[Sample B: Approval/Signature Sheet] - George Mason University

British researcher Michael Eddowes’ The Oswald File, published in 1977,
contained one of the most implausible theories of the assassination: a KGB assassin
posed as an imposter Oswald to kill Kennedy on behalf of the Soviet Union. Despite its
implausibility, the book led to the exhumation of Oswald’s grave to determine who in
fact was buried there. Eddowes claimed that Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev had
Kennedy assassinated as revenge for his humiliation in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Oswald imposter was already in place to carry out the assassination. Eddowes wrote
that “the real ex-Marine Lee Harvey Oswald never returned to the United States but
disappeared shortly after his arrival in the Soviet Union in 1959.” 501 The assassin of
President Kennedy was “a member of Department 13, the sabotage and assassination
squad of the Soviet State Security Service (KGB), and in 1962 had entered the United
States in the guise of Oswald.” U.S. authorities, in Eddowes’ account, suspected that
‘Oswald’ was an imposter, but buried evidence of the conspiracy to avoid a nuclear war.
According to Eddowes, “the assassination was an act of war,” but “the Warren Report
inevitably was a declaration of peace and incidentally an admission of defeat.” 502
Eddowes believed that the real Oswald studied Marxism and even as a Marine,
expressed an interest in the Soviet Union. However, the author claimed that Oswald
“never expressed Communist sympathies” and “never displayed any sign of wishing to
defect to the Soviet Union.” 503 When he traveled to Moscow, a KGB assassin assumed
501
Michael Eddowes, The Oswald File, (New York: Ace Books, 1977 (1976)), 1.
502
Eddowes, 2.
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Eddowes, 15.
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