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the Russian language when he was in the military” and that “he got out of Russia quite
easily.” “How did this happen?” she asked. Marina speculated that George de
Mohrenschildt may have been part of the conspiracy, and that Lee had been caught
between two forces – the government and organized crime. She said “Maybe [de
Mohrenschildt] was going between Lee and somebody.”
Marina acknowledged that she had provided damning testimony about her
husband to the Warren Commission, but she described herself as a “blind kitten” who had
been led through her appearances before the panel by its members. “Their questioning,”
she said, “left me only one way to go: guilty. I made Lee guilty.” Marina claimed that
she feared for her life in making these statements. She admitted that Lee mistreated her
in some ways, but defended him as a husband and father. She also said Oswald admired
President Kennedy, and taught her to like him. She now accepted her late husband’s
claim that he was just a patsy, but she did not know whether he was totally innocent of
involvement. There is obviously a stark contrast between her comments in the interview
and the story she told the Warren Commission and Priscilla Johnson McMillan. Her
earlier statements bolstered the image of Oswald as the lone nut assassin, but now she
said she believed her late husband was a secret agent and a patsy.
Historians and political scientists have also entered the fray of the Kennedy
assassination debate, and the works of Philip Melanson and John Newman show that a
reasonable case can be made based on historical sources and the historical context to
argue that Oswald was an American intelligence agent. In his 1990 book Spy Saga: Lee
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