CE 833

[Walt Cakebread]

I’m quite perceptive, but don’t have ESP. 

Maybe you don't have ESP .....But you've certainly got LOB ....  ( lack of brains) If you can't see that Ruth Paine was in FBI informant.

[Charles Collins]

Maybe you don't have ESP .....But you've certainly got LOB ....  ( lack of brains) If you can't see that Ruth Paine was in FBI informant.

One thing that you certainly don’t have a lack of is imagination. You can make up whatever stories that you want to. And you can even believe that they are true if you so desire. But if you are expecting others to somehow automatically “see” these imaginary beliefs of yours, I think that you are going to be disappointed a lot.

[John Iacoletti]

Ruth told the FBI about Oswald’s letter to the Soviet Embassy. Therefore she was an informant about that, at least.

[Walt Cakebread]

Ruth told the FBI about Oswald’s letter to the Soviet Embassy. Therefore she was an informant about that, at least.

John..... Ruth Paine didn't merely tell the FBI about Lee's letter to the Soviet Embassy....  She actually took Lee's rough, hand written draft out of the trash can where lee had tossed it, . and then she typed up the copy and called the FBI.  Agent Hosty came to her house and talked to her and she gave him the original and the copy that she had typed.

   

[Charles Collins]

John..... Ruth Paine didn't merely tell the FBI about Lee's letter to the Soviet Embassy....  She actually took Lee's rough, hand written draft out of the trash can where lee had tossed it, . and then she typed up the copy and called the FBI.  Agent Hosty came to her house and talked to her and she gave him the original and the copy that she had typed.

   

• The FBI was already aware, in October, of the Oswald -Soviet Embassy meeting in Mexico City.
• Hosty wrote that, on 11/22/63 shortly after the assassination, he saw a copy of the actual letter that was sent to the Soviet Embassy.
• Ruth Paine didn’t call the FBI to inform them of the handwritten draft of the letter. She brought it out when Hosty and his partner came to her house on 11/23 for an interview.
• Ruth had the phone number of LHO’s rooming house but didn’t give it to Hosty during his visits of 11/1 & 11/5.
• Ruth copied the draft of the letter more than a week before the assassination. But she didn’t give it to Hosty until after the assassination.

If Ruth was an informant for the FBI (she wasn’t) then she was a very ineffective one….
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[Richard Smith]

• The FBI was already aware, in October, of the Oswald -Soviet Embassy meeting in Mexico City.
• Hosty wrote that, on 11/22/63 shortly after the assassination, he saw a copy of the actual letter that was sent to the Soviet Embassy.
• Ruth Paine didn’t call the FBI to inform them of the handwritten draft of the letter. She brought it out when Hosty and his partner came to her house on 11/23 for an interview.
• Ruth had the phone number of LHO’s rooming house but didn’t give it to Hosty during his visits of 11/1 & 11/5.
• Ruth copied the draft of the letter more than a week before the assassination. But she didn’t give it to Hosty until after the assassination.

If Ruth was an informant for the FBI (she wasn’t) then she was a very ineffective one….

That's correct.  A member of the public who voluntarily provides a tip to law enforcement based on something they have observed (rather than being recruited by a law enforcement agency) is merely a good citizen.  Even if by some pedantic interpretation she were to be deemed an "FBI informant" that is meaningless as to whether Oswald was the assassin.  There is zero evidence that Paine was involved in any frame up of Oswald.  In fact, very little of what Ruth Paine contributed lends itself to Oswald's guilt.  She didn't, for example, confirm his ownership of a rifle, claim that Oswald had any animosity toward JFK, or claim that see saw him carrying a large package on the morning of the assassination.  All obvious things that an "FBI informant" or anyone involved in the framing of Oswald could have done in her situation.  Thus, it is moot from that perspective and interjected only by desperate contrarians attempting to suggest doubt by any means.  Ruth Paine - Quaker housewife and part time "FBI informant"!  Cue sinister music.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

• The FBI was already aware, in October, of the Oswald -Soviet Embassy meeting in Mexico City.
• Hosty wrote that, on 11/22/63 shortly after the assassination, he saw a copy of the actual letter that was sent to the Soviet Embassy.
• Ruth Paine didn’t call the FBI to inform them of the handwritten draft of the letter. She brought it out when Hosty and his partner came to her house on 11/23 for an interview.
• Ruth had the phone number of LHO’s rooming house but didn’t give it to Hosty during his visits of 11/1 & 11/5.
• Ruth copied the draft of the letter more than a week before the assassination. But she didn’t give it to Hosty until after the assassination.

If Ruth was an informant for the FBI (she wasn’t) then she was a very ineffective one….

Correct. She gave Hosty the letter AFTER the assassination. And she told Oswald about the meetings. That angered him and he went to FBI headquarters to confront Hosty.

She and Michael testified that she showed him the letter and asked what they should do about it. He said it was nothing, that Oswald was bragging about his behavior, that he (and she) didn't think he actually went to Mexico City and visited the embassies. He had made it all up.

So she not only withheld this from Hosty, she told Oswald about the meetings. That's a pretty bad informant if you ask me. Besides, wasn't she a CIA agent?

From Michael Paine's testimony re the letter:

Mr. PAINE - Ruth was quite bothered by that letter, and apparently had--apparently I hadn't really taken it in. I said, "The heck with it. Yes; it a fantastic lie, isn't that amazing that he will fabricate such stories here."
Mr. LIEBELER - What did she say?
Mr. PAINE - No; she said--she approached me and said, "I never realized how much he could lie" or that he was a liar or something like that, and "I want you to read this letter." So I put aside the thing I was reading in which I was more interested and read most of the letter, not the latter part about having used another name. And then I thought it was too personal, "Dear Lisa," so I thought he was telling her, being rather braggadocio telling about his exploits which were rather imaginary and I put it out of my mind....