JFK Assassination Forum

TG-

Yes, I suspect LHO was waved through at the Russian border on some sort of sign from whoever the border guards worked for.

It is speculation, of course, but a good guess is LHO was a de facto KGB asset, working for Bruce Solie, himself a de facto KGB asset.

Did de Mohrenschildt induce or encourage LHO to take a potshot at Gen. Walker? The "hunter of fascists ha-ha-ha" BYP photo? Did LHO prove his mettle by doing so?

Then, LHO meets with KGB wetworks man Kostikov in MC, and two other KGB'ers. And pals round with G2 in MC too.

Castro publicly states in September the Kennedy brothers could find out what goes around comes around, when it come to assassination attempts.

Interesting.

If Solie was a KGB mole, do you think he was as unwitting about being a "Soviet asset" as Oswald was in Newman's scenario?

TG-

Yes, I suspect LHO was waved through at the Russian border on some sort of sign from whoever the border guards worked for.

It is speculation, of course, but a good guess is LHO was a de facto KGB asset, working for Bruce Solie, himself a de facto KGB asset.

Did de Mohrenschildt induce or encourage LHO to take a potshot at Gen. Walker? The "hunter of fascists ha-ha-ha" BYP photo? Did LHO prove his mettle by doing so?

Then, LHO meets with KGB wetworks man Kostikov in MC, and two other KGB'ers. And pals round with G2 in MC too.

Castro publicly states in September the Kennedy brothers could find out what goes around comes around, when it come to assassination attempts.

Interesting.

TG-

What about Trousdale?

Dear "BC,"

This is from Comrade Morley's website, "JFK Facts" (sic):

On October 15, 1959, a Harvard graduate student took a memorable train trip with a young ex-Marine — and forgot all about it.
In October 1959, Bill Trousdale launched a journey of adventure that would take him throughout Asia for the next eighteen months. A 29-year-old Ph.D student at the University of Michigan, he planned to study the archeology of southwestern Afghanistan. He travelled from the United States to Helsinki, Finland, where he caught a night train for Moscow. The experiences of his pilgrimage would eventually help him to become a curator of Asian Art at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery.

Trousdale was an avid diary keeper — daybooks, he called them. On October 15, 1959, he recorded his journey.

“Shared large comfortable compartment with Lee Oswald, a young Texan just out of the Marines on way to study philosophy in Switzerland via Russia for five days,” he wrote in his journal. “He’s going on to Moscow tonight.”

Four years later, when Oswald became world famous as the accused assassin who denied killing President Kennedy, Trousdale had forgotten all about his travel companion. It wasn’t until he re-read his journals in the 1980s that he realized he had travelled with Oswald.

[Trousdale died in 2025. His caregiver Randy Baer shared his journal entries with JFK Facts in the interest of history.]

Two Details

Two details of his account interested JFK researchers.

First, Oswald lied to Trousdale, just as he lied to his mother. He wasn’t going to study philosophy in Switzerland. He was moving to the Soviet Union out of sympathy for communism.

Second, Trousdale saw Oswald get special treatment from the Russian border guards.

“At border my bags were given pretty thorough going over,” he wrote, “but they scarcely looked at Lee’s.”

It was another one of the anomalies of Oswald’s journey to the Soviet Union.

In 2023, the Finnish intelligence service, known as Supo, declassified its file on Oswald, which included the passenger manifest listing Oswald’s and Trousdale’s names on the train to Moscow.

But the Supo file also revealed that Finnish authorities could not determine how Oswald entered the country. His name did not appear in the records of any border control point in the country.

“Passenger lists (ship and air passengers) have already been taken care of, so Oswald’s method of entry and the time cannot be determined,” reads one memo in the file.

How Oswald entered Finland remains a mystery to this day. Why his bags were not searched when he entered the Soviet Union is another puzzle.

. . . . . . .

My comments:

Are you shocked that Oswald lied to his mother and to Trousdale?

Are you shocked that the Soviet border guards basically waved Oswald through?

Regarding the latter, have you considered the possibility John M. Newman is right when he says probable KGB mole Bruce Solie sent -- or had naive Angleton send -- Oswald to Moscow as an ostensible "dangle" in a (unbeknownst to Angleton and Oswald) planned-to-fail hunt for "Popov's U-2 Mole" (Solie) in the wrong part of the CIA?

If Newman is correct, don't you think Solie would have told the Russians that "CIA agent" Oswald was coming?

-- "TG"

JC--

I have reasonable doubts that Gov. JGC maintained his grip on his Stetson hat in his right hand, after being shot through the right wrist by a slug that is 1 1/4 inches long and a quarter inch in diameter, and which "tumbled" inside his wrist, according to the WC. The projectile entered the dorsal side of his wrist, fractured bone, and existed through the ventral side.

Yet, we see JBC at Z-275 holding onto the hat, without apparent injury. The WC contends JBC was shot ~Z-223, by the same slug that first passed through JFK's neck.

For me, the WC version does not hold water.

For you, it does.

I take no umbrage at your views, nor do I denigrate your views.

We just have a different take on what happened.

It is possible to disagree without being disagreeable. Give it a try.

Amen. I wish this "AI" and "Grok" crap would be banned from the forum.

OF COURSE, AI is going to pick up all the Armstrong-type stuff across the internet and indiscriminately make that its "answer." When challenged, it will find the Lance-type stuff - probably my first post here! - and regurgitate that. AI does no thinking at all.

I find it depressing that when an appellate lawyer with 40 years of experience spends probably 100 hours on this silly issue, with the work showing no signs of being anything other than rock-solid, someone is compelled to "check his work" with AI. Jesus Christ, what a world.

Run the Lamb Chop issue through AI just for fun. AI told me that SHARI LEWIS HERSELF HANDED LAMB CHOP TO JACKIE at Love Field. Ya think???

AI is proof of the adage, "Garbage in, garbage out". All it can do is regurgitate what is already out there. I've seen no evidence there is actually any intelligence involved in AI.

I spent 25 years in data processing. I know what computers can and can't do. They are not capable of independent thought. They do what they are programmed to do. AI is just very sophisticated programming that can give the appearance of independent thought. AI can replace workers in some fields by doing repetitive tasks so that is something that will have to be dealt with but history tells us technology creates as many jobs as it displaces. I'm not worried about computers taking over the world. If worse comes to worst, we can always do what Dorothy did to the Wicked Witch of the East and throw water on it. I've yet to see an electronic device that can survive that.