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Page 13 of 4 purpose of a double agent assignment in the U.S.S.R."* The Agency, has been exceedingly modest about Oswald's possible intelligence assignment in the Soviet Union, its position being -- quite understandably -- that he was not employed by the Agency. However, even if he had not been the patsy for Kennedy's elimination, that would be its standard position with regard to any employee executing such an intelligence assignment. The former air defense technician in the Marines might well have had an assignment connected with the visibility of U-2 overflights (and the conseguent contrails left by the hot engines in the cold upper atmosphere). In that connection, an examination of external occurrences, related in time with Oswald's departure from Russia, reveals that the arrangements for his return to the United States were made at approximately the *From the former C.I.A. employee's testimony before the House Committee on Assassinations. This employee, a paymaster, testified that he had handled the funding for the project to which Oswald had been assigned. Disposing of this problem, however, was duck soup for the Agency. A chorus line of other Agency witnesses, whose names he had mentioned, was produced and they smoothly denied all knowledge of such a. thing. The members of the Committee lost interest in the lead and turned their minds to livlier leads such as Castro's revenge. 23 The observation must be made that nothing seemed to interest the Committee's higher investigative staff less than the production of informa- tion connecting the C.I.A. with Lee Oswald. C 1984 Jim Garrison NW 12640 DocId:59167984 Page 5

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