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

Groden and Livingstone called Oswald “the first witness” of many to die in the
Kennedy case. 615 Oswald allegedly knew too much from being a covert operative
overseas and in the United States. “Clearly,” the authors wrote, “Oswald was no ordinary
lone nut assassin. Oswald had to have been trained in the Russian language by the
military. He was stationed at Atsugi Air Base in Japan, the famous U-2 base, and
eventually spent a couple of years in Russia as a ‘defector.’” 616 Groden and Livingstone
noted that Oswald associated with people connected with U.S. intelligence after his return
to the United States. They speculated that Ferrie used his homosexuality to control
Oswald from an early age: “Like a guided missile, [Oswald] became a double agent, an
agent provocateur, and finally the victim of the double cross.” 617
Groden and Livingstone believed Oswald probably did not even go to Mexico
City ahead of the assassination to visit the Soviet and Cuban embassies. The authors
alleged that people with intelligence connections were “laying a trail leading to Oswald,
the designated patsy,” and linking him to Castro. 618 Part of the mystery concerned the
photograph – initially identified as being of Oswald leaving the Cuban or Soviet
embassies – taken by the CIA in Mexico City. The man clearly was not Oswald, and
appeared stockier and older. The CIA has never been able to explain who in fact is
pictured, and why no photographs of Oswald entering or leaving the embassy exist
despite extensive surveillance.
615 Groden and Livingstone, 131.
616 Groden and Livingstone, 190.
617 Groden and Livingstone, 292.
618 Groden and Livingstone, 192.
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