Has The Guy Playing 'Lee' In Mexico Ever Been Identified? (Al Bundy Lookalike)

[Gary Hemod]

Has the guy playing 'Lee' In Mexico City ever been identified?

[Tom Graves]

Has the guy playing 'Lee' In Mexico City ever been identified?

If you're referring to the suit-wearing, 30-something, short, skinny, blond-haired, very-thin-faced guy who was photographed a couple of times near the Soviet Embassy on 10/2/63 (iirc), that's KGB Colonel Nikolai Leonov.

He was Raul Castro's and Che's mentor starting in 1956 or so, and he was working at the Soviet Embassy as "Third Secretary / Assistant Cultural Attache." 

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Has the guy playing 'Lee' In Mexico City ever been identified?

Question: If "Al Bundy", the "mystery man", impersonated Oswald (and a child could figure out that that's not Oswald; it's not even close) don't you think the Soviets would have exposed this impersonation all of these years? It seems obvious they would. At that time they said the CIA murdered JFK, they were behind the act. This impersonation would be part of that allegation, that the CIA was trying to frame the USSR by sending a fake Oswald. But they never said Oswald was impersonated. Why didn't they?

According to the three Soviet Embassy officials/KGB agents in Mexico City who met Oswald and were later shown the photo of the so-called "mystery man", that person did NOT identify himself as Lee Oswald. The man they met who said he was Oswald *was*, they said, the Lee Oswald arrested for shooting the president and not the man in the photo.

One of the KGB officers who met Oswald, Oleg Nechiporenko, said the "mystery man" was a US Air Force enlisted man who offered to sell military secrets. Nechiporenko gave no name. Nechiporenko later wrote a book "Passport to Assassination" providing more details on the meetings with Oswald.

The account below is from Edward Epstein's last book. He interviewed Nechiporenko in Moscow. The "he" mentioned here is Nechiporenko.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Has the guy playing 'Lee' In Mexico City ever been identified?

The three Soviet Embassy official/KGB officers (shown below) in Mexico City at the time who met Oswald were interviewed in 1993 for the PBS program "Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?" They were shown the photo of the "mystery man" and they all said that that man was not the man who called himself Lee Oswald. They said the man they met was the *real* Lee Oswald.

The Cubans also investigated the matter and concluded that the man who visited their consulate was the real Oswald. They found additional witnesses who saw him there. See the book "JFK: The Cuban Files" by Fabian Escalante. Escalante was head of Cuban counterintelligence.



You can watch their account here (go to the 1:44:00 mark for the interview):

[Tom Graves]

[...]

Dear Steve M.,

Confusing sentence:

According to the three Soviet Embassy officials/KGB agents in Mexico City who met Oswald and who were shown the photo, the so-called "mystery man" did NOT tell them his name was Lee Oswald.

Regardless, why would anyone trust what "former" KGB officer Nechiporenko wrote in his book?

Are you really that gullible?

Rhetorical question:

Why did Nechiporenko devote fifty pages of Passport to Assassination to bashing Tennent H. Bagley, former CIA counterintelligence officer and primary case officer of false-defector-in-place-in-Geneva-in-June-1962 / false (or rogue) physical defector to the U.S. in February 1964, Yuri Nosenko (who claimed to be LHO's case officer in Moscow -- LOL!), and vouching for Nosenko's "bona fides" as a true defector?

Why is Nechiporenko even writing about Nosenko in that book?

Did Nosenko have anything to do with Oswald's or "Oswald's" visit to Mexico City in late-September / early October, 1963?

Answer: No, he didn't.

So, why did Nechiporenko write fifty pages about poor, poor, poor Nosenko, and Bagley's heinous "mistreatment" and dum-dum "misunderstanding" of him?

Do you think Bagley (who was on the fast track to become Director of CIA before Nosenko "defected" to the U.S. two months after the JFKA) misunderstood and mistreated Nosenko?

If so, you should read Bagley's 2007 Yale University Press book, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games.

You can read it for free by googling "spy wars" and "archive" simultaneously."

-- Tom

[Gary Hemod]

How do I post pics Mister Tom?

[Tom Graves]

How do I post pics Mister Tom?

I don't know.

Why don't you just post a link to, or copy-and-paste, an article so we'll know who you're referring to?