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Anne Vaganov was hysterical, and she called her sister to tell
her that her husband "Turk" Igor Vaganov, was going to do
"something horrible tomorrow. (Esquire, August, 1967, p. 122)
Now all of this is circumstantial, and we need come to no conclusion
of guilt on Vaganov's part. That is irrelevant in any case.
The point is that he was a most suspicious person, and one might
have expected after the assassination of our President more
interest in him. Why was there not further action taken against
him at the time: Even though he may have been cleared subsequently,
in a situation during which'a desperate search was supposed to
be in process for solution of the mystery of the President's
assassination, one would have expected federal authorities to have
been less gnerous with someone in Vaganov's predicament. Yet,
Vaganov told Salandria in an interview that at about 3 P.M.
of November 22, 1953 the F.B.I. agents left him after calling
their Dallas hearnuarters and learning that "They got him.'
So early? Again, : they knew before they could know who the
to
assassin was, and that he was alone in his work.
One might also be curious concerning why there was not
a greater interest in Mrs. Ruth Paine, a Quaker, who helped Oswald
to get a job at the Book Depository and who was supposed to have
carried his rifle into the Dallas area, and who played other
vital roles which no conspiracy could have left to chance. We
certainly do no, advocate paranoia on behalf of police in invest-
igation of crimes, but based on past action, we know the police
have a suspicious mentality, and we cannot help but wonder what
happened to this characteristic bent of mind here.
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