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

niece of a high-ranking Soviet official,” “slips across the iron curtain without leaving a
trace,” “threatens espionage and is not arrested,” “befriends a former spy” – George de
Mohrenschildt, “uses an alias,” “keeps an office in a building with other agents” at the
544 Camp Street address in New Orleans, “gets a passport when one should be denied,”
and “is finally shot down in a room crowded with police by a former informer for the
nation’s chief investigative agency” -- meaning Ruby and the FBI. 515
Regarding Oswald’s time in the Soviet Union, Anson outlined an elaborate
deception, in which “a rootless young marine” is “recruited for an intelligence
assisgnment.” Oswald’s job was “to stay out of sight, to go underground while a skilled
agent borrows his identity for an assignment in the Soviet Union.” 516 This agent was a
false defector who posed as Oswald to gain whatever intelligence he could while in the
Soviet Union. When his mission is completed or aborted, the second Oswald returned to
the United States, and “the historical Oswald catches up with his identity. When the
plane lands in Dallas, the historical Oswald deplanes to be met by family and friends.” 517
To prove his case, Anson used some of the same data as Eddowes – the divergent heights
recorded for Oswald and differences in his appearance in certain photographs. “The
‘Oswald’ who was in Minsk,” according to Anson, “seems thicker of hair, fuller of face,
and broader of jaw and chin” than the real Oswald. 518 When he reassumed his identity,
the historical Oswald acted as an informer for U.S. authorities, but yet another Oswald
515 Anson, 189-190.
516 Anson, 211.
517 Anson, 212.
518 Anson, 207.
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