside of New Orleans, where Oswald lived at the time with uncle Charles Dutz Murret, who happened to be a bookmaker for the Carlos Marcello crime family.

Marcello hated the Kennedys for both the heat Robert Kennedy’s Justice Department was putting on the Mafia as well as RFK having Marcello deported to Guatemala without due process.

Marcello not only confessed to having JFK killed on FBI wiretaps, he is believed to have financially sponsored the camps in his territory as mob boss.

KGB WISH COME TRUE

As wonderful as a mafia link to the assassination would sound to the Soviets, it gets even better for them.

Not only did Ferrie work as a private pilot for Marcello believed to have quietly returned the mafia kingpin back to America a few months after deportation, his work at the anti-Castro training camps put him in direct touch with rebel members of the CIA – namely Frank Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt.

Both Sturgis and Hunt would eventually become notorious for their involvement in the Watergate break-in under President Nixon in 1972.

They previously worked for Nixon in the planning of the Bay of Pigs invasion, as well as secretive assassination attempts against Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

In a deathbed confession to his children for a biography released posthumously, Hunt admitted to being in Dallas on the day that Kennedy was killed, but stopped short of declaring a role in the event.

Oswald would have taken delight in informing the Soviet KGB that a shocking Mafia-CIA alliance would take the blame for the murder of their Cold War adversary.

And the KGB would have loved the embarrassment this alliance would have caused the U.S. government, not to mention their Cold War nemesis – the CIA.

The History Channel docuseries brings the KGB-Oswald connection all the way back to Dallas, claiming that Oswald was actually on his way to a KGB safehouse after shooting JFK.

Then something went terribly wrong.

Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit allegedly intercepts Lee Harvey Oswald 46 minutes after the assassination and pays for the rendezvous with his life.

Oswald is captured under bizarre circumstances and denies shooting either Kennedy or Tippit while in police custody, leaving us yet another unanswered question of historical importance – Who hired Jack Ruby to silence Oswald forever?

There doesn’t seem to be a shortage of people or organizations who might want to hire Ruby as a hit man, including the KGB!