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I keep seeing Corey Hughes express surprise at the idea of Oswald speaking little or no Russian while in Russia and taking it as evidence

that Oswald didn't actually speak Russian. Corey, isn't the whole point of sending a double

slash false Oswald to Russia that he can listen to all the Russian being spoken around him

without letting on that he understands it?

I don't think so. I don't think so at all. And so I spent a lot of time trying to figure out

where the Russian aspect of this came in. And the Russian language speaking, I would separate

from the interest in communism communism because we have two somewhat

anomalous instances of him talking communism, one in 53 in North Dakota with Henry Timmer, right?

And then we have the Palmer McBride stuff where Oswald was allegedly kicked out of one of the meetings

for the New Orleans Astronomers Club by the guy who was hosting its father because he couldn't

take Oswald talking about communism anymore. And that happened in 1958, early 58 and so those are two the only two

communist instances that you'll have period until march of 1959 and in march of

1959 is when you start to see Oswald talking reading the communist books getting the the the newsletter at the marine

base at Santa Ana and so it's really nobody can place Oswald as being interested in communism

or speaking Russian really until this time period and that's when it continues through you know

the end of his marine career

in September of 59. But the Oswald, whether or not he actually spoke Russian, this is kind of

what I'm piecing together. John Armstrong had put forth a theory, and he kind of stuck to this

theory, that he believed that the two Oswalds, one of them was imported from either a concentration camp or some Eastern Bloc country post-World War II, brought here already speaking Russian.

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