One of the ‘loose ends’ David and I had to leave in The Oswald Puzzle was the question of what was going on with and around Lee Harvey Oswald during his last weeks in New Orleans – after he had made himself and his support for both the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and the Castro regime so visible via his street protests and media appearances. After getting the book out we have continued to tackle that area, a real challenge given the obfuscation and outright likes from so many sources that might have clarified matters.

Presently we are working though finalizing a paper that will assess what what we think was happening around Oswald during the three/four months prior to the assassination of the President. We plan to present at least part of that at the upcoming JFK Lancer Conference in Dallas and follow it up with a relatively extensive White Paper.

This particular study is challenging due to the fact that so many parties did lie, withhold information and actually ‘scrub’ documents which should have contained information about Oswald, specifically information being compartmentalized within the Special Affairs Staff of the CIA – both at its headquarters staff and at its operations base in Miami. On the other hand, the ‘negative template’ (what should be in the files based on standard practice vs. what is in the files) has become relatively clear and provides some real clues as to what was going on about Oswald within the Agency.

The more challenging part is what was going on with Oswald as the conspiracy against the President became set and began to evolve. That requires a lot of ‘connecting’ the dots and is far more speculative. David and I think what we are finding makes sense and presents a strong argement for a particular scenario in that regard, of course readers will make their own decisions (and there are lots of document links in the paper that will help in doing that).

So, yes I’m still here and at work, and David is still doing a heroic job of document location and retrieval. You will certainly hear more from us as the paper goes though some editing and our standard peer review process.