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young man who had been away for a couple of years, but Eddowes was not deterred. He
claimed that Marguerite and Robert “never thought to question that the man with Marina
might not be the real Oswald.” because the State Department and FBI assured them this
was their kin and they were “conditioned by their own pleasure in welcoming home the
renegade.” 506 Eddowes also had to deal with the fact that Oswald’s fingerprints matched
‘Oswald.’ He surmised that the KGB had somehow broken into FBI headquarters and
replaced Oswald’s fingerprints with ‘Oswald’s.’
Eddowes outlined some of the suspicious material that indicated that ‘Oswald’
was a spy – such as his use of aliases, his various espionage related paraphernalia,
including a Minox camera, and his activities in Dallas, New Orleans, and Mexico City.
Eddowes theorized that Oswald deliberately sought to leave evidence that he was a
“fervid supporter of Castro.” 507 The author recounted the attempt to assassinate Castro
enemy General Walker, and the pro-Castro pamphlets and radio appearances in New
Orleans. The wily Soviets wanted “the imposture” to be discovered, and tried to create
“a confusing chain of evidence” that would “place responsibility for the assassination on
the Cubans or the Soviets.” 508 The Americans, however, would have no choice but to
cover this up to avoid nuclear Armageddon. Following Eddowes’ logic can be difficult.
Many other conspiracy theorists have looked at the same details of Oswald’s life, and
concluded that he was in fact a U.S. intelligence agent posing as a leftist. This
underscores the so-called “wilderness of mirrors” of Cold War intelligence, in which it is
506 Eddowes, 36.
507 Eddowes, 62.
508 Eddowes, 2.
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