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examination of the remains on October 4, 1981 at Baylor University Medical Center in
Dallas. Dr. Linda Norton, head of the team of pathologists who examined the remains,
declared that “We, both individually and as a team, have concluded beyond any doubt,
and I mean beyond any doubt, that the individual buried under the name Lee Harvey
Oswald in Rose Hill cemetery is Lee Harvey Oswald.” The New York Times reported
that “The finding appeared to end speculation that the corpse might have been that of a
Russian agent sent here to kill President Kennedy in 1963.” Robert Oswald opposed the
exhumation, but Eddowes gained the support of Marine Oswald Porter, who had re-
married, in examining the remains to end the speculation. 512
So was the Oswald arrested in Dallas a KGB imposter? Not according to
journalist Robert Sam Anson. Instead, the former Time magazine correspondent argued
in his 1975 bestseller ‘They’ve Kill the President!’ The Search for the Murderers of John
F. Kennedy that there was a U.S. intelligence imposter of Oswald. Anson argued that the
Oswald who defected to the Soviet Union was really a CIA operative who assumed the
identity of Oswald with the real Oswald’s understanding and consent. The real Oswald
also worked for U.S. intelligence and resumed his life overtly in the United States when
the CIA operative returned from the Soviet Union. Anson wrote that his book sought to
establish “that there was a conspiracy; that Oswald had numerous links to the intelligence
community; that Oswald…was implicated in the crime by the intentional use of a look-
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“Oswald’s Body is Exhumed; An Autopsy Affirms Identity,” New York Times,
(October 5, 1981).
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