Post by Rob Caprio on Apr 21, 2019 10:07:05 GMT -5
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Why was Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) meeting with a CIA agent in Moscow?
The man, Richard E. Snyder, LHO met with on October 31, 1959, to denounce his citizenship with has long been said to be with the CIA. He of course denied this for a long time, but the East German Intelligence put out a document called the “Who’s Who” which had been supposedly prepared for them by the KGB and it listed him as a CIA agent.
This is important as we have seen previously in this series that LHO met the requirements for denouncing his citizenship, but it was NEVER put through by Snyder. Why? Well, the reasons are obvious if you believe LHO was acting his part as a defector for the CIA as some other people were doing at that time. Certainly the Russians believed this. Also, Snyder was instrumental in getting LHO back into the country, along with Marina, in 1961.
In Ira David Woods III chronology of the events we see this notation for November 8, 1949.
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Richard Snyder formally joins the CIA. This is his first day of active duty. Snyder will eventually be stationed at the American Embassy in Moscow where he will be in a position to have communication with Lee Harvey Oswald. Later, the CIA will formally deny that LHO ever communicated with one of its agents while he was in Moscow.
The Brief History of Interest in Richard Snyder memorandum continues: “He entered on duty with CIA on November 8, 1949, as a GS-9 ($4600.00 per annum). According to his personnel file (see tab c) he was assigned to the Office of Policy Coordination and was slated to serve in Tokyo (the file contains no entry showing he actually served in Tokyo).” The CIA told the HSCA that Richard E. Snyder’s position with the CIA involved “an accounting project, the purpose of which was to provide funds for administrative purposes."
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It seems apparent now that he was CIA when he met LHO in Moscow in 1959 and 1961. Joan Hallet, widow of assistant Naval attache, worked as a receptionist at the Embassy and she said Snyder and the security officer took LHO upstairs to the working floors, a secured area where the Ambassador and military officers were. She would say a visitor would NEVER get up there UNLESS he was on official business.
Further information comes from this article I found on the internet.
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Priscilla later admitted that she sought Oswald out “on the advice of an American colleague in Moscow.” The colleague turned out to be John McVicker, an Embassy officer and assistant to Richard Snyder, Oswald’s primary contact at the US Embassy. Snyder had connections to the CIA, and his intelligence background was later exposed at the spy trial of Oleg Penkovsky, an American double-agent during the Cuban missile crisis, who was executed. If Snyder was an intelligence officer, then so was McVicker, and if McVicker was Priscilla Johnson’s “colleague,” it is likely so was she. In fact, the files released under the JFK Assassination Records Act reveal that Johnson was a “witting informant” and valuable asset if not an agent of the CIA.
politicalassassinations.com/2012/07/was-oswald-bottlefed-by-nana/
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It seems his cover was blown at the Oleg Penkovsky trial. This is a big step forward in showing us LHO’s “defection” was a staged event and clears up the questions of why his return was so easy to the US. Final proof comes from LHO himself. In Commission Exhibit (CE) 909, page 101 we see Snyder writing the following regarding what LHO said to him.
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He wanted to take the necessary steps to renounce his American citizenship. He stated desire to conclude matter quickly, that he had BEEN FOREWARNED I WOULD TRY AND TALK HIM OUT OF DECISION, that he wanted NO LECTURES FROM ME, desired enter into no discussion. (Emphasis added)
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh18/html/WH_Vol18_0058a.htm
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This further proves Snyder was more than he seemed otherwise LHO would have been given no debriefing on him. Snyder did prevent him losing his US citizenship and was instrumental in getting him a loan and a return flight to the US two years later.
3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qqrw7WGpNp8/TsH1zGe2pYI/AAAAAAAAAuw/yutHKJfd9lk/s640/Marina+and+Lee+Harvey+Oswald+in+Minsk.jpg
Why was Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) meeting with a CIA agent in Moscow?
The man, Richard E. Snyder, LHO met with on October 31, 1959, to denounce his citizenship with has long been said to be with the CIA. He of course denied this for a long time, but the East German Intelligence put out a document called the “Who’s Who” which had been supposedly prepared for them by the KGB and it listed him as a CIA agent.
This is important as we have seen previously in this series that LHO met the requirements for denouncing his citizenship, but it was NEVER put through by Snyder. Why? Well, the reasons are obvious if you believe LHO was acting his part as a defector for the CIA as some other people were doing at that time. Certainly the Russians believed this. Also, Snyder was instrumental in getting LHO back into the country, along with Marina, in 1961.
In Ira David Woods III chronology of the events we see this notation for November 8, 1949.
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Richard Snyder formally joins the CIA. This is his first day of active duty. Snyder will eventually be stationed at the American Embassy in Moscow where he will be in a position to have communication with Lee Harvey Oswald. Later, the CIA will formally deny that LHO ever communicated with one of its agents while he was in Moscow.
The Brief History of Interest in Richard Snyder memorandum continues: “He entered on duty with CIA on November 8, 1949, as a GS-9 ($4600.00 per annum). According to his personnel file (see tab c) he was assigned to the Office of Policy Coordination and was slated to serve in Tokyo (the file contains no entry showing he actually served in Tokyo).” The CIA told the HSCA that Richard E. Snyder’s position with the CIA involved “an accounting project, the purpose of which was to provide funds for administrative purposes."
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It seems apparent now that he was CIA when he met LHO in Moscow in 1959 and 1961. Joan Hallet, widow of assistant Naval attache, worked as a receptionist at the Embassy and she said Snyder and the security officer took LHO upstairs to the working floors, a secured area where the Ambassador and military officers were. She would say a visitor would NEVER get up there UNLESS he was on official business.
Further information comes from this article I found on the internet.
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Priscilla later admitted that she sought Oswald out “on the advice of an American colleague in Moscow.” The colleague turned out to be John McVicker, an Embassy officer and assistant to Richard Snyder, Oswald’s primary contact at the US Embassy. Snyder had connections to the CIA, and his intelligence background was later exposed at the spy trial of Oleg Penkovsky, an American double-agent during the Cuban missile crisis, who was executed. If Snyder was an intelligence officer, then so was McVicker, and if McVicker was Priscilla Johnson’s “colleague,” it is likely so was she. In fact, the files released under the JFK Assassination Records Act reveal that Johnson was a “witting informant” and valuable asset if not an agent of the CIA.
politicalassassinations.com/2012/07/was-oswald-bottlefed-by-nana/
Quote off
It seems his cover was blown at the Oleg Penkovsky trial. This is a big step forward in showing us LHO’s “defection” was a staged event and clears up the questions of why his return was so easy to the US. Final proof comes from LHO himself. In Commission Exhibit (CE) 909, page 101 we see Snyder writing the following regarding what LHO said to him.
Quote on
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh18/pages/WH_Vol18_0058a.jpg
He wanted to take the necessary steps to renounce his American citizenship. He stated desire to conclude matter quickly, that he had BEEN FOREWARNED I WOULD TRY AND TALK HIM OUT OF DECISION, that he wanted NO LECTURES FROM ME, desired enter into no discussion. (Emphasis added)
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh18/html/WH_Vol18_0058a.htm
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This further proves Snyder was more than he seemed otherwise LHO would have been given no debriefing on him. Snyder did prevent him losing his US citizenship and was instrumental in getting him a loan and a return flight to the US two years later.