Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Thank you. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 110 as i said in the last episode we are

getting to the end of our time in minsk and certainly we have to cover the last little bit of work and

activity that oswald undertook to leave the country but before we we do that, we are going on a little Oswald wander,

and we're going to talk about something that may be lingering for you as much as it is for me.

It's the reason for today's wander, of course.

One of the hardest things to believe is that the KGB was not that

interested in interrogating Oswald and learning much about what he might have known as a result of

being stationed at Atsugi, where the U-2 was. It seemed illogical that they would not want to know,

at least know what Oswald was exposed to.

Yet the Russians maintained that the KGB did not debrief Oswald on such matters.

I don't think it would surprise anybody if the true answer was revealed to be that someone or

some agency did, in fact, interrogate Oswald on all of that.

And they had just been lying about it all these years, or at least not telling the whole truth.

But nevertheless, we are not certain about any of this as the Soviet intelligence services are as arcane as ours.

For this reason, it's worth spending a moment on how the KGB operates within the Soviet system.

You see, in this country, we have a very distinct understanding between the jurisdiction of the

FBI and the CIA. But in the Soviet Union, the KGB has many functions.

But you see, the primary function is one of internal security, keeping tabs on everyday Russians

and understanding what is happening with the proletariat, searching and finding those elements internally within

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