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Overview
I. Introduction - Mexico
City: The Rosetta Stone
II. The Third Tape
III. Telephone Taps and
Human Informants
IV. The Enigma of Pedro
Gutierrez Valencia
V. Publishing the Mystery
Man Photograph
VI. Conclusion
Overview
The truth of what happened in Mexico City several weeks prior
to the assassination of President Kennedy remains elusive. New
revelations "from the files" deepen the mystery rather than
clarify it in many cases. Once-secret HSCA depositions and documents
in the HSCA's "Segregated Collection," particularly the so-called
Russ Holmes Work File, contain an abundance of fascinating and
disturbing details. This essay will not try to paint the larger
picture or present some overarching new thesis. Rather, it is
an interim vehicle for discussing some important new findings
and revelations; adding bricks to the edifice whose ultimate
form remains obscure.
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One of the several photos of
the so-called "Mystery Man," taken outside the Soviet
and Cuban embassies in Mexico City in the fall of 1963. One
or more of these photos was rushed to Dallas late in the evening
of November 22, 1963, apparently mistaken for accused assassin
Lee Harvey Oswald. Accompanying tapes of tapped phone calls
placed by a "Lee Oswald" to the Soviet embassy turned
out to be fakes—the FBI determined in the wee hours of
November 23 that the voice on the tapes didn't match that
of the captured Oswald in Dallas. FBI
Director Hoover informed the new President Johnson on the
morning of November 23 that there was an imposter, a secret
tightly held for decades. Was this "mystery man"
the caller who set up Oswald to appear to be a Soviet agent,
precipitating a National Security coverup of the Kennedy assassination?
The person depicted in these photographs
has never been identified.
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