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

U.S., Cuban, and other intelligence activities active there. 666 Newman acknowledged that
the Mexico mystery remains unsolved, but he concluded that the evidence suggested
some possibilities, including the presence of an Oswald imposter. Oswald also may have
been a “dangle” – an offer from a double-agent to the Soviets or Cubans to feed them
disinformation or find out what they knew about something of interest to the CIA.
Oswald may have been a key part of such an operation or somehow found himself in the
middle of it, according to Newman. The author also raised the possibility that the
Mexico City story about Oswald was designed “to falsely implicate the Cuban
government in the Kennedy assassination.” 667
Newman’s book showed that the CIA, as well as FBI and military intelligence,
had a high degree of interest in Oswald, whether he was a secret agent or not. For many
conspiracy theorists, Newman did not go far enough and was too careful in his claims.
Newman himself thought so. He added an epilogue in 2008 called “The Plot to Murder
President Kennedy: a New Interpretation,” in which he accused CIA counter-intelligence
chief James Angleton of being the prime force in a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. “No one
else in the Agency,” Newman alleged, “had the access, the authority and the diabolically
ingenious mind to manage this sophisticated plot.” 668 The plotters maneuvered Oswald
in Mexico City to place a “virus” in Oswald’s file that implicated the Cubans. That
666 Newman, 352.
667 Newman, 391.
668 Newman, 637.
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