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Claiming that isbther was ill and needed
to his successor, Fred north;" and no action was
his help, he applied for, and received, a hardship
taken.
discharge from the Marines in September, 1959,
and was assigned to the Marine Corps inactive
In April, 1961, Oswald met Marina Nicholaev-
Reserve; but instead of going home to his mother,
na Proosakova, a hospital worker in Minsk. After
he boarded a ship for the Soviet Union, with
six wecks, they were married in a state ceremony.
$1600 he had somehow acquired. This was a
In January, 1962, Oswald, still in Minsk, wrote
move he had been preparing for during his last
Senator John G. Tower (Republican, Texas),
two years in the Marines. He arrived in Moscow
claiming that he, a United States citizen, was
on October 15, 1959, and told American reporters
being held in Russia against his will, and asking
there that it was like getting out of prison. Soon
Tower to intercede. Tower did not intercede. He
after his arrival, he petitioned the Supreme Soviet
merely sent Oswald's letter to the State Depart-
for Soviet citizenship.
ment.
Although Russian officials warned him that
In February, 1962, Oswald wrote the U. S.
Soviet citizenship was not easy to obtain, Oswald
Embassy in Moscow, asking for a passport to
referred to the Soviet government as "my govern-
return to the United States: Russian authorities 1
ment" and said "even if I am not accepted, on no
had not accepted his request for citizenship, and
account will I go back to the United States."(2(2)
Oswald refused to stay in the Soviet Union as a J
resident alien.
On October 30, 1959, he went to the American
Embassy in Moscow to renounce his American
citizenship. He told officials he was a marxist. (1)
For reasons not yet made public, the U. S.
Embassy in Moscow (acting on orders from the
On November 2, 1959, Oswald formally asked
State Department) on May 24, 1962, renewed
the U. S. Government to revoke his citizenship.
Oswald's passport, and amended it to include an
He signed an affidavit stating:
infant daughter (born in February of that year) ;
"I affirm that my allegiance is to the Soviet
gave Oswald's Russian wife a non-quota visa to
Socialist Republic."(3
enter the United States; and advanced Oswald
Oswald was bitter because the United States
$435.71 for travel expenses back to
Consul in Moscow suggested that he "think over"
Oswald and his family arrived in the United
his decision to take an oath renouncing American
States at the Port of New York on June 13,
citizenship. He turned in his passport to Embassy
1962." During the late summer of 1962, he alleg-
officials and left, saying he would let the Soviet
edly was in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, calling
government handle legal details when, and if, he
on non-communist refugees, seeking their help in
became a citizen of the Soviet Union.
finding employment. None would have anything
to do with him, because they feared him as a
Upon hearing of Oswald's defection, the Ma-
dedicated communist. They feared that Oswald
rine Corps gave him an undesirable discharge
was trying to get information about them for the
from the Marine Reserve. When word of this
Soviet secret police - which is known to operate
reached Oswald in Russia, he wrote a letter to
in the United States, under United Nations
John Connally, Secretary of the Navy, saying:
cover.(
"I shall employ all means to right this gross
Early in 1963, Oswald was in New Orleans,
mistake or injustice to a bonafide U. S. citizen
where he became active (under the name of A. J.
and ex-serviceman."(4
Hidell) in the Fair Play For Cuba Committee.
Connally, who had just resigned to run for
This organization was founded in New York in
Governor of Texas, turned Oswald's letter over
1960 to support Fidel Castro. According to the
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