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

Fair Play for Cuba Committee, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Congress on
Racial Equality. Melanson claimed that Oswald’s activities were “primarily concerned
with paper, not people.” 632 He did not associate with the left wing but through his letter-
writing created links between the Communist Party and the Soviets with the American
left, which Melanson called “Smearing the Left Kremlin-Red.” 633 Melanson accepted the
testimony of the Clinton, Louisiana witnesses uncovered by Garrison that claimed that
Oswald, allegedly in the company of David Ferrie and Clay Shaw, tried to participate or
observe a voter-registration campaign by CORE. Melanson recounted the evidence
uncovered of CIA domestic spying in the United States during the 1960’s – which was
illegal – and its interest in such groups as CORE and the FPCC. He argued that it was
more likely Oswald visited Clinton with Guy Bannister, rather than with Shaw.
Melanson alleged that Oswald’s visit to Mexico City was described to set him up
to be the patsy in the assassination. “If Oswald was directed to Mexico by his handlers so
that he could be set up which is the most logical option,” the author wrote, “then someone
was working to create for him an image of motive and madness for the impending
assassination of the President.” 634 Melanson pointed out the despite CIA surveillance of
the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico, no photographs or audio recording of Oswald
have emerged. Melanson wryly noted that “The CIA’s vaunted data-gathering network
was a sieve when it came to Oswald.” 635 In fact, the evidence indicated that someone
632 Melanson, 62.
633 Melanson, 55.
634 Melanson, 92.
635 Melanson, 137.
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