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Tom Graves has posted info that points to de Mohrenschildt at one point being a suspected KGB or Iron Curtain asset.
De M. also claimed to be a de facto CIA asset.
It is interesting that the De M.'s just happened to visit the Oswald's the day after (or soon-enough after that it was the topic de jour) the Walker shooting.
Indeed, an epistemological crossroads: Who we gonna believe, the Resident Loony who thiinks the Gerber Baby and Phyllis Diller were KGB assets or the author of an intensely researched micro-study of de Mohrenschildt's life? While I've always thought the Gerber Baby had a Marxist gleam in her little eye, I'm going with the author.
I also love how we morph from "CIA agent" to "CIA asset" to "
de facto CIA asset." What is a
de facto CIA asset? These are the kind of obscure phrases and supposed connections from which too much CT lore is woven. As I've said, I could weave a pretty darn suspicious "Lance narrative" from five or so undeniable facts of my own life and family history that were, in fact, of absolutely zero consequence.
De Mohrenschildt's relationship with the CIA was basically the same as Clay Shaw's:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10103-10149.pdf. In later years, when his story about Oswald changed, he was a deeply troubled man. (Much as I hate to cite Wikipoodia, this is accurate: "On November 9, 1976, Jeanne had de Mohrenschildt committed to a mental institution in Texas for three months, and listed in a notarized affidavit four previous suicide attempts while he was in the Dallas area. In the affidavit, she stated that de Mohrenschildt suffered from depression, heard voices, saw visions, and believed that the CIA and the Jewish Mafia were persecuting him. However, he was released at the end of the year.")
