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Dory Wiley's avatar

Thanks Chad. Mexico City is the hardest part of all of it. There’s also the angle that Oswald DID go to Mexico City to deliver a bioweapon and was prevented from doing so. Duran is still key as she went through a lot and was still alive at least till a few years ago. One thing is for sure, Mexico was used as sheepdeeping Oswald as Russian Communist and everything had to be covered up and blamed on Oswald as a lone nut to prevent World War III. That was told to LBJ and Earl Warren early on.

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Chad Nagle's avatar

Thanks, Dory. I was unaware of the bioweapon story. However, I think the sheep-dipping might not have been intended to set LHO up as JFK’s assassin, at least not at the time he visited Mexico. After JFK was dead, those eager to set him up as a patsy used the Mexico City episode as proof of his left-wing extremism. The plotters had already decided to kill Kennedy by 9/63, but I’m not sure they’d settled on exactly who the patsy would be yet.

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Dory Wiley's avatar

Perhaps they hadn’t decided for sure by then as they had the Tampa and Chicago plot options available at that time, but hard to say something wasn’t up when you look at Ruth Paine, her CIA background, her control over Marina, her direction in getting Oswald to TSBD, her production of questionable evidence and her still classified testimony and tax returns. That would lead to a much longer time frame of set up for Oswald including being warned he was set up in NOLA by Richard Case Nagell.

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Gyuro Kozmo's avatar

Hi everyone. Congrats Chad of course your description is realistic for 99% . But I do live in Ex Russia ans spent my first 35 ys till 1990 under direct KGB rule. When you ask why would a Mexico City KGB know about LHO you have been regressing to the American average level of naiveté. What about a KGB officer being able to read the news in English...LHOs defection and returning were in the news. It was not an everyday case...Later your reporting becomes realistic...sure they wanted to "dangle" the "durak" [ Lenin called them *useful idiots* who believe the lueing dogmas of Marxism on classless society NOT being a slaveowner police state haha ..]

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

Get Marina to testify at the next hearing about whether Oswald went to Mexico City or not and whether she took the backyard photos.

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Chad Nagle's avatar

That would be great if possible. But Luna’s task force doesn’t have subpoena power, and Marina is a longtime recluse.

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

She's probably afraid of ending up in an oil drum floating in Biscayne Bay.

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John Kirsch's avatar

You acknowledge that Oswald may not have visited Mexico City, then present that as an established fact.

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Chad Nagle's avatar

No, I don’t. It’s just easier to write Oswald than “Oswald” each time.

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John Kirsch's avatar

Either the Oswald who was shot by Ruby visited Mexico City or he didn't.

Since you've previously acknowledged that there is no proof that that Oswald visited Mexico City, I don't see how you can then lead readers to believe he did.

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Chad Nagle's avatar

One of my premises is that someone (perhaps a lookalike) may have gone to Mexico City using Oswald’s “legend” and posed as the man who would eventually be killed by Ruby. I thought I’d made that clear.

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John Kirsch's avatar

You might want to clarify that further.

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Chad Nagle's avatar

Paragraph 4.

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John Kirsch's avatar

I don't want to get into a fight here.

I simply wanted to let you know that I, as an admirer of your work, found this article to be confusing.

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