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what each of his spooks is up to.” 569 Weisberg also reported that a secret source, who
claimed to have known Oswald in the Marines Corps, portrayed an Oswald starkly at
odds with the Warren Commission. The source said Oswald “was bright, not a kook of
any kind, not a blatant or proselytizing Marxist, and really a quiet, serious guy” who had
a high-level “crypto” security clearance. 570
Weisberg claimed the Warren Commission tried to suppress any hint of Oswald’s
connection to anti-Castro Cubans and the CIA. Weisberg noted a discrepancy in the
Commission’s transcription of Oswald’s radio interview about the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee. According to the Commission, Oswald said “I worked in Russia. I was not
under the protection of the – that is to say I was not under protection of the American
government.” According to the actual recording that Weisberg listened to, Oswald said
“I worked in Russia er, I was er under the protection er, of the er, that is to say I was not
under protection of the American government.” Weisberg interpreted this as a slip of the
tongue indicating that Oswald in fact was a U.S. intelligence agent in Russia “under the
protection” of the U.S. government, before hastily correcting himself. 571
Weisberg bolstered his case by repeatedly using Warren Commission testimony
and FBI and police documents that were not used in the report or were dismissed as
unreliable. He highlighted the testimony of witnesses whose statements were at odds
with the official version of events. For example, a boyhood friend of Oswald testified
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Weisberg, 74.
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Weisberg, 86-87.
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Weisberg, 132. The tape of this interview would be played during the 1964 film The
Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, which is discussed in Chapter 8.
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