Oswald's Game by Davison Jean

Author:Davison, Jean [Davison, Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

12 … Castro’s Revelations

ON Thursday afternoon, September 26, Oswald’s bus crossed the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas. A fellow passenger, an Englishman named John McFarland, recalled that Oswald told him he was en route to Cuba and explained that he had to travel via Mexico because it was illegal to go there directly from the United States. When McFarland asked why he wanted to go to Cuba, Oswald replied, “To see Castro, if I could.”

The bus arrived in Mexico City the following morning, and Oswald registered at the Hotel Comercio four blocks from the bus station using the alias Harvey Oswald Lee. He immediately set about arranging his travel plans. According to Marina, he went to the Soviet Embassy first. Exactly what he said there isn’t known, since the Russians didn’t allow the Warren Commission to interview its embassy personnel. However, from Marina’s testimony and other evidence it’s apparent that he asked them to expedite the visas he and Marina had applied for through the Washington embassy, and that he told them he would be going to Russia through Cuba. He also seemed to believe that the Russians could smooth his way at the Cuban Embassy.

A Commission lawyer later asked Marina, “Did he tell you why he went to Mexico City?”

“From Mexico City he wanted to go to Cuba—perhaps through the Russian Embassy in Mexico he would be able to get to Cuba.”

“Did he say anything about going to Russia by way of Cuba?”

“I know that he said that in the Embassy. But he only said so. I know that he had no intention of going to Russia then.”

“How do you know that?”

“He told me. I know Lee fairly well—well enough from that point of view.”

Next he went to the nearby Cuban Embassy, where he requested an in-transit visa, that is, a permit to travel to Cuba en route to the Soviet Union. The exact reason he didn’t ask for a regular visa to Cuba alone is puzzling, although an in-transit visa might have allowed him to visit his family in Russia if their visas came through. On his application, Oswald wrote that he wanted to leave for Cuba on September 30 and remain there for two weeks—or longer, if possible. He was interviewed by Silvia Duran, a Mexican citizen and Castro supporter who worked in the consular section. After the assassination, her name and office phone number were found in Oswald’s notebook, and she was brought in for questioning by the Mexican police. On November 23, 1963, she gave them the following statement:

.… On the night of Nov. 22, Senora Duran heard over the radio the name of LEE HARVEY OSWALD, which caused her to remember that this name refers to a North American who in the last days of September … appeared at the Cuban Consulate and applied for a visa to Cuba in transit to Russia and based his application on his presentation of his passport in which it was recorded that he had [lived] in the

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