Oswald, Mexico, and Deep Politics by Peter Dale Scott

Author:Peter Dale Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

In one respect the situations in Dallas and in Mexico City appear to be profoundly different. The allegations in Dallas that Oswald was a card-carrying Communist are by themselves barely credible, and indeed surrounded by falsehoods. The evidence that Oswald in Mexico presented himself as a card-carrying Communist is however hardly contestable, and is indeed strengthened by the later spurious efforts to cover it up. Of course this does not make Oswald’s professed Communism and Castroism any more genuine than his expressed willingness in New Orleans "to join the fight. . . against Castro" (WR 728). Oswald himself was a recurring player of roles, and in Mexico he may have been impersonated.

It is unlikely that there is no relationship at all between the dubious allegations in Dallas and the fact, probably known to U.S. intelligence, that Oswald did present himself in Mexico as a card-carrying Communist. It is much more likely that Oswald’s September performance as a Communist in Mexico led to confused echoes of it in Dallas. We know that there was inter-communication between the two cities: the Dallas Police brought in a Jose Rodriguez Molina for questioning on November 23, 1963, and the Mexican Minister of Gobernación, the same man responsible for arresting and interrogating Durán, was asking the CIA for information about him that same afternoon.77

Military Intelligence in Dallas on November 22, 1963

There are two reasons to believe that a U.S. intelligence source (probably in military intelligence) fed the dangerous phase-one rumors in Dallas that in turn were fed back to the U.S. Strike Command, basing the false picture in Dallas on the true picture in Mexico City.

The first reason is the recurring proximity of military intelligence figures to the real and alleged sources of the Dallas phase-one story. James Hosty had spent almost three hours on the morning of November 22 with an Army Intelligence or CIC Agent called Edward J. Coyle; and Coyle, it has just been revealed, was perhaps no stranger to the activities of Lee Harvey Oswald. For Coyle and Hosty had worked together on an arms case involving a Cuban anti-Castro group called the DRE, with which Oswald had been involved in New Orleans; and there are grounds to suspect that Oswald may have been an informant for Hosty on the Dallas arms case.78 The DRE Headquarters in Miami, furthermore, was named as the source of a number of phase-one stories about both Oswald and later Ruby. The DRE Intelligence Officer in Miami, Jose Antonio Lanusa, reportedly "described Oswald [as] definitely a Communist and supporter of Castro."79 A rebuttal memo in the Miami FBI files has the DRE chief Manuel Sal vat talking, like the 112th Military Intelligence Group, about "Harvey Lee Oswald."80

Other military intelligence agencies may also have been involved. One day earlier, on November 21, Hosty and Coyle had met with Jack Revill, author of the memo claiming Hosty called Oswald a "member of the Communist Party." On November 22, according to his colleague V.J. Brian, Revill arrived at his meeting with Hosty in the Dallas Police basement in a car which had also carried "some type of.

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