For Weeks Before Assassination Oswald's Every Move Monitored By FBI/CIA

[Charles Collins]

Moving on along the timeline to Thursday evening James Hosty writes in his book “Assignment Oswald”:

Thursday, November 21, 1963

 TIME: 9:00 P.M.

 Reading the Times Herald that evening, I noted a front page diagram of the parade route Kennedy would take at noon the next day through downtown Dallas. I examined it casually, only interested in where I could position myself so that I could catch a glimpse of the president. At no time during my examination of the diagram was I interested in determining whether or not any of my case subjects might be located along the motorcade route. It had been beaten into me, by both the Secret Service and the FBI, that this was not of my concern.

My only obligation for the security of the president’s trip was to report to the Secret Service anyone who had made a threat against the president or the vice president. In fact, just the day before, I had hand-delivered a report on one possible threat. I had picked up information from a source that a local Klan member had remarked that his group would have a “little reception” for Kennedy when he visited Dallas. I wrote up this information in a one-page report, including a physical description of the Klan member, and attached his photograph to the report. I walked the few blocks over to the Secret Service’s office in the U.S. Courthouse and handed the report to one of their agents. I later learned that the Secret Service briefly interviewed the man, but took no action to detain him or monitor his whereabouts on Friday during the president’s visit.


So, here we have Hosty describing what his obligations were and that he fulfilled them. Yet the title of this thread indicates that they were monitoring LHO’s every move. Nothing could be further from the truth.

[Watson Phillips]

Are you trying to indicate that you believe that it was a threat against JFK?

It happened well before the JFK Texas trip was announced.

And Hosty says it was not a threatening note.

So, I don’t believe that Hosty would have considered that a threat against JFK.

Why would the FBI destroy a note delivered to them from the person they had under arrest & in custody ?
A note several witnesses say he hand delivered in very angry & agitated state ?
What reason would they scramble to destroy the note before Oswald's body had even got cold ?


Face The Nation
New book reveals how much FBI, CIA knew about Oswald before Kennedy assassination
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By Rebecca Kaplan
October 27, 2013 / 3:27 PM EDT / CBS News

Some of the FBI's other attempts to cover up their connections with Oswald have previously been revealed, such as the fact that Dallas-based FBI agent James Hosty had received and later destroyed a letter from Oswald protesting the FBI's questioning of Oswald's Russian-born wife, Marina. Under orders from his superior, Hosty destroyed the letter by ripping it into pieces, then flushing the pieces down the toilet at the Dallas FBI office, two days after the assassination when Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby.


"The decision was made two days after the assassination to destroy this note. In truth, we'll never know exactly what was in that note, and its been described in different ways," Shenon told host Bob Schieffer. "The Warren Commission knew absolutely nothing about it.

[Charles Collins]

What happened to the threatening note that Oswald sent to Hosty just before the assassination?

Here’s some information from James Hosty’s book “Assignment Oswald”, page 31, regarding the note. Hosty has just joined the interrogation of LHO in Fritz’s office at 3:15 pm on 11/22/63:


Oswald, clearly having lost his earlier complacency, ranted on. “My wife is a Russian citizen who is here in this country legally and is protected under diplomatic laws from harassment by you or any other FBI agent. The FBI is no better than the Gestapo of Nazi Germany. If you wanted to talk to me, you should have come directly to me, not my wife. You never responded to my request.”
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What really struck me about Oswald’s outburst in Captain Fritz’s office, however, was the realization that it was Oswald who had left me an angry, unsigned note just ten days before. I had the note in my file drawer. It said, in effect: “If you want to talk to me, you should talk to me to my face. Stop harassing my wife, and stop trying to ask her about me. You have no right to harass her.” When I received this note from Nannie Lee Fenner, a former chief stenographer newly demoted to receptionist, I read it and, quite honestly, thought little about it. At the time I was juggling 35 to 40 cases, mostly on radical right-wing subversives, and had no way of knowing who might have written the note. I suspected it had come from a particular radical right-winger I had been investigating, simply because I had recently interviewed his wife.


Not only was the note delivered to the FBI office before the JFK Texas trip was announced, it was unsigned so Hosty did not know who had left it (until after the assassination), and those contents do not appear threatening to me.