Miscellaneous incomplete manuscripts for books pertaining to the JFK assassination(1 of 5)

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Page 17 of 2 as much use for Russian as a cat would have for pajamas. I read no farther that night. I am sure I did not sleep much. For the first time there had dropped right into my lap an indication that Lee Oswald -- in 1959, at least -- had been receiving intelligence training. To anyone with any military background it is common knowledge that Marine intelligence activity is guided by the Office of Naval Intelligence -- often colloquically referred to simply as "O.N.I." That night I went to bed wondering what possible connection there might have been between the O.N.I. and Lee Harvey Oswald. The next morning I headed downtown to the seedy, faded sector of town in which 544 Camp Street was located. I had obtained this address from the Exhibits section of the Warren Commission volumes. It had been imprinted by a small hand stamp (later found, along with a stamp pad, among Oswald's possessions) on the "Fair Play for Cuba" pamphlets which he had been handing out, presumably as a rabid Communist, on the streets of New Orleans. I had noted this address down some weeks earlier but now I wanted to look at the place which Lee Oswald had put down as his return address for recipients of his material. Catty-corner from Lafayette Square, I found 544 Camp to be located in a small mouse-colored structure built from a conspicuously unsuccessful imitation of blocks of granite. This modest edifice was called, I was later to learn, the "Newman