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hard to tell who is an agent for whom. There seems to be endless possibilities when
Oswald’s life is examined.
To make Eddowes’ tale even more fantastic, he claimed ‘Oswald’ conspired with
two other KGB agents – George de Mohrenschildt and Dallas nightclub owner Jack
Ruby. “It is my belief,” Eddowes wrote, “that these three men…were the three primary
operatives at work in Dallas for the purpose of killing President Kennedy.” 509 Ruby
would have to be among the most unlikely KGB agents with his shady business dealings
and mob connections dating back to his boyhood days in Chicago. Eddowes agreed with
the Warren Commission, however, that ‘Oswald’ was the sole assassin: he gunned down
Kennedy, fled the scene, but had to kill a suspicious Tippit. This led to ‘Oswald’s’ arrest,
and his murder at the hands of Ruby to silence the KGB assassin. Eddowes claimed that
“there is overwhelming evidence of conspiracy,” “powerful evidence that the assassin
was a Soviet agent,” and “persuasive evidence that the Soviet agent was an imposter.” 510
The U.S. authorities then “needed to cover up their own incompetence in preventing an
impostor from assuming the identity of an American citizen….and proceeding to
assassinate the President” They also “needed to cover up the identity of the assassin and
the facts of espionage and conspiracy” to prevent war and “in the interest of national
security.” 511
While most readers probably would have a hard time accepting Eddowes’ theory
of an imposter Oswald, his book led to the exhumation of Oswald’s grave and the
509 Eddowes, 186.
510 Eddowes, 187.
511 Eddowes, 146.
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