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assassination researcher Edward J. Epstein and before a Committee investigator was
scheduled to talk to the Russian-émigré. The report outlined many of the suspicious
activities of de Mohrenschildt that to most observers indicated intelligence connections,
but the Committee declared that its reviews of CIA files “showed no evidence that de
Mohrenschildt had ever been an American intelligence agent.” 425 The report noted that
de Mohrenschildt had testified before the Warren Commission that he had discussed
Oswald’s case upon his return to the United States with J. Walton Moore, whom the
émigré described as “a government man” either FBI or CIA but was “known as the head
of the FBI in Dallas.” The Committee tartly noted that “In 1963, J. Walton Moore was
employed by the CIA in Dallas in the Domestic Contacts Division.” 426 This division of
the CIA would interview people who had traveled to the Soviet Union and other areas of
intelligence interest to gain information about those countries. Many researchers have
concluded that de Mohrenschildt must have been asked by Moore to “handle” Oswald
upon his return and to debrief him for the CIA on his sojourn in the Soviet Union. The
unquestioning Committee, however, thought otherwise, and de Mohrenschildt took his
secrets to the grave.
The Committee also dispatched of the notion that Oswald had been an FBI
informant. The congressmen largely relied on the FBI’s own denials and explanations in
determining “there was no credible evidence that Oswald was ever an informant for the
425 House Report, 277.
426 House Report, 276.
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